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N.H. Rev. Stat. § 169-C:32 — NH Code / Title XII / Chapter 169-C / Section 32
169-C:32 Abrogation of Privileged Communication.
Status: in_force

The privileged quality of communication between husband and wife and any professional person and his patient or client, except that between attorney and client, shall not apply to proceedings instituted pursuant to this chapter and shall not constitute grounds for failure to report as required by this chapter.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 125-D:1 — NH Code / Title X / Chapter 125-D / Section 1
125-D:1 Purpose.
Status: repealed

I. The general court hereby finds that acid deposition of sulfur and nitrogen containing compounds, commonly referred to as "acid rain," is occurring in the state of New Hampshire. The general court further finds that acid rain poses a significant adverse threat to the state's public health and welfare and to the natural environment by degrading natural ecosystems, including fish and wildlife. In addition, increasing evidence suggests that acid rain affects the New Hampshire economy by reducing the growth rate and productivity of the state's forest resources. II. The general court also finds that although the major emission sources of acid rain precursors are located in the midwestern United States, sources within the state of New Hampshire also contribute to acid deposition in New Hampshire and in our neighboring states of Maine and Massachusetts. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the people of New Hampshire to take the initiative to reduce their share of the deposition to reasonable levels. III. The general court acknowledges that the New England governors in May of 1984 endorsed as an interim measure the implementation of a sulfur dioxide emission cap in each New England state for both the industrial and utility sectors of the economy. IV, V. [Repealed.]
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 266:39 — NH Code / Title XXI / Chapter 266 / Section 39
266:39 School Bus Stop Signals and Strobe Lights.
Status: in_force

I. The director shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 260:5 requiring certain school buses to be equipped with automatic flasher-type stop lights located on the front and rear. Said stop lights shall be of such types and designs as approved by said director. No school bus shall be driven upon the ways of the state which does not carry the equipment which may be required by the director under the provisions of this paragraph. It shall be unlawful to operate any flashing warning signal light on any school bus except when any said school bus is stopped on a way for the purpose of permitting school children to board or alight from said school bus. II. White strobe lights may be permanently mounted on the longitudinal center line of the bus roof. Strobe lights shall be capable of being activated and deactivated by the driver.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 415-A:4 — NH Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 415-A / Section 4
415-A:4 Outline of Coverage.
Status: in_force

I. In order to provide for full and fair disclosure in the sale of all policies of accident and health insurance, no such policy shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this state unless: (a) In the case of a direct response insurance product, the outline of coverage described in paragraph III accompanies the policy; and (b) In all other cases, the outline of coverage described in paragraph III is delivered to the applicant at the time application is made and an acknowledgment of receipt or certificate of delivery of such outline is provided the insurer with the application. II. In the event the policy is issued on a basis other than that applied for, the outline of coverage properly describing the policy must accompany the policy when it is delivered and clearly state that it is not the policy for which application was made. III. The commissioner shall prescribe the format and content of the outline of coverage required by paragraph I. "Format" means style, arrangement and overall appearance, including such items as the size, color and prominence of type and the arrangement of text and captions. Such outline of coverage shall include a: (a) Statement identifying the applicable categories of coverage provided by the policy or contract as prescribed in RSA 415-A:3. (b) Description of the principal benefits and coverage provided in the policy or contract. (c) Statement of the exceptions, reductions and limitations contained in the policy or contract. (d) Statement of the renewal provisions including any reservation by the insurer or nonprofit hospital or medical service association of a right to change premiums. (e) Statement that the outline is a summary of the policy or contract issued or applied for and that the policy or contract should be consulted to determine governing contractual provisions. (f) Statement that a maternity benefits rider will be made available at the insured's request, if maternity care is not covered under the policy. Nothing in this subparagraph shall be construed to apply to supplemental health insurance and disability insurance policies.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 282-A:26-a — NH Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 282-A / Section 26-a
282-A:26-a Return to Work Program Participants; Workers' Compensation Eligibility.
Status: in_force

I. A participant in the department of employment security's return to work program shall be entitled to certain benefits under RSA 281-A. In the event that it is determined that a return to work program participant has been subject to an injury or occupational disease producing a disability arising out of and in the course of participation in the return to work program, the department of employment security shall not provide compensation pursuant to RSA 281-A:28, 281-A:28-a, 281-A:31, and 281-A:31-a. However, a participant, who has been deemed eligible for unemployment compensation shall receive such benefits while otherwise eligible under RSA 282-A, or compensation equivalent to 90 percent of his or her weekly unemployment compensation benefit amount if the disability causes the participant to become ineligible for benefits under RSA 282-A. II. When determining the amount of compensation provided pursuant to RSA 281-A:32 for a scheduled permanent impairment award, the amount of compensation shall be calculated by using the minimum wage at the time of injury multiplied by the average number of hours in training per week. III. For a participant in the return to work program, RSA 281-A:8, I and II shall not apply and the following provisions shall apply: (a) A participant in the return to work program shall be conclusively presumed to have accepted the provisions of this chapter and, on behalf of the participant or the participant's personal or legal representatives, to have waived all rights of action whether at common law or by statute or provided under the laws of any other state or otherwise: (1) Against the employer/training partner, or the employer/training partner's insurance carrier, or an association or group providing self-insurance to a number of employers, or the department and the return to work program; and (2) Except for intentional torts, against any officer, director, agent, servant, or employee acting on behalf of the entities named in subparagraph (a)(1). (b) The spouse of a return to work program participant entitled to benefits under this chapter, or any other person who might otherwise be entitled to recover damages on account of the participant's personal injury or death, shall have no direct action, either at common law or by statute or otherwise, to recover for such damages against any person identified in this paragraph. IV. The department of employment security may provide this benefit by appropriate means including purchasing and serving as the master policyholder for any insurance, by self-insurance, or by administrative services contract. V. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all other provisions of RSA 281-A shall apply.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 546-B:18 — NH Code / Title LV / Chapter 546-B / Section 18
546-B:18 Duties of Support Enforcement Agency.
Status: in_force

I. In a proceeding under this chapter, a support enforcement agency of this state, upon request: (a) Shall provide services to a petitioner residing in a state; (b) Shall provide services to a petitioner requesting services through a central authority of a foreign country as described in RSA 546-B:1, V(a) or (d); and (c) May provide services to a petitioner who is an individual not residing in a state. II. A support enforcement agency of this state that is providing services to the petitioner shall: (a) Take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent; (b) Request an appropriate tribunal to set a date, time, and place for a hearing; (c) Make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information as to income and property of the parties; (d) Within 10 days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of notice in a record from an initiating, responding, or registering tribunal, send a copy of the notice to the petitioner; (e) Within 10 days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of communication in a record from the respondent or the respondent's attorney, send a copy of the communication to the petitioner; and (f) Notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over the respondent cannot be obtained. III. A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration of a child support order in this state for enforcement or for modification shall make reasonable efforts: (a) To ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order; or (b) If 2 or more child support orders exist and the identity of the controlling order has not been determined, to ensure that a request for such a determination is made in a tribunal having jurisdiction to do so. IV. A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration and enforcement of a support order, arrears, or judgment stated in a foreign currency shall convert the amounts stated in the foreign currency into the amounts in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported. V. A support enforcement agency of this state shall issue or request a tribunal of this state to issue a child support order and an income withholding order that redirect payment of current support, arrears, and interest if requested to do so by a support enforcement agency of another state pursuant to RSA 546-B:30. VI. This chapter does not create or negate a relationship of attorney and client or other fiduciary relationship between a support enforcement agency or the attorney for the agency and the individual being assisted by the agency.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 626:8 — NH Code / Title LXII / Chapter 626 / Section 8
626:8 Criminal Liability for Conduct of Another.
Status: in_force

I. A person is guilty of an offense if it is committed by his own conduct or by the conduct of another person for which he is legally accountable, or both. II. A person is legally accountable for the conduct of another person when: (a) Acting with the kind of culpability that is sufficient for the commission of the offense, he causes an innocent or irresponsible person to engage in such conduct; or (b) He is made accountable for the conduct of such other person by the law defining the offense; or (c) He is an accomplice of such other person in the commission of the offense. III. A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of an offense if: (a) With the purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of the offense, he solicits such other person in committing it, or aids or agrees or attempts to aid such other person in planning or committing it; or (b) His conduct is expressly declared by law to establish his complicity. IV. Notwithstanding the requirement of a purpose as set forth in paragraph III(a), when causing a particular result is an element of an offense, an accomplice in the conduct causing such result is an accomplice in the commission of that offense, if he acts with the kind of culpability, if any, with respect to that result that is sufficient for the commission of the offense. In other words, to establish accomplice liability under this section, it shall not be necessary that the accomplice act with a purpose to promote or facilitate the offense. An accomplice in conduct can be found criminally liable for causing a prohibited result, provided the result was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the conduct and the accomplice acted purposely, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently with respect to that result, as required for the commission of the offense. V. A person who is legally incapable of committing a particular offense himself may be guilty thereof if it is committed by the conduct of another person for which he is legally accountable, unless such liability is inconsistent with the purpose of the provision establishing his incapacity. VI. Unless otherwise provided, a person is not an accomplice in an offense committed by another person if: (a) He is the victim of that offense; or (b) The offense is so defined that his conduct is inevitably incident to its commission; or (c) He terminates his complicity prior to the commission of the offense and wholly deprives it of effectiveness in the commission of the offense or gives timely warning to the law enforcement authorities or otherwise makes proper effort to prevent the commission of the offense. VII. An accomplice may be convicted on proof of the commission of the offense and of his complicity therein, though the person claimed to have committed the offense has not been prosecuted or convicted or has been convicted of a different offense or degree of offense or has an immunity to prosecution or conviction or has been acquitted.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 621:7 — NH Code / Title LX / Chapter 621 / Section 7
621:7 Bylaws.
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall adopt and may amend bylaws for the governance of the center and for the management of its concerns, and shall prescribe in the bylaws the powers and duties of the persons connected with the center, in conformity with the rules of the department of personnel.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 200:59 — NH Code / Title XV / Chapter 200 / Section 59
200:59 Screening and Intervention for Dyslexia and Related Disorders.
Status: in_force

I. School districts shall screen all public school and chartered public school students, including English learners, using an evidence-based screener for the identification of potential indicators or risk factors of dyslexia and related disorders upon entry to public school. The initial screening shall be completed no later than 60 school days of a student entering public school in kindergarten through third grade. The screening shall be repeated one additional time during the current school year, and repeated at a minimum of twice yearly through third grade to monitor progress. I-a. If any such screening determines that a student fails to meet relevant benchmarks for grade-typical development in specific foundational skills, then the school must complete a secondary assessment within 30 days to determine whether the school shall provide such student with modified, differentiated, or supplementary evidence-based reading instruction intervention or refer the student to special education for further evaluation. The school shall inform the student's parent or legal guardian of the screening results. If a special education referral is made for further evaluation, the state's required timeline shall be followed. During this time general education accommodations shall be initiated within 21 days of the initial screening, and continue until a special education determination is made. II. The student's school district or chartered public school shall provide age-appropriate, evidence-based, intervention strategies to begin by the January 1 of the school year for any student who is identified as having characteristics that are associated with potential indicators or risk factors of dyslexia and related disorders. III. The parent or legal guardian of any student who is identified by the public school as having characteristics that are associated with potential indicators or risk factors of dyslexia and related disorders shall be notified and provided with all screening information and findings, in addition to periodic formal screening results based on individual written intervention and support plans developed with the student's parents or legal guardian. IV. A parent or legal guardian of any student who is identified as having characteristics that are associated with potential indicators or risk factors of dyslexia and related disorders has the right to submit the results of an independent evaluation from a licensed reading or intervention specialist trained in dyslexia and related disorders for consideration by the student's school district. A parent or legal guardian who submits an independent evaluation shall assume all fiscal responsibility for that independent evaluation.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 564-B:5-509 — NH Code / Title LVI / Chapter 564-B / Section 5-509
564-B:5-509 Disposition of Claims Against a Trust.
Status: in_force

(a) Upon the termination of an irrevocable trust, a trustee may dispose of a known claim against the trust if the trustee sends to the claimant a notice described in subsection (c). For purposes of this section, a known claim is an actual or potential claim of which the trustee has knowledge, but excludes a contingent liability or a claim based on an event occurring after the date of the trust's termination. (b) Upon the termination of an irrevocable trust, a trustee may dispose of any unknown claims against the trust if the trustee publishes a notice described in subsection (c). The notice shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the trust's principal place of administration is located. For purposes of this section, an unknown claim is a claim that is not a known claim, but excludes a contingent liability or a claim based on an event occurring after the date of the trust's termination. (c) For purposes of subsections (a) and (b), the notice shall contain the following information and statements: (1) The notice shall state that the trust has terminated. The notice shall provide the trustee's name and mailing address, and the notice shall reasonably identify the trust. (2) In the case of a notice under subsection (a), the notice shall state that any claim against the trust will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within one year after the date on which the trustee sent the notice. (3) In the case of a notice under subsection (b), the notice shall state that any claim against the trust will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within one year after the publication date of the notice. (d) If a trustee sends a notice in accordance with subsection (a), then a known claim against the trust shall be barred unless the claimant commences a proceeding to enforce the claim within one year after the date on which the trustee sent the notice. If a trustee publishes a notice in accordance with subsection (b), then an unknown claim against the trust shall be barred unless the claimant commences a proceeding to enforce the claim within one year after the publication date of the notice. The trustee and a claimant may agree to toll the limitation period under this subsection (d). (e) A claim against the trust does not include: (1) any claim against a trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector by a beneficiary, trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector for a breach of trust; or (2) any claim against a trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector under RSA 564-B:10-1003(a). (f) To the extent that the trustee acts in good faith, the trustee is not liable to any person for exercising the discretion to dispose of claims under this section or not exercising that discretion. (g) This section shall not bar any claim that the director of charitable trusts or the department of health and human services has the authority to enforce.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 170-A:6 — NH Code / Title XII / Chapter 170-A / Section 6
170-A:6 Designation of Administrator.
Status: in_force

I. As used in Article VII of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, the term "executive head" means the governor. The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall serve as compact administrator in accordance with the terms of said Article VII. II. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the establishment of a new division or the hiring of additional personnel to carry out the intent of this compact.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 4:10 — NH Code / Title I / Chapter 4 / Section 10
4:10 Protection of State Water Rights.
Status: in_force

The governor may institute and prosecute suits at law or in equity in the name of the state, whenever in his judgment such course shall be necessary to prevent the injurious diversion of the water of rivers which naturally flow from other states into New Hampshire.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 53-A:6 — NH Code / Title III / Chapter 53-A / Section 6
53-A:6 Funds Issuance of Bonds or Notes.
Status: in_force

I. The respective counties, towns, cities and other governmental units involved in any agreements as set forth in this chapter are hereby authorized to appropriate the funds necessary to carry out their contractual obligations thus incurred. In cases involving the expenditure of capital funds they are authorized to borrow such funds under the terms of the municipal finance act, RSA 33, as amended, and to issue bonds in accordance with the provisions of such act or to set up a capital reserve fund for such purposes under the provisions of RSA chapters 34 or 35. II. Any 2 or more public agencies participating in such an agreement may jointly issue bonds or notes under RSA 33 for any purpose for which they may be issued under that chapter. (a) Any agreement entered into under RSA 53-A:3 shall specify each participating public agency's proportionate share of the debt represented by any jointly issued bond or note. (b) Each public agency participating in the joint issuance of a bond or note shall comply separately with the requirements of RSA 33:8 through 33:10 applicable to that public agency, and the bond or note shall not be issued until authorized by each participating public agency as provided in the applicable section or sections. (c) Each participating public agency's proportionate share of the debt represented by the bond or note shall be counted toward its debt limit under RSA 33:4 or 33:4-a unless excluded by other provisions of RSA 33. (d) All other applicable provisions of RSA 33 shall apply to the participating public agencies jointly as if the bond or note were issued by a single political subdivision.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 534:4 — NH Code / Title LV / Chapter 534 / Section 4
534:4 Form.
Status: in_force

The application shall be in writing, signed by the applicant, and under oath, and shall state the place where the person is supposed to be imprisoned or restrained of his liberty, and by whom; and a copy of the warrant or precept, if any, under which he is confined shall be annexed to the application.