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N.H. Rev. Stat. § 41:47 — NH Code / Title III / Chapter 41 / Section 47
41:47 Election.
Status: in_force

Any town at any annual meeting, under an article in the warrant for said meeting, may vote to elect by ballot one or more permanent constables or police chiefs or other police officers for full-time duty in said town and may rescind such action in like manner. No election of such permanent constable or police chief or police officer shall be held until the next succeeding annual meeting after the vote of the town. Any police chief or police officer or constable elected at an annual meeting may serve a one-year, 2-year, or 3-year term, as determined by the town at such annual meeting.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 363:14 — NH Code / Title XXXIV / Chapter 363 / Section 14
363:14 Seal.
Status: in_force

The commission shall have an official seal in such form as the commission may prescribe, and all copies of official documents and orders filed or deposited with or made by said commission, duly certified and authenticated by said seal, shall be received in evidence in any court in like manner as originals.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 162-M:5 — NH Code / Title XII / Chapter 162-M / Section 5
162-M:5 Reports by Issuers.
Status: in_force

Each issuer shall notify the office of investment and debt management and the authority from which it received an assignment of state ceiling of each issuance of bonds that required an allocation of state ceiling by filing a copy of the information reporting statement required by section 149(e) of the code as promptly as possible after the issuance of the bonds. Failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of the allocation of state ceiling or of the bonds.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 167:27 — NH Code / Title XII / Chapter 167 / Section 27
167:27 Eligibility for State and Local Assistance, Confidentiality.
Status: in_force

I. Except as provided in paragraph II, no person receiving old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled under this chapter or RSA 161 shall at the same time receive any other relief from the state, or from any political subdivision thereof, except for medical and surgical assistance. II. Notwithstanding paragraph I, a municipality may provide assistance under RSA 165 to a person who is also receiving old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled if the guidelines adopted by the governing body under RSA 165:1 authorize assistance to such persons, and the acceptance of such relief shall not operate as a revocation of old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled. III. The names of persons receiving old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled under the provisions of this chapter or RSA 161 shall not be printed in any report of the county commissioners or of the commissioner of health and human services nor published in any state, county, or town report.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 273-A:7 — NH Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 273-A / Section 7
273-A:7 Injunctions.
Status: in_force

The board shall petition the superior court for the county in which the party sought to be enjoined is principally located for such order of the court as may be necessary to compel obedience to an order of the board and the superior court shall issue its order upon satisfying itself that: I. The order of the board was within its jurisdiction to issue; and II. There is substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole to support the finding of the board.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 448:1 — NH Code / Title XLI / Chapter 448 / Section 1
448:1 Board, Etc.
Status: in_force

Any person keeping a boarder or lodger, not a mariner or seaman, shall have a lien upon the baggage and effects of such boarder or lodger brought to the boarding or lodging house until all proper charges for his fare and board or room rent are paid or tendered.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 15:8 — NH Code / Title I / Chapter 15 / Section 8
15:8 Penalty.
Status: in_force

Whoever violates any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. Whoever shall make and file any statement under this chapter which is to his or her knowledge false shall be deemed guilty of perjury and punished accordingly.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 326-E:7 — NH Code / Title XXX / Chapter 326-E / Section 7
326-E:7 Rights of Consumers.
Status: repealed

I. [Repealed.] II. A respiratory care practitioner shall inform each patient that the patient has the freedom of choice in services and products. III. Any person may submit a complaint in writing to the executive director regarding any licensee, entity, or other person potentially in violation of this chapter. Confidentiality shall be maintained subject to state and federal law. IV. (a) Information relating to the respiratory care practitioner-patient relationship is confidential and shall not be related to a third party who is not involved with the patient's care without the prior written consent of the patient. (b) Confidential communications between licensees and their patients are placed on the same legal basis as those between physician and patient, and, except as otherwise provided by law, no licensee shall be required to disclose such privileged communications. Confidential communications between a patient of a licensee and any person working under the supervision of such licensee to provide services that are customary and necessary for diagnosis and treatment are privileged to the same extent as would be the same communications between the supervising licensee and the patient. (c) The privilege established in subparagraph (b) shall not apply to investigations and disciplinary proceedings conducted by any agency regulating health professions in this state.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 479:3 — NH Code / Title XLVIII / Chapter 479 / Section 3
479:3 Priority of Advances Under a Recorded Mortgage.
Status: in_force

Subject to the provisions on priority in RSA 447:12-a, a recorded mortgage takes priority as of the date of its recording as to advances or obligations thereafter made or incurred that do not exceed the maximum amount stated in the mortgage.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 195-A:16 — NH Code / Title XV / Chapter 195-A / Section 16
195-A:16 Modification.
Status: in_force

Parties to any authorized regional area agreement may, either at the time of the original agreement, or at any subsequent modification of the agreement, specify that the agreement shall cover less than 100 percent of the student population of the sending district. In the event that a chartered public school is approved within a sending or receiving district, after final approval by the state board, an area review board shall be convened pursuant to RSA 195-A:14 solely for the purpose of considering an amendment to the area agreement relative to the adoption of the chartered public school provisions under RSA 194-B. Any such amendment shall be consistent with the provisions of RSA 195-A:3, V(p). An area plan amended under this section shall be submitted to the state board for approval no later than December 1 of the year of amendment.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 27:5 — NH Code / Title II / Chapter 27 / Section 5
27:5 For Whose Benefit.
Status: in_force

Said bonds shall be for the benefit of any person who may be injured by the neglect or misconduct of the officers giving them, or of their deputies.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 656:30 — NH Code / Title LXIII / Chapter 656 / Section 30
656:30 General Form.
Status: in_force

The presidential primary election ballot shall be as nearly as practicable in the same form as the state primary election ballot.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 334:46 — NH Code / Title XXXI / Chapter 334 / Section 46
334:46 Issuing Bill, Duplicates.
Status: in_force

Any officer, agent or servant of a carrier who, with intent to defraud, issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or additional negotiable bill for goods in violation of the provisions of RSA 382-A:7-402, knowing that a former negotiable bill for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncancelled, shall be guilty of a class B felony.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 266:78-r — NH Code / Title XXI / Chapter 266 / Section 78-r
266:78-r Vehicle Formerly Used as Ambulance to Have Identifying Features Removed.
Status: in_force

Prior to driving on the ways of the state, a vehicle which was formerly used as an ambulance or rescue vehicle but is no longer licensed as an ambulance under RSA 153-A, a person shall remove any siren, red forward and side emergency lights, gold lettering, red cross, caduceus, or other medical insignia, "Keep back 500 feet," "Emergency," "Ambulance," "Rescue," or other lettering or insignia that might cause the vehicle to be mistaken for a working ambulance or rescue vehicle. This section shall not apply to vehicles owned or leased by state, county, or municipal emergency response agencies, the American Red Cross, duly registered antique vehicles, or licensed transporting EMS agencies.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 409-A:2 — NH Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 409-A / Section 2
409-A:2 Exemptions.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall not apply to any reinsurance group annuity purchased under a retirement plan or plan of deferred compensation established or maintained by an employer (including a partnership or sole proprietorship) or by an employee organization, or by both, other than a plan providing individual retirement accounts or individual retirement annuities under section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code, as now or hereafter amended, premium deposit fund, variable annuity, investment annuity, immediate annuity, any deferred annuity contract after annuity payments have commenced, or reversionary annuity, nor to any contract which shall be delivered outside this state through an agent or other representative of the company issuing the contract.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 202-A:21 — NH Code / Title XVI / Chapter 202-A / Section 21
202-A:21 Penalties.
Status: in_force

Any town or library official violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 24:21 — NH Code / Title II / Chapter 24 / Section 21
24:21 Statement of Financial Condition.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners shall deliver or mail to each member of the county convention, the chairperson of the board of selectmen in each town and the mayor of each city within the county and to the secretary of state prior to the fifteenth day of February annually, a statement of the condition of the county treasury depicting expenditures and income on the preceding December 31, or if the county is on an optional fiscal year basis pursuant to RSA 31:94-a, prior the fifteenth day of August a statement of the condition of the county treasury depicting expenditures and income on the preceding June 30.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 277:23 — NH Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 277 / Section 23
277:23 Depositions.
Status: in_force

The deposition of any witness within or without the state, taken in the manner prescribed by law for depositions in civil actions, may be used in any proceeding for review or appeal.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 374:51 — NH Code / Title XXXIV / Chapter 374 / Section 51
374:51 Notification by Excavator.
Status: in_force

I. No person shall perform an excavation within 100 feet of an underground facility, except in an emergency, without first giving notification as required by this section. In an emergency, notification shall be given at the earliest practicable moment. II. At least 72 hours before a proposed excavation, but not including Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, each person required to give notice of an excavation shall notify the damage prevention system referred to in RSA 374:49. Such notice shall occur no more than 30 days before the proposed excavation is to be made. III. Notice may be in writing, by telephone or by any other reasonable means. IV. Prior to complying with the notification requirements of paragraph II, an excavator must premark the area as provided in this paragraph, which means identifying the perimeter of the proposed site of the excavation by marking the perimeter in an appropriate manner in the color white paint, stakes, or other suitable white markings on non-paved surfaces. No such premarking shall be acceptable if the marks interfere with traffic or pedestrian control, or are misleading to the general public. Premarking shall not be required on any continuous excavation that is over 100 feet in length, or any pole replacement that is within 5 feet of an existing location. If an excavation is over 100 feet in length or a pole replacement is within 5 feet of an existing location, the excavator shall communicate the perimeter of the excavation by means of a description of the area or construction plans, or have an on-site meeting with affected operators or other suitable means acceptable to the parties. V. When making the notification required by this section, the excavator shall identify which of the methods described in paragraph IV will be used to identify the proposed excavation. VI. The excavator's notification shall be valid for 30 calendar days from the date and time of confirmation of notification by the underground facility damage prevention system. VII. If an excavator is aware that blasting will be required during an excavation, the excavator shall inform the damage prevention system when providing notice of the excavation. If an excavator determines during the effective term of the excavator's notification that blasting is required within the area premarked in accordance with paragraph IV, the excavator shall notify the damage prevention system of the need to blast. Notification shall be made at least 24 hours prior to any blasting, not including Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. In the case of unanticipated obstructions that prevent further excavation without blasting, the excavator shall provide separate notice of such blasting not less than 4 contiguous hours in advance of such blasting, not including the hours of 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. weekdays, or all of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 354-A:28 — NH Code / Title XXXI / Chapter 354-A / Section 28
354-A:28 Procedure on Public School Complaints.
Status: in_force

I. Any person claiming to be aggrieved by a discriminatory practice prohibited under RSA 354-A:27 may initiate a civil action in superior court against a school or school district for legal or equitable relief, or file a complaint with the commission as provided in RSA 354-A:21. The attorney general may also initiate such a civil action in superior court or by complaint with the commission. II. Any complaint filed with the commission pursuant to paragraph I shall comply with and be subject to the procedures outlined in this chapter, with the exception that such complaints may be removed to superior court at any time in compliance with RSA 508:4.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 82:24-a — NH Code / Title V / Chapter 82 / Section 24-a
82:24-a Taxation of Railroads.
Status: in_force

With regard to any railroad company or corporation, the governor and council may, after consultation with the commissioner of revenue administration, abate or accept partial payment of any taxes and/or interest or penalties unpaid for the current year and/or any prior year or years as deemed in the best interest of the state.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 454-B:5 — NH Code / Title XLI / Chapter 454-B / Section 5
454-B:5 Fees.
Status: in_force

The fee for filing and indexing each notice of lien or certificate or notice affecting the lien shall be $30.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 430:49 — NH Code / Title XL / Chapter 430 / Section 49
430:49 Preemption of Local Regulation.
Status: in_force

I. Administration and enforcement of this subdivision shall be implemented in an equitable manner throughout the state. This subdivision is of statewide concern and occupies the whole field of regulation regarding the registration, sale, transportation, or use of pesticides to the exclusion of all local regulation. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this subdivision, no ordinance or regulation of local government, including but not limited to, an action by a local governmental agency or department, a county board of commissioners or a city council, or a local regulation adopted by the use of an initiative measure, may prohibit or in any way attempt to regulate any matter relating to the registration, sale, transportation, or use of pesticides, and any of those ordinances, laws or regulations are void and of no force or effect. II. This section shall not be construed to invalidate any ordinance or regulation of a local government in effect on the effective date of this section.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 327:27 — NH Code / Title XXX / Chapter 327 / Section 27
327:27 Unprofessional Conduct.
Status: in_force

No corporation shall engage in the practice of optometry nor shall any person practice optometry under any lease, contract or other arrangement whereby any person not duly authorized to practice optometry shares, directly or indirectly, in any fees received in connection with said practice of optometry.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 399-G:26 — NH Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 399-G / Section 26
399-G:26 Prudential Standards; Net Worth.
Status: in_force

I. A licensee shall maintain at all times a tangible net worth of the greater of $100,000 or 3 percent of total assets for the first $100 million, 2 percent of additional assets for $100 million to $1 billion, and 0.5 percent of additional assets for over $1 billion. II. Tangible net worth must be demonstrated at initial application by the applicant's most recent audited or unaudited financial statements pursuant to RSA 399-G:8, II(f). III. The commissioner shall have the authority to exempt in whole or in part any applicant or licensee from the requirements of paragraphs I and II for good cause shown. IV. For purposes of this section, a licensee that issues proprietary cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens, or other digital assets shall not include the value of such assets when calculating tangible net worth. For purposes of calculating net worth under this section, cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens, or other digital assets shall be considered "proprietary" when such assets are developed or created by the licensed entity. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a licensed entity from including the reasonable value of cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens, or other digital assets developed or created by other entities and held as assets when calculating tangible net worth.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 155:1 — NH Code / Title XII / Chapter 155 / Section 1
155:1 Bylaws.
Status: in_force

Town and village districts may make bylaws requiring factories, hotels, tenement houses, public buildings, schoolhouses, places of assembly as defined in RSA 155:17, I, and other buildings used as places of public resort in their towns, to be so erected as not to endanger the health and safety of persons who may occupy them; however, any bylaw relative to safety from fire in buildings and structures adopted by a town or village district of the state shall conform to the life safety code, which is in effect at the time the bylaw is adopted and as promulgated by the state fire marshal; such bylaw may provide for local inspections and enforcement and shall include assistance of the state fire marshal where required.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 237:46 — NH Code / Title XX / Chapter 237 / Section 46
237:46 Funds Provided.
Status: in_force

A sum not exceeding $4,000,000 is hereby appropriated for the purposes authorized in this subdivision. The appropriation shall be a continuing appropriation and shall not lapse.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 52:19 — NH Code / Title III / Chapter 52 / Section 19
52:19 Joint Board.
Status: in_force

If a district, situated in 2 or more towns, adopts the provisions of RSA chapter 252 the selectmen of all the towns as a joint board shall have powers and perform the duties of selectmen in such case.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 273-A:11 — NH Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 273-A / Section 11
273-A:11 Rights Accompanying Certification.
Status: in_force

I. Public employers shall extend the following rights to the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit certified under RSA 273-A:8: (a) The right to represent employees in collective bargaining negotiations and in the settlement of grievances. An individual employee may present an oral grievance to his employer without the intervention of the exclusive representative. Until the grievance is reduced to writing, the exclusive representative shall be excluded from a hearing if the employee so requests; but any resolution of the grievance shall not be inconsistent with the terms of an existing agreement between the parties. (b) The right to represent the bargaining unit exclusively and without challenge during the term of the collective bargaining agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an election may be held not more than 180 nor less than 120 days prior to the budget submission date in the year such collective bargaining agreement shall expire. II. A reasonable number of employees who act as representatives of the bargaining unit shall be given a reasonable opportunity to meet with the employer or his representatives during working hours without loss of compensation or benefits.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 301-A:25 — NH Code / Title XXVII / Chapter 301-A / Section 25
301-A:25 Proxy Voting.
Status: in_force

No member shall be permitted to vote by proxy.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 7:32-l — NH Code / Title I / Chapter 7 / Section 32-l
7:32-l Combined Needs Assessments, Planning, Reporting.
Status: in_force

Health care charitable trusts may satisfy the requirements of RSA 7:32-e, RSA 7:32-f, and RSA 7:32-g, individually or in a combination with other health care charitable trusts, provided that information required to be reported under RSA 7:32-e, V(a) and (b) shall be specifically reported for each health care charitable trust participating in a combined plan or report.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 359-B:22 — NH Code / Title XXXI / Chapter 359-B / Section 22
359-B:22 Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this subdivision: I. "Identity theft" means the unauthorized taking or use of an individual's personal information to obtain credit, goods, services, money, or property, with the intent to commit fraud. In this paragraph, personal information includes, but is not limited to, an individual's first name or initial and last name in combination with any one or more of the following data elements, when either the name or the data elements are not encrypted: (a) Social security number. (b) Driver's license number. (c) Account number, credit card number, or debit card number, in combination with any required security code, access code, or password that would permit access to an individual's financial account. II. "Proper identification" has the same meaning as in 15 U.S.C. section 1681h(a)(1), and includes: (a) The consumer's full name, including first, last, and middle names and any suffix. (b) Any name the consumer previously used. (c) The consumer's current and recent full addresses, including street address, any apartment number, city, state, and zip code. (d) The consumer's social security number. (e) The consumer's date of birth. III. "Security freeze" or "freeze" means a notice placed in a consumer report at the request of the consumer pursuant to RSA 359-B:24 that prohibits a consumer reporting agency from releasing the consumer report or credit score.