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NH Rev Stat § 20:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:8 - Special Reports.

    20:8 Special Reports. –||The governor and council may cause to be printed such special reports of state officers and institutions as they deem expedient.|||Source. 1895, 32:2. 1903, 117:1. 1919, 3:7. PL 5:8. RL 10:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:9 - State and Provincial Records.

    20:9 State and Provincial Records. –||The secretary of state, with the approval of the governor and council, may from time to time collect, arrange, transcribe, and cause to be printed such portions of the early state and provincial records as he may deem expedient. He shall determine the style, form, and quantity to be printed and may employ such assistants as the governor and council may approve.|||Source. 1919, 3:8. PL 5:9. 1931, 28:1. RL 10:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:9-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:9-a - List of Counties.

    20:9-a List of Counties. –||In all publications of the state or any subdivision, branch, department or commission thereof, other than in statutes enacted by the general court, the counties of the state shall be listed in alphabetical order.|||Source. 1963, 19:1, eff. July 1, 1963.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:10 - Distribution of Records.

    20:10 Distribution of Records. –||The publications authorized under RSA 20:9 shall be distributed as follows: one copy to each city and town in the state, one copy to such of the public libraries requesting them, 50 copies to the New Hampshire Historical Society, 50 copies to the state library and the remainder to be placed in the custody of the secretary of state, who is authorized to exchange the same for similar publications by other states.|||Source. 1931, 28:2. RL 10:10. RSA 20:10. 1973, 140:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:11 - Distribution of Publications and Reports.

    20:11 Distribution of Publications and Reports. –||One copy of each publication provided for in RSA 20:5, 6, and 7 shall be sent by the agency responsible for its issue, free of charge, to each of the following officers and bodies: governor, each member of the council, each agency and institution of the state, state house press room, the justices and clerks of the supreme and superior courts, each free public library established under the laws of the state, the town clerk of each town, the Library of Congress, and the state or territorial library of each state and territory in the United States. The agencies may make such further free distribution of such publications as they may deem wise, or as the governor and council may direct. Each member of the legislature shall be furnished one copy of the manual and, upon request, one copy of each departmental and institutional report. However, each free public library and the town clerk of each town shall not be furnished a copy of the annual or biennial report of each state agency or institution.|||Source. 1919, 3:9. 1925, 9:1. PL 5:10. 1931, 28:3. 1941, 22:1. RL 10:11. RSA 20:11. 1973, 140:1. 1975, 464:6. 1997, 351:41, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:11-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:11-a - Additional Distribution of the Manual and Session Laws.

    20:11-a Additional Distribution of the Manual and Session Laws. –||Upon request of the speaker of the house of representatives or the president of the senate, additional copies of the manual and of the paper bound and hard bound session laws, from any which have not been otherwise distributed under this chapter, shall be delivered to the clerks of the house and senate for distribution, as the speaker of the house of representatives or the president of the senate may direct.|||Source. 1975, 8:1. 1979, 380:2, eff. June 23, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:12 - Distribution Discontinued.

    20:12 Distribution Discontinued. –||The secretary of state shall discontinue distribution of books or reports to any free public library when notified by its trustees that they have voted not to receive them.|||Source. 1933, 70:1. RL 10:12.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:13 - Disposition of Books and Reports.

    20:13 Disposition of Books and Reports. –||Books and reports furnished free by state agencies and institutions to any free public library may be disposed of at the best price obtainable, but only with the approval of the state librarian and of the secretary of state.|||Source. 1933, 70:1. RL 10:13. 1943, 90:3. RSA 20:13. 1973, 140:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:14 - Preparation for Publication.

    20:14 Preparation for Publication. –||The commission appointed under the provisions of chapter 221, Laws of 1953, to revise, codify, and amend the Revised Laws of the state of New Hampshire, is authorized and directed to prepare for publication and to publish the act passed at this session entitled, House Bill No. 75, "An Act to revise and codify, the Revised Laws of the State of New Hampshire." The commission is authorized to make corrections in the numbering and the subtitles of sections and in the references to sections; to correct errors in typography, spelling, and punctuation; to correct errors in citations to sources; and to add such preface, annotations, cross references, and notes as it shall judge suitable. The commission shall file with the secretary of state, to be deposited with the engrossed bill, a report listing all corrections to H.B. 75 hereby authorized. The constitution and the amendments thereto, shall be inserted in the publication. The commission shall cause to be prepared by such means as it shall judge suitable, and to be inserted in the publication, a complete index of subjects embraced therein.|||Source. 1955, 231:1, eff. June 30, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:15 - Publication.

    20:15 Publication. –||The whole act with the changes, additions and corrections authorized by RSA 20:14 shall be published in one or more volumes as the commission shall determine. The volume shall be bound in a manner suitable for the insertion of cumulative pocket parts to contain subsequent session laws and annotations. The complete publication shall be entitled and cited as "Revised Statutes Annotated," or "RSA", and citation to a chapter and section shall be in the following form, e.g. RSA 1:1.|||Source. 1955, 231:2, eff. June 30, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:17 - Distribution of Remaining Volumes.

    20:17 Distribution of Remaining Volumes. –||Remaining copies of the Revised Statutes Annotated, furnished to the secretary of state by the publisher, may be sold by the secretary of state at such price or prices as the governor and council may determine.|||Source. 1955, 231:4, eff. June 30, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:18 - Laws of 1955.

    20:18 Laws of 1955. –||The separate volume of the session laws for the 1955 session published pursuant to RSA 20:2 shall not include H.B. 75 "An Act to revise and codify, the Revised Laws of the State of New Hampshire," the publication of which is herein authorized to be published as the Revised Statutes Annotated.|||Source. 1955, 231:5, eff. June 30, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 20:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20 - Publication and Distribution of Bills, Joint Resolutions, Legislative Manual, Statutes, Journals, and Reports|Section 20:19 - Laws of 1959.

    20:19 Laws of 1959. –||The separate volume of the session laws for the 1959 session published pursuant to RSA 20:2 shall not include this act adopting the uniform commercial code. This act shall be published in the Revised Statutes Annotated.|||Source. 1959, 247:5, Commercial Code, eff. July 1, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 20-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20-A - Centralized Bureau for the Reproduction of State Documents|Section 20-A:1 - Authority Granted.

    20-A:1 Authority Granted. –||The governor, whenever he finds that it would be in the best interests of the state to do so, may establish within any department of the state a bureau for the mimeographing, photostating, multilithing, microfilming, or reproducing by any other similar methods, of forms, letters, papers, reports and the like for the various state departments and agencies.|||Source. 1955, 258:1, eff. July 1, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 20-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20-A - Centralized Bureau for the Reproduction of State Documents|Section 20-A:2 - Rules and Regulations.

    20-A:2 Rules and Regulations. –||If such a bureau is established, the governor may make rules and regulations relative to the reproduction of forms, letters, papers, reports and the like by said bureau.|||Source. 1955, 258:2, eff. July 1, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 20-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20-A - Centralized Bureau for the Reproduction of State Documents|Section 20-A:3 - Personnel Transferred.

    20-A:3 Personnel Transferred. –||The governor is hereby authorized to transfer to the bureau of mimeographing any employee of any state department or agency, except as hereinafter provided, authorized to do work on mimeographing, photostating or multilithing or other such machines and all unexpended appropriations and funds allocated for the payment of such employee's salary shall be transferred to the bureau so established. Any such employee so transferred or employed by the expenditure of such funds and appropriations shall be directly responsible to the head of the department wherein said bureau is established.|||Source. 1955, 258:3, eff. July 1, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 20-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20-A - Centralized Bureau for the Reproduction of State Documents|Section 20-A:4 - Limitations.

    20-A:4 Limitations. –||Provided however that no employee and funds shall be transferred under the authority of the preceding section where such transfer would affect the receipt of federal assistance in any way and provided further that no employee so transferred shall receive less compensation than he was receiving from the department from which transferred.|||Source. 1955, 258:4, eff. July 1, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 20-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20-A - Centralized Bureau for the Reproduction of State Documents|Section 20-A:5 - Equipment and Funds Transferred.

    20-A:5 Equipment and Funds Transferred. –||The governor is authorized to transfer to the bureau so established any equipment belonging to any department or agency used in the mimeographing, photostating, multilithing, microfilming or by any other method of reproducing forms, letters, papers, reports and the like, except in cases where such transfer would affect the receipt of federal aid to such department or agency. The governor is also authorized to transfer any materials used in connection with such reproducing machines and funds which may have been appropriated for the upkeep of such machines.|||Source. 1955, 258:5, eff. July 1, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 20-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 20-B - Orientation Information for Board and Commission Members|Section 20-B:1 - Orientation Information.

    20-B:1 Orientation Information. –||Every state regulatory board, commission, advisory board, advisory committee, and authority shall provide orientation information for its new members. The orientation information may include the business procedures of the regulatory board, commission, advisory board, advisory committee, or authority, the mailing address and phone number of the office, a list of the members and staff, the customary meeting schedule, and any other pertinent information.|||Source. 2002, 51:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:1 - Application.

    21:1 Application. –||In the construction of all statutes the following rules shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the legislature or repugnant to the context of the same statute.|||Source. RS 1:30. CS 1:30. GS 1:1. GL 1:1. PS 2:1. PL 2:1. RL 7:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:2 - Common Usage.

    21:2 Common Usage. –||Words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law, shall be construed and understood according to such peculiar and appropriate meaning.|||Source. GS 1:2. GL 1:2. PS 2:2. PL 2:2. RL 7:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:3 - Number; Gender.

    21:3 Number;  Gender. –||Words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things; words importing the plural number may include the singular; and words importing the masculine gender may extend and be applied to females. Gender-specific terms relating to the marital relationship or familial relationships, including without limitation, "spouse," "family," "marriage," "immediate family," "dependent," "next of kin," "man," "woman," "groom," "bride," "husband," "wife," "widow," or "widower," shall be construed to be gender-neutral for all purposes throughout New Hampshire law, whether in statute, state administrative or court rule, policy, common law, or any other source of civil state law.|||Source. RS 1:1, 2. CS 1:1, 2. GS 1:3. GL 1:3. PS 2:3. PL 2:3. RL 7:3. 2014, 160:4, eff. July 10, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:4 - State; United States.

    21:4 State;  United States. –||The word "state," when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories.|||Source. RS 1:3. CS 1:3. GS 1:4. GL 1:4. PS 2:4. PL 2:4. RL 7:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:5 - Town.

    21:5 Town. –||The word "town" shall extend and be applied to any place incorporated, or whose inhabitants are required to pay any tax, and shall mean that city, town, ward, or place in which the subject-matter referred to is situate, or in which the persons referred to are resident, unless from the context, a different intention is manifest.|||Source. RS 1:4. CS 1:4. GS 1:5. GL 1:5. PS 2:5. PL 2:5. RL 7:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:6 - Resident; Inhabitant.

    21:6 Resident;  Inhabitant. –||A resident or inhabitant or both of this state and of any city, town, or other political subdivision of this state shall be a person who is domiciled or has a place of abode or both in this state and in any city, town, or other political subdivision of this state, and who has, through all of his or her actions, demonstrated a current intent to designate that place of abode as his or her principal place of physical presence to the exclusion of all others.|||Source. RS 1:5. CS 1:5. GS 1:6. GL 1:6. PS 2:6. PL 2:6. RL 7:6. RSA 21:6. 1981, 261:1, eff. June 16, 1981. 2018, 370:1, eff. July 1, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:6-a - Residence.

    21:6-a Residence. –||Residence or residency shall mean a person's place of abode or domicile. The place of abode or domicile is that designated by a person as his or her principal place of physical presence to the exclusion of all others. Such residence or residency shall not be interrupted or lost by a temporary absence from it, if there is an intent to return to such residence or residency as the principal place of physical presence.|||Source. 1981, 261:1, eff. June 16, 1981. 2018, 370:1, eff. July 1, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:7 - Biennial; Annual.

    21:7 Biennial;  Annual. –||The words "biennial" and "biennially," when applied to meetings and elections in towns, shall mean the biennial meetings and elections required by law to be holden in the month of November biennially, dating from the commencement of biennial elections in 1878; and the word "annual," when applied to meetings and elections in towns, shall mean the annual meetings and elections required by law to be holden in the month of March.|||Source. RS 1:6. CS 1:6. GS 1:7. GL 1:7. PS 2:7. PL 2:7. RL 7:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:8 - Month; Year.

    21:8 Month;  Year. –||The word "month" shall mean a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord."|||Source. RS 1:7. CS 1:7. CS 1:8. GL 1:8. PS 2:8. PL 2:8. RL 7:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:9 - Person.

    21:9 Person. –||The word "person" may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals.|||Source. RS 1:8. GS 1:8. GS 1:9. GL 1:9. PS 2:9. PL 2:9. RL 7:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:10 - Charter.

    21:10 Charter. –||The word "charter" may include the articles of agreement by which a corporation is formed under the general laws.|||Source. PS 2:10. PL 2:10. RL 7:10.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:11 - Seal.

    21:11 Seal. –||When the seal of a court, public officer, or corporation is required by law to be affixed to any paper the word "seal" shall include an impression of the official seal made upon the paper alone, as well as an impression thereof made by means of wax, or a wafer, affixed thereto. The seal of a corporation upon a corporate bond or other corporate obligation for the payment of money may be a facsimile, engraved or printed, where such bond or other obligation is authenticated or certified by a trustee.|||Source. RS 1:9. CS 1:9. GS 1:10. GL 1:10. PS 2:11. PL 2:11. RL 7:11. RSA 21:11. 1963, 38:3, eff. June 4, 1963.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:12 - Justice.

    21:12 Justice. –||The word "justice," when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter.|||Source. RS 1:10. CS 1:10. GS 1:11. GL 1:11. PS 2:12. PL 2:12. RL 7:12.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:13 - Preceding; Following.

    21:13 Preceding;  Following. –||The words "preceding" and "following," when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated.|||Source. RS 1:11. CS 1:11. GS 1:12. GL 1:12. PS 2:13. PL 2:13. RL 7:13.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:14 - Said; Such.

    21:14 Said;  Such. –||The words "said" and "such," when used by way of reference to any person or thing, shall apply to the same person or thing last mentioned.|||Source. RS 1:12. CS 1:12. GS 1:13. GL 1:13. PS 2:14. PL 2:14. RL 7:14.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:15 - Joint Authority.

    21:15 Joint Authority. –||Unless otherwise expressly declared:||I. Words purporting to give a joint authority to 3 or more public officers shall give such authority to a majority of them.||II. The authority of any board, commission, or other body whose members are approved by the governor and council to conduct official business shall be vested in a majority of those members who have been approved by the governor and council.|||Source. RS 1:13. CS 1:13. GS 1:14. GL 1:14. PS 2:15. PL 2:15. RL 7:15. 2009, 260:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:16 - Grantor; Grantee.

    21:16 Grantor;  Grantee. –||The word "grantor" may include every person by or from whom any estate or interest in land passes in or by any deed; and the word "grantee" may include every person to whom any such estate or interest passes in like manner.|||Source. RS 1:14. CS 1:14. GS 1:15. GL 1:15. PS 2:16. PL 2:16. RL 7:16.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:17 - Mortgagor; Mortgagee.

    21:17 Mortgagor;  Mortgagee. –||The word "mortgagor" or "mortgagee" may include any person claiming under such party or having his right.|||Source. RS 131:17. CS 137:17. GS 1:16. GL 1:16. PS 2:17. PL 2:17. RL 7:17.|