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NH Rev Stat § 5-B:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-B - Pooled Risk Management Programs|Section 5-B:4 - Informational Filing Required; Fee.

    5-B:4 Informational Filing Required;  Fee. –||Pooled risk management programs established for the benefit of political subdivisions shall make an informational filing, as defined in RSA 5-B:2, II, with the department and shall pay an annual filing fee of $150. The department may make requests for additional information necessary to exercise regulatory or enforcement authority pursuant to, but not limited to, the hearings procedures under RSA 421-B:6-613 over any pooled risk management program formed or affirmed in accordance with this chapter. Pooled workers' compensation and unemployment compensation programs which are regulated by and which report to the department of labor and the department of employment security, under RSA 281-A and RSA 282-A, respectively, shall be exempt from the requirements of this section as long as their operations and reports conform to the laws and rules adopted by those departments.|||Source. 1987, 329:1. 1994, 158:16. 2009, 128:2, eff. June 29, 2009. 2015, 273:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-B:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-B - Pooled Risk Management Programs|Section 5-B:5 - Standards of Organization and Operation.

    5-B:5 Standards of Organization and Operation. –||I. Each pooled risk management program shall meet the following standards of organization and operation. Each program shall:||(a) Exist as a legal entity organized under New Hampshire law.||(b) Be governed by a board the majority of which is composed of elected or appointed public officials, officers, or employees. Board members shall not receive compensation but may be reimbursed for mileage and other reasonable expenses. Board members shall comply with the provisions of RSA 15-A.||(c) Return all earnings and surplus in excess of any amounts required for administration, claims, reserves, and purchase of excess insurance to the participating political subdivisions.||(d) Provide for an annual audit of financial transactions by an independent certified public accountant. The audit shall be filed with the department and distributed to participants of each pooled risk management program.||(e) Be governed by written bylaws which shall detail the terms of eligibility for participation by political subdivisions, the governance of the program and other matters necessary to the program's operation. Bylaws and any subsequent amendments shall be filed with the department.||(f) Provide for an annual actuarial evaluation of the pooled risk management program. The evaluation shall assess the adequacy of contributions required to fund any such program and the reserves necessary to be maintained to meet expenses of all incurred and incurred but not reported claims and other projected needs of the plan. The annual actuarial evaluation shall be performed by a member of the American Academy of Actuaries qualified in the coverage area being evaluated, shall be filed with the department, and shall be distributed to participants of each pooled risk management program.||(g) Provide notice to all participants of and conduct 2 public hearings for the purpose of advising of potential rate increases, the reasons for projected rate increases, and to solicit comments from members regarding the return of surplus, at least 10 days prior to rate setting for each calendar year.||II. If a pooled risk management program fails to provide for an annual audit or an annual actuarial evaluation, the department shall perform or cause to be performed the required audit or evaluation and shall be reimbursed the cost by the program.|||Source. 1987, 329:1. 1997, 14:1. 2010, 149:4, 5, eff. June 14, 2010. 2014, 14:1, eff. July 13, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-B:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-B - Pooled Risk Management Programs|Section 5-B:6 - Declaration of Status; Tax Exemption; Liability.

    5-B:6 Declaration of Status;  Tax Exemption;  Liability. –||I. Any pooled risk management program meeting the standards required under this chapter is not an insurance company, reciprocal insurer, or insurer under the laws of this state, and administration of any activities of the plan shall not constitute doing an insurance business for purposes of regulation or taxation.||II. Any such program operating under this chapter, whether or not a body corporate, may sue or be sued; make contracts; hold and dispose of real property; and borrow money, contract debts, and pledge assets in its name.||III. Participation by a political subdivision in a pooled risk management program formed and affirmed under this chapter shall not subject any such political subdivision to any liability to any third party for the acts or omissions of the pooled risk management program or any other political subdivision participating in the program.|||Source. 1987, 329:1, eff. July 24, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-B:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-B - Pooled Risk Management Programs|Section 5-B:7 - Confidentiality of Certain Claims Information.

    5-B:7 Confidentiality of Certain Claims Information. –||Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any information of any pooled risk management program formed or affirmed under this chapter pertaining to claims analysis or claims management shall be privileged and confidential and not subject to disclosure to any third party.|||Source. 1987, 329:1, eff. July 24, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:2 - Division of Vital Records Administration Established.

    5-C:2 Division of Vital Records Administration Established. –||I. There is established within the department of state a division of vital records administration under the supervision of a director of vital records administration. The secretary of state, with the approval of the governor and council, shall appoint the director of vital records administration, who shall be known as the state registrar and who shall be an unclassified employee. The director of vital records administration shall be academically and technically qualified to hold the position. The director shall be a citizen of this state. The term of office for the state registrar shall be 4 years. Any vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term.||II. The salary of the state registrar shall be as specified in RSA 94:1-a and shall be determined in accordance with the procedure in RSA 94:1-d and RSA 14:14-c.|||Source. 2005, 268:1. 2010, 122:1, eff. Aug. 8, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:3 - Declaration of Policy, Purpose and Scope.

    5-C:3 Declaration of Policy, Purpose and Scope. –||I. The New Hampshire constitution identifies the office of the secretary of state as the keeper of the records of the state.||II. The division shall:||(a) Provide access to vital records and vital records data while assuring the privacy of all New Hampshire citizens.||(b) Outline the confidentiality requirements for vital records.||(c) Set forth the procedures, conditions, and criteria for release of information regarding vital records data and statistics.||(d) Enforce the provisions of this chapter in regard to the collection, maintenance, and dissemination of vital records information.||(e) Provide guidance to data collectors pursuant to this chapter.||(f) Describe the informational requirements of the forms used by the division of vital records for the collection of vital records information.||(g) Establish, in conjunction with the department of health and human services, the procedures, conditions, and criteria for release of information regarding vital records data and statistics for health-related research pursuant to RSA 126:24-d.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:5 - Statistical Forms.

    5-C:5 Statistical Forms. –||I. Forms and data fields maintained electronically shall include all facts contained on the national standard certificate forms developed by the National Center for Health Statistics, United States Department of Health and Human Services. As revisions to the National Center for Health Statistics standard certificates are made, the secretary of state shall incorporate into forms and data fields new facts contained on the standard certificates.||II. In addition to the secretary of state, any interested state agency or individual may request that additional data fields be added to any of the vital records statistical forms. Such requests shall be granted upon meeting the following minimum requirements:||(a) Any individual and any state agency, with the exception of the department of health and human services, shall provide a description of need for the additional data fields.||(b) Any individual and any state agency, with the exception of the department of health and human services, shall provide a business plan describing how the additional data fields will be used.||(c) All individuals and all state agencies shall demonstrate that they have adequate resources to pay for software changes to the secretary of state's automated data collection system including development, testing, training of users, maintenance, and replacement of statistical forms.||(d) All individuals and all state agencies shall provide assurances that any statistical form changes shall not adversely affect any of the data contracts that the secretary of state maintains.||III. The secretary of state shall not remove or add any data fields used for purposes of protecting the public health or to conduct health-related research without prior notice and agreement of the department of health and human services.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:6 - Seal of Registrar.

    5-C:6 Seal of Registrar. –||The registrar shall have an official seal which shall be like the seal of the state except that the device thereon shall be surrounded by the words "New Hampshire Department of State, Registrar of Vital Records" in the place of the words "Seal of the State of New Hampshire, 1776."|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:7 - Authenticated Copies.

    5-C:7 Authenticated Copies. –||Every certificate or other official paper executed by the registrar under seal, in pursuance of authority conferred by law, shall be received as evidence, and may be recorded in the proper recording offices in the same manner and with like effect as a legally acknowledged deed; and copies of papers and records in his or her office, so authenticated, shall be received as evidence with the same effect as the originals.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:8 - Preservation of Returns.

    5-C:8 Preservation of Returns. –||The registrar shall cause the returns made to him or her under this chapter and the returns of divorces made by the clerks of court to be arranged, alphabetical indexes of all the names contained in such returns to be made, and the whole to be bound in convenient volumes and preserved in his or her office. Records of births, marriages, deaths, and divorces shall be kept separately.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:10 - Fees for Copies, Verifications and Amendments to Vital Records.

    5-C:10 Fees for Copies, Verifications and Amendments to Vital Records. –||I. A town clerk or the registrar shall be paid in advance, by any person requesting any copy or verification as provided in RSA 5-C:9, the sum of $15 for making a search, which sum shall include payment for the issuance of such copy or verification, and $10 for each subsequent copy, provided that the fee to town clerks for examination of documents and issuance of a delayed birth certificate shall be $25.||II. The town clerk shall forward $8 of each search fee collected by the clerk under this section to the department of state for deposit in the vital records improvement fund established under RSA 5-C:15 and shall retain the remaining $7 as the clerk's fee for issuing such a copy. For subsequent copies issued at the same time, the town clerk shall forward $5 of the fee collected for each subsequent copy under this section to the department for deposit in the vital records improvement fund established under RSA 5-C:15 and shall retain the remaining $5 as the clerk's fee for issuing such a copy. The town clerk shall retain the $25 fee for a delayed birth certificate as the clerk's fee for examining documents and issuing the delayed birth certificate. Fees collected by the registrar shall be forwarded to the state treasurer for deposit into the vital records improvement fund established under RSA 5-C:15.||III. Any correction or amendment to a record of any birth, marriage, or death shall be made by the town clerk according to the procedures established in this chapter. The town clerk shall receive for amending or correcting any record the fee of $10 to be paid by the person making application for such an amendment or correction. The town clerk shall retain the fee collected under this paragraph for making such correction or amendment. Such fee shall be waived if the error was made by the town clerk.|||Source. 2005, 268:1. 2010, Sp. Sess., 1:69, eff. June 10, 2010. 2013, 144:109, eff. July 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:11 - Decorative Heirloom Certificates.

    5-C:11 Decorative Heirloom Certificates. –||I. The registrar shall, upon request and payment of the fee, supply to any applicant having a direct and tangible interest as provided in RSA 5-C:9 and RSA 5-C:102, a decorative heirloom certificate of any birth or marriage registered with him or her.||II. The decorative heirloom certificate shall be of a distinctive design and shall include the seal of the registrar and an original signature.||III. The fee for each decorative heirloom certificate shall be $25. The registrar shall forward $15 of each fee collected to the state treasurer for deposit into the vital records improvement fund established under RSA 5-C:15.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:12 - Furnishing to Governmental Agencies.

    5-C:12 Furnishing to Governmental Agencies. –||Certified copies, certificates of partial facts, verifications, or search of the records may be made for any federal, state, or local governmental agency by special arrangement without regard to the provisions of RSA 5-C:10.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:13 - Record as Evidence.

    5-C:13 Record as Evidence. –||A certified copy issued by a town clerk of a record of a birth, marriage, or death, on file with the town clerk or division, shall be prima facie evidence of the fact, in any judicial proceeding.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:14 - Duties and Responsibilities; Penalties.

    5-C:14 Duties and Responsibilities;  Penalties. –||I. Any person having knowledge of and a direct and tangible interest in the facts shall furnish such information as he or she may possess regarding any birth, death, fetal death, marriage, or divorce upon demand of the registrar.||II. Any person shall be guilty of a class B felony if he or she:||(a) Willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a certificate, record, or report required to be filed by statute or in an application for an amendment thereof or in an application for a certified copy of a vital record, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or amendment thereof; or||(b) Without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes, counterfeits, alters, amends, or mutilates any certificate, record, or report required to be filed by statute or a certified copy of such certificate, record, or report; or||(c) Willfully and knowingly obtains, possesses, uses, sells, furnishes, or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell, or furnish to another, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record, report, or certified copy thereof so made, counterfeited, altered, amended, or mutilated; or||(d) With the intention to deceive willfully and knowingly obtains, possesses, uses, sells, furnishes, or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell, or furnish to another any certificate of birth or certified copy of a certificate of birth knowing that such certificate or certified copy was issued upon a certificate which is false in whole or in part or which relates to the birth of another person, whether living or deceased; or||(e) Willfully and knowingly furnishes or processes a certificate of birth or certified copy of a certificate of birth with the knowledge or intention that it be used for the purposes of deception by a person other than the person to whom the certificate of birth relates; or||(f) Without lawful authority possesses any certificate, record, or report, required by statute or a copy or certified copy of such certificate, record, or report knowing same to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained.||III. Except as otherwise provided, any person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if he or she willfully and knowingly transports or accepts for transportation, interment or other disposition of a dead body without an accompanying permit when required pursuant to RSA 290.||IV. Except as otherwise provided, any person shall be guilty of a violation if he or she:||(a) Willfully and knowingly refuses to provide information required by this chapter; or||(b) Willfully and knowingly neglects to comply with or intentionally violates any of the provisions of this section or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon him or her by this section.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:15 - Vital Records Improvement Fund.

    5-C:15 Vital Records Improvement Fund. –||There is hereby established a special fund for the improvement and automation of vital records at the state and local levels. The sole purpose of the fund shall be to provide revenues for the improvement of the registration, certification, preservation, and management of the state's vital records, and said money shall not be used for any other purpose. Moneys in the fund shall be allocated for software applications and development, preservation efforts, hardware, communications and technical support associated with these purposes. Said moneys shall not be used for rent or electricity expenses or for general clerical or administrative personnel of the division. The secretary of state shall allocate moneys in the fund with the assistance of the advisory committee established under RSA 5-C:16. The fund shall accrue interest and shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the secretary of state.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:16 - Advisory Committee.

    5-C:16 Advisory Committee. –||I. There is established an advisory committee to assist the secretary of state in administering the fund established under RSA 5-C:15. The advisory committee shall also determine the need for improvement and automation of the processing of vital records upon recommendations from representatives of the department, the New Hampshire City and Town Clerks' Association, and the department of information technology. The members of the committee shall be appointed as follows:||(a) Two town clerks, appointed by the New Hampshire City and Town Clerks' Association.||(b) Two city clerks, appointed by the New Hampshire City and Town Clerks' Association.||(c) A funeral director, appointed by the New Hampshire Funeral Directors' Association.||(d) A physician licensed under RSA 329 from the office of chief medical examiner, or designee.||(e) A public member, who shall have a direct interest in the registration of vital records, appointed by the department.||(f) The registrar of vital records, or designee.||(g) A health information specialist, appointed by the New Hampshire Hospital Association.||(h) The chief information officer, department of information technology, or designee.||(i) The state archivist, or designee.||(j) The commissioner of health and human services, or designee.||(k) A representative of a local city public health agency, appointed by the commissioner of health and human services.||(l) One vital records information user, who shall have a direct interest in the use and dissemination of vital records information, appointed by the commissioner of health and human services.||(m) The secretary of state, or designee.||II. The members of the committee shall choose a chairperson by majority vote. The chairperson shall serve for a term of one year, but may be confirmed by majority vote for as long as the chairperson remains a member. Members of the advisory committee shall serve 2-year terms and no member shall serve more than 2 consecutive terms. The city and town clerk members shall serve staggered terms and initially one town clerk and one city clerk shall serve for 2 years and one town clerk and one city clerk shall serve for 3 years.|||Source. 2005, 268:1. 2006, 141:2. 2008, 335:5, eff. Sept. 5, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:17 - Quarterly Reports.

    5-C:17 Quarterly Reports. –||The department shall file a financial report for the vital records improvement fund for the preceding quarter showing the summary of receipts and expenditures, according to the uniform classifications.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 5-C:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 5-C - Vital Records Administration|Section 5-C:18 - Annual Report.

    5-C:18 Annual Report. –||The department shall prepare and file a report on the uses of the vital records improvement fund and shall submit the report to the vital records improvement advisory committee no later than December 31 of each year. The report shall contain the following:||I. The gross revenue received by the fund.||II. A summary of receipts and expenditures, according to uniform classifications.||III. Accomplishments achieved pursuant to RSA 5-C during the preceding fiscal year.||IV. An outline of the projects and programs to be conducted in the ensuing fiscal year with proceeds from the funds.||V. Any recommendations for additional legislation, and other relevant matters.|||Source. 2005, 268:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|