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NH Rev Stat § 361-E:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII-A - Retail Installment Sales|Title 361-E - Guaranteed Asset Protection Waivers|Section 361-E:2 - Definitions.

    361-E:2 Definitions. –||I. In this chapter:||(a) "Administrator" means a person, other than an insurer or creditor, that performs administrative or operational functions pursuant to guaranteed asset protection waiver programs.||(b) "Borrower" means any retail buyer, as defined in RSA 361-A:1, IX.||(c) "Creditor" means:||(1) Any retail seller, as defined in RSA 361-A:1, XII; or||(2) Any sales finance company, as defined in RSA 361-A:1, XIII; or||(3) The assignees of any of the foregoing to whom the credit obligation is payable.||(d) "Finance agreement" means a retail installment contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle governed by RSA 361-A.||(e) "Free look period" means the period of time from the effective date of the guaranteed asset protection (GAP) waiver until the date the borrower may cancel the contract without penalty, fees, or costs to the borrower.||(f) "Guaranteed asset protection waiver" or "GAP waiver" means a contractual agreement wherein a creditor agrees for a separate charge to cancel or waive all or part of amounts due on a borrower's finance agreement in the event of a total physical damage loss or unrecovered theft of the motor vehicle, which agreement shall be part of, or a separate addendum to, the finance agreement.||(g) "Insurer" means an insurance company licensed, registered, or otherwise authorized to do business under the insurance laws of this state.||(h) "Motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle, as defined in RSA 361-A:1, VII.||(i) "Person" includes an individual, company, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, and every other form of legal entity.||II. The terms defined in this section are not intended to provide actual terms required in guaranteed asset protection waivers.|||Source. 2015, 207:7, eff. Sept. 4, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 361-E:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII-A - Retail Installment Sales|Title 361-E - Guaranteed Asset Protection Waivers|Section 361-E:3 - Requirements for Offering Guaranteed Asset Protection Waivers.

    361-E:3 Requirements for Offering Guaranteed Asset Protection Waivers. –||I. GAP waivers may, at the option of the creditor, be sold for a single payment or may be offered with a monthly or periodic payment option.||II. Any cost to the borrower for a guaranteed asset protection waiver entered into in compliance with the Truth in Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. section 1601 et seq., and the regulations adopted thereunder, as amended from time to time, shall be separately stated and shall not be considered a finance charge or interest.||III. The GAP waiver shall remain a part of the finance agreement upon the assignment, sale, or transfer of such finance agreement by the creditor.||IV. Neither the extension of credit, the term of credit, nor the term of the related motor vehicle sale shall be conditioned upon the purchase of a GAP waiver.||V. Funds received or held by a creditor or administrator and belonging to an insurer, creditor, or administrator pursuant to the terms of a written agreement shall be held by such creditor or administrator in a fiduciary capacity.|||Source. 2015, 207:7, eff. Sept. 4, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 361-E:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII-A - Retail Installment Sales|Title 361-E - Guaranteed Asset Protection Waivers|Section 361-E:4 - Disclosures.

    361-E:4 Disclosures. –||Guaranteed asset protection waivers shall disclose, as applicable, in writing and in clear, understandable language that is easy to read, the following:||I. The name and address of the initial creditor and the borrower at the time of sale, the identity of any administrator if different from the creditor, and a statement that the initial creditor may assign the GAP waiver with the finance agreement to a sales finance company or other assignee.||II. The purchase price and the terms of the GAP waiver, including the requirements for protection, conditions, or exclusions associated with the GAP waiver.||III. That the borrower may cancel the GAP waiver within a free look period as specified in the waiver, and shall be entitled to a full refund of the purchase price, if no benefits have been provided.||IV. The procedure the borrower shall follow, if any, to obtain GAP waiver benefits under the terms and conditions of the waiver, including a telephone number and address where the borrower may apply for waiver benefits.||V. Whether or not the GAP waiver is cancellable after the free look period and the conditions under which it may be cancelled or terminated, including the procedures for requesting any refund due.||VI. That in order to receive any refund due in the event of a borrower's cancellation of the GAP waiver agreement or early termination of the finance agreement after the free look period of the GAP waiver, the borrower, in accordance with terms of the waiver, shall provide a written request to cancel to the creditor, administrator, or such other party. If the GAP waiver is being cancelled due to the termination of the finance agreement, a written notice to cancel shall be sent to the creditor, administrator, or other such party within 90 days of the occurrence of the event terminating the finance agreement.||VII. The methodology for calculating any refund of the unearned purchase price of the GAP waiver due, in the event of cancellation of the GAP waiver or early termination of the finance agreement.||VIII. That neither the extension of credit, the terms of the credit, nor the terms of the related motor vehicle sale, shall be conditioned upon the purchase of the GAP waiver.|||Source. 2015, 207:7, eff. Sept. 4, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 361-E:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII-A - Retail Installment Sales|Title 361-E - Guaranteed Asset Protection Waivers|Section 361-E:5 - Cancellation.

    361-E:5 Cancellation. –||I. Guaranteed asset protection waiver agreements may be cancellable or noncancellable after the free look period. GAP waivers shall provide that if a borrower cancels a waiver within the free look period, the borrower shall be entitled to a full refund of the purchase price, if no benefits have been provided. The free look period shall not be less than 30 days.||II. In the event of a borrower's cancellation of the GAP waiver after the agreement has been in effect beyond the free look period, the borrower may be entitled to a refund of any unearned portion of the purchase price of the GAP waiver unless the GAP waiver provides otherwise. In order to receive a refund, the borrower shall, in accordance with the terms of the waiver, provide a written request to cancel to the creditor, administrator, or other such party. If the GAP waiver is being cancelled due to the early termination of the finance agreement, the borrower shall provide a written request to the creditor, administrator, or other party, within 90 days of the event terminating the finance agreement. No refund shall be paid or credited if benefits have been provided.||III. If the cancellation of a GAP waiver occurs as a result of a default under the finance agreement or the repossession of the motor vehicle associated with the finance agreement, or any other termination of the finance agreement, any refund due may be paid directly to the creditor or administrator and applied as set forth in paragraph IV.||IV. Any cancellation refund under paragraphs I, II, or III, may be applied by the creditor as a reduction of the amount owed under the finance agreement, unless the borrower can show that the finance agreement has been paid in full.|||Source. 2015, 207:7, eff. Sept. 4, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:1 - Commission.

    362:1 Commission. –||The term "commission," as used in this title, means the public utilities commission.|||Source. 1911, 164:1. 1913, 145:1. PL 236:1. RL 285:1. 1951, 203:9 par. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:1-a - Campground.

    362:1-a Campground. –||For purposes of this chapter, the term "campground" means a recreational camping park on which 10 or more tents, or recreational vehicles including trailers, tent trailers, vans, pickup campers, or motor homes are used as temporary living quarters for recreational use, and a fee is charged for such land use.|||Source. 1987, 327:1, eff. May 25, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:2 - Public Utility.

    362:2 Public Utility. –||I. The term "public utility" shall include every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership and person, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court, except municipal corporations and county corporations operating within their corporate limits, owning, operating or managing any plant or equipment or any part of the same for the conveyance of telephone or telegraph messages or for the manufacture or furnishing of light, heat, sewage disposal, power or water for the public, or in the generation, transmission or sale of electricity ultimately sold to the public, or owning or operating any pipeline, including pumping stations, storage depots and other facilities, for the transportation, distribution or sale of gas, crude petroleum, refined petroleum products, or combinations of petroleum products, rural electric cooperatives organized pursuant to RSA 301 or RSA 301-A, and any other business, except as hereinafter exempted, over which on September 1, 1951, the public utilities commission exercised jurisdiction.||II. For the purposes of this title only, rural electric cooperatives for which a certificate of deregulation is on file with the public utilities commission pursuant to RSA 301:57 shall not be considered public utilities; provided, however, that the provisions of RSA 362-A:1, 362-A:2, 362-A:3, 362-A:4, 362-A:5, 362-A:6, 362-A:7, 362-A:8, 363-B, 371, 374:2-a, 374:26, 374:48-56, 374-A, 374-C, 374-F, and 378:37 shall, unless otherwise provided herein, be applicable to rural electric cooperatives, without regard to whether a certificate of regulation or deregulation is on file with the public utilities commission. The provisions of RSA 374-A and the provisions of RSA 374-F:3, V(b) and (f) and RSA 374-F:7 shall be applicable to rural electric cooperatives for which a certificate of deregulation is on file with the public utilities commission to the same extent as municipal utilities.|||Source. 1911, 164:1. 1913, 145:1. 1917, 76:1. PL 236:4. 1935, 114:1. 1941, 197:1. RL 285:4. 1951, 203:9 par. 2. RSA 362:2. 1985, 402:15. 1986, 70:2. 1997, 229:6. 2001, 29:2. 2002, 268:2. 2007, 25:11, eff. May 11, 2007. 2014, 129:2, eff. Aug. 15, 2014. 2016, 31:2, eff. May 2, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:3 - Common Carrier by Rail.

    362:3 Common Carrier by Rail. –||The term "common carrier by rail" shall include every corporation, company association, joint stock association, partnership and person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court, owning or operating any railroad for common carriage of passengers or freight or carrying on a public express business for compensation over the line of any railroad. It shall also include all bridges and other structures owned, leased or used.|||Source. 1911, 164:1. 1913, 145:1. PL 236:3. RL 285:3. 1951, 203:9 par. 3. RSA 362:3. 1985, 402:15.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:3-a - Sale; Submetering in Campgrounds.

    362:3-a Sale;  Submetering in Campgrounds. –||The term "sale" shall not include electric submetering in campgrounds for the purpose of calculating reimbursable amounts among submeter users; provided, that reimbursable amounts shall be distributed pro-rata among submeter users and do not exceed the total amount charged by the utility to the campground master metered customer.|||Source. 1987, 327:2, eff. May 25, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:3-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:3-b - Shared Tenant Services.

    362:3-b Shared Tenant Services. –||Authorized providers of shared tenant services as defined in RSA 374:22-k shall not be deemed to be telecommunications carriers within the meaning of the Communications Act of 1934 or public utilities within the meaning of this title.|||Source. 1997, 288:3, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:4-a - Electric Companies, When Public Utilities.

    362:4-a Electric Companies, When Public Utilities. –||I. A municipal corporation furnishing electric utility services outside its municipal boundaries shall not be considered a public utility under this title for the purpose of accounting, reporting, or auditing functions with respect to said service.||II. A municipal corporation furnishing electric utility services shall not be considered a public utility under this title if it serves customers outside of its municipal boundaries and charges such customers a rate no higher than that charged to its customers within the municipality, and provides those customers a quantity and quality of electricity equal to that served customers within the municipality. Nothing in this section shall exempt a municipal corporation from the franchise application requirements of RSA 374.|||Source. 1991, 86:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:4-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:4-b - Gas Companies, When Public Utilities.

    362:4-b Gas Companies, When Public Utilities. –||I. The term "public utility" shall not include any corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership and person, their lessee, trustee or receiver appointed by any court, or assignee, which provides, sells, delivers, or stores liquefied petroleum gas in cylinders or tanks, or who distributes liquefied petroleum gas through underground distribution systems, except for those systems regulated by the commission as of May 1, 1997.||II. Nothing in this section prevents the commission from regulating the rates and charges of the distributed propane operations of a regulated natural gas utility when those activities are provided as a temporary alternative to the provision of natural gas, and when the rates and charges are based on the cost of service of the regulated public utility.||III. Nothing in this section prevents the department of energy from monitoring or enforcing the provisions of federal pipeline safety standards relative to liquefied petroleum gas systems pursuant to the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act.|||Source. 1997, 298:1, eff. June 20, 1997. 2021, 91:231, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:4-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:4-c - Electric Generation Companies, When Public Utilities.

    362:4-c Electric Generation Companies, When Public Utilities. –||I. The term "public utility" shall not include any entity determined by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to be an exempt wholesale generator, nor shall it include any corporation, company, association, limited liability company, joint stock association, partnership, or person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court, solely by virtue of owning, operating, or managing any plant or equipment or any part of the same which has received a certificate of site and facility as an energy facility or as a bulk power supply facility pursuant to RSA 162-H after July 1, 1998, or are sold after July 1, 1998, for the generation or sale of electricity or for transmission of electricity from such a plant to an interconnection with the transmission grid.||II. Any entity exempted by this section may seek public utility status from the commission if it so chooses.|||Source. 1998, 191:2; 253:4. 2004, 148:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:4-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:4-d - Hot Water Companies; When Public Utilities.

    362:4-d Hot Water Companies;  When Public Utilities. –||The term "public utility" shall not include any corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership, or person, their lessee, trustee, or receiver appointed by any court, or assignee, by virtue of its being engaged in the manufacture, furnishing, or sale of hot water through a district energy system. In this section, "hot water" means water that has a temperature of no more than 200 degrees Fahrenheit that circulates in a district heating system under pressure of no more than 232 pounds per square inch.|||Source. 2013, 8:1, eff. July 6, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:5 - Exemption of Manufacturing Establishments Selling Surplus Electricity.

    362:5 Exemption of Manufacturing Establishments Selling Surplus Electricity. –||The commission may exempt any person or corporation engaged in manufacturing and carrying on in this state a manufacturing establishment the product of which is something besides power, and producing electricity primarily for the operation of such establishment or incidental thereto, from any or all provisions of this title, except those directly relating to rates and service, whenever the commission may find such exemption consistent with the public good.|||Source. 1913, 145:1. 1917, 76:1. PL 236:6. RL 285:6. 1951, 203:9 par. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:6 - Cellular Mobile Radio Communications Exempt.

    362:6 Cellular Mobile Radio Communications Exempt. –||The term "public utility" shall not include any individual, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, including any trustee, administrator, executor, receiver, assignee, or other personal representative who provides, purchases or sells cellular mobile radio communication services. Such services shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission pursuant to this title.|||Source. 1988, 49:2, eff. May 30, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 362:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362 - Definition of Terms; Utilities Exempted|Section 362:8 - Obligations on Excepted Local Exchange Carriers.

    362:8 Obligations on Excepted Local Exchange Carriers. –||Notwithstanding any other law, rule, or order, the commission shall have no authority to impose or enforce any obligation on any excepted local exchange carrier that is not also applicable to all other excepted local exchange carriers, excluding providers of commercial mobile radio service, except:||I. Such obligations that arise pursuant to the commission's authority under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended; or||II. Such obligations that arose prior to February 1, 2011 that relate to the availability of broadband services, soft disconnect processes and capital expenditure commitments within the state; or||III. Such obligations that relate to the provision of services to competitive local exchange carriers, interexchange carriers, and wireless carriers, regardless of technology; or||IV. Such obligations that arise under RSA 374:22-p and RSA 374:30, II.|||Source. 2012, 177:1, eff. Aug. 10, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:1 - Declaration of Purpose.

    362-A:1 Declaration of Purpose. –||It is found to be in the public interest to provide for small scale and diversified sources of supplemental electrical power to lessen the state's dependence upon other sources which may, from time to time, be uncertain. It is also found to be in the public interest to encourage and support diversified electrical production that uses indigenous and renewable fuels and has beneficial impacts on the environment and public health. It is also found that these goals should be pursued in a competitive environment pursuant to the restructuring policy principles set forth in RSA 374-F:3. It is further found that net energy metering for eligible customer-generators may be one way to provide a reasonable opportunity for small customers to choose interconnected self generation, encourage private investment in renewable energy resources, stimulate in-state commercialization of innovative and beneficial new technology, enhance the future diversification of the state's energy resource mix, and reduce interconnection and administrative costs.|||Source. 1978, 32:1. 1994, 362:2. 1998, 261:1, eff. Aug. 25, 1998. 2010, 143:1, eff. Aug. 13, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:2 - Exemptions.

    362-A:2 Exemptions. –||Qualifying small power producers and qualifying cogenerators shall be exempt from all rules and statutes relative to electric utility rates or relative to the financial or organizational regulation of electric utilities.|||Source. 1978, 32:1. 1983, 395:2, eff. Aug. 21, 1983.|