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NH Rev Stat § 21-G:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:11 - Advisory Committees.

    21-G:11 Advisory Committees. –||I. A commissioner, with the approval of the governor, may create advisory committees.||II. Each department shall file a record of each advisory committee created with the secretary of state, showing the committee's:||(a) Name;||(b) Composition;||(c) Appointed members' names and addresses; and||(d) Purpose and term of existence.||III. The governor shall appoint the members of each advisory committee, with the advice of the commissioner, who shall have prescribed the functions of each advisory committee created.||IV. Each advisory committee created under this section shall be designated by name as follows: the ".......... advisory committee of the department of ...".||V. A majority of the membership of an advisory committee shall constitute a quorum.||VI. No member of an advisory committee shall receive any compensation, for services rendered the advisory committee, except mileage payments at the state employee rate, within the limits of the department's appropriations.||VII. Each advisory committee created under this section after July 1, 1995, shall include a provision for its termination after a 3-year period unless continued by legislative action.|||Source. 1983, 372:1. 1995, 257:1, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:12 - Conflicts of Law.

    21-G:12 Conflicts of Law. –||If the provisions of RSA 21-G:9 or RSA 21-G:11 conflict with the powers and duties specifically granted by statute to a particular commissioner, the specific powers and duties shall control. If the provisions of RSA 21-G:9 or RSA 21-G:11 conflict with other statutes specifically limiting the powers of a commissioner, the specific limitations shall control.|||Source. 1983, 372:1, eff. July 1, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:13 - Transfer of Functions of Abolished Agencies.

    21-G:13 Transfer of Functions of Abolished Agencies. –||I. The powers, duties, functions, responsibilities, programs and operations of each agency abolished pursuant to acts of the general court relative to executive branch reorganization shall, upon and after the date of each abolition, be exercised and performed by the commissioner of the department to which such powers, duties, functions and responsibilities are transferred.||II. The commissioner of each department shall have full authority, consistent with this chapter, to assign powers, duties, functions, responsibilities, programs and operations of abolished agencies to any division within the department, or may determine that any or all of them shall be exercised in such other manner as shall be allowed by law. The commissioner shall make such assignment or determination in accordance with the general functions of each division, as established by the general court.||III. Upon the abolition of each agency whose powers, duties, functions and responsibilities are transferred in accordance with this section, any pending or unfinished business of each such agency shall be taken over and be completed by the department to which transferred and its commissioner, with the same power and authority as that of the agency abolished. The department and its commissioner shall be the successor in every way to each such agency, and every act done by the department or its commissioner in the exercise of the functions of each shall be deemed to have the same force and effect under any provisions of the constitution and laws in effect on July 1, 1983, as if done by the agency abolished.||IV. Upon the abolition of each agency whose powers, duties, functions and responsibilities are transferred in accordance with this section, the existing rules of each agency shall continue in full effect, without interruption, as the rules of the department to which those powers, duties, functions and responsibilities have been transferred. Rules so continued shall be effective for the remainder of the period originally established under RSA 541-A:17, I.|||Source. 1983, 372:1. 1986, 41:32. 1994, 412:4, eff. Aug. 9, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:14 - Legal Proceedings and Documents.

    21-G:14 Legal Proceedings and Documents. –||I. For purposes of this section, legal proceeding includes, but is not limited to, any suit, action, incidental demand or action, claim, and any other matter filed or pending before any court, administrative agency, or other quasi-judicial body.||II. For purposes of this section, document includes, but is not limited to, any petition, application, exception, motion, rule, answer, citation, notice, return, affidavit, certificate, oath, bond or other security, summons, subpoena, writ, interrogatory, deposition, inventory, appraisal, evidence, court record, instruction, verdict, judgment, order, injunction, confirmation, appointment, warrant, letter, and any other pleading or instrument whatsoever permitted or required in any legal proceeding.||III. Any legal proceeding to which any agency which is abolished, whose powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities are transferred in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, is a party, and which is filed, initiated, or otherwise pending before any court on the effective date of such abolition and transfer, and all documents involved in or affected by such legal proceeding, shall retain their effectiveness and shall be continued in the name of the agency abolished. All further legal proceedings and documents in the continuation, disposition, and enforcement of such legal proceedings shall be in the name of the original party agency which is abolished; and the department to which the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the agency are transferred shall be substituted for the original party agency without necessity for amendment of any document to substitute the name of the department or the name or title of any subdivision, official, employee, or other agent or representative of the department.|||Source. 1983, 372:1, eff. July 1, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:15 - Protection of Obligations.

    21-G:15 Protection of Obligations. –||I. The general court hereby specifically states that this chapter is in no way and to no extent intended to, nor shall it be construed in any manner to, impair the contractual or other obligations of any agency abolished by the general court or of the state of New Hampshire. It is hereby specifically provided that all obligations of any agency abolished, whose powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities are transferred in accordance with this chapter, hereafter shall be deemed to be the obligations of the department to which the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the agency are transferred, and of its commissioner, to the same extent as if originally made by them. In like manner, and in order to prevent any violation of the provisions, terms, or conditions of any gift, donation, deed, will, trust, or other instrument or disposition by which property of any kind has been vested in an agency abolished by the general court, or diversion from the purposes for which such property was thus vested in any such agency, it is hereby specifically provided that each such instrument or disposition hereafter shall be deemed to have been vested in the department to which the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the agency are transferred, and its commissioner, in the same manner and to the same extent as if originally so done.||II. The department to which the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of each such agency are transferred and its commissioner shall be the successor in every way to each such agency, including all of the obligations and debts of each such agency. All funds heretofore dedicated by or under authority of the constitution and laws of this state, or any of its subdivisions, to the payment of any bonds issued for construction or improvements for any institution or facility under the control of any such agency shall continue to be collected and dedicated to the payment of those bonds. In like manner, all other dedications and allocations of revenues and sources of revenues heretofore made shall continue in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as were provided prior to the enactment of this chapter, and shall so continue, notwithstanding the passage of any laws by the general court relative to reorganization of the executive branch.|||Source. 1983, 372:1, eff. July 1, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:16 - Effect on Federal Law.

    21-G:16 Effect on Federal Law. –||This chapter and any laws enacted by the general court relative to executive branch reorganization shall not be construed or applied in any way which will prevent full compliance by the state, or any department, office, or agency thereof, with the requirements of any act of the Congress of the United States or any regulation made thereunder by which federal aid or other federal assistance has been or hereafter is made available to this state, or any department, office, agency, or subdivision thereof; and such compliance hereafter shall be accomplished by the commissioner insofar as such compliance affects any abolished agency whose powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities are transferred in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and any laws enacted by the general court relative to executive branch reorganization.|||Source. 1983, 372:1, eff. July 1, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:17 - Transfer of Property.

    21-G:17 Transfer of Property. –||All books, papers, records and unexpended appropriations or other funds, actions, and other property of every kind, movable and immovable, real and personal, heretofore possessed, controlled, or used by each agency abolished whose powers, duties, functions and responsibilities are transferred in accordance with this chapter and any laws enacted by the general court relative to executive branch reorganization are hereby transferred to the department to which such powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities are transferred.|||Source. 1983, 372:1, eff. July 1, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:18 - Transfer of Employees.

    21-G:18 Transfer of Employees. –||All employees heretofore engaged in the performance of duties in each agency abolished whose powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities are transferred in accordance with this chapter and any laws enacted by the general court relative to executive branch reorganization are hereby transferred to the department to which such powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities are transferred to the extent the commissioner deems necessary to carry out the functions of the abolished agency and shall, insofar as practicable and necessary, continue to perform the duties heretofore performed, subject to applicable personnel statutes.|||Source. 1983, 372:1, eff. July 1, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:19 - Reference to Abolished Agency.

    21-G:19 Reference to Abolished Agency. –||Wherever any agency abolished, whose powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities are transferred in accordance with this chapter and any laws enacted by the general court relative to executive branch reorganization, is referred to or designated by any law or contract or other document after the effective date of the abolition of such agency, such reference or designation shall be deemed to apply to the department to which the transfer is made or to its commissioner.|||Source. 1983, 372:1, eff. July 1, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:20 - New Agencies and Programs.

    21-G:20 New Agencies and Programs. –||I. After July 1, 1983, no agency, as defined in RSA 21-G:5, III, shall be established unless it shall be structured in accordance with this chapter.||II. After July 1, 1983, no new powers, duties, functions, responsibilities or programs shall be assigned to any agency, as defined in RSA 21-G:5, III, except an agency which exists on July 1, 1983, or an agency established by the general court in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and any laws enacted by the general court relative to executive branch reorganization.|||Source. 1983, 372:1, eff. July 1, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:21 - Definitions.

    21-G:21 Definitions. –||In this subdivision:||I. "Agency" means any executive branch agency, department, division, board, commission, or entity of the executive branch.||I-a. "Classified employee" means any person in the state classified service system as defined in RSA 21-I:49. ||II. "Conflict of interest" means a situation, circumstance, or financial interest which has the potential to cause a private interest to interfere with the proper exercise of a public duty.||II-a. "Executive branch official" means the governor, members of the executive council, every commissioned, unclassified, or nonclassified executive branch employee other than one elected by the legislature, every constitutional official as defined by RSA 15-B:2, II, and any person other than a classified employee who conducts business on behalf of the governor, an executive branch official, or executive branch agency, including a volunteer.||III. [Repealed.]||IV. [Repealed.]||V. [Repealed.]|||Source. 2004, 214:1. 2006, 21:1, 10, III-V, eff. June 2, 2006. 2016, 57:1, eff. July 4, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:22 - Conflict of Interest.

    21-G:22 Conflict of Interest. –||Executive branch officials and classified employees shall avoid conflicts of interest. Executive branch officials and classified employees shall not participate in any matter in which they, or their spouse or dependents, have a private interest which may directly or indirectly affect or influence the performance of their duties.|||Source. 2004, 214:1. 2006, 21:2, eff. June 2, 2006. 2016, 57:2, eff. July 4, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:23 - Misuse of Position.

    21-G:23 Misuse of Position. –||No executive branch official or classified employee shall:||I. Disclose or use confidential or privileged information acquired in the performance of his or her duties for the state for personal benefit or for financial gain.||II. Use his or her position with the state to secure privileges or advantages for himself or herself, which are not generally available to governmental employees, or to secure governmental privileges or advantages for others to which they are not otherwise entitled.|||Source. 2004, 214:1. 2006, 21:2. 2009, 239:2, eff. July 16, 2009. 2016, 57:3, eff. July 4, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:24 - Acceptance of Campaign Contributions.

    21-G:24 Acceptance of Campaign Contributions. –||An executive branch official or classified employee who is a candidate for an elective office that is not subject to the reporting requirements of RSA 664 and who accepts a political contribution from any person or entity which is or is likely to become subject to that executive branch official's or classified employee's duties shall make a disclosure of such contributions to the secretary of state within 5 days of receipt of such contributions. The disclosure shall be in writing and on such form as the secretary of state shall prescribe.|||Source. 2004, 214:1. 2006, 21:2, eff. June 2, 2006. 2016, 57:4, eff. July 4, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:25 - Restrictions on Simultaneous Employment and Public Service.

    21-G:25 Restrictions on Simultaneous Employment and Public Service. –||Volunteer service shall not be used, directly or indirectly, for personal financial gain, or to facilitate non-public communications with executive branch officials or classified employees for the purpose of promoting or advancing any matter on behalf of a third party, or to influence executive branch officials or classified employees in the performance of their duties. In furtherance of this prohibition:||I. No person shall serve as a public employee, as defined by RSA 15-B:2, VIII, or serve as an appointee or volunteer for any multi-branch commission, committee, board, or similar governmental entity, and simultaneously be a person who has a duty to register as a lobbyist pursuant to RSA 15, or is employed by, or maintains an ownership interest in, any entity which employs a registered lobbyist.||II. No person shall serve as a public employee in a position that establishes policy or adjudicates matters before any agency while maintaining any ownership interest in, or being employed by, any entity, engaged in promoting or opposing, directly or indirectly, any legislation pending or proposed before the general court, or promoting or opposing any action or inaction on any matter, contract, license, permit, or administrative rule, proposed or pending, before the executive branch.||III. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the prohibitions of RSA 21-G:25, I and II, shall not apply to:||(a) Appearances before the courts or any adjudicative proceedings, or non-adjudicative processes, as defined by RSA 541-A;||(b) Service in a position subject to appointment by the governor and council;||(c) Testimony or participation in any public meeting, or service on any commission, committee, board, panel, or other similar governmental entity that is subject to the public meeting and notice requirements of RSA 91-A, or the public right of access mandated by part 1, article 8 of the New Hampshire constitution.||(d) Volunteer public service related entirely to a ceremonial, celebratory, historical, or recreational program or event; public health or safety incident or drill, or consumer protection assistance;||(e) Ownership of publicly-traded stock; or||(f) A public employee, appointee, or volunteer's personal application for any license, permit, or ruling from a state agency.|||Source. 2004, 214:1. 2006, 21:2, eff. June 2, 2006. 2016, 57:5, eff. July 4, 2016; 328:16, eff. Dec. 7, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:26 - Employment Restrictions.

    21-G:26 Employment Restrictions. –||For 6 months after leaving office or employment with the state, no executive branch official or classified employee shall appear as a lobbyist:||I. To promote or oppose directly any specific legislation pending or proposed before the general court; or||II. To directly promote or oppose action or inaction on any matter, contract, license, permit, or administrative rule pending before the executive branch or with regard to any matter over which that executive branch official or classified employee had personal and direct responsibility while in state government.|||Source. 2004, 214:1. 2006, 21:2, eff. June 2, 2006. 2016, 57:6, eff. July 4, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:26-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:26-a - Nepotism.

    21-G:26-a Nepotism. –||No executive branch official or classified employee shall directly hire, evaluate, set the compensation or salary for, supervise, or terminate the employment of any full-time or part-time employee, temporary employee, or member of a state board or commission if such employee or member is related to such official in one of the following ways:||I. Spouse;||II. Parent by birth or adoption; stepparent;||III. Son or daughter by birth or adoption;||IV. Stepson or stepdaughter;||V. Brother or sister by whole or half blood or by adoption;||VI. Mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in-law, or son-in-law; or||VII. Grandparent or grandchild.|||Source. 2009, 239:1, eff. July 16, 2009. 2016, 57:7, eff. July 4, 2016. 2019, 164:1, eff. Sept. 8, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:27 - Supplemental State Agency Ethical Codes.

    21-G:27 Supplemental State Agency Ethical Codes. –||In addition to this code, each agency may promulgate a supplemental ethics code to address issues specific to that agency. In the event of a conflict with the provisions of this code, a stricter provision of an agency code shall govern. To the extent that this code or an ethics code adopted by an agency shall apply to classified employees, this code, or an agency code, shall be interpreted to be consistent with the provisions of the classified employees' collective bargaining agreement and the state personnel rules.|||Source. 2004, 214:1. 2006, 21:2, eff. June 2, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 21-G:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21-G - Organization of Executive Branch|Section 21-G:28 - Repealed by 2006, 21:10, VI, eff. June 2, 2006.

    21-G:28 Repealed by 2006, 21:10, VI, eff. June 2, 2006. –|