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NH Rev Stat § 608:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 608 - Surety of the Peace|Section 608:8 - Order on Conviction, etc.

    608:8 Order on Conviction, etc. –||A person sentenced by a justice or court for a criminal offense, or ordered to recognize for his appearance before the same or another court, may be required to recognize to keep the peace and to be of good behavior for such time as the court or justice may direct.|||Source. RS 116:4; 118:7, 8; 218:1. CS 122:4; 124:7; 232:1. 1855, 1658:5. GS 238:8. GL 256:8. PS 259:8. PL 373:8. RL 433:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 608:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 608 - Surety of the Peace|Section 608:9 - Order on View.

    608:9 Order on View. –||A person who, in the presence of a court or justice, makes an affray, threatens to kill or beat another or to commit any violence or outrage to person or property, or who contends with hot and angry words to the disturbance of the peace, may be ordered, without process or any other proof, to recognize for keeping the peace and being of good behavior for a term not exceeding 3 months, and to stand committed until the order is complied with.|||Source. RS 222:8. GS 238:9. GL 256:9. PS 259:9. PL 373:9. RL 433:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 608:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 608 - Surety of the Peace|Section 608:10 - Committal by Surety.

    608:10 Committal by Surety. –||A surety in a recognizance to keep the peace may commit the principal to the common jail, and shall be discharged in the same manner as sureties in other recognizances in criminal cases.|||Source. GS 238:10. GL 256:10. PS 259:10. PL 373:10. RL 433:10.|
NH Rev Stat § 610:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 610 - Rewards and Compensations to Prosecutors|Section 610:1 - Offer of Reward.

    610:1 Offer of Reward. –||The county commissioners of any county, the city council of a city and the selectmen of a town are authorized, whenever in their opinion the public good requires it, to offer and pay from the treasury of such county, city or town a suitable reward, not exceeding $300 in any one case, to any person who shall, in consequence of such offer, apprehend and secure any person or persons charged with having committed a capital or other high crime.|||Source. 1848, 735. CS 236:1. GS 245:1. GL 263:1. PS 261:1. 1911, 143:1. PL 375:1. RL 435:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 610:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 610 - Rewards and Compensations to Prosecutors|Section 610:2 - Compensation for Service.

    610:2 Compensation for Service. –||If any service is performed by a person by direction of a court or justice, of the attorney general, or of the county attorney in bringing to justice an offender charged with a crime or misdemeanor, the superior court shall allow a reasonable sum therefor to be paid from the county treasury.|||Source. RS 211:15. CS 224:15. GS 245:2. GL 263:2. PS 261:2. PL 375:2. RL 435:2. RSA 610:2. 1959, 12:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:1 - Definitions.

    611-B:1 Definitions. –|| In this chapter:||I. "Acting chief medical examiner" means the physician designated pursuant to RSA 611-B:4.||II. "Assistant deputy medical examiner" means a person appointed by the chief medical examiner pursuant to RSA 611-B:5.||II-a. "Associate medical examiner" means the licensed physician certified by the American Board of Pathology as a qualified pathologist and appointed pursuant to RSA 611-B:3-a.||III. "Chief medical examiner" means the licensed physician certified by the American Board of Pathology as a qualified pathologist and appointed pursuant to RSA 611-B:2.||IV. "Death investigation" means an investigation conducted by a medical examiner pursuant to this chapter, which may involve one or more of the following: a telephone consultation, investigation of the scene of death, or post-mortem examination.||V. "Deputy chief medical examiner" means the licensed physician certified by the American Board of Pathology as a qualified pathologist and appointed pursuant to RSA 611-B:3.||VI. "Designee" means the medical examiner designated by the chief medical examiner to act on behalf of the chief medical examiner, who shall be either the deputy chief medical examiner or the acting chief medical examiner.||VII. "Medical examiner" means any person authorized pursuant to RSA 611-B to investigate medico-legal cases.||VIII. "Post-mortem examination" means any external or internal examination of a decedent's body.||IX. "Supervising medical examiner" means the chief medical examiner, deputy chief medical examiner, or acting chief medical examiner.||X. "Telephone consultation" means a type of death investigation that does not involve a visual examination of the deceased by the medical examiner.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007. 2021, 91:155, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:2 - Chief Medical Examiner; Authority; Rulemaking.

    611-B:2 Chief Medical Examiner;  Authority;  Rulemaking. –||I. There is hereby established within the department of justice the office of chief medical examiner. The office shall be under the immediate supervision of a person who shall be known as the "chief medical examiner," and who shall be a duly licensed physician and certified by the American Board of Pathology to possess special competence in forensic pathology and who has had experience in forensic medicine. The chief medical examiner shall be nominated by the attorney general and appointed by the governor and council and shall serve for a term of 5 years and until a successor is appointed, unless sooner removed by the governor and council for cause in accordance with the provisions of RSA 4:1. The chief medical examiner shall be subject to direction and control by the attorney general in all matters relating to the enforcement of the criminal law. The chief medical examiner shall enforce the provisions of this chapter. The chief medical examiner or designee shall be continually available for emergency consultation as necessary for carrying out the functions of this office.||II. The chief medical examiner shall have the authority to adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to:||(a) The methods and procedures for medico-legal death investigations.||(b) The examination of substances taken from dead bodies or human remains in order to determine the manner of death, provided that such examinations shall be conducted, whenever possible, at existing qualified state facilities.||(c) Training and certification of medical examiners under RSA 611-B.||(d) The fee schedule for medical examiners under RSA 611-B.||(e) Forms, blank returns, and other documents necessary for medical examiners to carry out the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:3 - Deputy Chief Medical Examiner.

    611-B:3 Deputy Chief Medical Examiner. –||There is hereby established within the office of chief medical examiner the position of deputy chief medical examiner. The deputy chief medical examiner shall be appointed in the same manner as the chief medical examiner as provided in RSA 611-B:2, and shall be a licensed physician, certified by the American Board of Pathology as a qualified pathologist, with training and experience in forensic medicine. The deputy chief medical examiner shall serve under the professional direction and supervision of the chief medical examiner and shall act as the chief medical examiner whenever the latter is absent, or unable to act for any cause.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:3-a - Associate Medical Examiner.

    611-B:3-a Associate Medical Examiner. –||There is hereby established within the office of the chief medical examiner the position of associate medical examiner. The associate medical examiner shall be appointed in the same manner as the chief medical examiner as provided in RSA 611-B:2, and shall be a licensed physician, certified by the American Board of Pathology as a qualified pathologist, with training and experience in forensic medicine. The associate medical examiner shall serve under the professional direction and supervision of the chief medical examiner and deputy chief medical examiner and shall act as the chief medical examiner whenever the chief medical examiner and deputy chief medical examiner are absent, or unable to act for any cause.|||Source. 2021, 91:156, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:4 - Acting Chief Medical Examiner.

    611-B:4 Acting Chief Medical Examiner. –||The chief medical examiner may designate in writing an acting chief medical examiner who shall be a licensed physician, certified by the American Board of Pathology as a qualified pathologist with training and experience in forensic medicine. The acting chief medical examiner shall act as the chief medical examiner whenever the chief medical examiner, deputy chief medical examiner, and the associate medical examiner are absent, or unable to act for any cause.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007. 2021, 91:157, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:5 - Assistant Deputy Medical Examiners.

    611-B:5 Assistant Deputy Medical Examiners. –||The chief medical examiner shall appoint assistant deputy medical examiners to perform the duties of medical examiner under this chapter. Assistant deputy medical examiners shall serve without geographic restriction. An assistant deputy medical examiner shall be a person educated in the science of medicine and shall serve under the direction and supervision of the chief medical examiner. An assistant deputy medical examiner shall possess all the powers granted to medical examiners under this chapter and be sworn in the same manner. Assistant deputy medical examiners shall serve at the pleasure of the chief medical examiner.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:6 - Indemnification of Medical Examiner.

    611-B:6 Indemnification of Medical Examiner. –||The provisions of RSA 99-D shall apply to the chief medical examiner and any other medical examiner or investigator employed in the office of the chief medical examiner for claims arising from the scope of their official duties, including, but not limited to, the practice of forensic pathology and the practice of clinical forensic medicine.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:7 - Supervision.

    611-B:7 Supervision. –||The chief medical examiner shall have general supervision over the administration of and shall enforce the provisions of this chapter. Medical examiners shall serve under the professional direction and supervision of the chief medical examiner.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:8 - Affiliation and Training.

    611-B:8 Affiliation and Training. –||I. The chief medical examiner shall have the authority to enter into agreements, subject to approval of the attorney general and governor and council, with state departments and with any public or private college or university, school of medicine, or hospital for the use of certain laboratories, morgues, and other technical facilities, and, pursuant to such agreements, shall have authority to make medical examiners available to such educational institutions for the teaching of legal medicine and other subjects closely related to their duties.||II. The chief medical examiner and, at the chief medical examiner's direction, other medical examiners shall assist in the training of police officers in police training programs authorized by the police standards and training council under RSA 106-L.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007. 2017, 206:23, eff. Sept. 8, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:9 - Temporary Expert Assistance.

    611-B:9 Temporary Expert Assistance. –||The supervising medical examiner shall have authority to call upon and employ such persons, skilled in science, pathology, or otherwise, as are necessary for the performance of duties, as occasion may necessitate.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:10 - Administrative and Technical Assistance.

    611-B:10 Administrative and Technical Assistance. –||The chief medical examiner may employ adequate administrative, clerical, and technical assistants to carry out the purposes of this chapter, all of whom shall be in the classified service of the state.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:12 - Mandatory Reporting of Medico-Legal Deaths.

    611-B:12 Mandatory Reporting of Medico-Legal Deaths. –||It shall be the duty of anyone who finds the body of any person whose death is suspected to have been caused or to have occurred in any manner described in RSA 611-B:11, or who finds remains which are thought to be human to immediately notify the medical examiner and the county attorney for the county where the body or remains are found.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:13 - Charge of Body.

    611-B:13 Charge of Body. –||Whenever the medical examiner has notice of the body of a person whose death is supposed to have been caused in a manner described in RSA 611-B:11, the medical examiner shall take charge of the body and may go to the place where such body lies. The medical examiner may authorize the moving of the body.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:14 - Survey of Location.

    611-B:14 Survey of Location. –||I. Before a body is removed or disturbed, the medical examiner shall make or cause to be made a careful survey of the body and its surroundings, and reduce or cause to be reduced to writing an accurate and detailed description of the location, position, and condition of the body and any other facts concerning the body or its surroundings that will aid in determining the cause and manner of death.||II. A body shall not be altered or disturbed, personal effects shall not be removed or altered, and physical or biological evidence, including samples of blood and other body fluids for analysis, shall not be obtained or collected from the body, without the permission of the medical examiner.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:14-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:14-a - Medical Records.

    611-B:14-a Medical Records. –|| For the purpose of any medical examination into the cause and manner of death, and where medical treatment has been provided to the decedent who is the subject of the examination, upon written request of the supervising medical examiner any individual, partnership, association, corporation, institution, or governmental entity which has rendered such treatment shall provide the supervising medical examiner with all medical records pertaining to the decedent and the treatment rendered. This section shall not preclude the supervising medical examiner from directly inspecting or obtaining any medical records pertaining to a case under the jurisdiction of the chief medical examiner. The records shall be promptly provided to the supervising medical examiner. When the records are incorporated into the files of the medical examiner or the office of the chief medical examiner, they shall be confidential and shall not be available for public inspection.|||Source. 2008, 197:2, eff. June 11, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:15 - Postmortem Examination.

    611-B:15 Postmortem Examination. –||I. If the medical examiner determines that an external examination of the body is necessary to determine the manner and cause of death, the medical examiner may arrange for the body to be transported to a funeral home or other facility where an examination can be conducted. In the event that the decedent's family or next of kin does not employ the services of the funeral home or other facility used to transport the body, the cost of that transport shall be billed to the state.||II. In the event an autopsy is ordered, the medical examiner shall arrange for the body to be transported to the morgue. The cost of that transport shall be billed to the state.||III. The medical examiner performing the postmortem examination shall take and preserve, under proper seal, such portions of the body and its contents, together with such other articles that may require subsequent examination in order to determine the manner and cause of death.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:16 - Property of Deceased.

    611-B:16 Property of Deceased. –||In all cases arising under the provisions of this chapter, the medical examiner shall take charge of any money and other personal property of the deceased found upon or near the body. Unless held as evidence, all money and other personal property shall be released with the body to the legal next of kin. If any personal property is retained, the medical examiner shall inventory the property on a form prescribed by the chief medical examiner. The inventory shall list the total of any cash received and a complete description of any other items, including quantity and any identifying information. The original inventory form shall be retained on file for a period of at least 5 years by the office of the chief medical examiner, together with the case file. A copy of the inventory form shall be forwarded to the next of kin of the decedent, if that person's identity is known, either directly or through the funeral home to which the decedent's body is released.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:17 - Performance of Autopsies.

    611-B:17 Performance of Autopsies. –||I. If the supervising medical examiner, attorney general, or county attorney deems that an autopsy is necessary, he or she shall direct that one be made. The commissioner of the department of health and human services may, pursuant to RSA 126-A:5, V, request an autopsy of any individual who dies while admitted to, a resident of, or receiving care from New Hampshire hospital, Glencliff home, or any other residential facility operated by the department or a contract service provider.||II. The supervising medical examiner shall have the authority to conduct an autopsy and shall comply with any request by the attorney general, a county attorney, or the commissioner of health and human services to perform an autopsy.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:18 - Retention and Disposal of Organs, Unidentified Remains, Body Fragments, and Body Fluids.

    611-B:18 Retention and Disposal of Organs, Unidentified Remains, Body Fragments, and Body Fluids. –||I. Except as provided in RSA 227-C:8-a through RSA 227-C:8-g, whenever unidentified human skeletal remains are recovered, the chief medical examiner may store the remains, release them to an educational institution, direct that they be interred in an appropriate resting place, or have them cremated in accordance with RSA 325-A. Ashes of remains cremated shall be disposed of in an appropriate manner. Human skeletal remains recovered in a cared-for cemetery shall not be subject to the provisions of this paragraph.||II. The chief medical examiner or a designated pathologist may retain body tissues or body fluids for evidence, further study, documentation, or research. Subject to RSA 651-D:3, body tissue or body fluids retained for such purposes, or those which have been recovered after the body has been released from the custody of the medical examiner, may, unless claimed in writing by the person responsible for burial, be disposed of:||(a) According to the practices of the laboratory responsible for analysis;||(b) By the office of the chief medical examiner; or||(c) By the medical examiner or pathologist retaining those tissues or fluids.||III. Subject to RSA 651-D:3, the chief medical examiner may dispose of substantial body tissues that have been retained for evidence, further study, or documentation or that have been recovered after the rest of the body has been finally released, in accordance with paragraph I, unless claimed by the person responsible for burial.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 611-B:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner|Section 611-B:19 - Duty of the State Forensic Science Laboratory.

    611-B:19 Duty of the State Forensic Science Laboratory. –||Whenever the supervising medical examiner requires expert investigation, either chemical or pathological, of any substance or article preserved from an autopsy, such investigation may be made at the forensic science laboratory of the department of safety established in RSA 106-B:2-a, without charge or expense to the state or county, and the expert making such investigation shall submit a report of the results of the work to the person requesting it.|||Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.|