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NH Rev Stat § 41:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:32 - Repealed by 1979, 410:2, VII, eff. July 1, 1979.

    41:32 Repealed by 1979, 410:2, VII, eff. July 1, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 41:32-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:32-a - Election.

    41:32-a Election. –||Any town may, under an article in the warrant for the annual town meeting vote to elect a board of 2 or more auditors for the terms as herein provided. The terms of office shall be staggered so that after the year of adoption one auditor shall be chosen for a term of office for the same number of years as there are auditors on the board, provided however that in the year of adoption the members of the board shall be chosen for varying terms so that the term of one member shall expire in the next succeeding year, the term of the second member, the next year, and so on for the number of years, as there are members on the board. If a town has adopted an official ballot for the election of its officers the election of a board of auditors shall not take place until the annual town meeting following the town meeting at which the provisions of this section are adopted.|||Source. 1959, 82:1. 2011, 4:1, eff. April 25, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:33 - Compensation of Collectors.

    41:33 Compensation of Collectors. –||Each town, at the annual meeting, may determine the rate or amount of compensation to be allowed the collector of taxes for his services. Such compensation may be based upon statutory fees, a fixed compensation in lieu of statutory fees, a fixed compensation and statutory fees, or a fixed compensation and a portion of statutory fees. In the event that the collector of taxes is paid a compensation in lieu of statutory fees or a percentage of statutory fees, all remaining statutory fees shall be paid to the town treasurer at least monthly, or as directed by the selectmen, for the use of the town. Whenever the selectmen appoint the collector, such appointment shall be made prior to April 1 and they shall make a written contract with him in relation to to his compensation.|||Source. RS 36:5. CS 38:5. GS 39:5. GL 42:5. PS 43:26. PL 47:28. RL 59:28. 1945, 2:1. RSA 41:33. 1973, 200:1. 1977, 46:1, eff. June 11, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:34 - Repealed by 1979, 376:12, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.

    41:34 Repealed by 1979, 376:12, eff. Aug. 22, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 41:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:35 - Duties of Collector.

    41:35 Duties of Collector. –||I. Every collector of taxes shall keep in suitable books a fair and correct account in detail of the taxes due, collected, and abated, and of all property sold for nonpayment of taxes, which books shall be public records. A tax collector shall remit all money collected to the town treasurer, or to the town treasurer's designee as provided by RSA 41:29, VI, at least on a weekly basis, or daily whenever tax receipts total $1,500 or more. The collector shall make final payment to the town treasurer of all moneys collected within 10 days after the close of the town's fiscal year. Failure to remit collections on a timely basis as required by this paragraph shall be cause for immediate removal from office under RSA 41:40. He or she shall submit the tax books and lists to the treasurer and selectmen for inspection and computation when requested so to do and if they discover any errors therein they shall immediately notify the town auditors thereof; and the auditors shall promptly examine the collector's records and make a written report to the selectmen and the department of revenue administration of their findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The collector shall be at a usual place of business, or any other place, at least one day each month for at least 2 hours continuously for the transaction of tax business, which time and place shall be printed upon the tax bills sent out by the collector. The collector shall make a written report to the town at the end of each fiscal year which shall contain the amount of the taxes committed to him or her to collect; the amount of taxes collected, together with interest thereon; the amount of discounts allowed; the amount of taxes abated; the total amount of uncollected taxes; and an account of all sales of real estate to collect taxes. Upon written request therefor the collector shall provide the selectmen with an itemized list of the uncollected taxes at the end of the fiscal year.||II. A tax collector may use automatic or electronic data processing equipment in performing his duty to keep fair and correct tax accounts. The commissioner of revenue administration shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the use of such equipment and the form for such accounts.|||Source. 1869, 26:3, 4. 1874, 85:1. GL 40:9. PS 43:28. PL 47:30. 1935, 79:1. RL 59:31. 1951, 173:1. RSA 41:35. 1965, 27:1. 1967, 111:1. 1969, 138:1. 1973, 544:8. 1975, 418:1. 1977, 56:1. 1981, 128:5. 2007, 246:5. 2011, 19:1, eff. June 24, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:36 - Succession in Office.

    41:36 Succession in Office. –||Whenever the term of office of a collector of taxes shall end, from whatever cause, his powers and authority shall cease and terminate and devolve upon his successor whenever he is elected or appointed. The selectmen shall cause an audit of his accounts to be made promptly and they shall make and commit to his successor new warrants directing him to collect the taxes therein committed to him. All books, records and papers of the outgoing collector shall be delivered to the selectmen by every person having possession thereof, and the selectmen shall deliver those needed for his work to the successor collector, and those not needed by the successor collector to the town clerk for care and preservation. The successor collector, whether appointed or elected, shall comply with all the requirements for a collector of taxes, and shall have full power and authority to perform all the acts and do all the things that his predecessor could have done had he remained in office, or that by law are given and granted to collectors of taxes.|||Source. 1866, 4223:1. GS 39:8. GL 42:7. PS 43:29. PL 47:31. RL 59:32. 1943, 132:1. RSA 41:36. 1965, 22:1, eff. May 24, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:37 - Repealed by 1979, 410:2, VIII, eff. July 1, 1979.

    41:37 Repealed by 1979, 410:2, VIII, eff. July 1, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 41:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:38 - Deputy; Temporary Incapacity of Tax Collector.

    41:38 Deputy;  Temporary Incapacity of Tax Collector. –||I. The tax collector shall appoint a deputy, with the approval of the selectmen, who shall be sworn, give bond, have the powers of tax collectors and may be removed at the pleasure of the tax collector. The deputy shall perform such duties as are assigned to him by the tax collector.||II. Provided, however, if the tax collector is temporarily incapacitated before completing the collection of the taxes committed to him, or if any necessity may arise for such action, the deputy tax collector shall serve during such incapacity. Said deputy shall possess the powers, perform the duties and be paid as the selectmen or town meeting shall decide.|||Source. RS 45:19. CS 48:19. GS 54:19. GL 58:19. PS 60:20. 1925, 61:1. PL 66:41. RL 80:42. 1945, 7:2. RSA 41:38. 1979, 376:14. 1983, 30:1, eff. July 11, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:39 - Supervision by Commissioner of Revenue Administration.

    41:39 Supervision by Commissioner of Revenue Administration. –||The commissioner of revenue administration shall have and exercise general supervision over all tax collectors in the performance of their duties to the end that the laws relating to the collection of taxes may be properly administered.|||Source. 1935, 56:1. RL 59:33. RSA 41:39. 1973, 544:8, eff. Sept. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:41 - Unsettled Lists.

    41:41 Unsettled Lists. –||In case of removal from town or office or the death of a collector, he, his executors or administrators, and all other persons into whose hands any of his unsettled tax lists may come, shall forthwith deliver the same to the selectmen.|||Source. 1866, 4223:3. GS 39:10. GL 42:10. PS 43:30. PL 47:32. RL 59:35.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:42 - Repealed by 1983, 30:2, eff. July 11, 1983.

    41:42 Repealed by 1983, 30:2, eff. July 11, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 41:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:43 - Repealed by 1979, 376:16, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.

    41:43 Repealed by 1979, 376:16, eff. Aug. 22, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 41:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:44 - Completing Distress.

    41:44 Completing Distress. –||Any distress begun by a deceased or removed collector, or one who vacates his office by removal from town or otherwise, may be completed by his successor in the same manner as it could have been by him who began it.|||Source. 1866, 4223:5. GS 39:12. GL 42:12. PS 43:32. PL 47:34. RL 59:38.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:45 - Duration of Powers.

    41:45 Duration of Powers. –||Every collector of taxes shall collect all taxes set down upon the lists committed to him for that purpose except such as are abated, and shall possess all the powers of the office until they are collected, unless he is sooner removed as provided in this chapter.|||Source. PS 43:33. PL 47:35. RL 59:39.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:45-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:45-a - Approval by Town.

    41:45-a Approval by Town. –||I. At any annual town meeting under an article in the warrant placed there by petition, the voters may, whether or not the terms of office for town clerk and tax collector for said town are coterminous, vote, by ballot, to determine if they are in favor of having the office of town clerk combined with the office of tax collector, thereby creating a new office of town clerk-tax collector to be held by one individual. If the town has adopted an official ballot for election of its officers the town clerk shall insert the question relative to this matter on said official ballot, or if the town does not have an official ballot the town clerk shall prepare a special ballot for the same purpose. If a majority of those persons voting on the question vote in favor of creating the combined office of town clerk-tax collector, at the next annual meeting, occurring after the vote of approval, the town shall choose by ballot one individual as town clerk-tax collector, and such individual shall serve for a term of one year, or a term of 3 years as the petition may set forth. The term of any individual then in office as town clerk or tax collector shall cease and the newly elected town clerk-tax collector shall take office.||II. At any annual town meeting held at least 2 years after the office of town clerk-tax collector has been created, under an article in the warrant, the voters may vote, by ballot, to determine if they are in favor of continuing the combined office. If a majority of those voting on the question do not vote in favor of continuing such combined office, at the next annual meeting, in which an election for town clerk-tax collector is to be held the voters shall choose one individual as town clerk and another individual as town tax collector.|||Source. 1969, 450:1. 1973, 396:1. 1993, 68:4, eff. June 22, 1993.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:45-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:45-b - Requirements and Duties.

    41:45-b Requirements and Duties. –||Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, all laws of this state pertaining to town clerks and town tax collectors shall apply in full to the office of town clerk-tax collector.|||Source. 1969, 450:1, eff. Sept. 1, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:45-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:45-c - Deputy; Temporary Incapacity of Town Clerk-Tax Collector.

    41:45-c Deputy;  Temporary Incapacity of Town Clerk-Tax Collector. –||I. The town clerk-tax collector shall appoint a deputy, with the approval of the selectmen, who shall be sworn, give bond, have the powers of town clerk-tax collectors and may be removed at the pleasure of the town clerk-tax collector. The deputy shall perform such duties as are assigned to him by the town clerk-tax collector.||II. Provided, however, if the town clerk-tax collector is temporarily incapacitated before completing the collection of the taxes committed to him, or if any necessity may arise for such action, the deputy town clerk-tax collector shall serve during such incapacity. Said deputy shall possess the powers, perform the duties and be paid as the selectmen or town meeting shall decide.|||Source. 1969, 450:1. 1979, 410:12. 1983, 30:4, eff. July 11, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:46 - Duties.

    41:46 Duties. –||Overseers of public welfare shall keep full and accurate records of the assisted persons fully supported, the persons relieved and partially supported, and the travelers and vagrants lodged at the expense of their respective towns, together with the amounts paid by them for such support and relief, and shall make an annual return of the number of said persons supported and relieved, with the cost of such support and relief, to the department of health and human services, on or before July 1 in each year, on blanks furnished by said department. The commissioner of the department of health and human services may designate an overseer of public welfare to act on his behalf in the administration of old age assistance, aid to families with dependent children and aid to the permanently and totally disabled. Actions of such overseers shall be limited to assisting applicants to complete applications, verifying statements on applications and recertifying recipients as required by law.|||Source. 1901, 26:2. PL 47:20. RL 59:20. RSA 41:46. 1957, 198:2. 1975, 315:1. 1983, 291:1. 1995, 310:175, 181, 182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:46-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:46-a - Election of Supervisors of the Checklist.

    41:46-a Election of Supervisors of the Checklist. –||The board of supervisors of the checklist shall consist of 3 legal voters of the town. At the annual town election held in every even numbered year, the voters of each town shall elect, by ballot, one supervisor for a term of 6 years, provided that the supervisor elected at the state general election in 1974 shall serve until the annual town election in 1980, and that the supervisor elected at the state general election in 1976 shall serve until the annual town election in 1982.|||Source. 1979, 410:18, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:47 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:47 - Election.

    41:47 Election. –||Any town at any annual meeting, under an article in the warrant for said meeting, may vote to elect by ballot one or more permanent constables or police chiefs or other police officers for full-time duty in said town and may rescind such action in like manner. No election of such permanent constable or police chief or police officer shall be held until the next succeeding annual meeting after the vote of the town. Any police chief or police officer or constable elected at an annual meeting may serve a one-year, 2-year, or 3-year term, as determined by the town at such annual meeting.|||Source. 1945, 147:1. RSA 41:47. 1995, 11:2, eff. June 11, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:48 - Tenure of Office.

    41:48 Tenure of Office. –||Any permanent constable or police officer who is either elected under the provisions of RSA 41:47 or appointed for full-time duty under the provisions of RSA 105:1, and who is in compliance with the requirements of RSA 106-L:6, shall continue to hold such office during good behavior, unless sooner removed for cause by the selectmen, after notice and hearing, or unless the town has rescinded its action as provided in RSA 41:47. Any such elected permanent constable or police officer shall be deemed to be a permanent policeman, and entitled to benefits under the provisions of RSA 103 if otherwise qualified.|||Source. 1945, 147:1. RSA 41:48. 1961, 153:1. 1983, 14:1, eff. June 5, 1983. 2017, 206:7, eff. Sept. 8, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:49 - Day of Rest.

    41:49 Day of Rest. –||In any town which has full-time permanent police officer or officers, the selectmen, or other governing body, shall allow said officer or officers one day of rest in 8, without loss of pay.|||Source. 1945, 123:1, eff. May 19, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:50 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:50 - Application of Provision.

    41:50 Application of Provision. –||The provisions of RSA 41:49 shall not affect the provisions of any city charter.|||Source. 1945, 123:2, eff. May 19, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:51 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:51 - Repealed by 1979, 410:2, IX, eff. July 1, 1979.

    41:51 Repealed by 1979, 410:2, IX, eff. July 1, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 41:52 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:52 - Repealed by 1979, 410:2, X, eff. July 1, 1979.

    41:52 Repealed by 1979, 410:2, X, eff. July 1, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 41:53 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:53 - Repealed by 1979, 410:2, XI, eff. July 1, 1979.

    41:53 Repealed by 1979, 410:2, XI, eff. July 1, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 41:54 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:54 - Repealed by 1979, 410:2, XII, eff. July 1, 1979.

    41:54 Repealed by 1979, 410:2, XII, eff. July 1, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 41:55 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:55 - Town Treasurer.

    41:55 Town Treasurer. –||If any person holding the office of town treasurer shall, by reason of illness, accident, absence from the state or other cause, become temporarily incapacitated and unable to perform the duties of his office, the selectmen may, unless the town has voted to adopt the provisions of RSA 41:29-a, declare a temporary vacancy and appoint an acting town treasurer to perform the duties of the office for a limited period of time, and fix his compensation and the amount of his bond. Said appointee shall be subject to the requirements and liabilities of such office during his term.|||Source. 1939, 160:1. RL 59:52. RSA 41:55. 1969, 61:2, eff. April 4, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:56 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:56 - Powers of Selectmen During Vacancy.

    41:56 Powers of Selectmen During Vacancy. –||If any town fails to choose agents, overseers of the public welfare, firewards or any of them, or there is a vacancy in any of such offices, the selectmen shall discharge the duties and have the powers of such offices until the same are filled by election or appointment, as provided by law.|||Source. RS 34:4. CS 36:4. GS 37:4. GL 40:4. PS 43:40. PL 47:44. RL 59:50. RSA 41:56. 1957, 198:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:57 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:57 - Powers of Appointee.

    41:57 Powers of Appointee. –||A person elected or appointed to fill a vacancy in an office, or because there was no election at the annual meeting, shall qualify and succeed his immediate predecessor in the office, and possess the same powers, perform the same duties and be subject to the same liabilities as if he had been elected at an annual meeting.|||Source. RS 36:2. CS 38:2. GS 39:2. 1868, 1:8. GL 42:2. PS 43:41. PL 47:45. RL 59:51.|
NH Rev Stat § 41:57-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 41 - Choice and Duties of Town Officers|Section 41:57-a - Term of Office.

    41:57-a Term of Office. –||Except as otherwise provided, the term of office of any appointed town officer shall begin upon his or her appointment and qualification for office and shall end upon the appointment and qualification of his or her successor.|||Source. 2010, 226:1, eff. Aug. 27, 2010.|