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NH Rev Stat § 131:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 131 - Laboratory of Hygiene|Section 131:3 - Testing of Water Supplies.

    131:3 Testing of Water Supplies. –||They shall make periodic inspections and analyses of the public water supplies of the state and any special investigations thereof that may be called for; also, when requested or as may be deemed by them necessary or expedient in the interests of the public health, make inspections or analyses of sources furnishing water to institutions, schools, hotels, camps, other places of public resort and individuals, and advise in connection with the same; and they shall enforce the laws pertaining to water supply and to the sanitation of public waters.|||Source. 1901, 23:4. 1925, 60:1. PL 127:4. RL 149:4. 1943, 118:1, par. 3, eff. April 15, 1943.|
NH Rev Stat § 131:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 131 - Laboratory of Hygiene|Section 131:4 - Service; Reimbursements; Rulemaking.

    131:4 Service;  Reimbursements;  Rulemaking. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to a list of laboratory services to be provided under this chapter and a schedule of fees for such services. The fees may be waived by the commissioner when the commissioner determines it is in the best interests of the health of the public to do so. Fees collected under this section shall be forwarded to the state treasurer to be deposited in the general fund.|||Source. 1901, 23:5. PL 127:6. 1935, 59:1. RL 149:6. 1943, 118:1, par. 4. RSA 131:4. 1986, 198:10. 1995, 308:26; 310:182, 183. 2003, 319:90, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 131:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 131 - Laboratory of Hygiene|Section 131:5 - Contracts for Outside Services.

    131:5 Contracts for Outside Services. –||They may enter into contracts with laboratories in localities accessible to the various portions of the state for the prompt examination of specimens received from local health officers or physicians and for an immediate report on such examinations, at the expense of the state, provided that all laboratories shall conform to the standards of efficiency as adopted by rules by the department of health and human services, and that the director, bacteriologist or pathologist in charge of such examinations shall possess such educational and technical qualifications as the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall establish by rule. No obligation shall be incurred by the department of health and human services relative to the examinations in excess of the sums made available for them.|||Source. 1943, 118:1, par. 5. RSA 131:5. 1983, 291:1, I. 1985, 190:38. 1995, 310:181-183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 131:5-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 131 - Laboratory of Hygiene|Section 131:5-a - Rulemaking.

    131:5-a Rulemaking. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to:||I. Standards of efficiency for laboratories under RSA 131:5.||II. The educational and technical qualifications of the commissioner, bacteriologist, or pathologist in charge of examinations under RSA 131:5.||III. [Repealed.]|||Source. 1985, 190:37. 1995, 310:182, 183. 2012, 171:26, III, eff. Aug. 10, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 131:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 131 - Laboratory of Hygiene|Section 131:6 - Bulletin.

    131:6 Bulletin. –||They may publish in a bulletin the results of the analytical work done in said laboratory, naming fraudulent and adulterated articles of food found on sale in this state, together with such other information relating to sanitary matters as they may deem advisable.|||Source. 1901, 23:4. PL 127:7. RL 149:7. 1943, 118:1 par. 6, eff. April 15, 1943.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:1 - Purpose; Instruction.

    132:1 Purpose;  Instruction. –||The department of health and human services may provide instruction, advice and such services as the commissioner may deem necessary for children with special health care needs, and to protect and promote the physical health of women in their child-bearing years and their infants and children.|||Source. 1921, 151:1. PL 128:1. RL 150:1. RSA 132:1. 1983, 291:1, I. 1986, 198:11. 1995, 310:181, 183. 2004, 21:3, eff. June 4, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:2 - Duties.

    132:2 Duties. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall:||I. Conduct studies as necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.||II. Formulate and administer such plans as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.||III. Receive and expend, in accordance with plans developed under this chapter, funds made available to the department by the federal government, the state or its political subdivisions, or other sources.||IV. Cooperate with the federal government and with other state and local agencies and organizations in developing, extending, and improving the services provided under this chapter.||V. Supervise those services authorized by this chapter and provided under contract with local agencies.||VI. Employ such persons as necessary to carry out the requirements of this chapter.||VII. Administer the supplemental food program for women, infants, and children in accordance with RSA 132:12-a.||VIII. Assure the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum in accordance with RSA 132:6.||IX. Assure the screening of newborn children for metabolic disorders in accordance with RSA 132:10-a.||X. Administer services for children with special health care needs as provided for under RSA 132:13.||XI. Prepare, in conjunction with the office of alcohol and drug abuse prevention, a brochure which provides information relative to fetal alcohol syndrome and which shall be available to the public in the office of the town clerk and at the check-out counter of the state liquor store.||XII. Prepare, in conjunction with the bureau of alcohol and drug services and the division of public health services, a brochure and a poster which provides information relative to the risks of cannabis use during pregnancy, adolescence, and while breastfeeding, which shall be posted and available to the public in all therapeutic cannabis dispensary locations pursuant to RSA 126-X:8.|||Source. 1921, 151:4. PL 128:2. RL 150:2. RSA 132:2. 1986, 198:12. 1988, 226:1. 1995, 310:182. 2004, 21:4. 2005, 261:1, eff. Sept. 20, 2005. 2021, 47:5, eff. July 24, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:3 - Enforcement of Rules.

    132:3 Enforcement of Rules. –||The division may enforce the department's rules and ordinances through its inspectors, or through the local boards of health.|||Source. 1911, 121:2. PL 128:6. RL 150:6. RSA 132:3. 1985, 190:39, eff. May 29, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:4 - Effect of Aid.

    132:4 Effect of Aid. –||No person receiving aid under this chapter shall be affected thereby in any civil or political rights, nor shall their identity be disclosed except upon written order of the commissioner of the department of health and human services.|||Source. 1921, 151:3. PL 128:3. RL 150:3. RSA 132:4. 1986, 198:13. 1995, 310:182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:5 - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXVII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:5 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXVII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:6 - Prevention of Ophthalmia in Newborn.

    132:6 Prevention of Ophthalmia in Newborn. –||I. The physician, hospital, nurse midwife, midwife, or other health care provider attending a newborn child shall, after washing the lids and adjacent tissues immediately following birth, place into each eye of every child a single drop of a one percent solution of nitrate of silver or some equally efficient solution.||II. Should one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen, and red, and show an unusual discharge at any time within 2 weeks after its birth, a report shall be made in writing, within 6 hours thereafter, to the department of health and human services, except if a licensed physician is in attendance he shall report as required by this section within 24 hours.||III. If a physician is not in attendance, the parents, or whoever has charge of such infant, shall immediately place it in the charge of a licensed physician.||IV. The commissioner of the department of health and human services may publish such information and instruction and adopt rules as he deems expedient to prevent the development of inflammation in the eyes of newborn babies, or so-called ophthalmia neonatorum.|||Source. 1911, 121:1. PL 128:5. RL 150:5. RSA 132:6. 1985, 190:40. 1986, 198:14. 1995, 310:181, 182. 1999, 213:1, eff. July 6, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:7 - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXVIII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:7 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXVIII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:8 - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXIX, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:8 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXIX, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:9 - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXX, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:9 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXX, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:10 - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXI, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:10 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXI, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:10-aa (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:10-aa - Newborn Screening; Pulse Oximetry Test Required.

    132:10-aa Newborn Screening;  Pulse Oximetry Test Required. –||The physician, hospital, nurse midwife, midwife, or other health care provider attending a newborn child shall perform a pulse oximetry screening, according to the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, on every newborn child.|||Source. 2012, 190:3, eff. Aug. 10, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:10-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:10-b - Rulemaking.

    132:10-b Rulemaking. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to:||I. The women, infants, and children program under RSA 132:12-a.||II. The prevention of ophthalmia in newborn babies under RSA 132:6.||III. Newborn screening tests and how fees for such tests are to be determined under RSA 132:10-a.||IV. Services for children with special health care needs as provided under RSA 132:13.||V. Maternal and child health services provided directly by the department or by local agencies under contract to it.|||Source. 1965, 48:1. 1985, 190:41. 1986, 198:16. 1987, 279:1. 1995, 310:175, 182. 2004, 21:4. 2005, 285:2, eff. Sept. 20, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:10-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:10-c - Exception.

    132:10-c Exception. –||The provisions of RSA 132:10-a, 10-aa, and 10-b shall not apply if the parents of such child object thereto.|||Source. 1965, 48:1. 2012, 190:4, eff. Aug. 10, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:10-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:10-d - Breast-feeding.

    132:10-d Breast-feeding. –||Breast-feeding a child does not constitute an act of indecent exposure and to restrict or limit the right of a mother to breast-feed her child is discriminatory.|||Source. 1999, 121:2, eff. Aug. 9, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:10-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:10-e - Development of a Plan of Safe Care.

    132:10-e Development of a Plan of Safe Care. –||When an infant is born with and identified as being affected by substance abuse or withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal drug exposure or a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, the health care provider shall develop a plan of safe care, in cooperation with the infant's parents or guardians and the department of health and human services, division of public health services, as appropriate, to ensure the safety and well-being of the infant, to address the health and substance use treatment needs of the infant and affected family members or caregivers, and to ensure that appropriate referrals are made and services are delivered to the infant and affected family members or caregivers. The plan shall take into account whether the infant's prenatal drug exposure occurred as the result of medication assisted treatment, or medication prescribed for the mother by a health care provider, and whether the infant's mother is or will be actively engaged in ongoing substance use disorder treatment following discharge that would mitigate the future risk of harm to the infant. A copy of the plan of safe care shall be included in the instructions for the infant upon discharge from the hospital or from the health care provider involved in the development of the plan of safe care. The plan of safe care shall not be submitted to the department of health and human services unless it is pursuant to RSA 132:10-f or the department makes an official request for a copy of the plan in compliance with confidentiality requirements.|||Source. 2018, 336:1, eff. June 26, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:10-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:10-f - Mandatory Reporting.

    132:10-f Mandatory Reporting. –||When a health care provider suspects that an infant has been abused or neglected pursuant to RSA 169-C:3, the provider shall report to the department of health and human services in accordance with RSA 169-C:29. If the infant has a plan of safe care developed under RSA 132:10-e, a copy of the plan shall accompany the report.|||Source. 2018, 336:1, eff. June 26, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:11 - Authorization.

    132:11 Authorization. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services may:||I. Formulate and administer plans for the purposes specified in RSA 132:12 through RSA 132:13 and adopt rules under RSA 541-A to carry out these plans.||II. Receive and expend in accordance with such plans funds made available to the department by the federal government, the state or its political subdivisions, or other sources.||III. Cooperate with the federal government and with other state and local agencies and organizations in developing, extending, and improving the services specified in RSA 132:12 through RSA 132:13, and in the administration of such plans.|||Source. 1937, 58:2. RL 150:11. RSA 132:11. 1981, 307:1. 1985, 190:42. 1995, 310:175, 182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:12 - Maternal and Child Health Services.

    132:12 Maternal and Child Health Services. –||The division may administer a program of maternal and child health services, and shall supervise those services not administered directly by it.|||Source. 1937, 58:1. RL 150:12.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:12-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:12-a - Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program.

    132:12-a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall develop and administer a women, infants, and children program within the state under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, in accordance with federal regulations promulgated by the Department of Agriculture and subject to continued funding from the federal Department of Agriculture. In the administration of the program, the commissioner:||I. Shall suspend a vendor from the program for any of the following:||(a) Providing cash, unauthorized food, or other items to participants in lieu of authorized supplemental foods.||(b) Charging the state for food not received by participants.||(c) Charging the program more for supplemental foods than other customers are charged for the same food item.||II. Shall suspend a participant from the program for any of the following:||(a) Knowingly and deliberately misrepresenting circumstances to obtain benefits.||(b) Selling supplemental foods or food instruments to, or exchanging them with, other persons.||(c) Receiving cash or credit towards purchases of unauthorized food or other items of value from food vendors, in lieu of authorized supplemental food.||III. May, upon determination that a person has fraudulently obtained funds under this program, bring an action to recover the funds. Any funds so recovered shall be remitted to the proper federal officials as required under federal law or regulation. Demand and payment of these funds shall not relieve or discharge any person from liability, either civil or criminal, for additional amounts or penalties as may be prescribed under any other applicable law.|||Source. 1981, 307:2. 1986, 198:17. 1995, 310:182, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:12-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:12-b - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:12-b Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:12-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:12-c - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXIII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:12-c Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXIII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:12-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:12-d - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXIV, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:12-d Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXIV, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:12-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:12-e - Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program Fund.

    132:12-e Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program Fund. –||There is hereby established the women, infants, and children (WIC) fund. The fund shall be composed of food rebates, including but not limited to, infant formula and baby food, purchased under the WIC program established pursuant to this chapter. The fund shall be nonlapsing and shall be continually appropriated to the commissioner of the department of health and human services for the purposes of continuous support for the WIC program as required by federal law and regulations.|||Source. 2009, 68:1, eff. Aug. 8, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:13 - Children With Special Health Care Needs.

    132:13 Children With Special Health Care Needs. –||I. Services provided for children with special health care needs in accordance with RSA 132:2, X, shall include location, diagnoses, hospitalization, medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care of such children.||II. In this chapter, "children with special health care needs" means children who have or are at risk for chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally.|||Source. 1937, 58:2. RL 150:13. RSA 132:13. 1986, 198:18. 2004, 21:1, eff. June 4, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:14 - Limitation of Provisions.

    132:14 Limitation of Provisions. –||Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing any public official, agent, or representative, in carrying out any provision of this chapter, to take charge of any child, or to provide services to any child, over the objection of either the father or the mother of such child, or of the person standing "in loco parentis" to such child, except pursuant to a proper court order. Nothing in this chapter shall affect the operation of RSA 186 or 200 or any other law providing maternal or child health services.|||Source. 1937, 58:1, 2. RL 150:14. RSA 132:14. 1986, 198:19, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:15 - Penalties.

    132:15 Penalties. –||Any person committing a fraud on the women, infants, and children program under RSA 132:12-a shall be charged under RSA 638:15. Any person violating any other provision of this subdivision or any rule adopted under this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1911, 121:3. PL 128:11. 1937, 58:2. RL 150:15. RSA 132:15. 1981, 307:3, eff. Aug. 15, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 132:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:16 - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXV, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:16 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXV, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:17 - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXVI, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:17 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXVI, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:18 - Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXVI, eff. Aug. 2, 1986.

    132:18 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXVI, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:19 - to 132:21 Repealed by 2010, 368:1(12), eff. Dec. 31, 2010.

    132:19 to 132:21 Repealed by 2010, 368:1(12), eff. Dec. 31, 2010. –|
NH Rev Stat § 132:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 132 - Protection for Maternity and Infancy|Section 132:22 - Title.

    132:22 Title. –||This subdivision shall be known and may be cited as the Live-Birth Infants Protection Act.|||Source. 2001, 219:1, eff. Sept. 9, 2001.|