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NH Rev Stat § 21:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:18 - Insane.

    21:18 Insane. –||The words "insane" or "insane person" shall include every idiot, non-compos, lunatic, insane, or distracted person.|||Source. RS 1:15. CS 1:15. GS 1:17. GL 1:17. PS 2:18. PL 2:18. RL 7:18.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:19 - Spendthrift.

    21:19 Spendthrift. –||The word "spendthrift" shall include anyone who is liable to be put under guardianship on account of excessive drinking, gaming, idleness, debauchery or vicious habits of any kind, or who is unable to manage his affairs with prudence.|||Source. GS 1:18. GL 1:18. PS 2:19. PL 2:19. RL 7:19. RSA 21:19. 1967, 106:1, eff. July 10, 1967.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:20 - Issue.

    21:20 Issue. –||The word "issue," as applied to the descent of estates, shall include all the lawful lineal descendants of the ancestor.|||Source. RS 1:16. CS 1:16. GS 1:19. GL 1:19. PS 2:20. PL 2:20. RL 7:20.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:21 - Land; Real Estate.

    21:21 Land;  Real Estate. –||I. The words "land," "lands" or "real estate" shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein.||II. Manufactured housing as defined by RSA 674:31 shall be included in the term "real estate."|||Source. RS 1:17. CS 1:17. GS 1:20. GL 1:20. PS 2:21. PL 2:21. RL 7:21. RSA 21:21. 1983, 230:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:22 - Will.

    21:22 Will. –||The word "will" shall include codicils.|||Source. RS 1:18. CS 1:18. GS 1:21. GL 1:21. PS 2:22. PL 2:22. RL 7:22.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:23 - Written.

    21:23 Written. –||The words "written" or "in writing" may include printing or any other mode of representing words and letters, except where the written signature of a person is required. The signature of any corporate officer upon a corporate bond or other corporate obligation for the payment of money, or upon any interest coupons attached thereto, may be a facsimile, engraved or printed, where such bond or other obligation is authenticated or certified by a trustee.|||Source. RS 1:19. CS 1:19. GS 1:22. GL 1:22. PS 2:23. PL 2:23. RL 7:23. RSA 21:23. 1963, 38:2, eff. June 4, 1963.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:24 - Oath.

    21:24 Oath. –||The word "oath" shall include "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and, in like cases, the word "sworn" shall include the word "affirmed."|||Source. RS 1:20. CS 1:20. GS 1:23. GL 1:23. PS 2:24. PL 2:24. RL 7:24.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:25 - Sworn; Public Officers.

    21:25 Sworn;  Public Officers. –||The word "sworn," when applied to public officers required by the constitution to take oaths therein prescribed, shall refer to those oaths; when applied to other officers it shall mean sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices before a justice of the peace, or other person authorized to administer official oaths in such cases.|||Source. GS 1:24. GL 1:24. PS 2:25. PL 2:25. RL 7:25.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:25-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:25-a - Sufficient Sureties.

    21:25-a Sufficient Sureties. –||Whenever a person is required to recognize or give bond "with sufficient sureties," with "corporate sureties," or "sufficient bond" or "give security" in any court proceeding the deposit of cash in the required amount shall be deemed sufficient.|||Source. 1959, 2:1, eff. April 7, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:26 - Highway.

    21:26 Highway. –||The word "highway" or "road" shall include all bridges thereon.|||Source. RS 1:21. CS 1:21. GS 1:25. GL 1:25. PS 2:26. PL 2:26. RL 7:26.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:27 - County.

    21:27 County. –||The word "county" may mean the county in which the subject matter referred to is situate, belongs, or is cognizable.|||Source. RS 1:22. CS 1:22. GS 1:26. GL 1:26. PS 2:27. PL 2:27. RL 7:27.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:27-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:27-a - County Attorney.

    21:27-a County Attorney. –||The words "county solicitor" or the word "solicitor" when referring to the county law official, shall mean the county attorney.|||Source. 1959, 12:1, eff. May 10, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:28 - Selectmen; Town Clerk.

    21:28 Selectmen;  Town Clerk. –||I. The word "selectmen" may mean the selectmen of the town or ward, or the mayor and aldermen of the city, to which the subject matter to be acted upon belongs or in which it is situate; and the words "town clerk" may mean the clerk of the town, ward, or city to which the subject matter referred to belongs or in which it is situate.||II. The words "selectwoman," "selectperson," and "select board" may be used interchangeably with "selectman" in all instances, where appropriate.|||Source. RS 1:23. CS 1:23. GS 1:27. GL 1:27. PS 2:28. PL 2:28. RL 7:28. 2008, 183:1, eff. Aug. 10, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:28-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:28-a - Clerk; Election Laws.

    21:28-a Clerk;  Election Laws. –||The word "clerk" as used in the election laws shall mean city clerk, town clerk or ward clerk unless specifically defined otherwise.|||Source. 1975, 188:1. 1979, 436:10, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:29 - School Board.

    21:29 School Board. –||The words "school board" may mean any agent, committee, school board, or board of education entrusted with the hiring of teachers and the management of the prudential affairs of the district.|||Source. PS 2:29. PL 2:29. RL 7:29.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:30 - Place.

    21:30 Place. –||The word "place" may mean city or town, unless some other meaning is implied by the context.|||Source. GS 1:28. GL 1:28. PS 2:30. PL 2:30. RL 7:30.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:31 - Designation of Office Title.

    21:31 Designation of Office Title. –||When a court, officer, or board is named by official title, such designation shall apply to the court, officer, or board of the county, town, or district within and for which they are qualified to act in such capacity.|||Source. RS 1:24. CS 1:24. GS 1:29. GL 1:29. PS 2:31. PL 2:31. RL 7:31.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:31-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:31-a - Governor and Council.

    21:31-a Governor and Council. –||The phrase "governor and council" shall mean the governor with the advice and consent of the council.|||Source. 1957, 3:1, eff. Feb. 6, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:32 - Publication of Notice; Publication for Statewide Circulation.

    21:32 Publication of Notice;  Publication for Statewide Circulation. –||I. By the words "publish," "published," "publishing," or "publication," when notice is required or permitted to be given by publication, shall be intended publication in a newspaper circulated in the vicinity, and the publication shall be for 3 weeks successively, and the last publication one week, at least, before the day or thing of which notice is given, unless otherwise specially provided.||II. The terms "publication of daily statewide circulation," "publication of general statewide circulation," or "publication in a newspaper of statewide circulation" regarding any requirement of any executive branch state agency, board, department, or official to provide notice under state law in respect to any real or personal property, act, event, hearing, or other occurrence, by advertisement or notice, shall mean publication of such notice at the offices of the agency, board, department, or official; prominently on a publicly accessible Internet site maintained by the agency, board, department, or official; and in any local or regional publication circulated where the real or personal property is located or where the act, event, hearing, or other occurrence is to take place, all in accordance with the time frame for notice prescribed by law.|||Source. GS 1:30. GL 1:30. PS 2:32. PL 2:32. RL 7:32. 2011, 224:192, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:32-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:32-a - Registered Mail.

    21:32-a Registered Mail. –||The words "registered mail" when used in connection with the requirement for notice by mail shall mean either registered mail or certified mail.|||Source. 1955, 242:1, eff. June 30, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:33 - Intoxicating Liquors.

    21:33 Intoxicating Liquors. –||By the words "spirit," "liquor," "spirituous liquor," "intoxicating liquor" shall be intended all distilled liquors, or rectified spirits; vinous, fermented, brewed, and malt liquors; and any beverage, by whatever name called, containing more than one percent of alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit; and any beverage any part of which is intoxicating.|||Source. GS 1:31. GL 1:31. PS 2:33. 1903, 122:5. 1911, 193:1. 1917, 147:60. PL 2:33. RL 7:33.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:33-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:33-a - Terms of Appointment.

    21:33-a Terms of Appointment. –||Whenever a statute provides for appointment to a position in a state office, agency, commission, or board for a term of stated and limited duration by the governor and council or requires approval or confirmation of such an appointment by the governor and council, such statute shall be construed, unless it shall be exempted from the application of this section by language expressly referring to this section, to provide:||I. That the language in such statute creating a term of stated and limited duration shall create a term of the position, not of the appointee thereto, with the first such term, to a position to which no appointment has previously been made, to commence on the date of such appointment, confirmation or approval by the governor and council.||II. That a vacancy in such position shall be filled for the unexpired term.||III. (a) That any commissioner or agency head of a department, as defined in RSA 21-G:5, VI, who is an unclassified employee of the state, and appointed to such position, shall serve for the appropriate term or unexpired portion thereof. The commissioner or agency head may serve beyond the appointed term or unexpired portion thereof with the written authorization of the governor, provided that such service shall not extend beyond 6 months. This subparagraph shall also apply to the adjutant general and the attorney general, and to appointees to the liquor commission, the lottery commission, and the public utilities commission.||(b) That any other appointee to such position shall serve for the appropriate term or unexpired portion thereof and until a successor is appointed and qualified.||IV. That when an appointment is made and when a vacancy is filled, one of the factors which may be taken into consideration shall be the gender balance in the population which is served or regulated by the state office, agency, commission, or board, so that when the position is filled, it may result in a state office, agency, commission, or board which reflects that gender balance.|||Source. 1973, 425:1. 1992, 56:1. 2007, 156:1. 2008, 25:1. 2011, 131:2, eff. Aug. 6, 2011. 2015, 276:118, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:34 - Filling Vacancy.

    21:34 Filling Vacancy. –||The term "vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term", when used in connection with appointments to the state service by the governor and council shall be construed to mean that the successor shall be commissioned for a term equal in length to the unexpired balance of the term of his predecessor and where an appointee has held over beyond the expiration date of his commission, so far as the appointment of a successor is concerned, a vacancy shall be deemed to have been created.|||Source. 1943, 39:1, eff. Mar. 3, 1943.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:35 - Time, How Reckoned; Days Included and Excluded.

    21:35 Time, How Reckoned;  Days Included and Excluded. –||I. Except where specifically stated to the contrary, when a period or limit of time is to be reckoned from a day or date, that day or date shall be excluded from and the day on which an act should occur shall be included in the computation of the period or limit of time.||II. If a statute specifies a date for filing documents or paying fees and the specified date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the document or fee shall be deemed timely filed if it is received by the next business day.|||Source. RS 1:25. CS 1:25. GS 1:33. GL 1:32. PS 2:34. PL 2:34. RL 7:34. RSA 21:35. 1994, 348:1. 2008, 11:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:36 - Standard Time.

    21:36 Standard Time. –||The standard time within the state, except as hereinafter provided, shall be based on the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, known and designated by the federal statute as "Eastern Standard Time." At 2 o'clock ante-meridian of the second Sunday in March of each year, the standard time in this state shall be advanced one hour, at 2 o'clock ante-meridian of the first Sunday in November of each year, the standard time in this state shall, by the retarding of one hour, be made to coincide with the astronomical time hereinbefore described as Eastern Standard Time, so that between the second Sunday in March at 2 o'clock ante-meridian and the first Sunday in November at 2 o'clock ante-meridian in each year the standard time in this state shall be one hour in advance of the United States Standard Time. In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance by any officer or department of this state, or of any county, city, town, or district thereof, or relating to the time in which any rights accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of this state, or of any county, city, town, or district thereof, and in all contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in this state, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be as set forth in this section.|||Source. 1921, 15:1. 1923, 105:1, 2. PL 42:76. 1937, 95:1. RL 51:95. 1954, 2:4. RSA 21:36. 1987, 10:1. 2011, 103:1, eff. July 30, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:37 - Effect of Repeal.

    21:37 Effect of Repeal. –||The repeal of an act shall in no case affect any act done, or any right accruing, accrued, acquired, or established, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case, before the time when repeal shall take effect.|||Source. RS 1:26. CS 1:26. GS 1:34. GL 1:33. PS 2:35. PL 2:35. RL 7:35.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:38 - Pending Prosecution, Etc.

    21:38 Pending Prosecution, Etc. –||No suit or prosecution, pending at the time of the repeal of any act, for any offense committed or for the recovery of a penalty or forfeiture incurred under the act so repealed, shall be affected by such repeal.|||Source. RS 1:27. CS 1:27. GS 1:35. GL 1:34. PS 2:36. PL 2:36. RL 7:36.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:39 - No Revival.

    21:39 No Revival. –||The repeal of an act shall not revive any other act which has been repealed.|||Source. RS 1:28. CS 1:28. GS 1:36. GL 1:35. PS 2:37. PL 2:37. RL 7:37.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:40 - Repealed by 1957, 12:2, eff. Feb. 15, 1957.

    21:40 Repealed by 1957, 12:2, eff. Feb. 15, 1957. –|
NH Rev Stat § 21:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:41 - Repealed by 1983, 278:3, eff. Aug. 1, 1983.

    21:41 Repealed by 1983, 278:3, eff. Aug. 1, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 21:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:42 - Repealed by 1983, 278:3, eff. Aug. 1, 1983.

    21:42 Repealed by 1983, 278:3, eff. Aug. 1, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 21:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:43 - Security Interests.

    21:43 Security Interests. –||Statutes using the words "pledge", "mortgage", "conditional sale", "lien", "assignment" and like terms in referring to a security interest in personal property shall also apply to a corresponding type of security interest under RSA 382-A.|||Source. 1959, 247:2(II) Commercial Code, eff. July 1, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:44 - Age of Majority; Adults.

    21:44 Age of Majority;  Adults. –||Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the words "adult", "majority", "age of majority", "full age or lawful age", and all other terms of referring to those persons who are to be considered adults, shall mean those persons who have attained the age of 18 years.|||Source. 1973, 72:72, eff. June 3, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:45 - "Bylaw" or "Ordinance".

    21:45 "Bylaw" or "Ordinance". –||The term "bylaw" when used in reference to legislative action taken by a city, town, county or village district shall have the same meaning as an ordinance and shall be subject to the same procedures for enactment.|||Source. 1975, 300:1, eff. Aug. 6, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:46 - Mobile Homes.

    21:46 Mobile Homes. –||The words "mobile home" shall mean manufactured housing as defined by RSA 674:31.|||Source. 1983, 230:2, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:47 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:47 - Legislative Body.

    21:47 Legislative Body. –||When used to refer to a municipality, and in the absence of applicable chapter or subdivision definitions, the term "legislative body" shall mean a town meeting, school district meeting, village district meeting, city or town council, mayor and council, mayor and board of aldermen, or, when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county convention.|||Source. 1989, 205:1, eff. July 21, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:48 - Governing Body.

    21:48 Governing Body. –||When used to refer to a municipality, and in the absence of applicable chapter or subdivision definitions, the term "governing body" shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners.|||Source. 1989, 205:1, eff. July 21, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 21:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 21 - Statutory Construction|Section 21:49 - Sexual Orientation.

    21:49 Sexual Orientation. –||"Sexual orientation" means having or being perceived as having an orientation for heterosexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality. This definition is intended to describe the status of persons and does not render lawful any conduct prohibited by the criminal laws of this state or impose any duty on a religious organization. This definition does not confer legislative approval of such status, but is intended to assure the basic rights afforded under New Hampshire law.|||Source. 1997, 108:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|