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NH Rev Stat § 28:3-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:3-b - Performance Audits.

    28:3-b Performance Audits. –||I. The county convention of any county shall have the power to engage the services of a suitable qualified entity to conduct performance audits of any county department, institution, or office as the county convention shall specifically direct. Such performance audits shall include, but not be limited to, examinations of and any determinations based upon the examinations as to achievement of goals, objectives, and specific outcome measures provided for in each department, institution, or office's budget submission. Such performance audit shall indicate the degree of achievement, and any reasons for non-achievements of objectives and outcome measures. Such audit shall also include findings regarding the appropriateness of stated objectives and outcome measures and may suggest alternative or additional measures for use in subsequent budget periods.||II. The detailed reports of every audit conducted pursuant to this section shall become a public record upon approval by the county convention. Audit work papers and notes are not public records. However, those materials necessary to support the compilations in the final audit report may be made available by majority vote of the county convention after a public hearing showing proper cause. For the purposes of this section, work papers shall include, but are not limited to, all preliminary drafts and notes used in preparing the audit report.||III. The cost of a performance audit shall be paid from a contingency fund appropriated by the county convention under RSA 24:13, II.|||Source. 2019, 191:2, eff. Sept. 8, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:3-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:3-c - Forensic Audits.

    28:3-c Forensic Audits. –||I. The county convention of any county shall have the power to engage the services of a suitable qualified entity to conduct forensic audits of any county department, institution, or office as the county convention shall specifically direct. Forensic audits shall include investigative work of any financial matters. Such audits may include investigations of corruption, asset misappropriation, or financial statement fraud.||II. The detailed reports of every forensic audit conducted pursuant to this section shall become a public record upon approval by the county convention. Audit work papers and notes are not public records. However, those materials necessary to support the compilations in the final audit report may be made available by majority vote of the county convention after a public hearing showing proper cause. For the purposes of this section, work papers shall include, but are not limited to, all preliminary drafts and notes used in preparing the forensic audit report.||III. The cost of a forensic audit shall be paid from a contingency fund appropriated by the county convention under RSA 24:13, II-a.|||Source. 2019, 191:2, eff. Sept. 8, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:4 - Custody of Property.

    28:4 Custody of Property. –||The county commissioners shall have the custody and care of all property belonging to the county.|||Source. RS 19:2. CS 20:2. 1855, 1659:37. GS 24:2. GL 25:2. PS 27:3. PL 38:4. RL 47:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:5 - County Buildings.

    28:5 County Buildings. –||The county commissioners may repair, enlarge, or erect county buildings at an expense not exceeding $5,000.|||Source. RS 19:2. CS 20:2. 1855, 1659:37. GS 24:2. GL 25:2. PS 27:3. PL 38:5. RL 47:5. RSA 28:5. 1986, 8:1, eff. May 26, 1986.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:6 - Personal Property.

    28:6 Personal Property. –||They may purchase personal property for the use of the county and its officers; and may sell any of the county personal property that is not needed for its uses.|||Source. RS 19:2. CS 20:2. 1855, 1659:37. GS 24:2. GL 25:2. PS 27:3. PL 38:6. RL 47:6. RSA 28:6. 1983, 383:9, eff. July 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:6-a - Authority to Contract for Professional Real Estate Services.

    28:6-a Authority to Contract for Professional Real Estate Services. –||I. The county commissioners shall be authorized to contract for professional real estate services for the sale or lease of county property as follows:||(a) The commissioners shall publish a request for qualifications for professional real estate services to be procured. The commissioners shall select licensed real estate professionals who have demonstrated competence and qualifications to market the sale or lease of real property.||(b) The commissioners shall prepare a description of its procedures for procurement of professional real estate services. These descriptions shall be distributed to interested professionals subject to the provisions of this section.||(c) The commissioners shall negotiate a contract with the highest qualified firm for professional real estate services at compensation which the commissioners determine is fair and reasonable to the county. In making such determination, the commissioners shall take into account the estimated value, scope, complexity, and professional nature of the services to be rendered.||(d) If the commissioners are unable to negotiate a satisfactory contract with the firm considered to be the most qualified, at a price determined to be fair and reasonable to the county, the commissioners shall then undertake negotiations with the next most qualified firm in order of competence and qualifications and continue negotiations until an agreement is reached.||II. In this section:||(a) "Professional real estate services" means those professional services of licensed real estate professionals, as well as incidental services that members of the profession and those in their employ may logically and justifiably perform. These services shall include at a minimum a market analysis based on the highest and best use of all county property being sold or leased.||(b) "Licensed real estate professional" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity permitted by law to practice the real estate profession in this state under RSA 331-A.|||Source. 2013, 119:1, eff. Aug. 24, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:7 - Real Estate.

    28:7 Real Estate. –||When so authorized by the county convention they may purchase such real estate as may be required for county correctional facilities, including county farms, or other county uses, and may repair, enlarge or erect county buildings at a cost exceeding $5,000; and, with like authority, they may sell any of the county's real estate.|||Source. 1863, 2735:1. GS 24:3. GL 25:3, 4. PS 27:5. PL 38:7. RL 47:7. RSA 28:7. 1985, 60:1, 404:3. 1988, 89:3, eff. June 17, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:7-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:7-a - Services to Unincorporated Towns and Unorganized Places.

    28:7-a Services to Unincorporated Towns and Unorganized Places. –||For each unincorporated town or unorganized place, the county in which it is located and its commissioners shall have the same responsibilities for providing services as a town and its governing body. County conventions may at any legal meeting grant and vote such sums of money as they judge necessary for any purpose for which the county may act, if such appropriation is not prohibited by the laws or by the constitution of this state. The cost of providing services for a county's unincorporated towns and unorganized places shall be assessed on the property taxpayers of the unincorporated towns or unorganized places under RSA 81.|||Source. 1969, 127:1. 1989, 266:2, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:7-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:7-b - Planning and Zoning in Unincorporated Towns and Unorganized Places.

    28:7-b Planning and Zoning in Unincorporated Towns and Unorganized Places. –||For each unincorporated town or unorganized place, the county in which it is located and its commissioners shall have the same responsibilities and powers to exercise planning, zoning, subdivision and related regulations as city and local land use boards. Regulations shall be exercised in accordance with the provisions of RSA 672-677 to the extent practical, in order to ensure reasonable development and planning in the unincorporated town or unorganized place.|||Source. 1983, 161:1. 1986, 31:1. 1989, 266:2, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:7-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:7-c - Repealed by 1989, 266:36, I, eff. July 1, 1989.

    28:7-c Repealed by 1989, 266:36, I, eff. July 1, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 28:7-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:7-d - Education Money; Unincorporated Towns and Unorganized Places.

    28:7-d Education Money;  Unincorporated Towns and Unorganized Places. –||I. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the counties in which there are located unincorporated towns or unorganized places to provide for the education of all the children residing in those unincorporated towns or unorganized places by establishing standard elementary schools in such towns or places or by furnishing tuition and board or tuition and transportation at some approved public elementary or high school in another district. For the purposes of this section, counties with unincorporated towns or unorganized places shall for those towns and places have the powers granted under RSA 194.||II. The county commissioners shall annually on or before August 1 certify the amount of money deemed necessary to be raised by taxation for the education of all the children residing in the unincorporated towns or unorganized places.||III. The certified amount shall be assessed on the taxpayers of each unincorporated town or unorganized place under RSA 81 on a pro rata basis based upon the actual number of school children who reside in each town or place.|||Source. 1989, 266:3, eff. July 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:8 - Competitive Bidding on Purchases.

    28:8 Competitive Bidding on Purchases. –||Any purchase of equipment or materials made by a county in an amount exceeding $5,000 shall be by competitive bidding, provided that the county commissioners by unanimous vote may waive the provisions for such bidding. In case the commissioners so vote a copy of such action shall be recorded in their offices with a statement of the reason therefor and such record shall be open to public inspection. Orders for equipment or material to be delivered at different times where the single delivery may be less than $5,000 but the total order exceeds that amount shall be construed as coming within the provisions hereof requiring competitive bidding.|||Source. 1941, 108:1. RL 47:8. 1949, 165:1. RSA 28:8. 1979, 200:3, eff. July 1, 1979. 1998, 50:1, eff. July 4, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:8-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:8-a - Competitive Bidding on Sales of Personal Property.

    28:8-a Competitive Bidding on Sales of Personal Property. –||Any sale of personal property made by a county where the estimated value thereof is in excess of $300 shall be by competitive bidding, provided that the county commissioners by unanimous vote may waive the provisions for such bidding. In case the commissioners so vote a copy of such action shall be recorded in their offices with a statement of the reasons therefor and such record shall be open to public inspection.|||Source. 1959, 3:1, eff. April 12, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:8-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:8-b - Open Bidding.

    28:8-b Open Bidding. –||Competitive bidding required by a county in accordance with the provisions of RSA 28:8, 8-a and 8-c shall be open to any person or legal entity wishing to submit a bid to the county.|||Source. 1973, 408:1. 1975, 376:1, eff. Aug. 6, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:8-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:8-c - Competitive Bidding on Sales and Leases of Real Property.

    28:8-c Competitive Bidding on Sales and Leases of Real Property. –||To transfer a valid interest, a sale or lease of real property owned by a county shall be made by the county commissioners by competitive bidding or in accordance with RSA 28:6-a and shall be ratified by a majority vote of the county convention and the executive committee of the county convention.|||Source. 1975, 376:2, eff. Aug. 6, 1975. 2013, 119:2, eff. Aug. 24, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:8-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:8-d - Use of Real Property.

    28:8-d Use of Real Property. –||I. No officer or employee of a county may enter into an agreement with any other person for the use of real property owned by the county unless such agreement has been approved by the county commissioners and is ratified by a majority vote of the county convention and the executive committee of the county convention.||II. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph I, the county convention may authorize the executive committee and the county commissioners to enter into an agreement with any other person for the use of county-owned real property, subject to restrictions which the county convention may impose.|||Source. 1975, 376:2. 1995, 163:1, eff. July 31, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:8-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:8-f - Competitive Bidding in Rockingham County.

    28:8-f Competitive Bidding in Rockingham County. –||I. The provisions of this section shall apply to all county departments in Rockingham county, and to the offices of county sheriff, county attorney, county treasurer, and register of deeds in Rockingham county.||II. Any purchase of equipment, materials, services, or leases made by Rockingham county in an amount exceeding $5,000 shall be by competitive bidding, provided that the county commissioners by an affirmative vote of all 3 commissioners may waive the provisions for such bidding. In case the commissioners so vote, a copy of such action shall be recorded in their offices with a statement of the reason therefor and such record shall be open to public inspection. Purchases of equipment, material, services, or leases to be provided at different times where the cost of a single order or delivery may be less than $5,000 but the total purchase exceeds that amount shall be construed as coming within the provisions hereof requiring competitive bidding.|||Source. 1995, 141:1, eff. July 1, 1995. 1998, 50:3, eff. July 4, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:9 - Assisted Persons.

    28:9 Assisted Persons. –||They shall have the charge and care of county assisted persons, and shall provide for their support upon the county farm or elsewhere as required by law; and when expedient they may appoint agents in the several towns to investigate applications and look after the county poor in such towns.|||Source. 1855, 1659:37. 1860, 2349:1. GS 24:5. GL 25:5. PS 27:6. 1901, 39:1. PL 38:8. RL 47:9. RSA 28:9. 1985, 380:47, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:10 - Employees, Counties.

    28:10 Employees, Counties. –||The commissioners of each county shall employ such number of clerks and agents as said commissioners deem necessary. In Hillsborough county the county commissioner, any elected or appointed official, prior to establishing any new position within said county, shall obtain written approval from the Hillsborough county executive committee for such new position.|||Source. 1909, 83:1. 1913, 2:1; 44:1; 136:1. 1917, 201:1. 1919, 45:1. 1921, 149:1. 1925, 171:2. PL 38:29. 1937, 206:1. RL 47:28. 1945, 119:1. RSA 28:10. 1969, 181:1. 1973, 381:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:10-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:10-b - Jurisdiction.

    28:10-b Jurisdiction. –||The jurisdiction of the county personnel committee to conduct discharge, removal, or suspension hearings shall be limited to those cases not involving death of a county employee or any person under the care or custody of a county employee. Whenever the county personnel committee finds that a case involves a death of a county employee or any person under the care or custody of a county employee, the committee shall immediately transfer the case to superior court. Any determination made by the county personnel committee that a case involves the death of a county employee or any person under the care or custody of a county employee shall be inadmissible as evidence in any civil action, arising from such death, against the county or any county official or employee.|||Source. 1981, 102:1. 1986, 71:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:10-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:10-c - Employee Candidate Background Checks.

    28:10-c Employee Candidate Background Checks. –||I. The county commissioners may require a background investigation and a criminal history records check on any candidate for employment, prior to a final offer of employment. A county may request only a state records check or both a federal and state records check, to be conducted through the division of state police. The county may extend a conditional offer of employment to a candidate, with a final offer of employment subject to a successfully completed criminal history records check.||II. A candidate for employment in a position that the county commissioners determine requires a background investigation and a criminal history records check shall submit to the county a criminal history records release form, as provided by the division of state police, which authorizes the release of the person's criminal records, if any. The candidate shall submit with the release form a complete set of fingerprints taken by a law enforcement agency as directed by the county commissioners. In the event that the first set of fingerprints is invalid due to insufficient pattern and a second set of fingerprints is necessary in order to complete the criminal history records check, the conditional offer of employment shall remain in effect. If, after 2 attempts, a set of fingerprints is invalid due to insufficient pattern, the county may, in lieu of the criminal history records check, accept police clearances from every city, town, or county where a candidate has lived during the past 5 years.||III. To obtain a state records check only, the county shall submit a state criminal history records release form to the division of state police. To obtain both the federal and the state records check, the county shall submit the criminal history records release form and applicant fingerprint card to the division of state police, which shall conduct a criminal history records check through its records and through the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Upon completion of the background investigation, the division of state police shall report any criminal conviction information to the county commissioners. The county may submit fingerprint information electronically, in accordance with procedures established by the division of state police. The county shall maintain the confidentiality and security of all criminal history records information received pursuant to this paragraph.||IV. The county commissioners may require the candidate to pay the actual costs of the background investigation and the criminal history records check.||V. In this section, "candidate for employment" shall include candidates for volunteer positions in the county.|||Source. 2013, 147:2, eff. Aug. 27, 2013. 2018, 318:3, eff. Aug. 24, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:11 - Personnel.

    28:11 Personnel. –||The commissioners of each county shall appoint an administrator for the county nursing home and, if the county has a correctional facility, the county commissioners shall appoint a superintendent for the county department of corrections. They may also appoint such other officers, agents, and employees as may be required to properly care for the same and their inmates.|||Source. RS 116:1. CS 122:1. 1855, 1659:37. 1863, 2735:1. GS 24:4. GL 25:4. PS 27:7. PL 38:9. RL 47:10. RSA 28:11. 1973, 150:1. 1981, 105:1; 227:2. 1988, 89:4, eff. June 17, 1988. 2007, 93:2, eff. Aug. 10, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:11-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:11-a - Repealed by 1981, 227:6, eff. Aug. 10, 1981.

    28:11-a Repealed by 1981, 227:6, eff. Aug. 10, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 28:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:12 - Rules and Regulations.

    28:12 Rules and Regulations. –||The county commissioners may adopt rules and regulations for the governing and administration of county departments of corrections, including county farms, county nursing homes, county welfare offices and any other county departments under the jurisdiction of the county commissioners.|||Source. RS 116:1. CS 122:1. 1855, 1659:37. 1863, 2735:1. GS 24:4. GL 25:4. PS 27:7. PL 38:10. RL 47:11. RSA 28:12. 1981, 227:4. 1988, 89:6, eff. June 17, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:13 - Ineligibility to be Superintendent.

    28:13 Ineligibility to be Superintendent. –||No county commissioner shall be superintendent of the county farm or the county department of corrections, or administrator of the county nursing home.|||Source. 1889, 52:1. PS 27:8. PL 38:11. RL 47:12. RSA 28:13. 1971, 495:2. 1981, 227:3. 1988, 89:7, eff. June 17, 1988. 2007, 93:3, eff. Aug. 10, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 28:13-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:13-a - Repealed by 1981, 105:2, eff. June 22, 1981.

    28:13-a Repealed by 1981, 105:2, eff. June 22, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 28:13-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:13-b - Repealed by 1981, 105:3, eff. June 22, 1981.

    28:13-b Repealed by 1981, 105:3, eff. June 22, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 28:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title II - Counties|Title 28 - County Commissioners|Section 28:14 - Allowance.

    28:14 Allowance. –||They shall audit and allow all claims against or in favor of the county, excepting those which the superior court is authorized by law to adjust and allow.|||Source. 1865, 4077:1. GS 24:8. GL 25:8. PS 27:10. PL 38:12. RL 47:13. RSA 28:14. 1967, 132:2, eff. July 18, 1967.|