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NH Rev Stat § 100-B:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-B - New Hampshire Length of Service Awards Program for Volunteer Firefighters and Volunteer Emergency Medical Personnel|Section 100-B:13 - Miscellaneous.

    100-B:13 Miscellaneous. –||I. If any person to whom a contribution is repayable from the fund is a minor, or any person to whom such benefit is payable is incompetent by reason of physical or mental disability, any payment due, unless a proper claim shall have been made by a duly appointed guardian, conservator or legal representative, may be made to the member's spouse, child, parent, or brother or sister, or to any person deemed by the committee to have incurred expenses for such person otherwise entitled to payment. Any such payment shall be a complete discharge of any liability for such payment under the plan.||II. Members and beneficiaries shall be entitled to all the contribution repayments specifically set out under the terms of the plan, but to the extent permitted by law, the contribution repayments or any of the property rights in the benefits shall not be assignable or distributable to any creditor or other claimant of such member or beneficiary. No member or beneficiary shall have the right to anticipate, assign, pledge, accelerate, or in any way dispose of any of the moneys or benefits or other property which may be payable to them.||III. All contribution repayments under the plan shall be paid or provided for solely from the fund, and a sponsor assumes no liabilities or responsibilities for benefits.||IV. Neither the action of a sponsor in the establishment of this plan or any action taken by it or by the committee shall be construed as giving any member the right to be retained in such status or any other right whatsoever except to the extent of the contribution repayments provided by the plan to be paid or made available from the fund.||V. If any provisions of this chapter or the application thereof is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.||VI. Whenever reasonable efforts fail to locate any member or beneficiary entitled to contribution repayments under the plan within 7 years from the time notice is first received that the member or beneficiary is not to be found at the address in the records of the sponsor, or the trustee, the committee may direct that any contribution repayments to which such person may be entitled shall thereupon be cancelled and no payment shall be made thereafter to anyone with respect to the benefits so cancelled.||VII. Forfeitures arising from death, termination of service, or otherwise under the plan shall not be applied to increase the contribution repayments any member would otherwise receive under the plan prior to the plan's termination but shall be used as soon as possible to enhance the principal assets of the plan.|||Source. 1996, 211:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-B:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-B - New Hampshire Length of Service Awards Program for Volunteer Firefighters and Volunteer Emergency Medical Personnel|Section 100-B:14 - Eligibility Exemption.

    100-B:14 Eligibility Exemption. –||I. All volunteer and call firefighters who have completed 5 or more years of service as volunteer or call firefighters shall be eligible for participation in the deferred compensation plan on January 1, 1997, even if they are not level one certified.||II. All volunteer and call firefighters who have completed less than 5 years of service as volunteer or call firefighters and who are not level one certified shall be eligible for participation in the deferred compensation plan from the start of their volunteer service, provided that they obtain level one certification within 2 years.||III. All volunteer and call firefighters who have completed less than 5 years of service as volunteer or call firefighters and who are not level one certified shall receive credit for 2 years of volunteer service eligibility in the deferred compensation plan if they take longer than 2 years to obtain level one certification.||IV. All other volunteer and call firefighters shall meet the criteria set forth in RSA 100-B:4, II.|||Source. 1996, 211:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:2 - Establishment of Judicial Retirement Plan.

    100-C:2 Establishment of Judicial Retirement Plan. –||I. The judicial retirement plan is hereby established. It shall be known as the New Hampshire judicial retirement plan, and by such name all of its business shall be transacted, all of its funds invested, and all of its cash, securities and other property held in trust for the purpose for which received. It is intended for all time to meet the requirements of a qualified pension trust within the meaning of section 401(a), and to qualify as a governmental plan within the meaning of section 414(d) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. It is a defined benefit plan providing disability, death, and retirement protection to members and their families.||II. The board of trustees shall have the exclusive authority and full power to invest and manage those assets of the judicial retirement plan and may cause any stock or other securities to be registered and held in the name of a nominee without mention of the judicial retirement plan's ownership, provided that no nominee shall have possession of or access to the stock or other securities unless the nominee shall be an officer of a corporate custodian of such stock or other securities, in which case the custodian shall maintain on its books accurate and current records of the New Hampshire judicial retirement plan's interest in such stock or other securities and the custodian shall be strictly liable for all acts or omissions of the nominee in connection with such stock or other securities and the nominee shall be bonded by the custodian.|||Source. 2003, 311:1, eff. July 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:3 - Membership.

    100-C:3 Membership. –||Membership in the judicial retirement plan shall be mandatory for any full-time supreme court, superior court, district court, or probate court judge.|||Source. 2003, 311:1, eff. July 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:4 - Creditable Service.

    100-C:4 Creditable Service. –||I. Creditable service at retirement on which the retirement allowance of a member shall be based shall consist only of that membership service since such judge became a member of the judicial retirement plan plus that service credited a member for retirement allowance, if any, under the provisions of former RSA 490:2; RSA 491:2, RSA 502-A:6-a, or RSA 547:2-a in effect on the date of implementation of this chapter.||II. The board shall fix and determine by appropriate rules how much service in any year is equivalent to one year of service, but in no case shall it allow credit for a period of absence without pay of more than a month's duration, nor shall more than one year of service be creditable for all service in a calendar year. Service rendered for the full normal working time in any year shall be equivalent to one year's service.|||Source. 2003, 311:1, eff. July 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:5 - Service Retirement Benefits.

    100-C:5 Service Retirement Benefits. –||I. Any member who has at least 15 years of creditable service and is at least 60 years of age, or who has at least 10 years of creditable service and is at least 65 years of age, or who has at least 7 years of service and is 70 years of age may retire on a service retirement allowance or a reduced service retirement allowance, upon written application to the board setting forth on what date, not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days subsequent to the filing of the application, the member desires to be retired. During such period of notification, the member may have separated from service.||II. A member who is at least 65 years of age with 10 years of creditable service may retire on a service retirement allowance equal to 75 percent of the member's final year's salary.||III. A member who is 70 years of age with 7 years of creditable service may retire on a service retirement allowance equal to 45 percent of the member's final year's salary. A member who is 70 years of age shall be granted an additional 10 percent over the 45 percent level for each year of creditable service the member has over 7 years.||IV. A member who is at least 60 years of age with at least 15 years of service may retire on a service retirement allowance equal to 70 percent of the member's final year's salary. A member who has at least 15 years of service and is at least 60 years of age shall be granted an additional percent over the 70 percent level for each year of continued service over 15 years.||V. Under no circumstance shall any service retirement allowance pursuant to this section exceed 75 percent of the member's final year's salary.||VI. Any member attaining eligibility for 75 percent of the member's final year's salary shall not be required to make employee contributions to the plan pursuant to RSA 100-C:14.||VII. A member who has a minimum of 5 years of creditable service and who is not eligible for a retirement service allowance under this section may retire without a retirement service allowance at any time. Election to retire under this section shall terminate the judge's membership in the judicial retirement plan and shall irrevocably extinguish the judge's rights under RSA 491-A:1 and under RSA 100-C:6 and RSA 100-C:7. Election to retire under this section shall entitle the judge to payment of his or her accumulated contributions to the member annuity savings fund, together with any interest that may have accrued at rates determined by the board of trustees.|||Source. 2003, 311:1. 2008, 314:1, eff. Aug. 31, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:6 - Disability Retirement Benefits.

    100-C:6 Disability Retirement Benefits. –||Regardless of a member's length of service, any member who becomes permanently and totally disabled may apply to the board of trustees to retire on a disability retirement allowance not less than 30 nor more than 90 days subsequent to the filing of such application. Such application shall be granted provided that a physician or physicians designated by the board of trustees, after a medical examination of such member, certifies that the member is mentally or physically incapacitated for further performance of duty, that such incapacity is likely to be permanent, and that such person should be retired. A member's disability retirement allowance shall be equal to 70 percent of the member's final year's salary.|||Source. 2003, 311:1, eff. July 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:7 - Death Benefits.

    100-C:7 Death Benefits. –||I. If a member dies in office, his or her surviving spouse, as long as he or she remains unmarried, or, if the member leaves no spouse, or at the surviving spouse's death or remarriage, then the member's child or children under the age of 18 years and until they respectively reach their eighteenth birthday, shall annually be entitled to 1/2 of the member's final year's salary. In case there is more than one child, the compensation shall be divided equally among them.||II. If such member dies having terminated service as such and having become entitled to benefits pursuant to RSA 100-C:5 or RSA 100-C:6, his or her surviving spouse, as long as he or she remains unmarried, or, if the member leaves no spouse, or at the surviving spouse's death or remarriage, then the member's child or children under the age of 18 years and until they respectively reach their eighteenth birthday, shall annually be entitled to 1/2 the member's final year's salary. In case there is more than one child, the compensation shall be divided equally among them.|||Source. 2003, 311:1, eff. July 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:9 - Designation of Beneficiaries; Effect.

    100-C:9 Designation of Beneficiaries;  Effect. –||When more than one person is designated by the member as beneficiary under this chapter, the member may provide the portion of the whole sum which each designee shall receive and may also provide that on the death of one of multiple designees the share of that designee shall automatically be added to the share of another or other designees or be payable to the estate of the member.|||Source. 2003, 311:1, eff. July 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:10 - Maximum Benefit Limitations.

    100-C:10 Maximum Benefit Limitations. –||I. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the maximum benefit payable to any retired member or beneficiary of the New Hampshire judicial retirement plan shall be limited to such extent as may be necessary to conform to the requirements of sections 401(a)(9) and 415 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for a qualified retirement plan.||II. (a) In accordance with section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code, distribution of the member's contributions shall commence by the April 1 following the later of the calendar year in which the participant attains age 701/2 or retires. Actuarial increases shall be provided for a member who retires in a calendar year after the calendar year in which the participant attains age 701/2, for the period after age 701/2 in which the member was not receiving any benefits under the plan.||(b) When the distribution of the member's entire interest is not made in a lump sum, the distribution shall be made in one or more of the following ways:||(1) Over the life of the member;||(2) Over the life of the member and a designated beneficiary;||(3) Over a period certain not extending beyond the life expectancy of the member; or||(4) Over a period certain not extending beyond the joint life and last survivor expectancy of the member and a designated beneficiary.||(c) If distribution has commenced before the member's death, the remaining interest shall be distributed at least as rapidly as under the method of distribution being used as of the date of the member's death.||(d) If the member dies before distribution commences, any remaining portion of the member's interest that is not payable to a beneficiary designated by the member shall be distributed within 5 years after the member's death, and any portion of the member's interest that is payable to a beneficiary designated by the member shall be distributed either within 5 years after the member's death, or over the life of the beneficiary or over a period certain not extending beyond the life expectancy of the beneficiary, commencing not later than the end of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the member died, or if the designated beneficiary is the member's surviving spouse, commencing not later than the end of the calendar year in which the member would have attained age 701/2.||(e) Distributions from the plan shall be made in accordance with the requirements of the regulations under Internal Revenue Code section 401(a)(9), including the minimum distribution incidental benefit requirements.|||Source. 2003, 311:1. 2004, 146:6, eff. May 24, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:11-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:11-a - Retiree and Spouse Health Insurance; Premium Contribution.

    100-C:11-a Retiree and Spouse Health Insurance;  Premium Contribution. –||I. Retired judges may participate in state retiree health plans offered under RSA 21-I:30 according to eligibility rules established under the judicial branch uniform personnel classification and compensation system.||I-a. Retired judges and their applicable spouses who are not Medicare eligible and receiving medical and surgical benefits shall be responsible for payment of a premium contribution amount based on a percentage of the total monthly premium attributable to the applicable retiree and/or spouse, as determined by the commissioner of administrative services, with prior approval by the fiscal committee of the general court, provided the percentage is not lower than 20 percent.||II. Retired judges and/or spouses who are eligible for Medicare Parts A and B due to age or disability shall be responsible for payment of the premium contribution amount based on a percentage of the total monthly premium attributable to the applicable retiree and/or spouse, as determined by the commissioner of administrative services, with prior approval by the fiscal committee of the general court, provided the percentage is not lower than 10 percent. Such premium contribution shall only be collected from eligible retired judges and spouses with a date of birth on or after January 1, 1949.||III. The department of administrative services shall provide information as to the total monthly premium cost for each participant to the judicial retirement plan for purposes of calculating this deduction. The judicial retirement plan shall deduct the payment required under this section from the retiree's monthly retirement allowance. Deducted amounts shall be remitted to the administrative office of the courts within 14 days along with a statement identifying from whom the deduction was made, and shall be used to pay for plan retiree and spouse health care expenses and any administrative costs related thereto.|||Source. 2010, 339:1. 2011, 224:343, eff. July 1, 2011. 2015, 276:16, eff. July 1, 2015. 2017, 77:3, eff. June 2, 2017; 156:9, eff. Jan. 1, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:14 - Member Contributions.

    100-C:14 Member Contributions. –||I. All member contributions to the judicial retirement plan shall be payable only with respect to membership service, and picked up by the state by means of payroll deduction and shall be treated as employer contributions for purposes of Section 414(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The member contribution rate shall be fixed biennially by the board of trustees and shall be calculated so that the rate percent of earnable compensation deducted is one-half of the annual contribution requirements of the judicial retirement plan as determined in RSA 100-C:13, I. In no year shall the member contribution rate exceed 10 percent of a member's earnable compensation. Once a member attains eligibility for a service retirement allowance equal to 75 percent of the member's final year's salary pursuant to RSA 100-C:5, said member shall not be required to have deductions made from earnable compensation for purposes of this section provided that the state contributions for such member under RSA 100-C:13, IV shall continue until the member's retirement.||II. Any judge who is appointed at an age such that he or she will never become entitled to receive a retirement benefit under RSA 100-C:5 may, but shall not be required to, become a member of the judicial retirement plan. Any such judge electing to become a member shall pay employee contributions to the plan, shall be eligible for disability retirement benefits under RSA 100-C:6 and death benefits under RSA 100-C:7, and shall be entitled to the return of his or her contributions to the plan in accordance with RSA 100-C:8. The state shall not pay employer contributions to the plan for any such judge not electing to become a member of the plan.|||Source. 2003, 311:1, eff. July 1, 2003. 2016, 41:1, eff. May 3, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:15 - Exemption From Taxation and Execution.

    100-C:15 Exemption From Taxation and Execution. –||I. The right of a person to any benefit or to any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter, and the moneys in the funds created by this chapter, shall be exempted from any state, county, or municipal tax in the state; shall not be subject to execution, trustee process, attachment or any other process whatsoever, legal or equitable; and shall be unassignable except as provided in paragraph II.||II. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the right of a person to any benefit or to any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter, and the moneys in the funds created by this chapter shall be subject to assignment, attachment, and execution to the same extent as such rights under private retirement systems.|||Source. 2003, 311:1, eff. July 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:16 - Protection Against Fraud.

    100-C:16 Protection Against Fraud. –||Any person who knowingly makes any false statement or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record or records of the judicial retirement plan in any attempt to defraud the system as a result of such act, shall be guilty of a class B felony if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. Should any change or error in the records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from the plan more or less than such person would have been entitled to receive had the records been correct, the board of trustees shall have the power to correct such error, and to adjust as far as practicable the payments in such a manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which such member or beneficiary was correctly entitled shall be paid.|||Source. 2003, 311:1, eff. July 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 100-C:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 100-C - Judicial Retirement Plan|Section 100-C:17 - Supplemental Allowances.

    100-C:17 Supplemental Allowances. –||Each calendar year, the general court may approve supplemental benefits in an amount exceeding $50,000 in the aggregate upon recommendation of the board. The board shall have the authority to provide supplemental benefits annually in such percentages or amounts as the board deems advisable, including the ability to segment or tier amounts based upon years without such a benefit. Supplemental benefits shall not be permanent. The board shall provide information required by the general court, including, but not limited to, any change in the Consumer Price Index-Urban for the year prior to the year in which the nonrecurring benefit is to be granted. Supplemental benefits greater than $50,000 per year in the aggregate shall only be paid if the judicial retirement annuity accumulation fund earns at a level greater than the actuarial assumed rate of return approved by the board and the trust is at least 90 percent funded for that calendar year.|||Source. 2003, 311:1. 2007, 313:4. 2012, 247:15, eff. Aug. 17, 2012.|