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NH Rev Stat § 544:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:26 - New Complainant.

    544:26 New Complainant. –||If the proceeding is continued more than one term any person who is a citizen of the state, or has an office therein, or the attorney-general or the county attorney, may be substituted for the complainant and prosecute to judgment.|||Source. 1919, 95:5. PL 360:26. RL 418:26. RSA 544:26. 1959, 12:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:27 - Costs.

    544:27 Costs. –||If the proceeding is brought by a private person and the court finds that there were no reasonable grounds or cause therefor the costs may be taxed against such person.|||Source. 1919, 95:5. PL 360:27. RL 418:27.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:28 - Permanent Injunction.

    544:28 Permanent Injunction. –||If the existence of the nuisance be established upon the trial a judgment shall be entered perpetually enjoining the defendants and any other persons from further maintaining the nuisance, and the defendants from maintaining such nuisance elsewhere within the state.|||Source. 1919, 95:5. PL 360:28. RL 418:28.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:29 - Violations.

    544:29 Violations. –||If any person shall break and enter or use a place so directed to be closed he shall be punished as for contempt as provided herein.|||Source. 1919, 95:5. PL 360:29. RL 418:29.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:30 - Abatement.

    544:30 Abatement. –||If the existence of the nuisance be admitted or established as provided herein, or in a criminal proceeding in the superior court, an order of abatement shall be entered as a part of the judgment in the case, which order shall direct the removal from the place of all the personal property and contents used in conducting the nuisance, and not already released under authority of the court as provided in RSA 544:20, and shall direct the sale of such thereof as belong to the defendants notified or appearing, in the manner provided for the sale of chattels upon execution.|||Source. 1919, 95:6. PL 360:30. RL 418:30.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:31 - Further Orders.

    544:31 Further Orders. –||Such order shall also require the renewal for one year of any bond furnished by the owner of the real property as provided in RSA 544:20, or, if not so furnished, shall continue for one year any closing order issued at the time of granting the temporary injunction, or, if no such closing order was then issued, shall include an order directing the effectual closing of the place against its use for any purpose, and so keeping it closed for a period of one year unless sooner released.|||Source. 1919, 95:6. PL 360:31. RL 418:31.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:32 - Bond.

    544:32 Bond. –||The owner of any place so closed and not released under bond as herein provided may appear and obtain such release in the manner and upon fulfilling the requirements hereinbefore provided.|||Source. 1919, 95:6. PL 360:32. RL 418:32.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:33 - Claim by Owner.

    544:33 Claim by Owner. –||Owners of unsold personal property and contents so seized may appear and claim the same within ten days after such order of abatement is made and prove innocence of any knowledge of said use thereof and that with reasonable care and diligence they could not have known thereof.|||Source. 1919, 95:6. PL 360:33. RL 418:33.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:34 - Delivering Property.

    544:34 Delivering Property. –||If such innocence be so established such unsold personal property and contents shall be delivered to the owner; otherwise it shall be sold as hereinbefore provided.|||Source. 1919, 95:6. PL 360:34. RL 418:34.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:35 - Knowledge Presumed.

    544:35 Knowledge Presumed. –||Every defendant in the action shall be presumed to have had knowledge of the general reputation of the place.|||Source. 1919, 95:6. PL 360:35. RL 418:35.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:36 - Officer's Fees.

    544:36 Officer's Fees. –||For removing and selling the personal property and contents the officer shall be entitled to charge and receive the same fees as he would for levying upon and selling like property on execution; and for closing the place and keeping it closed a reasonable sum shall be allowed by the court.|||Source. 1919, 95:6. PL 360:36. RL 418:36.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:37 - County Attorney's Duty.

    544:37 County Attorney's Duty. –||In case the existence of such nuisance is established in a criminal proceeding in a court not having equitable jurisdiction it shall be the duty of the county attorney to proceed promptly under this chapter to enforce the provisions and penalties thereof.|||Source. 1919, 95:7. PL 360:37. RL 418:37. RSA 544:37. 1959, 12:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:38 - Conviction as Evidence.

    544:38 Conviction as Evidence. –||The finding of the defendant guilty in such criminal proceedings, unless reversed or set aside, shall be conclusive as against such defendant as to the existence of the nuisance.|||Source. 1919, 95:7. PL 360:38. RL 418:38.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:39 - Proceeds of Sale.

    544:39 Proceeds of Sale. –||The proceeds of the sale of the personal property, as provided herein, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied in payment of the costs of the action and abatement, including the complainant's costs. The balance of all money collected hereunder shall be paid to the county treasurer.|||Source. 1919, 95:7. PL 360:39. RL 418:39.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:40 - Contempt, Penalty.

    544:40 Contempt, Penalty. –||A party found guilty of contempt under the provisions of this RSA 544 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony, if any other person.|||Source. 1919, 95:8. PL 360:40. RL 418:40. RSA 544:40. 1973, 528:316, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 544:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544 - Remedies for Certain Nuisances|Section 544:41 - Avoidance of Leases.

    544:41 Avoidance of Leases. –||If a tenant or occupant of a building or tenement, under a lawful title, uses such premises or any part thereof for any of the unlawful purposes enumerated herein such use shall annul and make void the lease or other title under which he holds and, without any act of the owner, shall cause the right of possession to revert to him, and he may, without process of law, make immediate entry upon the premises.|||Source. 1919, 95:9. PL 360:41. RL 418:41.|
NH Rev Stat § 544-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544-B - Civil Liability for Bad Checks|Section 544-B:1 - Civil Penalties for Bad Checks.

    544-B:1 Civil Penalties for Bad Checks. –||I. In any action against a person who makes, issues, or draws any check, draft or order for the payment of money which has been dishonored for lack of funds or credit to pay the same, or because the maker, issuer, or drawer has no account with the drawee, the holder may recover from the maker, issuer, or drawer the amount of the check, draft, or order, plus court costs, service costs, and collection costs incurred by the holder. The amount of the check, draft, or order plus the enumerated costs may be recovered only if:||(a) The holder gives notice pursuant to RSA 544-B:2, for payment of the check, draft, or order; and||(b) The maker, issuer, or drawer, fails to tender an amount equal to the amount of the check, draft, or order, plus bank fees and mailing costs, within 10 days of receiving the notice as set forth in RSA 544-B:2.||II. If a judgment is made against a maker, issuer, or drawer pursuant to RSA 544-B:1, I(a) and (b) and he fails to make restitution on the date of judgment, he shall pay to the holder $10 per business day that the debt remains outstanding from the date of judgment up to a limit of $500.||III. An action under this section may be brought as a small claims action if the amount claimed does not exceed the jurisdictional limits for small claims action, or may be brought in any other court that has jurisdiction.|||Source. 1985, 229:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.|
NH Rev Stat § 544-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544-B - Civil Liability for Bad Checks|Section 544-B:2 - Notice of Nonpayment.

    544-B:2 Notice of Nonpayment. –||"Notice" as used in RSA 544-B:1, I(a) means notice given to the maker, drawer, or issuer of the check, draft, or order, either in person or in writing. Such notice in writing shall be conclusively presumed to have been given when properly deposited in the United States mails, postage prepaid, by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, and addressed to such maker, drawer, or issuer at his address as it appears on the check, draft, or order or at his last known address.|||Source. 1985, 229:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.|
NH Rev Stat § 544-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544-B - Civil Liability for Bad Checks|Section 544-B:3 - Definition.

    544-B:3 Definition. –||"Dishonored" means, in addition to the meanings set forth in RSA 544-B:1, I, a stop payment order issued without cause.|||Source. 1985, 229:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.|
NH Rev Stat § 544-C:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 544-C - Civil Damages for Willful Concealment|Section 544-C:1 - Recovery of Civil Damages for Willful Concealment.

    544-C:1 Recovery of Civil Damages for Willful Concealment. –||I. For purposes of this chapter, "willful concealment" shall mean willful concealment as defined in RSA 637:3-a.||II. A person who willfully conceals shall be liable for civil damages to the merchant up to $400 plus the merchandise or the value of the merchandise if it has been damaged or rendered unrecoverable.||III. A merchant may recover civil damages for willful concealment by bringing suit in a district court or by executing a settlement agreement in the form set out in paragraph IV of this section.||IV. A merchant and a person accused of willful concealment by such merchant may agree to execute a civil settlement agreement for up to $400 in civil damages, plus the return of the merchandise or the replacement value of the merchandise within 60 days of the date the agreement is signed. The form of the settlement agreement shall be as follows:|||Settlement of Claim for Taking Merchandise Without Payment||||The undersigned, __________, having failed to pay for certain merchandise, more specifically described as follows __________, hereby agrees to pay, within 60 days of the date this agreement is signed, civil damages up to $400, plus the merchandise or the replacement value of the merchandise. The parties agree that this payment shall constitute full and complete payment of damages to the following establishment __________. The following establishment __________ agrees to waive any and all claims it may have for civil damages.||Nothing in this agreement shall constitute an admission of guilt for purposes of criminal law. If this agreement is signed and payment is made in full within 60 days, no police report or criminal complaint will be filed by the merchant relative to this incident. However, nothing in this agreement can or will bar the state of New Hampshire from instituting such criminal prosecutions as it deems necessary.|____________________||||Party #1||||____________________||||Party #2 for the following establishment:||||____________________||||Source. 1992, 106:2. 2006, 84:1, eff. July 4, 2006. 2009, 209:7, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 545-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 545-A - Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act|Section 545-A:2 - Insolvency.

    545-A:2 Insolvency. –||I. A debtor is insolvent if the sum of the debtor's debts is greater than all of the debtor's assets at a fair valuation.||II. A debtor who is generally not paying his debts as they become due is presumed to be insolvent.||III. A partnership is insolvent under paragraph I if the sum of the partnership's debts is greater than the aggregate, at a fair valuation, of all of the partnership's assets and the sum of the excess of the value of each general partner's nonpartnership assets over the partner's nonpartnership debts.||IV. Assets under this section do not include property that has been transferred, concealed, or removed with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud creditors or that has been transferred in a manner making the transfer voidable under this chapter.||V. Debts under this section do not include an obligation to the extent it is secured by a valid lien on property of the debtor not included as an asset.|||Source. 1987, 215:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 545-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 545-A - Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act|Section 545-A:3 - Value.

    545-A:3 Value. –||I. Value is given for a transfer or an obligation if, in exchange for the transfer or obligation, property is transferred or an antecedent debt is secured or satisfied, but value does not include an unperformed promise made otherwise than in the ordinary course of the promisor's business to furnish support to the debtor or another person.||II. For the purposes of RSA 545-A:4, I(b) and RSA 545-A:5, a person gives a reasonably equivalent value if the person acquires an interest of the debtor in an asset pursuant to a regularly conducted, noncollusive foreclosure sale or execution of a power of sale for the acquisition or disposition of the interest of the debtor upon default under a mortgage, deed of trust, or security agreement.||III. A transfer is made for present value if the exchange between the debtor and the transferee is intended by them to be contemporaneous and is in fact substantially contemporaneous.|||Source. 1987, 215:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 545-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 545-A - Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act|Section 545-A:4 - Transfers Fraudulent as to Present and Future Creditors.

    545-A:4 Transfers Fraudulent as to Present and Future Creditors. –||I. A transfer made or obligation incurred by a debtor is fraudulent as to a creditor, whether the creditor's claim arose before or after the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred, if the debtor made the transfer or incurred the obligation:||(a) With actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud any creditor of the debtor; or||(b) Without receiving a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for the transfer or obligation, and the debtor:||(1) Was engaged or was about to engage in a business or a transaction for which the remaining assets of the debtor were unreasonably small in relation to the business or transaction; or||(2) Intended to incur, or believed or reasonably should have believed that he would incur, debts beyond his ability to pay as they became due.||II. In determining actual intent under subparagraph I(a), consideration may be given, among other factors, to whether:||(a) The transfer or obligation was to an insider;||(b) The debtor retained possession or control of the property transferred after the transfer;||(c) The transfer or obligation was disclosed or concealed;||(d) Before the transfer was made or obligation was incurred, the debtor had been sued or threatened with suit;||(e) The transfer was of substantially all the debtor's assets;||(f) The debtor absconded;||(g) The debtor removed or concealed assets;||(h) The value of the consideration received by the debtor was reasonably equivalent to the value of the asset transferred or the amount of the obligation incurred;||(i) The debtor was insolvent or became insolvent shortly after the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred;||(j) The transfer occurred shortly before or after a substantial debt was incurred; and||(k) The debtor transferred the essential assets of the business to a lienor who transferred the assets to an insider of the debtor.|||Source. 1987, 215:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 545-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 545-A - Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act|Section 545-A:5 - Transfers Fraudulent as to Present Creditors.

    545-A:5 Transfers Fraudulent as to Present Creditors. –||I. A transfer made or obligation incurred by a debtor is fraudulent as to a creditor whose claim arose before the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred if the debtor made the transfer or incurred the obligation without receiving a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for the transfer or obligation and the debtor was insolvent at that time or the debtor became insolvent as a result of the transfer or obligation.||II. A transfer made by a debtor is fraudulent as to a creditor whose claim arose before the transfer was made if the transfer was made to an insider for an antecedent debt, the debtor was insolvent at that time, and the insider had reasonable cause to believe that the debtor was insolvent.|||Source. 1987, 215:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 545-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 545-A - Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act|Section 545-A:6 - When Transfer is Made or Obligation is Incurred.

    545-A:6 When Transfer is Made or Obligation is Incurred. –||For the purposes of this chapter:||I. A transfer is made:||(a) With respect to an asset that is real property other than a fixture, but including the interest of a seller or purchaser under a contract for the sale of the asset, when the transfer is so far perfected that a good-faith purchaser of the asset from the debtor against whom applicable law permits the transfer to be perfected cannot acquire an interest in the asset that is superior to the interest of the transferee; and||(b) With respect to an asset that is not real property or that is a fixture, when the transfer is so far perfected that a creditor on a simple contract cannot acquire a judicial lien otherwise than under this chapter that is superior to the interest of the transferee;||II. If applicable law permits the transfer to be perfected as provided in paragraph I and the transfer is not so perfected before the commencement of an action for relief under this chapter, the transfer is deemed made immediately before the commencement of the action;||III. If applicable law does not permit the transfer to be perfected as provided in paragraph I, the transfer is made when it becomes effective between the debtor and the transferee;||IV. A transfer is not made until the debtor has acquired rights in the asset transferred;||V. An obligation is incurred:||(a) If oral, when it becomes effective between the parties; or||(b) If evidenced by a writing, when the writing executed by the obligor is delivered to or for the benefit of the obligee.|||Source. 1987, 215:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 545-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases|Title 545-A - Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act|Section 545-A:7 - Remedies of Creditors.

    545-A:7 Remedies of Creditors. –||I. In an action for relief against a transfer or obligation under this chapter, a creditor, subject to the limitations in RSA 545-A:8, may obtain:||(a) Avoidance of the transfer or obligation to the extent necessary to satisfy the creditor's claim.||(b) An attachment or other provisional remedy against the asset transferred or other property of the transferee in accordance with the procedure prescribed by RSA 498:8.||(c) Subject to applicable principles of equity and in accordance with applicable rules of civil procedure:||(1) An injunction against further disposition by the debtor or a transferee, or both, of the asset transferred or of other property;||(2) Appointment of a receiver to take charge of the asset transferred or of other property of the transferee; or||(3) Any other relief the circumstances may require.||(d) If a creditor has obtained a judgment on a claim against the debtor, the creditor, if the court so orders, may levy execution on the asset transferred or its proceeds.|||Source. 1987, 215:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.|