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NH Rev Stat § 169-E:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-E - Missing Children|Section 169-E:3 - Procedure.

    169-E:3 Procedure. –||I. If a missing child report is made to a law enforcement agency in this state that has jurisdiction in the matter, the law enforcement agency shall gather readily available information about the missing child and integrate it into the national crime information center computer within 12 hours following the making of the report, unless extraordinary circumstances cause a delay. The law enforcement agency shall make reasonable efforts to acquire additional information about the missing child following the transmittal of the initially available information, and promptly integrate any additional information acquired into such computer system.||II. The parents, custodial parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person responsible for the missing child shall provide available information upon request, and may provide information voluntarily, to the law enforcement agency during the information gathering process. The law enforcement agency also may obtain available information about the missing child from other persons, subject to constitutional and statutory limitations.||III. Upon the filing of a missing child report, the law enforcement agency involved promptly shall make a reasonable attempt to notify other law enforcement agencies within its county and, if the agency has jurisdiction in a city, town, or unorganized or unincorporated place that borders another county, to notify the law enforcement agency for the city, town, or unorganized or unincorporated place in the other county with which it shares the border, that it has taken a missing child report and may be requesting assistance or cooperation in the case, and provide relevant information to the other law enforcement agencies. The agency may notify additional law enforcement agencies and appropriate county providers of human services exercising children services functions, about the case, request their assistance or cooperation in the case, and provide them with relevant information.||IV. Upon request from a law enforcement agency, a county provider of human services exercising children services functions shall grant the law enforcement agency access to all information concerning a missing child that the provider possesses that may be relevant to the law enforcement agency in investigating a missing child report concerning that child. The information obtained by the law enforcement agency shall only be used to further the investigation to locate the missing child.|||Source. 1985, 318:3, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-E:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-E - Missing Children|Section 169-E:4 - Cooperation With Other Agencies.

    169-E:4 Cooperation With Other Agencies. –||I. Upon request, law enforcement agencies in this state shall cooperate with other law enforcement agencies in their investigations of missing child cases.||II. The information in any missing child report made to a law enforcement agency shall be made available, upon request, to law enforcement personnel of this state, other states, and the federal government when the law enforcement personnel indicate that the request is to aid in identifying or locating a missing child or the possible identification of a deceased minor who, upon discovery, cannot be identified.|||Source. 1985, 318:3, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-E:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-E - Missing Children|Section 169-E:5 - Dental Records.

    169-E:5 Dental Records. –||When a missing child has not been located within 30 days after the date on which his missing child report was filed with a law enforcement agency, that law enforcement agency shall request the missing child's parents, custodial parent, guardian, or legal custodian, or any other person responsible for the missing child, to provide written consent for the law enforcement agency to contact the missing child's dentist and request the missing child's dental records. Upon receipt of such written consent, the dentist shall release a copy of the missing child's dental records to the law enforcement agency and shall provide and encode the records in such form as requested by the law enforcement agency. The law enforcement agency shall then integrate information in the records into the national crime information center computer in order to compare the records to those of unidentified deceased persons. This section shall not prevent a law enforcement agency from seeking consent to obtain copies of a missing child's dental records, or prevent a missing child's parents, custodial parent, guardian, or legal custodian, or any other person responsible for the missing child, from granting consent for the release of copies of the missing child's dental records to a law enforcement agency, at any time.|||Source. 1985, 318:3, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-E:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-E - Missing Children|Section 169-E:6 - Recovery of Child.

    169-E:6 Recovery of Child. –||A missing child's parents, custodial parent, guardian, or legal custodian, or any other person responsible for a missing child, shall immediately notify the law enforcement agency with which they filed the missing child report whenever the child has returned to their home or to their care, custody, and control, has been released if he was the victim of an offense under RSA 633, or has otherwise been located. Upon such notification or upon otherwise learning that a missing child has returned to the home of, or to the care, custody, and control of his parents, custodial parent, guardian, or legal custodian, or other person responsible for him, or has been released if he was the victim of an offense under RSA 633, or otherwise has been located, the law enforcement agency involved shall promptly integrate the fact that the minor is no longer a missing child into the national crime information center computer.|||Source. 1985, 318:3, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-E:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-E - Missing Children|Section 169-E:7 - Cooperation With United States Attorney General.

    169-E:7 Cooperation With United States Attorney General. –||Law enforcement agencies in this state shall cooperate fully with the United States Attorney General in the collection of information that would assist in the identification of unidentified deceased persons and information that would assist in the location of missing persons under the "Federal Missing Children Act of 1982," 28 U.S.C.A. § 534, as amended. Law enforcement agencies in this state that are investigating missing children cases shall utilize the records and information compiled by the United States Attorney General pursuant to that act when the circumstances of an investigation indicate that the records and information may be of assistance and when the act authorizes it.|||Source. 1985, 318:3, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-F:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-F - Court Ordered Placements|Section 169-F:1 - Purpose and Application of Chapter.

    169-F:1 Purpose and Application of Chapter. –||This chapter shall apply to any court ordered placement of any minor pursuant to RSA 169-B or any child pursuant to RSA 169-C or RSA 169-D, for the purposes of the effective implementation of any such placement.|||Source. 1987, 402:35, eff. July 25, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-F:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-F - Court Ordered Placements|Section 169-F:2 - Written Findings Required Under Certain Circumstances.

    169-F:2 Written Findings Required Under Certain Circumstances. –||In cases in which the court does not follow a case plan or written recommendation from the department of health and human services, the court shall issue written findings explaining why the case plan or recommendation was not followed.|||Source. 1987, 402:35. 1994, 212:2. 1995, 310:181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-F:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-F - Court Ordered Placements|Section 169-F:3 - Notification to the Department of Health and Human Services.

    169-F:3 Notification to the Department of Health and Human Services. –||If, at any phase of the proceedings, the court contemplates ordering services or placement for a minor or a child, the court, prior to ordering such services or placement, shall notify the department of health and human services and shall afford the department an opportunity to be heard on the issue of appropriateness of the services or placement. The department shall provide the court with a recommendation for the disposition of the minor or child, which shall include the costs of the recommended services, placements and programs.|||Source. 1987, 402:35. 1994, 212:2. 1995, 308:86; 310:175, 181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-F:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-F - Court Ordered Placements|Section 169-F:4 - Consent Agreements.

    169-F:4 Consent Agreements. –||The court shall not approve any consent agreement unless the department of health and human services has been a party to such agreement and has been given an opportunity to be heard.|||Source. 1990, 201:14. 1994, 212:2. 1995, 310:181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-G:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-G - Review of Dispositional Orders in Juvenile Cases|Section 169-G:1 - Repealed by 2010, 368:1(43), eff. Dec. 31, 2010.

    169-G:1 Repealed by 2010, 368:1(43), eff. Dec. 31, 2010. –|
NH Rev Stat § 169-G:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-G - Review of Dispositional Orders in Juvenile Cases|Section 169-G:2 - Application for Review.

    169-G:2 Application for Review. –||I. The department of health and human services may file with the clerk of the district court or the judicial branch family division court where the dispositional order was issued an application for review of the order by the review panel. The application shall be filed within 7 days after the date of the dispositional order, but not thereafter except for good cause shown. The filing of an application for review shall stay the implementation of the dispositional order.||II. Upon issuance of the dispositional order, the clerk shall give oral and written notice to the department of health and human services of its right to make such a request. A form for making the application shall accompany the notice. If an application is filed, the clerk shall forthwith transmit it to the review panel and shall notify the administrative justice and judge who issued the dispositional order of the filing.||III. The judge who issued the dispositional order may transmit to the review panel a statement of the reasons for the dispositional order and shall transmit such a statement within 7 days if requested to do so by the review panel.|||Source. 1995, 308:87; 310:181. 1999, 266:10. 2001, 286:6. 2007, 236:24, eff. Jan. 1, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-G:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-G - Review of Dispositional Orders in Juvenile Cases|Section 169-G:3 - Review Procedure.

    169-G:3 Review Procedure. –||I. The review panel has jurisdiction to consider a request for review of the dispositional order of the court with or without a hearing; to review the dispositional order; to amend the dispositional order by substituting therefor a different appropriate order or orders; or to make any other disposition of the case.||II. The review panel may require the production of any records, documents, exhibits, or other things connected with the proceedings. The district court and the judicial branch family division shall by rule establish forms for review under this chapter and may by rule make such other regulations of procedure relative to such review, consistent with law, as justice requires.||III. The decision of the review panel shall be rendered within 21 days from the date of receipt of the application for review.|||Source. 1995, 308:87. 2007, 236:25, eff. Jan. 1, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-G:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-G - Review of Dispositional Orders in Juvenile Cases|Section 169-G:4 - Amendment of Dispositional Orders.

    169-G:4 Amendment of Dispositional Orders. –||If the dispositional order is amended by an order substituting a different order or disposition of the case, the review panel shall make any other disposition of the case in accordance with the order of the review panel.|||Source. 1995, 308:87, eff. July 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-G:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-G - Review of Dispositional Orders in Juvenile Cases|Section 169-G:5 - Records.

    169-G:5 Records. –||The secretary-clerk shall attend all sittings of the review panel; shall record all appointments to the panel, notifying the clerks of the district courts or judicial branch family division courts of such appointments; and shall record the proceedings of the panel.|||Source. 1995, 308:87. 2007, 236:26, eff. Jan. 1, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 169-G:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 169-G - Review of Dispositional Orders in Juvenile Cases|Section 169-G:6 - Quarterly Reports.

    169-G:6 Quarterly Reports. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall make quarterly reports to the house committee on judiciary and family law and the house finance committee containing statistical analysis on the use of RSA 169-D and voluntary service programs. Such reports shall include, but not be limited to, the costs including transaction costs incurred for services, programs, and placements provided, parental reimbursements collected, the number of out-of-state placements and the costs of such placements, and a comparison of such with the same statistics from the same quarter of the prior 2 fiscal years, and the number of appeals taken to the review panel by the department and the results thereof. The first report shall be due October 1, 1995.|||Source. 1995, 308:87; 310:182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 170-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 170-A - Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Section 170-A:2 - Financial Responsibility.

    170-A:2 Financial Responsibility. –||Financial responsibility for any child placed pursuant to the provisions of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Article V of the compact in the first instance. However, in the event of partial or complete default of performance under the compact, the provisions of RSA 546-A and RSA 546-B shall apply.|||Source. 1965, 366:1. 1997, 263:24, eff. Aug. 18, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 170-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 170-A - Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Section 170-A:3 - Designation of Agencies and Officials.

    170-A:3 Designation of Agencies and Officials. –||The "appropriate public authorities" as used in Article III of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children shall, with reference to this state, mean the department of health and human services and said department shall receive and act with reference to notices required by said Article III. As used in paragraph (a) of Article V of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, the phrase "appropriate authority in the receiving state" with reference to this state shall mean the commissioner of the department of health and human services.|||Source. 1965, 366:1. 1983, 291:1, II. 1995, 310:175, 181, 182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 170-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 170-A - Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Section 170-A:4 - Authority.

    170-A:4 Authority. –||The officers and agencies of this state and its subdivisions having authority to place children are hereby empowered to enter into agreements with appropriate officers or agencies of or in other party states pursuant to paragraph (b) of Article V of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. Any such agreement which contains a financial commitment or imposes a financial obligation on this state or subdivision or agency thereof shall not be binding unless it has the approval in writing of the commissioner of the department of health and human services in the case of the state and of the chief local fiscal officer in the case of a subdivision of the state.|||Source. 1965, 366:1. 1983, 291:1, II. 1995, 310:182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 170-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 170-A - Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Section 170-A:5 - Placement by and Jurisdiction of Courts.

    170-A:5 Placement by and Jurisdiction of Courts. –||Any court having jurisdiction to place delinquent children may place such a child in an institution of or in another state pursuant to Article VI of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children and shall retain jurisdiction as provided in Article V thereof.|||Source. 1965, 366:1, eff. Sept. 6, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 170-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 170-A - Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Section 170-A:6 - Designation of Administrator.

    170-A:6 Designation of Administrator. –||I. As used in Article VII of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, the term "executive head" means the governor. The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall serve as compact administrator in accordance with the terms of said Article VII.||II. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the establishment of a new division or the hiring of additional personnel to carry out the intent of this compact.|||Source. 1965, 366:1. 1995, 310:125, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 170-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 170-A - Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Section 170-A:7 - Rulemaking.

    170-A:7 Rulemaking. –||The compact administrator of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children shall adopt rules under Article VII of the compact in accordance with RSA 541-A.|||Source. 1983, 242:10, eff. June 18, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 170-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 170-B - Adoption|Section 170-B:1 - Purpose.

    170-B:1 Purpose. –||The general court hereby declares its conviction that the policies and procedures for adoption contained in this chapter are necessary and desirable, having as their purpose the threefold protection of:||I. The adoptive child, from unnecessary separation from the child's birth parents and from adoption by parents who should not have such responsibility. This protection also includes the protection of the child from a birth parent attempting to surrender his or her parental rights and responsibilities without a pending legitimate adoption of the child first being filed with the court or in the case of an adoption facilitated by the department or an agency, without an adoption first being contemplated.||II. The birth parent or parents, from hurried and coerced decisions to give up the child.||III. The adoptive parent or parents and ensuring them an undisturbed relationship with the child from and after the date of adoption.|||Source. 2004, 255:1. 2006, 200:1, eff. July 30, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 170-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 170-B - Adoption|Section 170-B:3 - Who May Be Adopted; Requirements.

    170-B:3 Who May Be Adopted;  Requirements. –||Any individual may be adopted, provided, however, that:||I. If the adoptee is 14 years of age or older, he or she must assent to the adoption unless the court determines that it is not in the best interests of the adoptee to require assent. Such an assent shall be executed by the adoptee in writing and signed in the presence of the court in which the petition for adoption has been filed.||II. If the adoptee is alleged to be incapacitated, incompetent, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or is in any other way emotionally or mentally deficient, the court may also appoint a guardian ad litem to protect that adoptee's interests.||III. If the adoptee, whether a minor or an adult, is married, the spouse of the adoptee shall also assent to the adoption. The court may waive this requirement for good cause shown.|||Source. 2004, 255:1, eff. Jan. 2, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 170-B:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 170-B - Adoption|Section 170-B:4 - Who May Adopt.

    170-B:4 Who May Adopt. –||Any of the following adults may adopt:||I. Two adults together.||II. An unmarried adult.||III. The unmarried parent of the adoptee.||IV. A married adult without that person's spouse joining as a petitioner, if the adoptee is not the petitioner's spouse; and if any one of the following circumstances apply:||(a) The petitioner's spouse is a parent of the adoptee and assents to the adoption;||(b) The petitioner and the petitioner's spouse are legally separated;||(c) The failure of the petitioner's spouse to join in the petition is excused by the court by reason of prolonged unexplained absence, unavailability, or circumstances constituting an unreasonable withholding of assent; or||(d) The petitioner's spouse assents to the adoption and the adoptee is over the age of 18.||V. An unmarried adult with the assent of at least one of the adoptee's parents and with the intention to share parenting responsibilities with one of the adoptee's parents.||VI. A person or persons who are parents of a child conceived via assisted reproduction as defined in RSA 168-B:1, II for the purpose of confirming the legal relationship between child and parent.|||Source. 2004, 255:1, eff. Jan. 2, 2005. 2020, 26:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.|