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NH Rev Stat § 594:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 594 - Arrests in Criminal Cases|Section 594:26 - Power of Arrest for New Hampshire Crimes.

    594:26 Power of Arrest for New Hampshire Crimes. –||I. In this section, "a certified border patrol agent" means a person who:||(a) Is employed as a border patrol agent by the United States Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection;||(b) Has satisfactorily completed a course of study in New Hampshire laws and criminal procedures approved by the police standards and training council, at the expense of the agent' agency;||(c) Has been certified by the director of police standards and training pursuant to paragraph II and whose certification has not expired or been suspended or revoked; and||(d) Has taken an oath administered by the commissioner of safety or by the commissioner's designee to uphold the constitution of the state of New Hampshire.||II. The director of police standards and training may certify a border patrol agent who applies for certification if the agent satisfies the employment and study requirements listed in paragraph I. Border patrol agents certified under this section shall be exempt from regular physical fitness examinations required of state or municipal law enforcement officers. A certification under this paragraph shall automatically terminate immediately upon the agent's suspension or termination of employment from the federal agency in which he or she was employed at the time the certification occurred.||III. A certified border patrol agent may make an arrest pursuant to New Hampshire law for violation of New Hampshire laws in Coos county if the agent determines that it is necessary to do any of the following:||(a) Protect an individual in the presence of the agent from the imminent infliction of serious bodily injury, as defined in RSA 625:11, VI; or||(b) Provide immediate assistance to an individual who has suffered or is threatened with serious bodily injury, as defined in RSA 625:11, VI; or||(c) Prevent the escape of any individual whom the agent has probable cause to believe has committed a crime in the presence of the agent; or||(d) Prevent the escape of any individual whom the agent has probable cause to believe has committed a felony under New Hampshire law.||IV. A certified border patrol agent who makes an arrest under this section shall report the arrest, without delay, to the division of state police.||V. A certified border patrol agent who makes an arrest under the authority of this section shall have the same immunity from liability that a state or municipal law enforcement officer has under the laws of this state.||VI. The state of New Hampshire shall not be responsible for employment benefits, supervision, and defense of the certified border patrol agent, including when exercising authority under this section. This section is not intended to limit existing authority of federal officers under federal law or to interfere with the performance of federal duties by federal officers.|||Source. 2016, 278:10, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:1 - Issuance of Search Warrants; Purposes.

    595-A:1 Issuance of Search Warrants;  Purposes. –||A search warrant authorized by this chapter may be issued by any justice, associate justice or special justice of the municipal, district or superior courts to search for and seize any property which is:||I. Stolen, embezzled or fraudulently obtained;||II. Designed or intended for use or which is or has been used as the means of committing a criminal offense;||III. Contraband; or||IV. Evidence of the crime to which the probable cause upon which the search warrant is issued relates.|||Source. 1969, 317:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:2 - Requisites of Warrant.

    595-A:2 Requisites of Warrant. –||Search warrants shall designate or describe the person, building, vessel, or vehicle to be searched and shall particularly describe the property or articles to be searched for. They shall be substantially in the form prescribed in RSA 595-A:3 and shall be directed to a sheriff or his deputy or to a constable or police officer, commanding him to search in the daytime, or if the warrant so directs, in the nighttime, the person, building, vessel, or vehicle where the property or articles for which he is required to search are believed to be concealed, and to bring such property or articles when found, and the persons in whose possession they are found, before any circuit or superior court named therein.|||Source. 1969, 317:1. 1971, 255:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1971. 2015, 249:7, eff. Jan. 1, 2016, July 1, 2016 and Oct. 1, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:3 - Form of Warrant.

    595-A:3 Form of Warrant. –||The warrant shall be in substantially the following form:||The State of New Hampshire||(County), ss. (Name) Court.||To the Sheriffs of our several counties, or their deputies, any State Police Officer, or any Constable or Police Officer of any city or town, within our said State.||Proof by written statement under oath (supplemented by oral statements under oath) having been made this day before (name of person authorized to issue warrant) by (names of person or persons whose written statements under oath have been taken) that there is probable cause for believing that (certain property has been stolen, embezzled, or fraudulently obtained; certain property is intended for use or has been used as the means of committing a crime; contraband; evidence of the crime to which the probable cause upon which the search warrant is issued relates.)||We therefore command you in the daytime (or at any time of the day or night) to make an immediate search of (identify premises) (occupied by A.B.) and (of the person of A.B.) and of any person present who may be found to have such property in his possession or under his control or to whom such property may have been delivered, for the following property:||(description of property)||and if you find any such property or any part thereof to bring it and the persons in whose possession it is found before (name of court and location).||Dated at (city or town) this .......... day of .........., 20......|||Source. 1969, 317:1. 1971, 255:2, eff. Aug. 22, 1971. 2021, 196:2, eff. Oct. 9, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:4-a - Electronic Communication and Signature.

    595-A:4-a Electronic Communication and Signature. –||The personal appearance and authorization for a search warrant under RSA 595-A:4 may be by means of telecommunication or electronic communication, and electronic signature pursuant to RSA 294-E.|||Source. 2005, 76:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:5 - Receipt, Inventory, and Return.

    595-A:5 Receipt, Inventory, and Return. –||The officer taking property under the warrant shall give to the person from whom, or from whose premises, the property was taken a copy of the warrant and a receipt for the property taken, or shall leave the copy and receipt at the place from which the property was taken. The return shall be made promptly and shall be accompanied by a written inventory of any property taken. The inventory shall be made in the presence of the applicant for the warrant and the person from whose possession or premises the property was taken, if they are present, or in the presence of at least one creditable person other than the applicant for the warrant or the person from whose possession or premises the property was taken, and shall be verified by the officer. The justice of a court of record shall upon request deliver a copy of the inventory to the person from whom or from whose premises the property was taken and to the applicant for the warrant. The justice of a court of record shall attach to the warrant a copy of the return, inventory and all other papers in connection therewith and shall file them with the clerk of the court to which the warrant is returnable. The return shall be in substantially the following form:|||Return||||I received the attached search warrant on .........., 20....., and have executed it as follows:||On .........., 20....., at .......... o'clock ... M, I searched (the person) (the premises) described in the warrant and I left a copy of the warrant with (name of person searched or owner) at (the place of search) together with a receipt for the items seized.||The following is an inventory of property taken pursuant to the warrant:||This inventory was made in the presence of .......... and ..........||I swear that this inventory is a true and detailed account of all the property taken by me on the warrant|....................|||||Subscribed and sworn to and returned before me this .......... day of .........., 20......|....................||||Justice of the Court||||Source. 1969, 317:1. 1971, 255:3, eff. Aug. 22, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:6 - Seizure, Custody and Disposition of Articles; Exceptions.

    595-A:6 Seizure, Custody and Disposition of Articles;  Exceptions. –||If an officer in the execution of a search warrant, or by some other authorized method, finds property or articles he is empowered to take, he shall seize and safely keep them under the direction of the court or justice so long as necessary to permit them to be produced or used as evidence in any trial. Upon application by a prosecutor, defendant, or civil claimants, the court, prior to trial or upon an appeal after trial, shall, upon notice to a defendant and hearing, and except for good cause shown, order returned to the rightful owners any stolen, embezzled or fraudulently obtained property, or any other property of evidential value, not constituting contraband. This section shall apply regardless of how possession of the property was obtained by the state. Photographs or other identification or analysis made of the returned property shall be admissible at trial as secondary evidence, in lieu of the originals, for all relevant purposes, including ownership. In the case of unknown, unapprehended defendants, or defendants wilfully absent from the jurisdiction, the court shall have discretion to appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the interest of such unknown or absent defendants. The judicial findings on such matters as ownership, identification, chain of possession or value made at such an evidentiary hearing for the restoration of property to the rightful owners shall thereafter be admissible at trial, to be considered with other evidence on the same issues, if any, as may be admitted before the finder of fact. All other property seized in execution of a search warrant or otherwise coming into the hands of the police shall be returned to the owner of the property, or shall be disposed of as the court or justice orders, which may include forfeiture and either sale or destruction as the public interest requires, in the discretion of the court or justice, and in accordance with due process of law. Any property, the forfeiture and disposition of which is specified in any general or special law, shall be disposed of in accordance therewith.|||Source. 1969, 317:1. 1977, 320:1. 1981, 553:9. 1988, 88:3, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:7 - Time for Return of Warrant.

    595-A:7 Time for Return of Warrant. –||Every officer to whom a warrant to search is issued shall return the same to the court to which it was made returnable as soon as it has been served, and in any event not later than 7 days from the date of issuance thereof, with a return of his actions thereon.|||Source. 1969, 317:1. 1971, 255:4, eff. Aug. 22, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:8 - Assistants.

    595-A:8 Assistants. –||An officer executing a search warrant may take with him suitable assistants and suffer no others to be with him.|||Source. 1969, 317:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:9 - Scope and Definition.

    595-A:9 Scope and Definition. –||This chapter does not modify any act inconsistent with it regulating search, seizure and the issuance and execution of search warrants in circumstances for which special provision is made. The term "property" is used in this chapter to denote everything which is the subject of ownership.|||Source. 1969, 317:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-A:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-A - Search Warrants|Section 595-A:10 - Informed Consent Exception for Motor Vehicles.

    595-A:10 Informed Consent Exception for Motor Vehicles. –||I. A law enforcement officer may legally conduct a search of a motor vehicle without a warrant under this chapter if the law enforcement officer expressly informs the operator of the motor vehicle that:||(a) The operator has the right to refuse to consent to a search;||(b) Any refusal to consent to a search shall not constitute a basis either for probable cause to arrest the operator or reasonable suspicion to detain the operator;||(c) The operator cannot be charged with any crime or violation for refusing to consent to a search; and||(d) The operator cannot be further detained for refusing to consent to a search.||II. If the operator of a motor vehicle refuses to consent to a search, the law enforcement officer shall cease any further questioning concerning consent to a search.||III. A law enforcement officer shall document any consent to search either by the signature of the motor vehicle operator on a consent-to-search form providing notice of the provisions of paragraphs I and II at the time of the consent, or by means of a video and sound recording of the consent at the time of the consent. Such form or video and sound recording shall be retained until any criminal charge resulting from the consent to search is fully resolved.||IV. Any act of a law enforcement officer which violates a provision of this section shall result in the inadmissibility in any criminal proceeding of any evidence of obtained by the law enforcement officer.||V. This section shall not preclude searches incident to arrest; searches allowed under the United States Constitution for officer safety; searches on any grounds, lands, or parking areas of any state or county correctional facility or transitional housing unit operated by the department of corrections; or inventory searches of lawfully-seized property, including but not limited to vehicles towed in conjunction with the arrest of the operator.||VI. Any person on prison grounds or in a department of corrections facility, regardless of whether such person is a resident, visitor, staff, or anyone identified in some other category, shall be subject to search without warning of their vehicle, possessions, and person pursuant to administrative rule Cor 306.|||Source. 2021, 196:1, eff. Oct. 9, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-B - Administrative Inspection Warrants|Section 595-B:1 - Definition.

    595-B:1 Definition. –||An inspection warrant shall be a written order in the name of the state, signed by a justice, associate justice or special justice of any municipal, district or superior court, directed to an official or employee of a state agency, municipality, or other political subdivision, commanding him to conduct any inspection, testing or sampling required or specifically authorized by state law or administrative rule, or municipal ordinance, code or regulation.|||Source. 1981, 533:1. 1987, 342:1. 1991, 231:7, eff. Aug. 9, 1991.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-B:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-B - Administrative Inspection Warrants|Section 595-B:1-a - Scope.

    595-B:1-a Scope. –||The uniform procedures set forth in this chapter shall be applicable to all persons authorized by law to act in the name of the state to conduct any inspection, testing or sampling, and who do not have legal consent for such inspection, testing, or sampling, including but not limited to officials or employees of state agencies, municipal fire departments, building inspectors, or other code enforcement officials, health officers, members of local land use boards, and assessing officials.|||Source. 1991, 231:8, eff. Aug. 9, 1991.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-B - Administrative Inspection Warrants|Section 595-B:2 - Requirements for Issue.

    595-B:2 Requirements for Issue. –||I. An inspection warrant shall be issued only upon the request of an official or employee of a state agency, municipality, or other political subdivision and only upon a showing of probable cause supported by affidavit. The affidavit shall particularly describe the place, dwelling, structure, premises, vehicle or records to be inspected and the purpose for which the inspection is to be made. In addition, if testing or sampling is requested, the affidavit shall describe the time and manner of such testing or sampling. In all cases, the affidavit shall contain either a statement that the consent to inspect has been sought and refused, or facts or circumstances reasonably justifying the failure to seek such consent.||II. Probable cause, as required by paragraph I, shall be deemed to exist if either legislative or administrative standards for conducting a routine or area inspection, testing or sampling are satisfied with respect to the particular place, dwelling, structure, premises, vehicle or records, or there is probable cause to believe that a condition of nonconformity exists with respect to the particular place, dwelling, structure, premises, vehicle or records.||III. Before issuing an inspection warrant, a justice, associate justice, or special justice may examine the applicant and any other witness under oath, and shall satisfy himself of the existence of grounds for granting such application.|||Source. 1981, 533:1. 1987, 342:2. 1991, 231:9, eff. Aug. 9, 1991.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-B - Administrative Inspection Warrants|Section 595-B:3 - Issue; Contents.

    595-B:3 Issue;  Contents. –||If a justice, associate justice, or special justice is satisfied that probable cause for the inspection, testing or sampling exists, he shall issue the warrant particularly describing each place, dwelling, structure, premises, vehicle or record to be inspected, tested or sampled, designating on the warrant the purpose and limitations of the inspection, testing or sampling, including the limitations required by this chapter. The person issuing a warrant shall retain each affidavit submitted in support of any warrant and shall either make personal notes of the substance, or arrange for a transcript, of any oral statements made under oath supplementing the affidavit. The person issuing the search warrant shall then deliver the affidavit and the notes or transcript within 3 days after the issuance of the warrant to the court to which the warrant is returnable. Upon the return of a warrant, the accompanying affidavit and the notes or transcript shall be attached to and filed with the warrant by the clerk of the court to which the warrant is returned. Warrants shall be public documents upon their return unless otherwise ordered by a court of record.|||Source. 1981, 533:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-B:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-B - Administrative Inspection Warrants|Section 595-B:4 - Duration.

    595-B:4 Duration. –||An inspection warrant shall be returned to the court to which it is made returnable as soon as it has been executed, and in any event not later than 7 days from the date of its issuance, unless extended or renewed by the justice, associate justice, or special justice who signed and issued the original warrant, upon satisfying himself that such extension or renewal is in the public interest. An inspection warrant shall be executed and returned to the person by whom it was issued within the time specified in the warrant or within the extended or renewed time. After the expiration of such time, the warrant, unless executed, shall be void.|||Source. 1981, 533:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 595-B:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIX - Proceedings in Criminal Cases|Title 595-B - Administrative Inspection Warrants|Section 595-B:5 - Conduct of Inspection; Notice.

    595-B:5 Conduct of Inspection;  Notice. –||An inspection, testing or sampling pursuant to a warrant issued under this chapter shall not be made between 6:00 p.m. of any day and 8:00 a.m. of the succeeding day, unless specifically authorized by the person issuing such warrant upon a showing that such authority is reasonably necessary to effectuate the purpose of the law, rule, code, ordinance, or regulation being enforced. An inspection pursuant to a warrant shall not be made by means of forcible entry, except that the person issuing such warrant may expressly authorize a forcible entry when facts are shown sufficient to suggest a probable violation of a state law or rule, or municipal ordinance, code, or regulation, which, if such violation existed, would present an immediate threat to public health or safety, or when facts are shown which establish that reasonable attempts to serve a previous warrant have been unsuccessful. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, an official or employee of a state agency, municipality, or other political subdivision executing an inspection warrant may be accompanied by suitable assistants, including a sheriff or his deputy, any state police officer, or any constable or police officer of any city or town.|||Source. 1981, 533:1. 1987, 342:3. 1991, 231:10, eff. Aug. 9, 1991.|