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NH Rev Stat § 454-B:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLI - Liens|Title 454-B - Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act|Section 454-B:10 - Former Filing Office Duties.

    454-B:10 Former Filing Office Duties. –||I. Every city or town clerk's office ("former filing office") shall maintain a record of every federal tax lien filed with such office under RSA 454-B until the earlier of one year after a release or discharge is filed with respect to such federal tax lien or June 30, 2017. As of July 1, 2017, all remaining records of, or relating to, financing statements filed in such office under RSA 454-B may be destroyed.||II. A former filing office shall not accept or file any initial federal tax lien or any other record relating to a federal tax lien filed with such office under RSA 454-B.||III. Until July 1, 2017, a former filing office shall respond to a request for information concerning its records in the same way and to the same extent as is required of the secretary of state under RSA 382-A:9-523(c), (d), and (e), and shall be entitled to charge and retain the same fees as are prescribed in RSA 382:9-525(d). Such a request for information shall be prepared, submitted, and processed separately from a request for information submitted under RSA 382-A:9-523(g), and the fees prescribed in RSA 382-A:9-525(d) shall apply separately to each request and the response thereto. Every city or town clerk shall post notice that a search of the records held by the city or town clerk may not reveal releases filed with the secretary of state.|||Source. 2005, 219:8, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 454-C:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLI - Liens|Title 454-C - Personal Property Lien Index|Section 454-C:1 - Index of Liens.

    454-C:1 Index of Liens. –||I. The secretary of state shall maintain a consolidated index of certain liens affecting personal property and filed with the secretary of state and city and town clerks. The liens to be included in the index are as follows:||(a) Federal tax liens (RSA 454-B);||(b) State tax liens (RSA 21-J:28-c);||(c) Aircraft registration fee liens (RSA 450:4);||(d) Writs of attachment (RSA 511:23 and RSA 511-A:5);||(e) Child support liens (RSA 461-A:14);||(f) Housing finance authority liens (RSA 204-C:19);||(g) Hazardous waste liens (RSA 147-B:10-b);||(h) Employment security liens (RSA 282-A:143 __ampersand__ 165);||(i) State Food Security Act liens (RSA 439);||(j) [Repealed.]||(k) Road toll liens (RSA 260:63); and||(l) Creditor's bill liens (RSA 498:14).||II. The index shall include the following information with regard to each such lien, or any full release thereof:||(a) Name and address of every debtor;||(b) Name and address of first-listed lienor;||(c) Type of lien and statutory authority;||(d) Location of filing of lien;||(e) Date and time of filing of lien or full release; and||(f) File number, if any.|||Source. 2001, 102:42, eff. July 1, 2001. 2004, 10:7, eff. April 5, 2004. 2005, 273:15, eff. Oct. 1, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 454-C:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLI - Liens|Title 454-C - Personal Property Lien Index|Section 454-C:2 - Notice of Filing or Full Release.

    454-C:2 Notice of Filing or Full Release. –||Any person or agency filing such a lien, or a full release of such a lien, with the secretary of state or a city or town clerk shall submit with the lien or release documentation a notice of filing of lien or notice of full release of lien, as applicable, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, containing the information specified in RSA 454-C:1, II(a) through (c). The secretary of state or the city or town clerk that receives the filing shall enter on the notice the information specified in RSA 454-C:1, II(d) through (f). If a federal agency files such a lien or full release with a city or town clerk without an accompanying notice of filing or full release, the clerk shall complete a notice of filing or full release, as appropriate.|||Source. 2001, 102:42, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 454-C:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLI - Liens|Title 454-C - Personal Property Lien Index|Section 454-C:3 - Entry of Information in Index.

    454-C:3 Entry of Information in Index. –||I. Except as otherwise provided in RSA 454-C:7, whenever any such lien, or a full release of any such lien, is filed with the secretary of state, an image of the notice of filing or full release, or the information contained in such notice, shall be entered in the index within 3 business days.||II. Except as otherwise provided in RSA 454-C:7, and only as to federal and state tax liens, whenever any such lien, or a full release of any such lien, is filed with a city or town clerk, the clerk shall within 2 business days transmit to the secretary of state, by mail or other medium prescribed or authorized by the secretary of state, a copy of, or an electronic record of all information contained in, the notice of filing of lien or notice of full release of lien submitted by the person or agency filing the lien or release pursuant to RSA 454-C:2. The term "business day" as used in the preceding sentence shall mean a day on which the clerk's office is open for business. Only the notice itself or electronic record thereof shall be so transmitted, not the other lien documentation filed with the notice. The secretary of state within 3 business days of such receipt shall enter an image of the notice or the information contained therein in the index, and shall periodically transmit to each such clerk an acknowledgment of receipt of such notices or electronic records. Pursuant to the statutes providing for the filing of each type of lien listed in RSA 454-C:1, I, no such liens other than federal and state tax liens will be filed with city or town clerks subsequent to the effective date of this chapter.|||Source. 2001, 102:42, eff. July 1, 2001. 2004, 10:3, eff. April 5, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 454-C:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLI - Liens|Title 454-C - Personal Property Lien Index|Section 454-C:4 - Period of Retention.

    454-C:4 Period of Retention. –||The secretary of state shall maintain the image of the notice or the information therefrom regarding each lien and any full release thereof in the index until at least the earlier of one year after the secretary of state receives a full release or notice of full release of the lien, or the expiration of the time period noted herein for each category of lien:||I. Federal tax liens (RSA 454-B)-12 years from date of filing or latest refiling;||II. State tax liens (RSA 21-J:28-c)-7 years from date of filing;||III. State Food Security Act liens (RSA 439)-one year from lapse;||IV. All other liens-12 years from date of filing.|||Source. 2001, 102:42, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 454-C:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLI - Liens|Title 454-C - Personal Property Lien Index|Section 454-C:5 - Request for Information.

    454-C:5 Request for Information. –||Any response to a request to the secretary of state for information on a particular debtor made under RSA 382-A:9-523(c), (f), (g), or (h), shall include at a minimum the date and time of filing of every lien against that debtor included in the index. The response shall include information on all such liens as to which either the lien itself (in the case of a lien filed with the secretary of state) or a notice of filing of lien (in the case of a lien filed with a city or town clerk) was received on or before a date specified in the response, which shall not be a date earlier than 3 business days before the request for information was received. The response shall also specify the beginning date of the period covered by the report. If requested, the response shall also include copies of all or any specified lien notices or documentation on file with the secretary of state.|||Source. 2001, 102:42, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 454-C:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLI - Liens|Title 454-C - Personal Property Lien Index|Section 454-C:6 - Extension of Time Periods.

    454-C:6 Extension of Time Periods. –||The time periods specified in RSA 454-C:3 and RSA 454-C:5 are subject to extension for reasons set forth in RSA 382-A:9-524.|||Source. 2001, 102:42, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 454-C:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLI - Liens|Title 454-C - Personal Property Lien Index|Section 454-C:7 - Transition Period.

    454-C:7 Transition Period. –||I. "Pre-effective-date" with regard to a lien means filed with the secretary of state or a city or town clerk on or after July 1, 1996, and before July 1, 2001.||II. Not later than June 30, 2003, city and town clerks shall prepare and transmit to the secretary of state a notice of filing for every pre-effective-date federal tax lien not lapsed or fully released as of the date of such transmission, such notice of filing to be on a form prescribed by the secretary of state and containing the information specified in RSA 454-C:1, II; or, if authorized by the secretary of state, an electronic record containing such information. No city or town clerk shall have any liability on account of any error in preparing or transmitting such notices or electronic records. The secretary of state shall transmit to each such clerk an acknowledgment of receipt of such notices or electronic records, and not later than June 30, 2006, shall enter in the index the information specified in RSA 454-C:1, II regarding each such lien, or an image of the notice of filing thereof.||III. Not later than June 30, 2006, the secretary of state shall also enter in the index equivalent information or images regarding all pre-effective-date liens of all types originally filed with the secretary of state and not lapsed or fully released as of the date of such entry. Prior to the date of such entry, the secretary of state shall include all applicable information on any such liens not yet entered in the index in any response to a request for information made under RSA 382-A:9-523(c), (f), (g), or (h).||IV. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 454-C:3, whenever a full release of any pre-effective-date federal or state tax lien is filed with a town or city clerk, and (in the case of federal tax liens) a notice of filing of such lien or electronic record thereof has not previously been transmitted to the secretary of state pursuant to paragraph II, such clerk shall remove the lien being released from the file, and shall not forward the notice of full release to the secretary of state; and whenever a full release of any pre-effective-date lien of any type is filed with the secretary of state, and information regarding such lien has not previously been entered in the index pursuant to paragraph III, the secretary of state shall remove the lien being released from the file, and shall not enter an image of the notice of full release, or the information contained therein, in the index.|||Source. 2001, 102:42, eff. July 1, 2001. 2004, 10:4, eff. April 5, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 454-C:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLI - Liens|Title 454-C - Personal Property Lien Index|Section 454-C:8 - Rules.

    454-C:8 Rules. –||The office of the secretary of state may adopt and publish rules to implement this chapter. Such rules shall not be subject to the provisions of RSA 541-A.|||Source. 2001, 102:42, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:1 - Appointment.

    455:1 Appointment. –||Notaries public shall be appointed by the governor, with advice and consent of the executive council, and shall be commissioned for 5 years.|||Source. GS 16:1. GL 17:1. PS 18:1. PL 17:1. RL 25:1. RSA 455:1. 1988, 121:2, eff. Oct. 1, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:2 - Application.

    455:2 Application. –||Any person applying to be a notary public shall be a resident of this state or be a resident of an abutting state who is regularly employed or carries on a trade, business, or practice in this state at the time of applying. The applicant shall sign a written statement under oath as to whether the applicant has ever been convicted of a crime that has not been annulled by a court, other than minor traffic violations. The applicant shall be endorsed for appointment by 2 notaries public and a registered voter of this state. A resident of an abutting state may be commissioned as a notary public in New Hampshire provided that the individual submits to the secretary of state: the notary application fee required under RSA 5:10 and an affidavit stating that the individual (i) is a resident of an abutting state, (ii) is a registered notary in such state, and (iii) is regularly employed or carries on a trade, business, or practice in New Hampshire.|||Source. 1917, 71:1. PL 17:2. RL 25:2. RSA 455:2. 1988, 121:3. 1991, 254:7. 1997, 102:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998. 2019, 47:1, eff. Aug. 4, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:2-a - Competency.

    455:2-a Competency. –||It shall be lawful for any notary public or any other officer authorized to administer an oath or take an acknowledgment or proof of an instrument or make protest, who is a stockholder, director, officer or employee of a bank or other corporation, to take the acknowledgment of any party to any written instrument executed to or by such corporation, or to administer an oath to any other stockholder, director, officer, employee or agent of such corporation, or to protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment bills of exchange, drafts, checks, notes and other negotiable instruments which may be owned or held for collection by such corporation; provided it shall be unlawful for any notary public or other officer authorized to administer an oath or take an acknowledgment or proof of an instrument or make protest, to take the acknowledgment of an instrument executed by or to a bank or other corporation of which he is a stockholder, director, officer or employee, where such notary or other officer is a party to such instrument, either individually or as a representative of such corporation, or to protest any negotiable instrument owned or held for collection by such corporation, where such notary or other officer is individually a party to such instrument. No person acting in the capacity of notary public shall notarize his or her own signature. This section shall not be construed to imply that the acts herein made lawful may heretofore have been unlawful, and no instrument heretofore acknowledged or notarized before a notary public or other officer who would have been competent to act under the terms hereof shall hereafter be impugned or invalidated on the grounds that such notary public or other officer was incompetent to act.|||Source. 1959, 68:1. 1988, 121:4, eff. Oct. 1, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:3 - Powers.

    455:3 Powers. –||I. Every notary public, in addition to the usual powers of the office, shall have the same powers as a justice of the peace in relation to depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments and the administering of oaths.||II. All notarial acts performed by a notary public with respect to a record shall be either under an embossed official seal or shall carry the legible imprint of an electronic or rubber official stamp stating the name of the notary, the words "notary public, New Hampshire" and the expiration date of the notary public's commission.||III. As used in this section:||(a) "Electronic" has the same meaning given in RSA 456-B:1, VI;||(b) "Notarial act" has the same meaning given in RSA 456-B:1, I;||(c) "Official stamp" has the same meaning given in RSA 456-B:1, IX; and||(d) "Record" has the same meaning given in RSA 456-B:1, XI.|||Source. RS 14:1. CS 14:1. GS 16:2. GL 17:2. PS 18:2. 1893, 26:1. PL 17:3. RL 25:3. RSA 455:3. 1988, 121:5. 1995, 74:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. 2021, 206:2, Pt. II, Sec. 1, eff. Feb. 6, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:4 - Protest as Evidence.

    455:4 Protest as Evidence. –||The protest of a bill of exchange, note, or order, duly certified by a notary public, shall be evidence of the facts stated in the protest and of the notice given to the drawer or endorsers.|||Source. RS 14:3. CS 14:3. GS 16:3. GL 17:3. PS 18:3. PL 17:4. RL 25:4. RSA 455:4. 1995, 74:2. 2005, 118:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:5 - to 455:10 Repealed by 2005, 118:13, I, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.

    455:5 to 455:10 Repealed by 2005, 118:13, I, eff. Jan. 1, 2006. –|
NH Rev Stat § 455:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:11 - Notarial Fees.

    455:11 Notarial Fees. –||Notaries public shall be entitled to a fee of up to $10 for each oath, witness, service, or certification with the following exceptions:||I. For services related to the taking of depositions, the notary public shall be entitled to the same fees as justices are entitled to receive pursuant to RSA 517:19.||II. No fees shall be allowed for administering and certifying oaths of office of town officers.||III. For performing notarial acts for a remotely located individual under RSA 456-B:6-a, a notary public shall be entitled to a fee of $25 per act.|||Source. RS 229:24. CS 245:24. GS 272:25. GL 290:25. PS 287:30. PL 17:11. RL 25:11. RSA 455:11. 1971, 373:1. 1990, 16:3. 2005, 118:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2006. 2021, 206:2, Pt. II, Sec. 2, eff. Feb. 6, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:12 - Appointment.

    455:12 Appointment. –||The governor, with advice and consent of the executive council, may appoint, in each state, district, and territory of the United States, and in each foreign country to which the United States sends a representative, a commissioner or commissioners of deeds, to continue in office 5 years.|||Source. RS 14:9. CS 14:9. GS 16:10. GL 17:10. 1879, 57:2. PS 18:10. PL 17:12. RL 25:12. RSA 455:12. 1988, 121:8. 2005, 118:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:13 - Oath.

    455:13 Oath. –||Before any commissioner of deeds shall perform any duty of his or her office, he or she shall take and subscribe an oath, before a judge of some court of record, that he or she will well and faithfully perform all the duties of the office, which oath shall be filed by him or her in the office of the secretary of state within 3 months after taking the same.|||Source. RS 14:10. CS 14:10. GS 16:11. GL 17:11. PS 18:11. PL 17:13. RL 25:13. RSA 455:13. 1988, 121:9. 2005, 118:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:14 - Powers.

    455:14 Powers. –||Such commissioner of deeds may, both within and without this state, administer oaths, take depositions and affidavits to be used in this state and notify parties of the time and place thereof, and take the acknowledgment of deeds or instruments to be used or recorded in this state, in the same manner and with the same effect as a justice of the peace of this state may do within the state.|||Source. RS 14:11, 12. CS 14:11, 12. GS 16:12, 13. GL 17:12, 13. PS 18:12. PL 17:14. RL 25:14. RSA 455:14. 1986, 87:2. 2005, 118:5, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:15 - For Other States; By Court Appointment.

    455:15 For Other States;  By Court Appointment. –||Any commissioner for any other state who is authorized to take depositions, administer oaths and affirmations and take the acknowledgment of deeds within this state, to be used in such other state, and any commissioner appointed by the supreme or superior court or any justice thereof, shall have the power to administer oaths and affirmations, to issue writs of summons to a witness, to proceed against such witness upon his neglect to appear and give his deposition, and in all proceedings under his commission, that is vested in justices of the peace in like cases.|||Source. 1860, 2372:1. GS 16:14. GL 17:14. PS 18:13. PL 17:15. RL 25:15.|
NH Rev Stat § 455:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLII - Notaries, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and Acknowledgments|Title 455 - Notaries Public and Commissioners|Section 455:16 - Misconduct, Penalties.

    455:16 Misconduct, Penalties. –||I. A person shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 if such person:||(a) When applying for a commission as a notary public, negligently or recklessly makes a material false representation on the application form;||(b) Holding a commission as a notary public or justice of the peace, negligently or recklessly makes a notarial act that is false;||(c) Holding a commission as a notary public or justice of the peace, negligently or recklessly makes a notarial act for a person not personally known by the notary without first requiring the person to establish his or her identity; or||(d) Holding a commission as a notary public or justice of the peace, negligently or recklessly makes a notarial act purporting to have witnessed the maker's signing of the document or purporting to have received the oath or affirmation of the person, when the notary did not actually witness the maker's signing of the document or did not actually receive the oath or affirmation of the person.||II. A person shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor:||(a) If such person purposefully or knowingly commits any of the acts listed in paragraph I.||(b) If such person makes a notarial act, as defined by RSA 456-B:1, I, knowing he or she is not a person authorized by RSA 456-B:3 to perform a notarial act.||III. (a) The court, upon petition of the attorney general, may levy upon any person who violates the provisions of paragraph I a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $1,000 per violation. All penalties assessed under this paragraph shall be paid to the secretary of state for deposit into the general fund.||(b) The attorney general shall have authority to notify suspected violators of this section of the state's intention to seek a civil penalty, to negotiate, and to settle with such suspected violators without court action, provided any civil penalty paid as settlement shall be paid to the secretary of state for deposit into the general fund.|||Source. 2005, 118:6, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|