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NH Rev Stat § 197:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:2 - Special.

    197:2 Special. –||A special meeting of a school district shall be held whenever, in the opinion of the school board, there is occasion therefor, or whenever 50 or more voters, or 1/4 of the voters of the district, whichever is less, shall have made written application to the school board therefor, setting forth the subject matter upon which action is desired. No special school district meeting shall be held in conjunction with the biennial election, except when a special school district meeting has been approved by the court and a school district has adopted the official ballot referendum form of meeting pursuant to RSA 40:14.|||Source. RS 70:4. CS 74:2. GS 79:3. GL 87:3. PS 90:2. 1921, 85, V:2. PL 120:2. RL 139:2. RSA 197:2. 1969, 104:9. 1991, 370:6. 2005, 83:1, eff. Aug. 6, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:4 - Meeting Places.

    197:4 Meeting Places. –||School district meetings, including the first session of meetings in school districts which have adopted official ballot voting procedures under RSA 40:13 and 14, may be held at such suitable places, which have 2-way visual and audio closed circuit capacity, as in the opinion of the officers calling the meeting will best accommodate the voters.|||Source. 1879, 57:37. PS 90:3. 1921, 85, V:4. PL 120:4. RL 139:4. 1997, 319:2, eff. Aug. 22, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:4-a - Meeting Outside District.

    197:4-a Meeting Outside District. –||I. A school district may hold its district meeting outside the geographical boundaries of the district, if the district does not have a facility with a large enough seating capacity to accommodate the meeting.||II. Warrants and other items required to be posted shall be posted for review by qualified voters at the place of the meeting on the day of the meeting.||III. The school district officers shall arrange transportation, for those voters who need it, from the usual polling place in the district to the out-of-district facility and back to the usual polling place.||IV. The out-of-district meeting shall be held in an adjacent town or nearest appropriate facility.|||Source. 1993, 120:2, eff. July 16, 1993.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:5 - Warning.

    197:5 Warning. –||School district meetings shall be warned by the school board, or, in cases authorized by law, by a justice of superior court, by a warrant addressed to the voters of the district, stating the time and place of the meeting and the subject matter of the business to be acted upon. In all districts which have not adopted the provisions of this title providing for medical inspection in schools the warrant shall contain an article relating thereto.|||Source. RS 70:3. CS 74:1. GS 79:1, 3. GL 87:1, 4. PS 90:4. 1921, 85, V:5. PL 120:5. RL 139:5. RSA 197:5. 1969, 182:1. 2003, 289:20, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:5-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:5-a - Budget.

    197:5-a Budget. –||The school board, if the school district is not controlled by the municipal budget act, shall prepare a budget for the annual or any special meeting upon a form prescribed and provided by the commissioner of revenue administration and shall post the same with and at the same time as the warrant for the meeting is posted.|||Source. 1963, 120:7. 1973, 544:8, eff. Sept. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:5-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:5-b - Budgetary Official Ballot.

    197:5-b Budgetary Official Ballot. –||Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school district may vote to raise and appropriate money for the support of schools by official ballot as provided for in RSA 49-D:3, II-a by following the procedures set forth in RSA 49-B. The school district may also include within its charter a plan for voting by official ballot, pursuant to RSA 49-B and RSA 49-D, on such other warrant articles as the school district may determine. The membership of any charter commission established in a multi-town school district shall reflect each member town's proportionate membership on the school board. For purposes of this section, all references in RSA 49-B and RSA 49-D to "municipal," "municipality," "city," and "town" shall mean and include "school district," and all references to "elected body" and "governing body" shall mean and include "school board."|||Source. 1995, 53:6. 1997, 319:9. 1998, 100:1, eff. July 19, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:6 - Warrant and Articles.

    197:6 Warrant and Articles. –||Upon the written application of 25 or more voters or 2 percent of the voters of the school district, whichever is less, although in no event shall fewer than 10 registered voters be sufficient, presented to the school board or one of them not later than 30 days before the date prescribed for the school district meeting or the second Tuesday in March, whichever is earlier, the school board shall insert in the school district warrant for such meeting the petitioned article with only such minor textual changes as may be required. No article may be inserted after posting of said warrant. Corrections to petitioned warrant articles shall not in any way change the intended effect of the article as presented in the original petition. The right to have an article inserted in the warrant conferred by this section shall not be invalidated by the provisions of RSA 32.|||Source. PS 90:5. 1921, 85, V:6. PL 120:6. RL 139:6. 1949, 284:1. RSA 197:6. 1965, 36:1. 1971, 79:2. 1991, 242:1. 1993, 176:11. 2000, 199:1, eff. July 29, 2000. 2018, 325:2, eff. Aug. 24, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:6-a - Penalty.

    197:6-a Penalty. –||A school board is guilty of a violation if it refuses to insert an article in the warrant, after being petitioned to do so in accordance with RSA 197:6.|||Source. 1971, 79:3. 1977, 588:25, eff. Sept. 16, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:7 - Posting Warrant.

    197:7 Posting Warrant. –||The school board or justice issuing a warrant shall cause an attested copy of it to be posted at the place of meeting, and a like copy at one other place in the district, 14 days before the day of meeting, not counting the day of posting nor the day of the meeting, but including any Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays within said period.|||Source. PS 90:6. 1921, 85, V:7. PL 120:7. RL 139:7. RSA 197:7. 1967, 90:2. 1975, 11:4, eff. April 25, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:8 - Special Meetings.

    197:8 Special Meetings. –||The school board when calling a special meeting shall, within one week after posting the warrant therefor, cause a copy of said warrant to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in said district.|||Source. 1945, 39:3, eff. March 6, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:9 - By a Justice of Superior Court.

    197:9 By a Justice of Superior Court. –||If the school board unreasonably neglect or refuse to warn an annual meeting, or to call a special meeting after a sufficient application therefor is made to them, a justice of superior court, upon petition of 10 or more voters, or 1/6 of the voters of the district, may issue such warrant and cause it to be posted, and, if for a special meeting, to be published as required by law. The members of the school board shall be made parties defendant to such petition.|||Source. RS 70:5. CS 74:3. GS 79:4. GL 87:4. PS 90:7. 1921, 85, V:8. PL 120:8. RL 139:8. RSA 197:9. 1969, 182:2, eff. May 28, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:10 - Return; Record.

    197:10 Return;  Record. –||The warrant, with a certificate thereon, verified by oath, stating the time and places when and where copies of it were posted, shall be given to the clerk of the district at or before the time of the meeting, and shall be recorded by the clerk in the records of the district.|||Source. 1845, 222:4. CS 74:4. GS 79:5. GL 87:5. PS 90:8. 1921, 85, V:9. PL 120:9. RL 139:9. 1997, 319:3, eff. Aug. 22, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:11 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XI, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:11 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XI, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:12 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:12 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:12-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:12-a - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XIII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:12-a Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XIII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:13 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XIV, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:13 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XIV, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:14 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XV, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:14 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XV, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:15 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XVI, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:15 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XVI, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:16 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XVII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:16 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XVII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:17 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XVIII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:17 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XVIII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:18 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XIX, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:18 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XIX, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:19 - Moderator.

    197:19 Moderator. –||The moderator shall have the like power and duty as a moderator of a town meeting to conduct the business and to preserve order, and in the conduct of a school district meeting, all the statutory duties, powers and authority granted to town moderators, and may administer oaths to district officers and in the district business.|||Source. 1852, 1301. CS 74:8. GS 79:11. GL 87:11. PS 90:17. 1921, 85, V:18. PL 120:18. RL 139:18. RSA 197:19. 1971, 524:5. 1979, 321:6, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:19-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:19-a - Assistant Moderator.

    197:19-a Assistant Moderator. –||The moderator may appoint an assistant moderator, who shall take the oath of office in the same manner as the moderator and shall hold office at the pleasure of the moderator, and shall have all the powers and duties which the moderator has subject to the control of the moderator.|||Source. 1957, 84:2, eff. April 24, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:20 - Clerk.

    197:20 Clerk. –||The clerk shall keep a true record of all the doings of each meeting; shall make an attested copy of any record of the district for any person upon request and tender of legal fees therefor; shall act as moderator of any meeting until a moderator pro tempore shall be chosen, if the moderator is absent or the office has become vacant; and shall have the same power to administer oaths which the moderator has. If the clerk is absent at any meeting a clerk pro tempore shall be chosen.|||Source. RS 70:8. CS 74:10. GS 79:12. 1868, 1:28. GL 87:12. PS 90:18. 1921, 85, V:19. PL 120:19. RL 139:19. 1951, 37:2. RSA 197:20. 1963, 120:5, eff. Jan. 1, 1964.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:20-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:20-a - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XX, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:20-a Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XX, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:21 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XXI, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:21 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XXI, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:22 - Treasurer's Bond.

    197:22 Treasurer's Bond. –||The treasurer shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, give a bond to the district with sufficient sureties, to the acceptance of the school board, for the faithful performance of the treasurer's official duties.|||Source. 1887, 105:8. PS 90:20. 1921, 85, V:21. PL 120:21. RL 139:21. 1997, 319:4, eff. Aug. 22, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:23 - Repealed by 1963, 87:2, eff. July 16, 1963.

    197:23 Repealed by 1963, 87:2, eff. July 16, 1963. –|
NH Rev Stat § 197:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:24 - Acting Treasurer.

    197:24 Acting Treasurer. –||If any person holding the office of treasurer shall, by reason of illness, accident, absence from the state, or other cause, become temporarily incapacitated and unable to perform the duties of such office, the school board may, unless the district has a deputy treasurer appointed in accordance with RSA 197:24-a who is not similarly unavailable to perform the requisite duties, declare a temporary vacancy and appoint an acting district treasurer to perform the duties of the office for a limited period of time and fix the appointee's compensation and the amount of bond. The appointee shall be subject to the requirements and liabilities of such office during the appointee's term.|||Source. 1939, 160:2. RL 130:23. RSA 197:24. 1979, 136:1. 1997, 319:6, eff. Aug. 22, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:24-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:24-a - Deputy Treasurer.

    197:24-a Deputy Treasurer. –||The school district treasurer may appoint a deputy treasurer, subject to approval by the school board, who shall be qualified in the same manner as the treasurer and who shall perform the duties of the treasurer in the case of the treasurer's absence by sickness, resignation, or otherwise. The deputy shall be sworn, shall have the powers of the treasurer, may be removed at the pleasure of the treasurer and shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, give bond as provided in RSA 197:22.|||Source. 1979, 136:2. 1997, 319:7, eff. Aug. 22, 1997. 2010, 23:1, eff. July 6, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:25 - Auditors.

    197:25 Auditors. –||If a district has not hired an auditor under RSA 21-J:19, the locally elected auditors shall carefully examine the accounts of the treasurer and school board at the close of each fiscal year by following the procedures in RSA 41:31-a through 41:31-d.|||Source. PS 90:22. 1921, 85, V:23. PL 120:23. RL 139:24. 2010, 262:4, eff. Sept. 4, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:26 - Vacancies.

    197:26 Vacancies. –||The school board shall fill vacancies occurring on the board, and in other district offices, except that of moderator, until the next annual meeting of the district. In case of vacancy of the entire membership of the board, or the remaining members are unable to agree upon an appointment, the selectmen, upon application of one or more voters in the district, shall fill the vacancies so existing until the next annual meeting of the district.|||Source. RS 70:9. CS 74:11. GS 79:13. GL 87:13. PS 90:23. 1921, 85, V:24. PL 120:24. RL 139:25.|
NH Rev Stat § 197:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 197 - School Meetings and Officers|Section 197:27 - Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XXII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.

    197:27 Repealed by 1979, 321:2, XXII, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 198:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 198 - School Money|Section 198:1 - to 198:3 Repealed by 1999, 17:58, VII, eff. April 29, 1999.

    198:1 to 198:3 Repealed by 1999, 17:58, VII, eff. April 29, 1999. –|
NH Rev Stat § 198:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 198 - School Money|Section 198:4 - Estimates.

    198:4 Estimates. –||The school board of each district in its annual report shall state in detail the additional sums of money, if any, which will be required during the ensuing fiscal year for the support of the public schools, for the purchase of textbooks, scholars' supplies, flags and appurtenances, for the payment of the tuition of the pupils in the district in high schools, academies, and any private school approved as a school tuition program by the school board in accordance with law, and for the payment of all other statutory obligations of the district.|||Source. RS 72:2. CS 76:2. GS 77:2. GL 85:2. PS 88:2. 1909, 52:1. 1915, 68:1. 1919, 106:21. 1921, 85, VI:4. PL 121:4. RL 140:4. 2017, 182:6, eff. Aug. 28, 2017. 2021, 106:4, eff. Aug. 5, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 198:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 198 - School Money|Section 198:4-a - Report of Appropriations Voted.

    198:4-a Report of Appropriations Voted. –||I. The commissioner of revenue administration shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to blanks for certifying appropriations by the school board and the information which they must contain.||II. The school board shall, annually within 20 days of the close of the meeting as required in RSA 21-J:34, II, certify to the commissioner of revenue administration, the state department of education and the board of selectmen upon said blanks provided by the commissioner, a certificate of the several appropriations voted by the district and estimated revenues, so far as known.||III. The commissioner of revenue administration shall examine such certificates and delete any appropriation which is not made in accordance with the law, and adjust any sum which may be used as a setoff against the amount appropriated when it appears to the commissioner of revenue administration such adjustment is in the best public interest.||IV. The commissioner of revenue administration shall compute the rate percent of taxation for school district purposes from such certificate.|||Source. 1963, 120:6. 1973, 544:8. 1981, 128:28. 1994, 147:7, eff. July 22, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 198:4-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 198 - School Money|Section 198:4-b - Contingency Fund.

    198:4-b Contingency Fund. –||I. A school district annually by an article separate from the budget and all other articles in the warrant, or the governing body of a city upon recommendation of the school board, when the operation of the schools is by a department of the city, may establish a contingency fund to meet the cost of unanticipated expenses that may arise during the year. A detailed report of all expenditures from the contingency fund shall be made annually by the school board and published with their report.||II. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school district by a vote of the legislative body may authorize, indefinitely until specific rescission, the school district to retain any unused portion of the year-end unassigned general funds, from the preceding fiscal year in subsequent fiscal years, provided that the total amount of year-end unassigned general funds does not exceed, in any fiscal year, 5 percent of the current fiscal year's net assessment under RSA 198:5.||(a) Prior to expending retained general funds, the school board shall hold a prior public hearing on the action to be taken with such funds. Notice of the time, place, and subject of such hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the relevant municipality at least 7 days before the meeting is held.||(b) An annual accounting and report of the activities of the retained general funds shall be presented to the school board of the district and published in the annual report.||III. The legislative body of the city of Manchester, upon recommendation of the school committee, may authorize, indefinitely until specific rescission, the school district to retain year-end unassigned general funds.|||Source. 1965, 123:4. 1998, 389:12, eff. Oct. 1, 1998. 2012, 221:1, eff. Aug. 12, 2012. 2014, 190:6, eff. Sept. 9, 2014. 2020, 38:25, eff. Sept. 27, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 198:4-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 198 - School Money|Section 198:4-c - Building Trades Fund.

    198:4-c Building Trades Fund. –||Any school district may appropriate money to establish a revolving fund to aid instruction in the building construction trades. The fund shall be used to pay necessary costs of construction projects which are carried out as part of the instructional program, including the purchase of real estate. No project shall be undertaken unless the fund contains enough money to cover the proposed budget. When the building is completed it shall be sold and the money received put into the fund for use in another construction project.|||Source. 1981, 164:1, eff. June 2, 1981.|