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NH Rev Stat § 331-A:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:16 - Supervision of Real Estate Office; Branch Offices.

    331-A:16 Supervision of Real Estate Office;  Branch Offices. –||I. Every real estate office or real estate branch office, whether operated as a corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship, shall be directed, supervised and managed by a licensed real estate broker. The principal broker shall submit to the commission a branch office application form prior to the opening of any branch office. The principal broker shall designate a managing broker for each branch office the principal broker opens. The principal broker shall notify the commission when any licensee associated with the principal broker transfers from one branch office to another branch office within the same association.||II. All licensees and employees associated with a real estate office shall be reasonably supervised by the principal broker or managing broker.||III. All members and officers of a corporation, partnership or association, who actively participate in the business of real estate brokerage, shall possess an active broker's or salesperson's license.||IV. (a) All advertisements by a broker or salesperson shall include the broker's or salesperson's legal name or reasonable derivative thereof and the regular business name of the firm or the principal broker's name when licensed under an individual principal broker license. The firm or principal broker's name, within the advertisement, shall be clearly identifiable. This requirement shall apply to all categories of advertising including all publications, radio or television broadcasts, all electronic media including electronic mail and the Internet, business stationery, business and legal forms and documents, and signs and billboards.||(b) Any advertising which contains a home telephone number, cell-phone number, beeper or pager number, home fax number, direct office number, electronic mail address, or any other means of contacting directly an individual salesperson or broker, or a team of such licensees, shall also include the name and telephone number of the individual principal broker or brokerage firm through which the advertising licensees operate. All such advertising shall contain language clearly identifying each number included in the advertising.||(c) With respect to limited electronic media, the requirements of subparagraphs (a) and (b) shall be satisfied if the limited electronic media includes a link to an Internet display that contains the required information.|||Source. 1993, 348:1. 2000, 311:9. 2003, 268:5. 2005, 286:10. 2008, 34:3, 4. 2010, 304:6. 2011, 134:3. 2015, 87:1, eff. Aug. 4, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:16-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:16-a - Managing Broker Vacancy.

    331-A:16-a Managing Broker Vacancy. –||In the event of the death, disability or change of affiliation of the managing broker of a real estate branch office, the principal broker may designate as a manager a person currently licensed with the New Hampshire real estate commission for a period not to exceed one year from the date of such vacancy. The appointment of a permanent branch managing broker shall be made within one year of the original vacancy.|||Source. 1994, 40:1, eff. June 27, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:16-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:16-b - Commission Payments to Unlicensed Entities.

    331-A:16-b Commission Payments to Unlicensed Entities. –||I. A principal broker may pay all or part of a fee, commission, or other compensation earned by his or her firm, broker, associate broker, or salesperson to a partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation only if all of the following conditions are satisfied:||(a) All of the partners, members, officers, or shareholders of any unlicensed business entity, including a partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation, hold a valid and active license issued under this chapter.||(b) At least one of the partners, members, officers, or shareholders of the unlicensed business entity, including a partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation, is the licensee who earned the fee, commission, or other compensation.||(c) The partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation does not engage in any of the prohibited acts specified in RSA 331-A:26 and the partnership, association limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation is registered to do business in New Hampshire.||(d) The broker keeps a record of all of the following information for each transaction, for a period of 3 years after the date of the transaction:||(1) The name of the licensee who earned the fee, commission, or other compensation;||(2) The amount of the fee, commission, or other compensation that was earned;||(3) The name of the partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation to which the broker paid the licensee's fee, commission, or other compensation.||II. Compliance with this section does not relieve a broker of any obligations to supervise a licensee, or of any other requirements of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.||III. Compliance with this section does not render a broker or licensee exempt from any portion of the chapter, or immune from liability in a regulatory action against the broker or licensee for a violation of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.|||Source. 2019, 49:1, eff. Aug. 4, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:17 - License Amendments.

    331-A:17 License Amendments. –||I. Any principal broker who changes the place of business shall notify the commission of the change in writing within 10 days of the change.||II. A real estate principal broker who proposes to use a registered trade name in connection with a firm broker license or individual principal broker license shall state that fact on an amendment form, and submit the form along with the appropriate fee, the firm broker license or individual principal broker license to be amended, and a trade name registration form. The firm broker license or individual principal broker license shall be amended to include the trade name.||III. It is the responsibility of all licensees to notify the commission in writing of any changes to the licensee's resident address, mailing address and work location address.||IV. The license of a real estate salesperson or associate broker shall be retained at all times by the principal broker and whenever a licensed salesperson or associate broker changes his or her affiliation from one licensed principal broker to another or ceases to represent the principal broker, the principal broker shall notify the commission in writing of the termination. Such notice shall be accompanied by the salesperson's or associate broker's license. Failure of any principal broker to notify the commission of such salesperson's or associate broker's termination within 5 days after the termination of the salesperson or associate broker shall be grounds to discipline the principal broker.||V. The commission shall issue a new license for the unexpired term if the salesperson or associate broker meets all requirements of licensure, upon receipt of a statement from a principal broker, together with the appropriate fee, that such salesperson or associate broker has become affiliated with such principal broker.||VI. When a salesperson's or broker's services are terminated by the principal broker for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, a written statement of the facts shall be submitted immediately to the commission by the principal broker.|||Source. 1993, 348:1. 2003, 268:6. 2004, 227:4. 2005, 286:11. 2008, 34:5, 6, eff. July 11, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:18 - Lapse of License.

    331-A:18 Lapse of License. –||I. If a license is not renewed before the expiration date, then the license is deemed to have expired, and a licensee may renew an expired license up to 6 months after its expiration date by complying with the requirements of RSA 331-A:19 and by submitting the required late fee.||II. If an expired license is not renewed within 6 months under paragraph I, then the license is deemed to have lapsed and such person may obtain a license only by qualifying anew as an original applicant. However, the commission may renew a lapsed license within a reasonable time from the date of lapse for good cause shown.||III. If a license expires or lapses as a result of a person being ordered to active duty with the armed forces, the 6-month time period for complying with the requirement of RSA 331-A:19 shall begin upon the licensee's date of discharge or release from active duty, and the late fee shall be waived.||IV. The rights of the licensee under such expired or lapsed license shall be terminated. It shall be unlawful to act or attempt or offer to act in any matter as a real estate broker or salesperson under an expired or lapsed license.|||Source. 1993, 348:1. 2004, 227:5. 2009, 125:6, eff. Aug. 21, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:19 - Renewal of License.

    331-A:19 Renewal of License. –||I. The commission shall mail each licensee a renewal notice or, at the licensee's request, the commission may provide the renewal notice by other means acceptable to the commission, at least 60 days before expiration of the license.||II. Upon receiving a completed renewal application, the required fees, certification of completion of required continuing education as set by the commission under RSA 331-A:20 and, in the case of a principal or managing broker licensee, evidence that the required bond is in full force and effect, the executive director shall issue the appropriate license for 2 consecutive years from the date of expiration.|||Source. 1993, 348:1. 2000, 311:10. 2003, 268:7. 2005, 286:12. 2009, 125:2, eff. Aug. 21, 2009; 144:71, eff. July 1, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:21 - Temporary Licenses.

    331-A:21 Temporary Licenses. –||In the event of the death or total incapacity of a licensed real estate principal broker of a real estate business, the commission may, upon application by the principal broker's legal representative, issue without examination a temporary license to such legal representative or to an individual designated by the legal representative and approved by the commission, and by the payment of the prescribed fee, which shall authorize such temporary licensee to continue to transact real estate business for a period not to exceed one year from the date of death or incapacitation.|||Source. 1993, 348:1. 2000, 311:12. 2005, 286:15, eff. July 1, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:22 - Nonresidents.

    331-A:22 Nonresidents. –||I. A nonresident of this state may become a broker or salesperson in this state by conforming to all of the conditions of this chapter applicable to residents of this state.||II. Upon making application, such nonresidents shall file an irrevocable consent and power providing that legal actions may be commenced against them in the proper court of any county of this state in which a cause of action may arise or in which the plaintiff may reside by service of process or pleading authorized by the laws of this state on a member of the commission or its executive director, the consent or power stipulating that such service of process or pleading shall be taken in all courts to be valid and binding as if personal service had been made upon the nonresident in this state.||III. This section applies to nonresident license applicants only.|||Source. 1993, 348:1. 1997, 248:4. 2003, 268:8, eff. Sept. 13, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:23 - Denial of Reciprocity.

    331-A:23 Denial of Reciprocity. –||No broker or salesperson applicant whose license as a broker or salesperson is under revocation or suspension in another state shall be granted a license as a broker or salesperson in this state; and, if already granted a license through reciprocity, it may be revoked or suspended as provided under this chapter upon proof of the other state's action.|||Source. 1993, 348:1. 2008, 34:7, eff. July 11, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:24 - Fees.

    331-A:24 Fees. –||The commission shall establish fees sufficient to produce estimated revenues equal to 125 percent of the direct operating expenses of the commission for the previous fiscal year, and sufficient to provide for periodic payments to reimburse the general fund for money appropriated for the purposes of this chapter.|||Source. 1993, 348:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:24-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:24-a - Notice of Rulemaking Proceeding.

    331-A:24-a Notice of Rulemaking Proceeding. –||Notwithstanding RSA 541-A:6, III, the notice of rulemaking proceedings shall be provided by U.S. mail by the commission to any person licensed under this chapter who pays a reasonable fee to the commission for the postage and preparation of such mailings. Such reasonable fee shall be set by the commission and adopted in its administrative rules under RSA 541-A.|||Source. 1997, 248:5, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:24-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:24-b - Repealed by 2010, 304:10, eff. Sept. 11, 2010.

    331-A:24-b Repealed by 2010, 304:10, eff. Sept. 11, 2010. –|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:25 - Rulemaking.

    331-A:25 Rulemaking. –||The commission shall adopt rules, under RSA 541-A, relative to:||I. Conduct of licensed brokers and salespeople.||II. Administration of examinations.||III. Eligibility of persons who have failed a salesperson or broker examination to be reexamined.||IV. Fees for examinations, continuing education courses, licenses, late renewal penalty, educational course evaluations, administrative costs, transcripts, dishonored checks, and any other fees required under this chapter.||V. Application forms for original and renewal licenses and registration forms for trade names.||VI. Proof of an applicant's good character.||VII. Form of license certificates and cards.||VIII. Accreditation of programs of study in real estate, and the conduct of such programs.||IX. A minimum of a 3-hour core course of continuing education for active and inactive license renewal, and an additional 12 elective hours of continuing education for active license renewals. The initial 12 hours of continuing education for salespersons prior to their first license renewal shall be established by the commission in specified topics or courses related to the salesperson's practice.||X. Procedure in commission proceedings.||XI. In addition to the requirements under RSA 331-A:30, procedures for the conduct of hearings consistent with the requirements of due process.||XII. The ethics code as required under RSA 331-A:9.||XIII. Procedures for applying for and renewing licenses.||XIV. What constitutes adequate proof of the qualifications under RSA 331-A:10.||XV. Distinctions for persons regulated by this chapter between practices concerning 1-4 family dwellings and practices for all other real estate.|||Source. 1993, 348:1. 1999, 179:1. 2000, 311:13. 2008, 34:8. 2009, 125:3. 2014, 261:4, eff. Sept. 26, 2014. 2018, 259:1, eff. Aug. 11, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:25-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:25-a - Licensee; Scope of Agency; Interpretation.

    331-A:25-a Licensee;  Scope of Agency;  Interpretation. –||I. A licensee who provides services through a brokerage agreement for a seller, landlord, buyer, or tenant is bound by the duties of loyalty, obedience, disclosure, confidentiality, reasonable care, diligence, and accounting.||II. A licensee may be a seller agent, a buyer agent, a disclosed dual agent, or a subagent. If another relationship between the licensee who performs the services and the seller, landlord, buyer, or tenant is intended, it must be described in writing and signed by all parties to the relationship prior to services being rendered.|||Source. 1996, 196:9, eff. Aug. 2, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:25-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:25-d - Disclosed Dual Agent; Duties.

    331-A:25-d Disclosed Dual Agent;  Duties. –||I. A licensee may act as a disclosed dual agent only with the written consent of all parties to the anticipated transaction at the time in which a dual agency relationship occurs, but no later than the preparation of a written offer for sale or lease.||II. The duties of a licensee acting as a disclosed dual agent include:||(a) Performing the terms of the written disclosed dual agency agreement made with the parties.||(b) Presenting in a timely manner all offers or agreements to and from the parties on real estate of interest.||(c) Accounting in a timely manner, during and upon termination, expiration, completion, or performance of the brokerage agreement for all money and property received in which the parties have or may have an interest.||(d) Informing the parties of the laws and rules regarding real estate condition disclosures.||(e) Preserving confidential information received from the parties that is acquired during the written disclosed dual agency relationship, or from any prior brokerage agreement. This obligation continues beyond the termination, expiration, completion, or performance of the fiduciary relationship. Confidentiality shall be maintained unless:||(1) The party to whom the information pertains grants written consent to disclose the information;||(2) The information is made public from a source other than the licensee;||(3) Disclosure is necessary to defend the licensee against an accusation of wrongful conduct in a judicial proceeding before a court of competent jurisdiction, the commission, or before a professional committee; or||(4) If otherwise required by law.|||Source. 1996, 196:9. 2005, 286:17, eff. July 1, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:25-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:25-f - Facilitator; Duties.

    331-A:25-f Facilitator;  Duties. –||I. A licensee acts as a facilitator when that licensee assists but does not represent either party in a transaction.||II. A facilitator shall disclose to a prospective buyer or tenant any material physical, regulatory, mechanical, or on-site environmental condition affecting the subject property of which the facilitator has actual knowledge. Such disclosure shall occur any time prior to the time the buyer or tenant makes a written offer to purchase or lease the subject property. This paragraph shall not create an affirmative obligation on the part of the facilitator to investigate material defects.||III. Unless otherwise agreed, the licensee acting as a facilitator shall have no duty to keep information received from the seller or landlord or the buyer or tenant confidential.||IV. The parties may or may not enter into a contractual relationship.||V. The duties of the facilitator apply only to the seller or landlord and the buyer or tenant in the particular property transaction involving the seller or landlord and the buyer or tenant.||VI. A facilitator shall treat all prospective sellers or landlords and buyers or tenants honestly.||VII. The performance of ministerial acts for the seller or landlord or the buyer or tenant shall not be construed as forming an agency relationship with the seller or landlord or the buyer or tenant.||VIII. A facilitator shall present in a timely manner all offers and agreements to and from the parties during a real estate transaction.|||Source. 2008, 12:4. 2012, 35:1. 2015, 87:2, eff. Aug. 4, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 331-A:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 331-A - New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act|Section 331-A:27 - Mistake.

    331-A:27 Mistake. –||Any license obtained through the mistake or inadvertence of the executive director shall be subject to revocation.|||Source. 1993, 348:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.|