NH Rev Stat § 625:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 625 - Preliminary|Section 625:8 - Limitations.

    625:8 Limitations. –||I. Except as otherwise provided in this section, prosecutions are subject to the following periods of limitations:||(a) For a class A felony, 6 years;||(b) For a class B felony, 6 years;||(c) For a misdemeanor, one year;||(d) For a violation, 3 months.||(e) For an offense defined by RSA 282-A, 6 years.||(f) For an offense defined in RSA 638:1, III-a, 2 years.||II. Murder may be prosecuted at any time.||II-a. [Repealed.]||III. If the period prescribed in paragraph I has expired, a prosecution may nevertheless be commenced:||(a) Within one year after its discovery by an aggrieved party or by a person who has a duty to represent such person and who is himself not a party to the offense for a theft where possession of the property was lawfully obtained and subsequently misappropriated or for any offense, a material element of which is either fraud or a breach of fiduciary duty.||(b) For any offense based upon misconduct in office by a public servant, at any time when the defendant is in public office or within 2 years thereafter.||(c) For any offense under RSA 208, RSA 210, or RSA 215, within 3 years thereafter.||(d) For any offense under RSA 632-A or for an offense under RSA 639:2, where the victim was under 18 years of age when the alleged offense occurred, within 22 years of the victim's eighteenth birthday.||(e) For any offense where destruction or falsification of evidence, witness tampering, or other unlawful conduct delayed discovery of the offense, within one year of the discovery of the offense.||(f) For any offense under RSA 153:24 and RSA 153:5, the state fire code, within one year of its discovery.||(g) For any offense under RSA 641:1 through 641:7, if committed with the purpose to assist in a murder, to conceal a murder, or to conceal or hinder the investigation or apprehension of an individual responsible for murder, at any time.||(h) For any violation-level offense involving a motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury, within 6 months of the accident.||(i) For any offense under RSA 633:7, within 20 years, except where the victim was under 18 years of age when the alleged offense occurred, in which case within 20 years of the victim's eighteenth birthday.||IV. Time begins to run on the day after all elements of an offense have occurred or, in the case of an offense comprised of a continuous course of conduct, on the day after that conduct or the defendant's complicity therein terminates.||V. A prosecution is commenced on the day when a warrant or other process is issued, an indictment returned, or an information is filed, whichever is the earliest.||VI. The period of limitations does not run:||(a) During any time when the accused is continuously absent from the state or has no reasonably ascertained place of abode or work within this state; or||(b) During any time when a prosecution is pending against the accused in this state based on the same conduct.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 1973, 370:45. 1989, 97:1. 1990, 153:2; 213:2. 1993, 215:3. 2000, 173:1. 2003, 265:3. 2007, 183:1. 2009, 100:1. 2012, 208:1. 2014, 257:4, eff. Oct. 23, 2014. 2019, 281:2, eff. Sept. 17, 2019.|