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NH Rev Stat § 353:3-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 353 - Hotels, Tourist Cabins, Etc.|Section 353:3-c - Ejection of Guests.

    353:3-c Ejection of Guests. –||I. All hotel keepers and all persons keeping public lodging houses or cabins may remove or cause to be removed from such establishment any guest remaining in a rental unit in violation of RSA 353:3-b or RSA 353:3-bb by notifying such guest that the establishment no longer desires to entertain him or her and requesting that the guest immediately leave. Any guest who remains or attempts to remain in a rental unit after being so requested to leave shall be guilty of a violation. For the purpose of this section, the term "rental unit" shall include residential property rented for one month or less.||II. All hotel keepers and persons keeping public lodging houses, cabins, or any rental unit may immediately remove or cause to be immediately removed by any law enforcement officer of this state, any guest who willfully denies other guests their right to quiet enjoyment of their tenancies, including but not limited to any guest who:||(a) Disturbs, threatens, or endangers other guests;||(b) Is less than 21 years of age and possesses alcohol;||(c) Possesses illegal drugs;||(d) Violates any rule of the hotel, lodging house, or campground that is posted in a conspicuous place and manner at the guest registration desk and in each guest room; or||(e) Violates any local or state law.||II-a. The right to remove, or cause to be removed, shall arise after the hotel keeper or person keeping a public lodging house, or cabin, or their agents makes a reasonable attempt to verbally warn said guest to cease and desist said breach of quiet enjoyment or violation of local or state law. Upon such immediate eviction, the guest shall be refunded the unused portion of his or her pre-paid rental fee less damage charges for his or her actions. For the purpose of this section, the term "rental unit" shall include residential property rented for one month or less.||III. Any law enforcement officer of this state, upon request of a hotel keeper, or person keeping a public lodging house, or cabin, shall place under arrest and take into custody any guest who violates this section in the presence of the officer. Upon arrest, the guest shall be deemed to have abandoned his right of occupancy of the rental unit and the operator of the establishment may then make such unit available to other guests. The operator of said establishment shall employ all reasonable means to protect any personal property left on the premises by such guest.|||Source. 1981, 433:1. 1986, 188:1. 1989, 343:2. 2002, 151:2, eff. May 15, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 353:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 353 - Hotels, Tourist Cabins, Etc.|Section 353:4 - Definition of Terms.

    353:4 Definition of Terms. –||Terms used in this subdivision shall be construed as follows, unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context or is otherwise inconsistent with the manifest intention of the legislature:||I. "Motels" are only those public lodging buildings, including cabins and motor courts, where entrance is gained thereto directly from the outdoors to guest rooms.||II. "Room rates" are the prices charged for the rental of motel accommodations.||III. "Operator" is the owner or manager of a motel, whether a person or a corporation.||IV. "Outside sign" is any sign located where same is visible to the general public.|||Source. 1959, 67:1, eff. June 22, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 353:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 353 - Hotels, Tourist Cabins, Etc.|Section 353:5 - Signs.

    353:5 Signs. –||No motel operator shall place or cause to be placed any outside sign bearing room rates thereon unless both the minimum and maximum rates for such rental appear in such uniform size as to be readily discernible by the traveling public.|||Source. 1959, 67:1, eff. June 22, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 353:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 353 - Hotels, Tourist Cabins, Etc.|Section 353:6 - Penalty.

    353:6 Penalty. –||Any person who knowingly violates the provisions of RSA 353:5 shall be guilty of a violation if a natural person, or guilty of a misdemeanor if any other person.|||Source. 1959, 67:1. 1973, 530:52, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 353:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 353 - Hotels, Tourist Cabins, Etc.|Section 353:7 - Definitions.

    353:7 Definitions. –||As used in the subdivision:||I. "Service" shall include, but not be limited to, labor, professional service, public utility service, transportation, accommodations, food, liquor, entertainment, property or equipment, rendered or furnished by, in, or through an inn or hotel.||II. "Credit card" shall mean any instrument, whether known as a credit card, credit plate, charge plate, or by any other name, which purports to evidence an undertaking to pay for service rendered or furnished to or upon the order of a designated person or bearer.||III. "Inn or hotel" shall include all types of establishments offering accommodations for rent either by the day, week or month, or any portion thereof, including but not limited to hotels, motels, apartment houses, rooming house, inns, boardinghouses, trailer parks, restaurants or camping areas.||IV. "Owner" shall include the owner, manager, keeper, or any other person responsible for the management of an inn or hotel.|||Source. 1969, 295:1. RSA 580:9-a. 1973, 532:21, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 353:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 353 - Hotels, Tourist Cabins, Etc.|Section 353:8 - Prohibition.

    353:8 Prohibition. –||It shall be unlawful for anyone to obtain, or attempt to obtain, service from, in or through any inn or hotel:||I. With intent to defraud the owner thereof on a credit basis by the use of a credit card which has been stolen, forged, revoked, canceled, unauthorized or in any way invalidated for the purpose of obtaining such credit, or on any other basis; or||II. With intent to avoid payment therefor by unjustifiable failure or refusal to pay, by stealth, or by any misrepresentation of fact which he knows to be false.|||Source. 1969, 295:1. RSA 580:9-b. 1973, 532:21, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 353:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 353 - Hotels, Tourist Cabins, Etc.|Section 353:9 - Penalty.

    353:9 Penalty. –||Any person who shall obtain service from, in, or through an inn or hotel, with intent to defraud the owner of the inn or hotel, or with intent to avoid payment thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1969, 295:1. RSA 580:9-c. 1973, 532:21, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 353:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 353 - Hotels, Tourist Cabins, Etc.|Section 353:10 - Evidence.

    353:10 Evidence. –||In prosecutions brought under this subdivision, it shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud or of intent to avoid paying an owner of an inn or hotel if service was obtained from, in, or through an inn or hotel, by:||I. A false of fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other property; or||II. The use of a false or fictitious name; or||III. The use of any credit card, the privilege to use which has been revoked, canceled, unauthorized, or in any way invalidated by the issue thereof; or||IV. Absconding without paying or offering to pay for the service prior to leaving such establishment unless a written agreement for credit has been executed; or||V. Surreptitiously removing or attempting to remove baggage or other property without having made payment; or||VI. Failing to make payment for any service after the owner, upon probable cause believing that the person has obtained service from, in, or through the inn or hotel with such intent to defraud or avoid payment, demands payment for such service.|||Source. 1969, 295:1. RSA 580:9-d. 1973, 532:21, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:1 - Title and Purposes of Chapter.

    354-A:1 Title and Purposes of Chapter. –||This chapter shall be known as the "Law Against Discrimination." It shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare, health and peace of the people of this state, and in fulfillment of the provisions of the constitution of this state concerning civil rights. The general court hereby finds and declares that practices of discrimination against any of its inhabitants because of age, sex, gender identity, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability or national origin are a matter of state concern, that such discrimination not only threatens the rights and proper privileges of its inhabitants but menaces the institutions and foundation of a free democratic state and threatens the peace, order, health, safety and general welfare of the state and its inhabitants. A state agency is hereby created with power to eliminate and prevent discrimination in employment, in places of public accommodation and in housing accommodations because of age, sex, gender identity, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability or national origin as herein provided; and the commission established hereunder is hereby given general jurisdiction and power for such purposes. In addition, the agencies and councils so created shall exercise their authority to assure that no person be discriminated against on account of sexual orientation.|||Source. 1992, 224:1. 1997, 108:8, eff. Jan. 1, 1998. 2018, 176:1, eff. July 8, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:3 - State Commission for Human Rights.

    354-A:3 State Commission for Human Rights. –||I. There is hereby created a commission to be known as the New Hampshire commission for human rights, which shall be administratively attached to the department of justice pursuant to RSA 21-G:10. Such commission shall consist of 7 members, who shall be appointed by the governor, with the consent of the council, and one of whom shall be designated as chair by the governor. The term of office of each member of the commission shall be for 5 years.||II. Any member chosen to fill a vacancy occurring otherwise than by expiration of term shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the member who is to be succeeded. Four members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting the commission's business, with the exception of hearings conducted pursuant to RSA 354-A:21, II(b). A vacancy in the commission shall not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the commission. Each member of the commission shall be entitled to expenses actually and necessarily incurred by the member in the performance of the member's duties.||III. Any member of the commission may be removed by the governor and council for inefficiency, neglect of duty, misconduct or malfeasance in office, after being given a written statement of the charges and an opportunity to be heard.|||Source. 1992, 224:1. 2000, 277:1, eff. June 16, 2000. 2019, 346:54, eff. July 1, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:4 - General Powers and Duties of the Chair.

    354-A:4 General Powers and Duties of the Chair. –||The chair shall serve as the chief executive officer of the commission. The chair shall promote the efficient transaction of its business and the orderly handling of complaints and other matters before the commission. The chair shall designate commissioners to investigate and commissioners to hold hearings pursuant to RSA 354-A:21 and shall fix the times and places of public hearings. In the event of the chair's absence or inability to act, the vice-chair, or if no vice-chair has been designated, a commissioner designated by the chair shall act in the chair's stead. Otherwise a commissioner shall be designated by the governor to act as chair.|||Source. 1992, 224:1, eff. May 13, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:6 - Opportunity for Employment Without Discrimination a Civil Right.

    354-A:6 Opportunity for Employment Without Discrimination a Civil Right. –||The opportunity to obtain employment without discrimination because of age, sex, gender identity, race, creed, color, marital status, physical or mental disability or national origin is hereby recognized and declared to be a civil right. In addition, no person shall be denied the benefits of the rights afforded by this section on account of that person's sexual orientation.|||Source. 1992, 224:1. 1997, 108:11, eff. Jan. 1, 1998. 2018, 176:4, eff. July 8, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:8 - Equal Housing Opportunity Without Discrimination a Civil Right.

    354-A:8 Equal Housing Opportunity Without Discrimination a Civil Right. –||The opportunity to obtain housing without discrimination because of age, sex, gender identity, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability or national origin is hereby recognized and declared a civil right. In addition, no person shall be denied the benefit of the rights afforded by this section on account of that person's sexual orientation.|||Source. 2021, 152:2, Pt. III, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:9 - Definitions.

    354-A:9 Definitions. –||In this subdivision:||I. "Aggrieved person" includes any person who:||(a) Claims to have been injured by a discriminatory housing practice; or||(b) Believes that such person will be injured by a discriminatory housing practice that is about to occur.||II. "Discriminatory housing practice" means an act that is unlawful under section 804, 805, 806, or 818 of the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. section 3601, et seq.||III. "Family" includes a single individual.||IV. "Familial status" means one or more individuals who have not attained the age of 18 years and who are domiciled with:||(a) A parent or another person having legal custody of such individual or individuals; or||(b) The designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such parent or other person.||V. "Person" includes one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy cases under Title 11 of the United States Code, receivers, and fiduciaries.||VI. "Real property" includes buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, interests in real estate cooperatives, condominiums, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, or any interest therein.||VII. "Real estate transaction" includes the sale, exchange, rental or lease of real property. "Real estate transaction" also includes the brokering or appraising of residential real property and the making or purchasing of loans or providing other financial assistance:||(a) For purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing or maintaining a dwelling; or||(b) Secured by residential real estate.||VIII. "Housing accommodation" includes any improved or unimproved real property, or part thereof, which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied, as the home or residence of one or more individuals.||IX. "Real estate broker or salesman" means a person, whether licensed or not, who, for or with the expectation of receiving a consideration, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, or leases real property, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate any of these activities, or who holds himself or herself out as engaged in these.||X. "Conciliation" means the attempted resolution of issues raised by a charge, or by the investigation of such charge, through informal negotiations involving the aggrieved party, the respondent, and the commission.||XI. "Conciliation agreement" means a written agreement setting forth the resolution of the issues in conciliation.|||Source. 2021, 152:2, Pt. III, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:10 - Civil Rights Violations; Real Estate Transactions.

    354-A:10 Civil Rights Violations;  Real Estate Transactions. –||It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice because of age, sex, gender identity, race, religion, color, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability or national origin to:||I. Refuse to engage in a real estate transaction with a person or to discriminate in making available such a transaction.||II. Alter the terms, conditions or privileges of a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith.||III. Refuse to receive or to fail to transmit a bona fide offer to engage in a real estate transaction from a person.||IV. Refuse to negotiate for a real estate transaction with a person.||V. Represent to a person that real property is not available for inspection, sale, rental, or lease when in fact it is so available, or to fail to bring a property listing to his or her attention, or to refuse to permit him or her to inspect real property.||VI. Make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published, any notice, statement, advertisement, or sign, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling, or commercial structure, that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.||VII. Offer, solicit, accept, use or retain a listing of real property with knowledge that unlawful discrimination or discrimination on the basis of familial status or an arrest record in a real estate transaction is intended.|||Source. 2021, 152:2, Pt. III, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:12 - Blockbusting.

    354-A:12 Blockbusting. –||It is a civil rights violation for any person to:||I. Solicit for sale, lease, listing or purchase any residential real estate within this state, on the grounds of loss of value due to the present or prospective entry into the vicinity of the property involved of any person or persons of any particular race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status or disability.||II. Distribute or cause to be distributed, written material or statements designed to induce any owner of residential real estate in this state to sell or lease his or her property because of any present or prospective changes in the race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status or disability of residents in the vicinity of the property involved.||III. Intentionally create alarm, among residents of any community, by transmitting communications in any manner, including a telephone call whether or not conversation thereby ensues, with a design to induce any owner of residential real estate in this state to sell or lease his or her property because of any present or prospective entry into the vicinity of the property involved of any person or persons of any particular race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status or disability.||IV. Evict a tenant solely on the grounds that the person has acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or is regarded to have acquired immune deficiency syndrome.|||Source. 2021, 152:2, Pt. III, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:13 - Restrictive Covenants.

    354-A:13 Restrictive Covenants. –||I. Every provision in an oral agreement or a written instrument relating to real property which purports to forbid or restrict the conveyance, encumbrance, occupancy, or lease thereof on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin is void.||II. (a) Every condition, restriction or prohibition, including a right of entry or possibility of reverter, which directly or indirectly limits the use or occupancy of real property on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin is void.||(b) This section shall not apply to a limitation of use on the basis of religion of real property held by a religious institution or organization or by a religious or charitable organization operated, supervised, or controlled by a religious institution or organization, and used for religious or charitable purposes.||III. It is a civil rights violation to insert in a written instrument relating to real property a provision that is void under this section or to honor or attempt to honor such a provision in the chain of title.|||Source. 2021, 152:2, Pt. III, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:14 - Interference, Coercion, or Intimidation.

    354-A:14 Interference, Coercion, or Intimidation. –||It is a civil rights violation to coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment of, or on account of his or her having exercised or enjoyed, or on account of his or her having aided or encouraged any other person in the exercise or enjoyment of, any right granted or protected by this subdivision.|||Source. 2021, 152:2, Pt. III, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 354-A:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 354-A - State Commission for Human Rights|Section 354-A:16 - Equal Access to Public Accommodations a Civil Right.

    354-A:16 Equal Access to Public Accommodations a Civil Right. –||The opportunity for every individual to have equal access to places of public accommodation without discrimination because of age, sex, gender identity, race, creed, color, marital status, physical or mental disability or national origin is hereby recognized and declared to be a civil right. In addition, no person shall be denied the benefit of the rights afforded by this section on account of that person's sexual orientation.|||Source. 1992, 224:1. 1997, 108:15, eff. Jan. 1, 1998. 2018, 176:8, eff. July 8, 2018.|