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NH Rev Stat § 12-P:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 12-P - Department of Energy|Section 12-P:11 - Transfer of Functions, Powers, Duties.

    12-P:11 Transfer of Functions, Powers, Duties. –||All of the functions, powers, duties, records, personnel, and property of the public utilities commission incorporated in the statutes establishing the department of energy and which replace the authority of the commission with the authority of the department of energy, are hereby transferred, as of July 1, 2021, to the department of energy.|||Source. 2021, 91:187, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 12-P:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 12-P - Department of Energy|Section 12-P:12 - Prohibited Service.

    12-P:12 Prohibited Service. –||No member of the commission shall render any professional service for any public utility in this state, or any affiliate thereof, or act as attorney or render professional service against any such public utility or affiliate; nor shall he or she be a member of a firm which renders any such service; nor shall he or she directly or indirectly be a party to any contract with any such public utility, except a contract for the transportation of telephone or telegraph messages, or a contract for the purchase of water, gas, or electricity or for other similar service.|||Source. 2021, 91:187, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 12-P:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 12-P - Department of Energy|Section 12-P:13 - Pipeline Operation Safety.

    12-P:13 Pipeline Operation Safety. –||I. The department of energy shall apply annually to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the United States Department of Transportation for authorization to take such actions on its behalf to oversee pipeline operation safety, security, monitoring, and compliance through an inspection process.||II. The department of energy shall report annually to the house science, technology, and energy committee prior to October 1 on the status of pipeline safety, new and proposed projects, any deficiency in state law that limits the department's ability to oversee interstate pipelines, or state regulations for pipelines that do not meet the minimum federal standard.|||Source. 2021, 91:187, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 12-P:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 12-P - Department of Energy|Section 12-P:14 - Transfer of Rules, Orders, Approvals.

    12-P:14 Transfer of Rules, Orders, Approvals. –||Existing rules, orders, and approvals of the public utilities commission which are associated with any functions, powers, and duties, transferred to the department of energy pursuant to RSA 12-P:11 or any other statutory provision, shall continue in effect and be enforced by the commissioner of the department of energy until they expire or are repealed or amended in accordance with applicable law.|||Source. 2021, 91:187, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 12-P:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 12-P - Department of Energy|Section 12-P:15 - Suppliers of Natural Gas and Aggregators of Natural Gas Customers; Rulemaking.

    12-P:15 Suppliers of Natural Gas and Aggregators of Natural Gas Customers;  Rulemaking. –||I. The department is authorized to adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, establishing requirements for suppliers of natural gas and the aggregators of natural gas customers, including registration of such suppliers and aggregators before soliciting or doing business in the state, registration fees, disclosure of information to customers, standards of conduct, submission to commission jurisdiction for mediation and resolution of disputes, imposition of penalties for failure to comply with commission requirements, and consumer protection and assistance requirements.||II. The department of energy shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A which require all natural gas companies to report to the department, the senate president, and the speaker of the house of representatives, in a uniform manner, lost and unaccounted for gas for each year.||(a) Such rules shall include a method using operational and billing data to determine the total amount of lost and unaccounted for gas and to identify and measure each of its components.||(b) The department may grant waivers from the rules as necessary for the development of innovative projects to reduce lost and unaccounted for gas. Such innovative projects shall be intended to reduce costs to ratepayers and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. An application for a waiver shall include the goals of the innovative project, the expected cost, the expected benefit to ratepayers and the expected reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.||(c) For the purposes of this paragraph, "lost and unaccounted for gas" shall mean an amount of gas that is the difference between the total gas purchased by a gas company and the sum of: (1) total gas delivered to customers; and (2) total gas used by a gas company in the conduct of its operations.||III. This section shall not in any way affect the utility or non-utility status of any supplier of natural gas or aggregator of natural gas customers, nor shall it be construed to limit the commission's and the department of energy's existing authority with regard to the regulation of gas utilities or the scope of the commission's and the department's authority in considering whether to expand the availability of competitive natural gas supplies through the distribution system of gas utilities.|||Source. 2021, 91:187, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 13:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 13 - Financial Assistance to Counties, Towns and Cities|Section 13:1 - Application for Assistance.

    13:1 Application for Assistance. –||Any town, city or county which is or shall hereafter be unable to finance the ordinary needs of government, or to meet outstanding or maturing obligations to pay, owing to the inability to collect taxes already assessed, or the extraordinary demands made upon it for unemployment relief, and which is or may become unable to borrow through the ordinary banking channels or the issuance and sale of bonds sufficient money to meet such governmental needs, or outstanding or maturing obligations to pay, may apply to the governor and council for financial assistance from the state. Such application may be made by either the selectmen or town meeting in the case of a town, the mayor or council in the case of a city or the county commissioners or county convention in the case of a county.|||Source. 1933, 63:1. 1945, 112:1, eff. April 4, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 13:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 13 - Financial Assistance to Counties, Towns and Cities|Section 13:2 - Emergency Certificates.

    13:2 Emergency Certificates. –||If, upon investigation, the governor and council shall determine that an emergency exists in such town, city or county, and that such town, city or county is unable to borrow money through the usual banking channels, upon reasonable conditions as regards payment of interest or otherwise, or is prevented by the existing laws of the state relating to borrowing by towns, cities or counties and the issuance of bonds, or is unable to place loans owing to its impaired financial condition, the governor and council are hereby authorized to issue a certificate under the seal of the state declaring the existence of such emergency and authorizing such town, city or county to issue emergency notes or bonds, in such amounts payable at such times and with such rates of interest as the governor and council may determine, and when necessary the governor and council are hereby authorized in the name of the state to guarantee the payment of said notes or bonds and the interest thereon.|||Source. 1933, 63:2. 1945, 112:1, eff. April 4, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 13:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 13 - Financial Assistance to Counties, Towns and Cities|Section 13:3 - Issuance of Notes or Bonds.

    13:3 Issuance of Notes or Bonds. –||Said notes or bonds, when issued, shall be legal obligations of said town, city or county and shall be executed and issued in the manner now provided by law for the execution and issuance of notes or bonds by such political subdivisions, but the governor and council shall act as agent of said town, city or county for the sale of said notes or bonds and their action in reference thereto shall be binding upon said town, city or county.|||Source. 1933, 63:3. 1945, 112:1, eff. April 4, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 13:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 13 - Financial Assistance to Counties, Towns and Cities|Section 13:4 - Distribution of Proceeds of Loans; Fiscal Agent.

    13:4 Distribution of Proceeds of Loans;  Fiscal Agent. –||All money realized from such emergency loans shall be deposited with the state treasurer or in such banks as the governor and council may determine, and shall be paid over to the disbursing officer of such town, city or county only on the order of the governor, in such amounts as he may determine. The governor is hereby authorized to appoint a fiscal agent to supervise and direct the incurring of obligations against, and the expenditure of, said funds. If it becomes necessary, said funds, on order of the governor, may be paid over to such fiscal agent, to be by him disbursed for the benefit of such town, city or county.|||Source. 1933, 63:4. 1945, 112:1, eff. April 4, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 13:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 13 - Financial Assistance to Counties, Towns and Cities|Section 13:5 - Orders Countersigned.

    13:5 Orders Countersigned. –||If in the opinion of the governor and council it shall become necessary, they are hereby authorized, at any time before said loans are paid, to empower the fiscal agent appointed by the governor to countersign all warrants or orders for the payment of any money drawn upon any funds held by the treasurer of the political subdivision whose emergency loans authorized by this act shall remain unpaid, and after being notified by the governor and council of such action the treasurer of such political subdivision shall pay out no money unless upon warrant or order countersigned by such fiscal agent.|||Source. 1933, 63:5. 1945, 112:1, eff. April 4, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 13:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 13 - Financial Assistance to Counties, Towns and Cities|Section 13:6 - Conditions Imposed.

    13:6 Conditions Imposed. –||The governor and council, before such certificate is issued or the payment of such loans is guaranteed by the state, may impose such further restrictions, conditions and stipulations as will protect the state's interest and insure an orderly, economical and efficient conduct of the fiscal affairs of the political subdivision for which said money is borrowed.|||Source. 1933, 63:6. 1945, 112:1, eff. April 4, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 13:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 13 - Financial Assistance to Counties, Towns and Cities|Section 13:7 - Expenses.

    13:7 Expenses. –||All expenses incident to the making of said loans or the compensation of any fiscal agent shall be paid from the proceeds of such loans on order of the governor.|||Source. 1933, 63:7. 1945, 112:1, eff. April 4, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:1 - Repealed by 1979, 436:7, IV, eff. July 1, 1979.

    14:1 Repealed by 1979, 436:7, IV, eff. July 1, 1979. –|
NH Rev Stat § 14:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:2 - Removal of Officer From State.

    14:2 Removal of Officer From State. –||If any officer of the legislature removes from the state, the office shall thereupon become vacant.|||Source. 1890, 1:1. PS 4:1. PL 4:2. RL 9:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:2-a - Presiding Officer; Vacancy.

    14:2-a Presiding Officer;  Vacancy. –||Within 30 days after a vacancy occurs in the office of president of the senate or speaker of the house of representatives, the senate or house of representatives, as the case may be, shall select a successor from among its members. If the senate or house is not in session when such a vacancy occurs, the branch concerned shall assemble at the state house not sooner than 7 days nor later than 30 days after the vacancy occurs on a date determined by the second ranking officer of the branch concerned. The clerk of that branch shall notify the members of the branch of the vacancy and the date on which selection of a successor is to take place.|||Source. 1975, 465:4, eff. June 22, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:2-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:2-b - Organizational Convening.

    14:2-b Organizational Convening. –||Pursuant to the constitution, the general court shall assemble biennially on the first Wednesday of December following the biennial election for organizational purposes. At such assembly, the senate and the house shall take the oath of office, elect the secretary of state, the state treasurer and such other officers and employees, adopt such organizational procedures and rules and perform such other organizational business as they deem necessary. The nomination of the secretary of state and the state treasurer may be by any member of the general court and shall be without regard to the party affiliation of the candidate. The election of the secretary of state or of the state treasurer shall be conducted without regard to the party affiliation of the candidates and by secret ballots, if more than one person is nominated for election to such position.|||Source. 1976, 45:1. 1983, 151:1. 1997, 106:1, eff. Aug. 8, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:3 - Clerks.

    14:3 Clerks. –||The clerks of the senate and house of representatives shall keep a true and fair record of all proceedings of their respective branches. The proceedings in convention shall be recorded only in the journal of the house.|||Source. 1860, 2369:4, 7. GS 271:28. GL 289:28. PS 4:3. PL 4:3. RL 9:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:4 - Assistant Clerks.

    14:4 Assistant Clerks. –||In case of vacancy in the office of clerk of the senate or house of representatives, or of his absence or disability, the assistant clerk shall perform all the duties of the office, including the duties imposed upon the clerk by the provisions of this chapter. While an assistant clerk is performing the duties of clerk under this section, he shall be entitled to the compensation of the clerk.|||Source. 1860, 2369:5. GS 271:29. GL 289:29. 1890, 1:2. PS 4:4. PL 4:4. RL 9:4. RSA 14:4. 1969, 300:4, eff. Jan. 1, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:5 - Tenure of Clerks.

    14:5 Tenure of Clerks. –||The clerks of the senate and house shall act as clerks of the next succeeding senate and house respectively until clerks thereof are chosen and sworn.|||Source. GS 3:5. GL 3:5. PS 4:5. PL 4:5. RL 9:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:5-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:5-a - Legal Counsel.

    14:5-a Legal Counsel. –||The president of the senate may appoint a legal counsel who shall be an attorney. The compensation of the legal counsel shall be set at a rate to be determined by the senate subcommittee of the legislative facilities committee established under RSA 17-E:5. The legal counsel shall provide advice and assistance to the president of the senate and to the senate members.|||Source. 1957, 218:1. 1986, 109:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:6 - Roll of the House.

    14:6 Roll of the House. –||The clerk of the house of representatives shall prepare a roll of members elected, for use in its organization, and shall place upon it only the names of those who present certificates of election issued in conformity to law; and if certificates are presented for more representatives than any town or ward is entitled to, the clerk shall not enter any name on said roll from such town or ward until the house, after organization, so orders.|||Source. GL 35:19. 1878, 67:5. 1883, 82:1. PS 4:6. PL 4:6. RL 9:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:6-a - Repealed by 1975, 472:3, I, eff. June 23, 1975.

    14:6-a Repealed by 1975, 472:3, I, eff. June 23, 1975. –|
NH Rev Stat § 14:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:7 - Journals of Proceedings.

    14:7 Journals of Proceedings. –||As soon as possible after every final adjournment of a session of the general court, and in any case consistently with the schedule of performance set forth in contracts for printing and binding of the journals of the general court, the clerks of each house shall file with the printers of the permanent journals a copy of the proceedings of the respective houses in proper form for printing and corrected page proofs of each. The clerks, with the approval of the respective house or senate subcommittee of the joint committee on legislative facilities, may correct clerical errors or formal imperfections in the printed and bound permanent journals.|||Source. 1951, 245:4. RSA 14:7. 1963, 74:1. 1969, 300:5. 1975, 472:1, eff. June 23, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:8 - Enrollment of Laws.

    14:8 Enrollment of Laws. –||All bills and resolutions which have passed both branches of the legislature shall be forwarded to the office of legislative services to be there enrolled and prepared for submission to the governor. After such enrollment the bill or resolution shall be forwarded by the secretary of state to the committee on enrolled bills for final approval. The secretary of state shall keep such bills and resolutions as public records of the state.|||Source. RS 3:1. CS 3:1. GS 3:6, 7; 4:1. GL 3:6, 7; 4:1. PS 4:8. 1893, 64:1. 1905, 6:1. PL 4:8. RL 9:8. RSA 14:8. 1969, 32:1, eff. Mar. 7, 1969. 2016, 183:2, eff. Aug. 2, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:9 - Presentation for Approval.

    14:9 Presentation for Approval. –||After any bill or joint resolution has been enrolled and approved, as provided by RSA 14:8, and signed by the speaker of the house, or his designee, and by the president of the senate, or his designee, it shall be presented by the secretary of state to the governor for his approval, and the secretary shall note thereon the day and hour of presentation for approval, and shall make a similar entry in the records of his office. No designee shall sign a bill under the authority of this section unless his name has been filed by the speaker of the house or president of the senate with the secretary of state prior to such signing.|||Source. 1864, 4034:1. GS 3:7. GL 3:7. PS 4:9. 1898, 64:1. 1905, 6:1. PL 4:9. RL 9:9. RSA 14:9. 1969, 32:2. 1971, 125:1, eff. May 19, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:9-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:9-a - Effective Dates.

    14:9-a Effective Dates. –||I. Except as provided in paragraphs II and III, and except for resolutions, which shall take effect upon their passage, each law passed by the general court shall take effect 60 calendar days following passage, excluding the date on which it is signed by the governor, or the last date on which the general court acts on the matter, as the case may be.||II. The office of legislative services shall include a section in each bill drafted for introduction specifying the act's effective date, if passed. The effective date section shall indicate that the law shall take effect as follows or at such other time as the bill's prime sponsor shall indicate in writing:||(a) Each law affecting judicial practice and procedure, or establishing or eliminating criminal prohibitions, civil causes of action or remedies, or limitations of actions, shall take effect on the January 1 following passage.||(b) Each law affecting local property taxes shall take effect on the April 1 following passage.||(c) Each law affecting state tax laws and statutory fees shall take effect on the July 1 following passage.||(d) If the law affects only one particular person, town, city, or political subdivision, it shall take effect upon its passage.||(e) Each law making appropriations shall take effect on the July 1 following passage.||(f) Each law establishing a legislative committee shall take effect upon its passage.||(g) All other laws shall take effect 60 days after the bill's passage.||III. A law may be repealed in the bill enacting the law, with the repeal taking effect at a prospective date specified in the bill.||IV. The office of legislative services shall, at the request of the sponsor of an amendment, include in the amendment the effective date requested by the sponsor of the amendment.||V. Unless specifically provided otherwise, each law enacted by the general court shall take effect at midnight, 12:00 a.m., on the date the law becomes effective.||VI. The secretary of state shall record the date each law was enacted and its effective date on all enrolled and printed copies of such law, and such record shall be conclusive.|||Source. 1983, 278:2. 1995, 308:42. 2000, 223:1. 2005, 152:1, eff. Aug. 20, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 14:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 14 - Legislative Officers and Proceedings|Section 14:10 - Preservation of Committee Papers.

    14:10 Preservation of Committee Papers. –||The clerk of each senate, house, and joint committee shall properly classify, arrange, and file all papers laid before his committee, and preserve those which are not returned to the senate or house, and at the close of the session shall deposit them with the clerk of that branch of the legislature from which the business to which they relate was sent to the committee.|||Source. RS 2:5; 3:1. CS 2:5; 3:1. GS 3:4; 4:1. GL 3:4; 4:1. 1883, 79:1. PS 4:10, 11. PL 4:10. RL 9:10.|