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NH Rev Stat § 294-E:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 294-E - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|Section 294-E:11 - Notarization and Acknowledgment.

    294-E:11 Notarization and Acknowledgment. –||If a law requires a signature or record to be notarized, acknowledged, verified, or made under oath, the requirement is satisfied if the electronic signature of the person authorized to perform those acts, together with all other information required to be included by other applicable law, is attached to or logically associated with the signature or record.|||Source. 2001, 265:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 294-E:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 294-E - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|Section 294-E:12 - Retention of Electronic Records; Originals.

    294-E:12 Retention of Electronic Records;  Originals. –||I. If a law requires that a record be retained, the requirement is satisfied by retaining an electronic record of the information in the record which:||(a) Accurately reflects the information set forth in the record after it was first generated in its final form as an electronic record or otherwise; and||(b) Remains accessible and is capable of being accurately reproduced for later reference.||II. A requirement to retain a record in accordance with paragraph I does not apply to any information the sole purpose of which is to enable the record to be sent, communicated, or received.||III. A person may satisfy paragraph I by using the services of another person if the requirements of that paragraph are satisfied.||IV. If a law requires a record to be presented or retained in its original form, or provides consequences if the record is not presented or retained in its original form, that law is satisfied by an electronic record retained in accordance with paragraph I.||V. If a law requires retention of a check, that requirement is satisfied by retention of an electronic record of the information on the front and back of the check in accordance with paragraph I.||VI. A record retained as an electronic record in accordance with paragraph I satisfies a law requiring a person to retain a record for evidentiary, audit, or like purposes, unless a law enacted after the effective date of this chapter specifically prohibits the use of an electronic record for the specified purpose.||VII. This section does not preclude a governmental agency of this state from specifying additional requirements for the retention of a record subject to the agency's jurisdiction.|||Source. 2001, 265:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 294-E:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 294-E - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|Section 294-E:13 - Admissibility in Evidence.

    294-E:13 Admissibility in Evidence. –||In a proceeding, evidence of a record or signature may not be excluded solely because it is in electronic form.|||Source. 2001, 265:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 294-E:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 294-E - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|Section 294-E:14 - Automated Transaction.

    294-E:14 Automated Transaction. –||In an automated transaction, the following rules apply:||I. A contract may be formed by the interaction of electronic agents of the parties, even if no individual was aware of or reviewed the electronic agents' actions or the resulting terms and agreements.||II. A contract may be formed by the interaction of an electronic agent and an individual, acting on the individual's own behalf or for another person, including by an interaction in which the individual performs actions that the individual is free to refuse to perform and which the individual knows or has reason to know will cause the electronic agent to complete the transaction or performance.||III. The terms of the contract are determined by the substantive law applicable to it.|||Source. 2001, 265:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 294-E:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 294-E - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|Section 294-E:15 - Time and Place of Sending and Receipt.

    294-E:15 Time and Place of Sending and Receipt. –||I. Unless otherwise agreed between the sender and the recipient, an electronic record is sent when it:||(a) Is addressed properly or otherwise directed properly to an information processing system that the recipient has designated or uses for the purpose of receiving electronic records or information of the type sent and from which the recipient is able to retrieve the electronic record;||(b) Is in a form capable of being processed by that system; and||(c) Enters an information processing system outside the control of the sender or of a person that sent the electronic record on behalf of the sender or enters a region of the information processing system designated or used by the recipient which is under the control of the recipient.||II. Unless otherwise agreed between a sender and the recipient, an electronic record is received when:||(a) It enters an information processing system that the recipient has designated or uses for the purpose of receiving electronic records or information of the type sent and from which the recipient is able to retrieve the electronic record; and||(b) It is in a form capable of being processed by that system.||III. Paragraph II applies even if the place the information processing system is located is different from the place the electronic record is deemed to be received under paragraph IV.||IV. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the electronic record or agreed between the sender and the recipient, an electronic record is deemed to be sent from the sender's place of business and to be received at the recipient's place of business. For purposes of this paragraph, the following rules apply:||(a) If the sender or recipient has more than one place of business, the place of business of that person is the place having the closest relationship to the underlying transaction.||(b) If the sender or the recipient does not have a place of business, the place of business is the sender's or recipient's residence, as the case may be.||V. An electronic record is received under paragraph II even if no individual is aware of its receipt.||VI. Receipt of an electronic acknowledgment from an information processing system described in paragraph II establishes that a record was received but, by itself, does not establish that the content sent corresponds to the content received.||VII. If a person is aware that an electronic record purportedly sent under paragraph I, or purportedly received under paragraph II, was not actually sent or received, the legal effect of the sending or receipt is determined by other applicable law. Except to the extent permitted by the other law, the requirements of this section may not be varied by agreement.|||Source. 2001, 265:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 294-E:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 294-E - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|Section 294-E:17 - Creation and Retention of Electronic Records and Conversion of Written Records by Governmental Agencies.

    294-E:17 Creation and Retention of Electronic Records and Conversion of Written Records by Governmental Agencies. –||The secretary of state in cooperation with the department of information technology and the department of administrative services may create standards by which a governmental agency may create and retain electronic records and convert written records to electronic records.|||Source. 2001, 265:1. 2013, 118:4, eff. June 25, 2013. 2021, 67:1, eff. Aug. 9, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 294-E:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 294-E - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|Section 294-E:18 - Acceptance and Distribution of Electronic Records by Governmental Agencies.

    294-E:18 Acceptance and Distribution of Electronic Records by Governmental Agencies. –||I. Except as otherwise provided in RSA 294-E:12, VI, the department of information technology, in cooperation with the secretary of state and the department of administrative services may develop standards by which a governmental agency may send and accept electronic records and electronic signatures to and from other persons and otherwise create, generate, communicate, store, process, use, and rely upon electronic records and electronic signatures. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent municipalities from using electronic records or signatures.||II. To the extent that a governmental agency uses electronic records and electronic signatures under paragraph I, the department of information technology, in cooperation with the secretary of state and the department of administrative services, giving due consideration to security, may create standards to specify:||(a) The manner and format in which the electronic records may be created, generated, sent, communicated, received, and stored and the systems established for those purposes;||(b) If electronic records must be signed by electronic means, the type of electronic signature, the manner and format in which the electronic signature should be affixed to the electronic record, and the identity of, or criteria that should be met by, any third party used by a person filing a document to facilitate the process;||(c) Control processes and procedures as appropriate to ensure adequate preservation, disposition, integrity, security, confidentiality, and auditability of electronic records; and||(d) Any other required attributes for electronic records which are specified for corresponding nonelectronic records or reasonably necessary under the circumstances.||III. Except as otherwise provided in RSA 294-E:12, VI, this chapter does not require a governmental agency of this state to use or permit the use of electronic records or electronic signatures.|||Source. 2001, 265:1. 2013, 118:5, eff. June 25, 2013. 2021, 67:1, eff. Aug. 9, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 294-E:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 294-E - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|Section 294-E:19 - Interoperability.

    294-E:19 Interoperability. –||The department of information technology, in cooperation with the secretary of state and the department of administrative services, after adopting standards pursuant to RSA 294-E:18, may encourage and promote consistency and interoperability with similar requirements adopted by other governmental agencies of this and other states and the federal government and nongovernmental persons interacting with governmental agencies of this state. If appropriate, those standards may specify differing levels of standards from which governmental agencies of this state may choose in implementing the most appropriate standard for a particular application.|||Source. 2001, 265:1. 2013, 118:6, eff. June 25, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 294-E:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 294-E - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|Section 294-E:20 - Severability Clause.

    294-E:20 Severability Clause. –||If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.|||Source. 2001, 265:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:1 - Exceptions.

    295:1 Exceptions. –||The provisions of this chapter do not apply to public municipal corporations, such as towns and cities. They do not apply to corporations organized under or adopting the provisions of RSA 294 and 301, excepting the provisions of RSA 295:10 and 11, and also RSA 297.|||Source. GS 133:1. GL 147:1. PS 148:1. PL 226:1. 1931, 104:1. RL 275:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:2 - Inclusions.

    295:2 Inclusions. –||The rights, powers and duties set forth in this chapter are incident to all corporations legally constituted not excepted in RSA 295:1, subject to any limitations or restrictions imposed by their charters or articles of association or the laws under which they were organized.|||Source. GS 133:2. GL 147:2. PS 148:2. PL 226:2. RL 275:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:3 - Powers.

    295:3 Powers. –||Every such corporation may admit associates and members, and for just cause remove them; may elect all necessary officers, define their duties and fix their compensation; may have a common seal, and change the same at pleasure; may sue and be sued, appear, prosecute and defend in the corporate name to final judgment and execution, and appoint agents and attorneys for that purpose; and shall have perpetual succession, unless incorporated or formed for a limited term or dissolved as provided by law.|||Source. RS 145:4, 9. CS 152:4, 7. GS 133:3. GL 147:3. PS 148:3. PL 226:3. RL 275:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:4 - First Meeting.

    295:4 First Meeting. –||Any 3 of the 5 grantees first named in the charter of a corporation (unless otherwise provided therein), or any 3 of the first 5 signers of the articles of agreement by which a corporation is formed, may call the first meeting of the members or stockholders by giving to each in hand, or leaving at the abode of each, or by sending through the mails, postpaid, to the post office address of each, a notice of the time and place of the meeting, 7 days at least before the day of meeting. Such meeting may be held without previous notice if all the members or stockholders voluntarily assemble together for the purpose, or it may be so held at a time and place to which they have all agreed in writing.|||Source. PS 148:4. PL 226:4. RL 275:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:5 - Bylaws.

    295:5 Bylaws. –||Such corporations may adopt bylaws, not repugnant to the laws of this state, to provide for the election, removal and retiring of members; to fix the times and places of holding meetings and the manner of calling and conducting them; to regulate the number of officers, the manner of choosing them, their tenure of office and their powers and duties; and to promote the objects of the corporation; and they may alter and amend such bylaws.|||Source. RS 144:3. CS 152:6. GS 133:4. GL 147:4. PS 148:6. PL 226:5. RL 275:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:6 - Contracts.

    295:6 Contracts. –||They may make contracts necessary and proper for the transaction of their authorized business, and no other. They shall be capable of binding themselves as sureties or guarantors for others, to the extent that such suretyship or guarantee may be necessary and proper for the transaction of their authorized business or serves to further their corporate purposes.|||Source. GS 133:5. GL 147:5. PS 148:7. PL 226:6. RL 275:6. RSA 295:6. 1988, 13:1, eff. May 14, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:7 - Property.

    295:7 Property. –||They may purchase, hold and convey real and personal estate necessary and proper for the due transaction of their authorized business, not exceeding the amount authorized by their charter or by statute, and no other.|||Source. RS 145:7. CS 152:7. GS 133:6. GL 147:6. PS 148:8. PL 226:7. RL 275:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:7-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:7-a - Bonds and Other Obligations.

    295:7-a Bonds and Other Obligations. –||Every such corporation may incur liabilities, borrow money at such rates of interest as the corporation may determine, issue its notes, bonds and other obligations and refund the same and secure any of its obligations by mortgage or pledge of all or any of its property, franchises and income.|||Source. 1965, 74:2, eff. April 30, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:7-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:7-b - Power to Lease.

    295:7-b Power to Lease. –||Every such corporation may make or enter into lease agreements, either as lessee or lessor, to carry out any of its corporate purposes.|||Source. 1965, 74:2, eff. April 30, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:8 - Taking Security.

    295:8 Taking Security. –||They may take mortgages or pledges or make attachments of any property to secure the payment of debts due to them, and may perfect a title thereto by proper legal proceedings; but they shall sell or dispose of any property so obtained, which they are not authorized to hold, within 5 years after the title is perfected.|||Source. GS 133:7. GL 147:7. PS 148:9. PL 226:8. RL 275:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:9 - Alteration of Date of Annual Meeting.

    295:9 Alteration of Date of Annual Meeting. –||A corporation, at any legal meeting, may alter the time of holding its annual meeting.|||Source. RS 146:24. CS 147:33. GS 133:14. GL 147:14. PS 148:15. PL 226:9. RL 275:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:10 - Fees for Copies of Records, Etc.

    295:10 Fees for Copies of Records, Etc. –||Officers of private corporations, when required to furnish copies or certificates or to examine records, shall be entitled to the same fees as registers of deeds.|||Source. PS 287:27. PL 226:11. RL 275:11.|
NH Rev Stat § 295:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 295 - General Powers of Corporations|Section 295:11 - Reserved Power; Limitation.

    295:11 Reserved Power;  Limitation. –||The legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal the charter of any corporation, or the law under which it was established, or may modify or amend any of its franchises, duties or liabilities; but the remedy against the corporation, its members or officers, for any liability previously incurred, shall not be impaired thereby.|||Source. RS 146:26. 1847, 487:2. GS 133:18. GL 147:18. PS 148:19. PL 226:12. RL 275:12.|
NH Rev Stat § 296:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 296 - Dividend-Paying Corporations|Section 296:1 - Corporations Included.

    296:1 Corporations Included. –||The rights, powers and duties set forth in this chapter shall be incident to all corporations having for their object a dividend of profits, hereinafter incorporated, or whose charters are by law subject to be altered, amended or repealed, excepting savings banks, building and loan associations and corporations organized under or adopting the provisions of RSA 294, and their officers and members shall be governed by its provisions.|||Source. RS 146:1. CS 147:1. GS 134:1. GL 148:1. PS 149:1. PL 227:1. RL 276:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 296:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 296 - Dividend-Paying Corporations|Section 296:2 - Time Limit for Organization.

    296:2 Time Limit for Organization. –||Every such corporation shall be organized within 3 years from the passage of its act of incorporation; otherwise the act shall become void.|||Source. 1846, 321:7. CS 147:35. GS 134:2. GL 148:2. PS 149:2. PL 227:2. RL 276:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 296:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 296 - Dividend-Paying Corporations|Section 296:3 - Directors; President.

    296:3 Directors;  President. –||The directors, to be chosen annually by the stockholders, shall not be less than 3, unless otherwise authorized by the charter, and one of them at least shall be an actual resident of this state, if the corporation has any stockholders residing in the state. They shall hold office for one year and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead, and one of them shall be chosen president by the corporation or by the directors, as the charter or bylaws may prescribe.|||Source. RS 141:3. CS 149:3. GS 134:4. 1874, 25:1. GL 147:3; 148:4. PS 149:4. PL 227:3. RL 276:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 296:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 296 - Dividend-Paying Corporations|Section 296:4 - Amount; Par Value.

    296:4 Amount;  Par Value. –||If the amount of the capital stock of a corporation is not fixed by its charter it shall be fixed and limited by the corporation at its first meeting, and also the number and par value of the shares thereof; but the par value of the shares shall in no case be fixed below $25.|||Source. RS 141:7. CS 149:7. GS 134:5. GL 148:5. PS 149:5. PL 227:4. RL 276:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 296:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 296 - Dividend-Paying Corporations|Section 296:5 - Vote to Issue.

    296:5 Vote to Issue. –||Any corporation now existing, or which may hereafter be established under the laws of this state, which has a capital stock and has among its objects a division of profits among its stockholders, may vote to issue shares of its capital stock to an amount not less than 50 percent of the total amount lawfully fixed and limited.|||Source. 1915, 80:1. PL 227:5. RL 276:5.|