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NH Rev Stat § 639-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 639-A - Methamphetamine-Related Crimes|Section 639-A:4 - Protective Custody for Health Screening; Reports Required.

    639-A:4 Protective Custody for Health Screening;  Reports Required. –||I. A peace officer shall, pursuant to RSA 169-C:6, take any child present in an area where any of the activities described in RSA 639-A:2 are taking place into protective custody. Upon taking a child into protective custody, the peace officer shall follow the procedures outlined in RSA 169-C:6 and shall report the matter to the department of health and human services as a suspected incident of abuse or neglect under RSA 169-C:29. The department shall investigate the report in accordance with RSA 169-C:34 and shall, as part of its investigation, screen the child for possible health concerns related to exposure to methamphetamine.||II. If a peace officer does not take a child into protective custody under this section, but has reason to believe that the child may have been exposed to methamphetamine, the peace office shall report the matter to the department of health and human services as a suspected incident of abuse or neglect under RSA 169-C:29. The department shall investigate the report in accordance with RSA 169-C:34 and may, as part of its investigation, screen the child for possible health concerns related to exposure to methamphetamine.|||Source. 2006, 135:1, eff. May 19, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 640:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 640 - Corrupt Practices|Section 640:1 - Scope of Chapter.

    640:1 Scope of Chapter. –||Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the giving or receiving of campaign contributions made for the purpose of defraying the costs of a political campaign, or the giving or receiving of any other thing exempt from the prohibition on gifts pursuant to RSA 15-B. No person shall be convicted of an offense solely on the evidence that a campaign contribution, or any other thing exempt from the prohibition on gifts pursuant to RSA 15-B was made to a public official, and that a vote, an appointment, or a nomination was subsequently made by the person to whose campaign or political party the contribution was made or who received the thing exempt from the prohibition on gifts pursuant to RSA 15-B.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 2007, 354:1, eff. Sept. 15, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 640:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 640 - Corrupt Practices|Section 640:2 - Bribery in Official and Political Matters.

    640:2 Bribery in Official and Political Matters. –||I. A person is guilty of a class B felony if:||(a) He promises, offers, or gives any pecuniary benefit to another with the purpose of influencing the other's action, decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, nomination, or other exercise of discretion as a public servant, party official, or voter; or||(b) Being a public servant, party official, candidate for electoral office, or voter, he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit from another knowing or believing the other's purpose to be as described in subparagraph I(a), or fails to report to a law enforcement officer that he has been offered or promised a pecuniary benefit in violation of subparagraph I(a).||II. As used in this section and other sections of this chapter, the following definitions apply:||(a) "Public servant" means any officer or employee of the state or any political subdivision thereof, including judges, legislators, consultants, jurors, and persons otherwise performing a governmental function. A person is considered a public servant upon his election, appointment or other designation as such, although he may not yet officially occupy that position. A person is a candidate for electoral office upon his public announcement of his candidacy.||(b) "Party official" means any person holding any post in a political party whether by election, appointment or otherwise.||(c) "Pecuniary benefit" means any advantage in the form of money, property, commercial interest or anything else, the primary significance of which is economic gain; it does not include economic advantage applicable to the public generally, such as tax reduction or increased prosperity generally.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 640:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 640 - Corrupt Practices|Section 640:3 - Improper Influence.

    640:3 Improper Influence. –||I. A person is guilty of a class B felony if he:||(a) Threatens any harm to a public servant, party official or voter with the purpose of influencing his action, decision, opinion, recommendation, nomination, vote or other exercise of discretion; or||(b) Privately addresses to any public servant who has or will have an official discretion in a judicial or administrative proceeding any representation, argument or other communication with the purpose of influencing that discretion on the basis of considerations other than those authorized by law; or||(c) Being a public servant or party official, fails to report to a law enforcement officer conduct designed to influence him in violation of subparagraph (a) or (b) hereof.||II. "Harm" means any disadvantage or injury, to person or property or pecuniary interest, including disadvantage or injury to any other person or entity in whose welfare the public servant, party official, or voter is interested, provided that harm shall not be construed to include the exercise of any conduct protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or any provision of the federal or state constitutions.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 2006, 43:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 640:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 640 - Corrupt Practices|Section 640:4 - Compensation for Past Action.

    640:4 Compensation for Past Action. –||A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if:||I. Being a public servant, he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit in return for having given a decision, opinion, recommendation, nomination, vote, otherwise exercised his discretion, or for having violated his duty; or||II. He promises, offers or gives any pecuniary benefit, acceptance of which would be a violation of paragraph I.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 640:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 640 - Corrupt Practices|Section 640:5 - Gifts to Public Servants.

    640:5 Gifts to Public Servants. –||A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if:||I. Being a public servant he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit from a person who is or is likely to become subject to or interested in any matter or action pending before or contemplated by himself or the governmental body with which he is affiliated; or||II. He knowingly gives, offers, or promises any pecuniary benefit prohibited by paragraph I.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 640:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 640 - Corrupt Practices|Section 640:6 - Compensation for Services.

    640:6 Compensation for Services. –||A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if:||I. Being a public servant, he solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit in return for advice or other assistance in preparing or promoting a bill, contract, claim, or other transaction or proposal as to which he knows that he has or is likely to have an official discretion to exercise; or||II. He gives, offers or promises any pecuniary benefit, knowing that it is prohibited by paragraph I.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 640:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 640 - Corrupt Practices|Section 640:7 - Purchase of Public Office.

    640:7 Purchase of Public Office. –||A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if:||I. He solicits, accepts or agrees to accept, for himself, another person, or a political party, money or any other pecuniary benefit as compensation for his endorsement, nomination, appointment, approval or disapproval of any person for a position as a public servant or for the advancement of any public servant; or||II. He knowingly gives, offers or promises any pecuniary benefit prohibited by paragraph I.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 641:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 641 - Falsification in Official Matters|Section 641:1 - Perjury.

    641:1 Perjury. –||I. A person is guilty of a class B felony if in any official proceeding:||(a) He makes a false material statement under oath or affirmation, or swears or affirms the truth of a material statement previously made, and he does not believe the statement to be true; or||(b) He makes inconsistent material statements under oath or affirmation, both within the period of limitations, one of which is false and not believed by him to be true. In a prosecution under this section, it need not be alleged or proved which of the statements is false but only that one or the other was false and not believed by the defendant to be true.||II. "Official proceeding" means any proceeding before a legislative, judicial, administrative or other governmental body or official authorized by law to take evidence under oath or affirmation including a notary or other person taking evidence in connection with any such proceeding. "Material" means capable of affecting the course or outcome of the proceeding. A statement is not material if it is retracted in the course of the official proceeding in which it was made before it became manifest that the falsification was or would be exposed and before it substantially affected the proceeding. Whether a statement is material is a question of law to be determined by the court.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 641:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 641 - Falsification in Official Matters|Section 641:2 - False Swearing.

    641:2 False Swearing. –||A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if:||I. He makes a false statement under oath or affirmation or swears or affirms the truth of such a statement previously made and he does not believe the statement to be true if:||(a) The falsification occurs in an official proceeding, as defined in RSA 641:1, II, or is made with a purpose to mislead a public servant in performing his official function; or||(b) The statement is one which is required by law to be sworn or affirmed before a notary or other person authorized to administer oaths; or||II. He makes inconsistent statements under oath or affirmation, both within the period of limitations, one of which is false and not believed by him to be true. In a prosecution under this section, it need not be alleged or proved which of the statements is false but only that one or the other was false and not believed by the defendant to be true.||III. No person shall be guilty under this section if he retracts the falsification before it becomes manifest that the falsification was or would be exposed.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 641:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 641 - Falsification in Official Matters|Section 641:3 - Unsworn Falsification.

    641:3 Unsworn Falsification. –||I. A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if:||(a) He or she makes a written or electronic false statement which he or she does not believe to be true, on or pursuant to a form bearing a notification authorized by law to the effect that false statements made therein are punishable; or||(b) With a purpose to deceive a public servant in the performance of his or her official function, he or she:||(1) Makes any written or electronic false statement which he or she does not believe to be true; or||(2) Knowingly creates a false impression in a written application for any pecuniary or other benefit by omitting information necessary to prevent statements therein from being misleading; or||(3) Submits or invites reliance on any writing which he or she knows to be lacking in authenticity; or||(4) Submits or invites reliance on any sample, specimen, map, boundary mark, or other object which he or she knows to be false.||II. No person shall be guilty under this section if he or she retracts the falsification before it becomes manifest that the falsification was or would be exposed.||III. A form adopted by a state agency pursuant to RSA 541-A, or in use by a state agency prior to January 1, 2016, containing a notification that false statements made therein are punishable under this section shall be considered authorized by law.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 2003, 158:2, eff. June 17, 2003. 2016, 196:14, eff. Aug. 5, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 641:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 641 - Falsification in Official Matters|Section 641:4 - False Reports to Law Enforcement.

    641:4 False Reports to Law Enforcement. –||A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if he:||I. Knowingly gives or causes to be given false information to any law enforcement officer with the purpose of inducing such officer to believe that another has committed an offense; or||II. Knowingly gives or causes to be given information to any law enforcement officer concerning the commission of an offense, or the danger from an explosive or other dangerous substance, knowing that the offense or danger did not occur or exist or knowing that he has no information relating to the offense or danger.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 641:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 641 - Falsification in Official Matters|Section 641:5 - Tampering With Witnesses and Informants.

    641:5 Tampering With Witnesses and Informants. –||A person is guilty of a class B felony if:||I. Believing that an official proceeding, as defined in RSA 641:1, II, or investigation is pending or about to be instituted, he attempts to induce or otherwise cause a person to:||(a) Testify or inform falsely; or||(b) Withhold any testimony, information, document or thing; or||(c) Elude legal process summoning him to provide evidence; or||(d) Absent himself from any proceeding or investigation to which he has been summoned; or||II. He commits any unlawful act in retaliation for anything done by another in his capacity as witness or informant; or||III. He solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit in consideration of his doing any of the things specified in paragraph I.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 641:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 641 - Falsification in Official Matters|Section 641:6 - Falsifying Physical Evidence.

    641:6 Falsifying Physical Evidence. –||A person commits a class B felony if, believing that an official proceeding, as defined in RSA 641:1, II, or investigation is pending or about to be instituted, he:||I. Alters, destroys, conceals or removes any thing with a purpose to impair its verity or availability in such proceeding or investigation; or||II. Makes, presents or uses any thing which he knows to be false with a purpose to deceive a public servant who is or may be engaged in such proceeding or investigation.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 641:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 641 - Falsification in Official Matters|Section 641:7 - Tampering With Public Records or Information.

    641:7 Tampering With Public Records or Information. –||A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if he:||I. Knowingly makes a false entry in or false alteration of any thing belonging to, received, or kept by the government for information or record, or required by law to be kept for information of the government; or||II. Presents or uses any thing knowing it to be false, and with a purpose that it be taken as a genuine part of information or records referred to in paragraph I; or||III. Purposely and unlawfully destroys, conceals, removes or otherwise impairs the verity or availability of any such thing.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 641:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 641 - Falsification in Official Matters|Section 641:8 - False Filing With the Director of Charitable Trusts.

    641:8 False Filing With the Director of Charitable Trusts. –||A person shall be guilty of a class B felony if he knowingly makes a false entry in or false alteration of any registration statement, annual report or other information required to be filed with the director of charitable trusts.|||Source. 1992, 239:3, eff. July 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 642:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 642 - Obstructing Governmental Operations|Section 642:1 - Obstructing Government Administration.

    642:1 Obstructing Government Administration. –||I. A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if that person uses intimidation, actual or threatened force or violence, simulated legal process, or engages in any other unlawful conduct with a purpose to hinder or interfere with a public servant, as defined in RSA 640:2, II, performing or purporting to perform an official function or to retaliate for the performance or purported performance of such a function.||II. Flight by a person charged with an offense, refusal by anyone to submit to arrest, or any such interference in connection with a labor dispute with the government shall be prosecuted under the statutes governing such matters and not under this section.||III. In this section, "simulated legal process" means a document or order which purports to have been issued by a court or filed or recorded for the purpose of exercising jurisdiction or representing a claim against a person or property, or for the purpose of directing a person to appear before a court or tribunal, or to perform or refrain from performing a specified act, but which the actor knows was not lawfully issued or rendered in accordance with the applicable statutes, rules, regulations, or ordinances of the federal, state, or local government, or a political subdivision thereof. "Simulated legal process" includes any document that purports to be a summons, lien, indictment, complaint, warrant, injunction, writ, notice, pleading, subpoena, or order.||IV. For any offense committed under paragraph I that involved the use of simulated legal process, the court may impose the following remedies, in addition to any criminal penalties authorized under RSA 651:||(a) Such appropriate injunctive relief as the court may deem necessary to prevent continued violations of this section.||(b) Restitution to the public official for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred as a result of the simulated legal process, including legal fees.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 2003, 168:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 642:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 642 - Obstructing Governmental Operations|Section 642:2 - Resisting Arrest or Detention.

    642:2 Resisting Arrest or Detention. –||A person is guilty of a misdemeanor when the person knowingly or purposely physically interferes with a person recognized to be a law enforcement official, including a probation or parole officer, seeking to effect an arrest or detention of the person or another regardless of whether there is a legal basis for the arrest. A person is guilty of a class B felony if the act of resisting arrest or detention causes serious bodily injury, as defined in RSA 625:11, VI, to another person. Verbal protestations alone shall not constitute resisting arrest or detention.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 1983, 347:2. 1992, 85:1. 1995, 237:3. 2007, 191:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 642:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 642 - Obstructing Governmental Operations|Section 642:3 - Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution.

    642:3 Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution. –||I. A person is guilty of an offense if, with a purpose to hinder, prevent or delay the discovery, apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of another for the commission of a crime, he:||(a) Harbors or conceals the other; or||(b) Provides such person a weapon, transportation, disguise or other means for avoiding discovery or apprehension; or||(c) Warns such person of impending discovery or apprehension; or||(d) Conceals, destroys or alters any physical evidence that might aid in the discovery, apprehension or conviction of such person; or||(e) Obstructs by force, intimidation or deception anyone from performing an act which might aid in the discovery, apprehension, prosecution or conviction of such person; or||(f) Having knowledge that an investigative or law enforcement officer has been authorized or has applied for authorization under RSA 570-A to intercept a telecommunication or oral communication, or under RSA 570-B to install and use a pen register or trap and trace device, gives notice of the possible interception or installation and use to any person.||II. The offense is a misdemeanor unless the actor knows that the charge made or liable to be made against the other is murder or a class A felony, in which case it is a class B felony.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 1988, 25:6. 1995, 280:10, I, eff. Aug. 20, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 642:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 642 - Obstructing Governmental Operations|Section 642:3-a - Taking a Firearm From a Law Enforcement Officer.

    642:3-a Taking a Firearm From a Law Enforcement Officer. –||I. Whoever knowingly takes a firearm:||(a) From the person of a law enforcement officer, while such officer is engaged in the performance of official duties; and||(b) Against that officer's will; or attempts to do so, shall be punished as provided in paragraph II.||II. The punishment for an offense under this section is:||(a) In the case of an offense other than an attempt, or an offense that is an attempt during which the firearm is discharged (other than intentionally by the officer), a class A felony; and||(b) In the case of any other offense that is an attempt, a class B felony.||III. It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section if an individual acts to disarm an officer engaging in felonious conduct or conduct so reckless as to endanger the lives of others. However, a conviction resulting from that conduct need not be obtained to present this defense.||IV. A term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall not run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment imposed with respect to the same criminal episode.||V. In this section:||(a) "Firearm" means any weapon, including a starter gun, which will, is designed to, or may be readily converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive.||(b) "Law enforcement officer" means law enforcement officer as defined in RSA 630:1, II.|||Source. 1999, 166:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2000. 2018, 324:9, eff. Aug. 24, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 642:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 642 - Obstructing Governmental Operations|Section 642:4 - Aiding Criminal Activity.

    642:4 Aiding Criminal Activity. –||A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if he purposely aids another who has committed a crime in profiting or benefiting from the criminal activity, as by safeguarding the proceeds thereof or converting the proceeds into negotiable funds.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|