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NH Rev Stat § 568:52 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:52 - Procedure.

    568:52 Procedure. –||In all cases of insolvency where the debtor's liability exceeds the sum of $300, if the debtor shall, at the first meeting of the creditors or at any subsequent time appointed by the judge, of which legal notice has been given to the creditors, produce an affidavit signed by him and sworn to before the judge of probate of the following tenor, "I, .........., of .........., in the county of .........., do solemnly swear that I have not removed, concealed or secreted any money, papers, securities, effects or property, real or personal, with the intent, purpose or expectation of receiving, directly or indirectly, any benefit or advantage to myself, and that I have not changed or falsified my books of account, deeds or papers relating to my estate, and that I have not sold, pledged, conveyed or transferred any of my property or estate in anticipation of insolvency, or made any conveyance, mortgage, pledge, transfer or payment to any creditor for the purpose of preferring any of my creditors, and that I have not, directly or indirectly, given any creditor or other person any compensation or promise of reward, except reasonable counsel fees for service, and that my assets and liabilities are correctly stated in the schedule filed in the probate office for the county and signed by me"; and at the same time shall also produce an agreement signed by 3/4 in number of his creditors holding 3/4 of all his indebtedness, the debts of each of whom shall exceed $50, in the following form: "We, the undersigned, creditors of .........., of .........., in the county of .........., do hereby agree to accept .......... percent of our actual net claims against ..., the amounts of which are correctly stated against our respective names, in full discharge of the same; and we further declare that we have not received, directly or indirectly, any compensation or promise of future payment beyond the percent herein named". If the judge shall be satisfied that the agreement is signed by the required proportion of the creditors of the debtor, and that the debtor has paid or secured the percentage named in the agreement according to the terms thereof and all the expenses incurred during the proceedings, he shall give the debtor, under the hand and seal of the court, a full discharge of all his debts and liabilities, not specially excepted, contracted prior to the beginning of the proceedings; provided, that such a discharge shall not prevent any creditor who may not have signed such agreement from proving his claim at any time within 2 months from the beginning of the insolvency proceedings, and having the same allowed at the agreed percentage.|||Source. 1885, 85:11, 13. 1889, 96:4. PS 201:51. 1895, 88:1. PL 401:52. RL 465:52.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:53 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:53 - Time, etc.

    568:53 Time, etc. –||Appeals in cases of insolvency shall be claimed within 30 days from the rendering of the decision and shall be taken in the same manner and governed by the same rules of procedure as in cases of other appeals from decrees of the judge of probate, except as provided in RSA 568:54.|||Source. 1862, 2594:12. GS 126:25. GL 140:25. 1885, 85:6. PS 201:52. PL 401:53. RL 465:53.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:54 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:54 - Procedure.

    568:54 Procedure. –||In case of appeal from the allowance or disallowance of the claims of a creditor, the claimant, if appellant, shall file in the office of the clerk, with his statement of reasons for appeal, a declaration in proper form upon his claim; if appellee, he shall file such declaration within 5 days after notice of the appeal. The clerk shall thereupon file in the office of the clerk of the superior court duly attested copies of the papers relating to the appeal. The case shall be in order for trial at the first term of the court, and the result shall be certified to the court of probate. The proceedings there shall be altered to conform thereto.|||Source. PS 201:53. PL 401:54. RL 465:54. 2011, 88:20, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:55 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:55 - Death of Debtor.

    568:55 Death of Debtor. –||If the debtor dies after the issuance of the warrant and while the proceedings are pending, the proceedings shall be continued and conducted in like manner and with like validity and effect as if he had lived.|||Source. PS 201:54. PL 401:55. RL 465:55.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:56 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:56 - Beginning of Proceedings.

    568:56 Beginning of Proceedings. –||The date of the filing of the debtor's assignment or of the filing of the creditor's petition shall be deemed to be the beginning of proceedings in insolvency under the provisions of this chapter in each case and the time from which other times and dates shall be reckoned.|||Source. PS 201:55. PL 401:56. RL 465:56.|
NH Rev Stat § 568:57 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 568 - Insolvency Proceedings|Section 568:57 - Notices.

    568:57 Notices. –||In all proceedings under this chapter, where notice, either personal or by publication, is required, it shall be for such length of time as the court may order.|||Source. 1895, 39:1. PL 401:57. RL 465:57.|
NH Rev Stat § 569:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 569 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|Section 569:1 - Assignments to be Recorded, etc.

    569:1 Assignments to be Recorded, etc. –||No instrument by which title to real or personal property is conveyed, transferred, or assigned to an assignee, trustee, or other fiduciary for the benefit of the creditors of the assignor shall be valid to transfer the title of the assignor therein unless such assignee, trustee, or other fiduciary is a resident of this state, nor until the same has been recorded in the office of the clerk of the town in which the assignor resides at the time of making the same, or in the office of the clerk of the town where the property is situated when the assignor resides out of the state, and in the registry of deeds in the county in which the realty, if any, is situated.|||Source. 1933, 9:1. RL 420:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 569:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVII - Insolvency Proceedings and Assignments for Creditors|Title 569 - Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors|Section 569:2 - Not Valid as Against Unpaid Taxes.

    569:2 Not Valid as Against Unpaid Taxes. –||No common law assignment of personal property, whether recorded or not, shall be valid to transfer to the assignee the title of the assignor therein as against any unpaid taxes assessed thereon prior to the date of said assignment. Any such unpaid taxes shall be a preferred claim as against other creditors.|||Source. 1937, 53:1. RL 420:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:3 - Manufacture, Distribution, Possession, and Advertising of Telecommunication or Oral Communication Intercepting Devices Prohibited.

    570-A:3 Manufacture, Distribution, Possession, and Advertising of Telecommunication or Oral Communication Intercepting Devices Prohibited. –||I. A person is guilty of a class B felony if, except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, he:||(a) Manufactures, assembles, possesses, or sells any electronic, mechanical, or other device, knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of telecommunications or oral communications; or||(b) Places in any newspaper, magazine, handbill, or other publication any advertisement of:||(1) Any electronic, mechanical, or other device knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of telecommunications or oral communications, or||(2) Any other electronic, mechanical, or other device, where such advertisement promotes the use of such device for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of telecommunications or oral communications.||II. It shall not be unlawful under this section for:||(a) A communications common carrier or an officer, agent, or employee of, or a person under contract with, a communications common carrier, in the normal course of the communications common carrier's business, or||(b) An officer, agent, or employee of, or a person under contract with, the state, or a political subdivision thereof, in the normal course of the activities of the state, or a political subdivision thereof, to manufacture, assemble, possess, or sell any electronic, mechanical, or other device knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of telecommunications or oral communications.|||Source. 1969, 403:1. 1977, 588:17. 1995, 280:10, I, III, eff. Aug. 20, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:4 - Confiscation of Telecommunication or Oral Communication Intercepting Devices.

    570-A:4 Confiscation of Telecommunication or Oral Communication Intercepting Devices. –||Any electronic, mechanical, or other device used, sent, carried, manufactured, assembled, possessed, sold, or advertised in violation of RSA 570-A:2 or 570-A:3 may be seized and forfeited to the state according to the procedure set forth in RSA 617.|||Source. 1969, 403:1. 1995, 280:10, I, eff. Aug. 20, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:5 - Immunity of Witnesses.

    570-A:5 Immunity of Witnesses. –||Whenever, in the judgment of the attorney general, the testimony of any witness, or the production of books, papers, or other evidence by any witness, in any case or proceeding before any grand jury or superior court involving any violation of this chapter or any of the offenses enumerated in RSA 570-A:7, or any conspiracy to violate this chapter or any of the offenses enumerated in RSA 570-A:7, is necessary to the public interest, the attorney general, or a county attorney upon the written approval of the attorney general, shall make application to the superior court that the witness shall be instructed to testify or produce evidence subject to the provisions of this section, and upon order of the court such witness shall not be excused from testifying or from producing books, papers, or other evidence on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. No such witness shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, nor shall testimony so compelled be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding (except in the proceeding described in the next sentence) against him in any court. No witness shall be exempt under this section from prosecution for perjury or contempt committed while giving testimony or producing evidence under compulsion as provided in this section.|||Source. 1969, 403:1, eff. Aug. 31, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:6 - Prohibition of Use as Evidence of Intercepted Telecommunications or Oral Communications.

    570-A:6 Prohibition of Use as Evidence of Intercepted Telecommunications or Oral Communications. –||Whenever any telecommunication or oral communication has been intercepted, no part of the contents of such communication and no evidence derived therefrom may be received in evidence in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding in or before any court, grand jury, department, officer, agency, regulatory body, legislative committee, or other authority of the state, or a political subdivision thereof, if the disclosure of that information would be in violation of this chapter.|||Source. 1969, 403:1. 1995, 280:10, I, III, eff. Aug. 20, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:7 - Authorization for Interception of Telecommunications or Oral Communications.

    570-A:7 Authorization for Interception of Telecommunications or Oral Communications. –||The attorney general, deputy attorney general, or a county attorney, upon the written approval of the attorney general or deputy attorney general, may apply to a judge of competent jurisdiction for an order authorizing or approving the interception of telecommunications or oral communications, and such judge may grant, in conformity with RSA 570-A:9, an order authorizing or approving the interception of telecommunications or oral communications by investigative or law enforcement officers having responsibility for the investigation of the offenses as to which the application is made, when such interception may provide, or has provided, evidence of the commission of organized crime, as defined in RSA 570-A:1, XI, or evidence of the commission of the offenses of homicide, kidnapping, gambling, theft as defined in RSA 637, corrupt practices as defined in RSA 640, child sexual abuse images under RSA 649-A, computer pornography and child exploitation under RSA 649-B, criminal conduct in violation of the securities law, as defined in RSA 421-B:5-501, RSA 421-B:5-502, RSA 421-B:5-502-A, RSA 421-B:5-505, RSA 421-B:5-506, and RSA 421-B:5-508, criminal conduct in violation of the security takeover disclosure laws, as defined in RSA 421-A:3, 421-A:7, 421-A:8, 421-A:11, and 421-A:13, robbery as defined in RSA 636:1, arson as defined in RSA 634:1, hindering apprehension or prosecution as defined in RSA 642:3, tampering with witnesses and informants as defined in RSA 641:5, aggravated felonious sexual assault as defined in RSA 632-A:2, felonious sexual assault as defined in RSA 632-A:3, escape as defined in RSA 642:6, bail jumping as defined in RSA 642:8, insurance fraud as defined in RSA 638:20, dealing in narcotic drugs, marijuana, or other dangerous drugs, hazardous waste violations under RSA 147-A:4, I, or any conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing offenses.|||Source. 1969, 403:1. 1985, 263:3. 1988, 25:4. 1990, 191:1. 1995, 280:10, III. 1998, 361:4, eff. Jan. 1, 1999. 2001, 224:10, eff. Sept. 9, 2001. 2015, 273:19, eff. Jan. 1, 2016. 2017, 91:6, eff. Aug. 6, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:8 - Authorization for Disclosure and Use of Intercepted Telecommunications or Oral Communications.

    570-A:8 Authorization for Disclosure and Use of Intercepted Telecommunications or Oral Communications. –||I. Any law enforcement officer who, by any means authorized by this chapter, has obtained knowledge of the contents of any telecommunication or oral communication, or evidence derived therefrom, may disclose such contents to another law enforcement officer to the extent that such disclosure is appropriate to the proper performance of the official duties of the officer making or receiving the disclosure.||II. Any law enforcement officer who, by any means authorized by this chapter, has obtained knowledge of the contents of any telecommunication or oral communication or evidence derived therefrom may use such contents to the extent such use is appropriate to the proper performance of the officer's official duties.||III. Any person who has received, by any means authorized by this chapter, any information concerning a telecommunication or oral communication or evidence derived therefrom intercepted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter may disclose the contents of that communication or such derivative evidence while giving testimony under oath or affirmation in any criminal proceeding in any court of the United States or of any state or in any federal or state grand jury proceeding.||IV. No otherwise privileged telecommunication or oral communication intercepted in accordance with, or in violation of, the provisions of this chapter shall lose its privileged character.||V. When a law enforcement officer, while engaged in intercepting telecommunications or oral communications in the manner authorized herein, intercepts telecommunications or oral communications relating to offenses other than those specified in the order of authorization or approval, the contents thereof, and evidence derived therefrom, may be disclosed or used as provided in paragraphs I and II. Such contents and any evidence derived therefrom may be used under paragraph III, when authorized or approved by a judge of competent jurisdiction where such judge finds on subsequent application that the contents were otherwise intercepted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such application shall be made as soon as practicable.|||Source. 1969, 403:1. 1995, 280:3, 10, I, III, eff. Aug. 20, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:9-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:9-a - Repealed by 1988, 25:7, II, eff. July 1, 1988.

    570-A:9-a Repealed by 1988, 25:7, II, eff. July 1, 1988. –|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:9-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:9-b - Use of Interpreters.

    570-A:9-b Use of Interpreters. –|| Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an investigative or law enforcement officer supervising an interception under this chapter in which the intercepted communication is in a code or foreign language may utilize the assistance and participation of a qualified interpreter to translate the language being used into English. Such interpreter, before entering upon his or her duties, shall take an oath that he or she will make a true interpretation in an understandable manner to the best of his or her skill and judgment.|||Source. 2008, 361:13, eff. July 11, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:10 - Reports Concerning Intercepted Telecommunications or Oral Communications.

    570-A:10 Reports Concerning Intercepted Telecommunications or Oral Communications. –||I. Within 30 days after the expiration of an order, or each extension thereof, entered under RSA 570-A:9, or the denial of an order approving an interception, the issuing or denying judge shall report to the administrative office of the United States Courts:||(a) The fact that an order or extension was applied for;||(b) The kind of order or extension applied for;||(c) The fact that the order or extension was granted as applied for, was modified, or was denied;||(d) The period of interceptions authorized by the order, and the number and duration of any extensions of the order;||(e) The offense specified in the order or application, or extension of an order;||(f) The identity of the applying investigative or law enforcement officer and agency making the application and the person authorizing the application; and||(g) The nature of the facilities from which or the place where communications were to be intercepted.||II. In January of each year, each county attorney shall report to the attorney general who shall report, in turn, to the administrative office of the United States Courts:||(a) The information required by subparagraphs I(a) through (g) with respect to each application for an order or extension made during the preceding calendar year;||(b) A general description of the interceptions made under such order or extension, including: (1) The approximate nature and frequency of incriminating communications intercepted, (2) The approximate nature and frequency of other communications intercepted, (3) The approximate number of persons whose communications were intercepted, and (4) The approximate nature, amount, and cost of the manpower and other resources used in the interceptions;||(c) The number of arrests resulting from interceptions made under such order or extension, and the offenses for which arrests were made;||(d) The number of trials resulting from such interceptions;||(e) The number of motions to suppress made with respect to such interceptions, and the number granted or denied;||(f) The number of convictions resulting from such interceptions and the offenses for which the convictions were obtained and a general assessment of the importance of the interceptions; and||(g) The information required by subparagraphs (b) through (f) of this paragraph with respect to orders or extensions obtained in a preceding calendar year.||III. On or before December 1 of each odd numbered year, the attorney general shall include in the report required by RSA 7:37, a report concerning the number of applications for orders authorizing or approving the interception of telecommunications or oral communications and the number of orders and extensions granted or denied during the preceding 2 years.|||Source. 1969, 403:1. 1995, 280:8, 10, III, eff. Aug. 20, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 570-A:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVIII - Public Justice|Title 570-A - Wiretapping and Eavesdropping|Section 570-A:11 - Recovery of Civil Damages Authorized.

    570-A:11 Recovery of Civil Damages Authorized. –||Any person whose telecommunication or oral communication is intercepted, disclosed, or used in violation of this chapter shall have a civil cause of action against any person who intercepts, discloses, or uses, or procures any other person to intercept, disclose or use such communications, and be entitled to recover from any such person: (a) actual damages but not less than liquidated damages computed at the rate of $100 a day for each day of violation or $1,000, whichever is higher; (b) punitive damages; and (c) a reasonable attorney's fee and other litigation costs reasonably incurred. Good faith reliance on a court order or on a representation made by the attorney general, deputy attorney general or a county attorney shall constitute a complete defense to any civil or criminal action brought under this chapter.|||Source. 1969, 403:1. 1995, 280:10, I, eff. Aug. 20, 1995.|