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NH Rev Stat § 309-B:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 309-B - New Hampshire Accountancy Act|Section 309-B:11 - Enforcement Procedures; Investigations.

    309-B:11 Enforcement Procedures;  Investigations. –||I. The board may, upon receipt of a complaint or other information suggesting violations of this chapter or of the rules of the board, conduct investigations to determine whether there is probable cause to institute proceedings under RSA 309-B:12, 309-B:15, or 309-B:16 against any person or firm for such violation, but an investigation under this section shall not be a prerequisite to such proceedings in the event that a determination of probable cause can be made without investigation. In aid of such investigations, the board, through its chairperson, shall have the power to compel the testimony of witnesses and the production of documents or other evidence by the issuance of subpoenas. The board and the defendant may take the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state pertaining to any matter being investigated.||II. The board may designate a member, or any other person of appropriate competence, to serve as investigating officer to conduct an investigation. Upon completion of the investigation, the investigating officer shall file a report with the board. The board shall find probable cause or lack of probable cause based upon the report or shall return the report to the investigating officer for further investigation. Unless there has been a determination of probable cause, the report of the investigating officer, the complaint, if any, the testimony and documents submitted in support of the complaint or gathered in the investigation, and the fact of pendency of the investigation shall be treated as confidential information and shall not be disclosed to any person except law enforcement authorities, and, to the extent deemed necessary in order to conduct the investigation, the subject of the investigation, persons whose complaints are being investigated, and witnesses questioned in the course of the investigation.||III. Upon a finding of probable cause, if the subject of the investigation is a licensee, the board shall direct that a complaint be issued under RSA 309-B:12, and if the subject of the investigation is not a licensee, the board shall take appropriate action under RSA 309-B:15 or 309-B:16. Upon a finding of no probable cause, the board shall close the matter and shall thereafter release information relating to the investigation only with the consent of the person or firm under investigation.||IV. The board may review the publicly available professional work of licensees on a general and random basis, without any requirement of a formal complaint or suspicion of impropriety on the part of any particular licensee. If, as a result of such review, the board discovers reasonable grounds for a more specific investigation, the board may proceed under paragraphs I through III of this section.|||Source. 1999, 236:1, eff. Sept. 7, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 309-B:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 309-B - New Hampshire Accountancy Act|Section 309-B:13 - Reinstatement.

    309-B:13 Reinstatement. –||I. In any case where the board has suspended or revoked a certificate, permit, or registration or refused to renew a certificate, permit, or registration, the board may, upon application in writing by the individual or firm affected and for good cause shown, modify the suspension or reissue the certificate, permit, or registration.||II. The board shall by rule specify the manner in which such applications shall be made, the times within which they shall be made, and the circumstances under which hearings will be held.||III. Before reissuing or terminating the suspension of a certificate, permit, or registration under this section, and as a condition to such action, the board may require the applicant to show successful completion of specified continuing professional education. The board may make the reinstatement of a certificate, permit, or registration conditional and subject to satisfactory completion of a peer review conducted in such fashion as the board shall specify.|||Source. 1999, 236:1, eff. Sept. 7, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 309-B:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 309-B - New Hampshire Accountancy Act|Section 309-B:15 - Injunctions Against Unlawful Acts.

    309-B:15 Injunctions Against Unlawful Acts. –||Whenever, as a result of an investigation under RSA 309-B:11 or RSA 309-B:12, the board believes that any person or firm has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute a violation of RSA 309-B:14, the board may make application to the appropriate court for an order enjoining such acts or practices. Upon a showing by the board that such person or firm has engaged, or is about to engage, in any such acts or practices, an injunction, restraining order, or other order as may be appropriate may be granted by such court.|||Source. 1999, 236:1, eff. Sept. 7, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 309-B:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 309-B - New Hampshire Accountancy Act|Section 309-B:16 - Criminal Penalties.

    309-B:16 Criminal Penalties. –||I. Whenever, by reason of an investigation under RSA 309-B:11 or otherwise, the board has reason to believe that any person or firm has knowingly engaged in acts or practices which constitute a violation of RSA 309-B:14, the board may bring its information to the attention of the department of justice of this state which may, in its discretion, cause appropriate criminal proceedings to be brought.||II. Any person who knowingly violates any provision of RSA 309-B:14 shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.|||Source. 1999, 236:1, eff. Sept. 7, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 309-B:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 309-B - New Hampshire Accountancy Act|Section 309-B:17 - Single Act as Evidence of Practice.

    309-B:17 Single Act as Evidence of Practice. –||In any action brought under RSA 309-B:12, RSA 309-B:15, or RSA 309-B:16, evidence of the commission of a single act prohibited by this chapter shall be sufficient to justify the imposition of a penalty, injunction, restraining order, or conviction, respectively, without evidence of a general course of conduct.|||Source. 1999, 236:1, eff. Sept. 7, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 309-B:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 309-B - New Hampshire Accountancy Act|Section 309-B:18 - Confidential Communications.

    309-B:18 Confidential Communications. –||Except by permission of the client for whom a licensee performs services, or the heirs, successors, or personal representatives of such client, a licensee or any partner, officer, member, manager, shareholder, or employee of a licensee shall not voluntarily disclose information communicated to such person by the client relating to and in connection with services rendered to the client by the licensee. Such information shall be deemed confidential, provided, however, that nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting the disclosure of information required to be disclosed by the standards of the public accounting profession in reporting on the examination of financial statements or as prohibiting disclosures in court proceedings or administrative proceedings before governmental agencies in instances where a subpoena or summons has been issued, in investigations or proceedings under RSA 309-B:11 or RSA 309-B:12, in ethical investigations conducted by private professional organizations, or in the course of peer reviews, or to other persons active in the organization performing services for that client on a need to know basis or to persons in such professional organization, peer review entity, or organization performing services for that client who need this information for the sole purpose of assuring quality control.|||Source. 1999, 236:1, eff. Sept. 7, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 309-B:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 309-B - New Hampshire Accountancy Act|Section 309-B:19 - Licensees' Working Papers and Clients' Records.

    309-B:19 Licensees' Working Papers and Clients' Records. –||I. Subject to the provisions of RSA 309-B:18, all statements, records, schedules, working papers, and memoranda made by a licensee or a partner, shareholder, officer, director, member, manager, or employee of a licensee, incident to, or in the course of, rendering services to a client except for the records that are part of the client's records, shall be and remain the property of the licensee in the absence of an express agreement between the licensee and the client to the contrary. No such statement, record, schedule, working paper, or memorandum shall be sold, transferred, or bequeathed, without the consent of the client or the client's personal representative or assignee, to anyone other than one or more surviving partner, member or stockholder or new partner, new member or new stockholder of the licensee, or any combined or merged firm or successor in interest to the licensee. Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting any temporary transfer of work papers or other material necessary in the course of carrying out peer reviews or as otherwise interfering with the disclosure of information pursuant to RSA 309-B:18.||II. A licensee shall furnish to the client or former client, upon request and reasonable notice:||(a) A copy of the licensee's working papers, to the extent that such working papers include records that would ordinarily constitute part of the client's records and are not otherwise available to the client; and||(b) Any accounting or other records belonging to, or obtained from or on behalf of, the client that the licensee removed from the client's premises or received for the client's account. The licensee may make and retain copies of such documents of the client when they form the basis for work done by the licensee.||(c) A copy of computer-prepared client data diskettes containing client ledger data, spread sheet data, client documents and any other such data of the client or former client that would ordinarily constitute part of the client's records and not otherwise be available to the client.||III. Nothing in this section shall require a licensee to keep any work paper beyond the period prescribed in any other applicable statute.|||Source. 1999, 236:1, eff. Sept. 7, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 309-B:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 309-B - New Hampshire Accountancy Act|Section 309-B:20 - Appointment of Secretary of State as Agent.

    309-B:20 Appointment of Secretary of State as Agent. –||Application by a person or a firm not a resident of this state for a certificate under RSA 309-B:7 or a license to practice under RSA 309-B:8 shall constitute appointment of the secretary of state as the applicant's agent upon whom process may be served in any action or proceeding against the applicant arising out of any transaction or operation connected with or incidental to services performed by the applicant while a licensee within this state.|||Source. 1999, 236:1, eff. Sept. 7, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 309-B:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 309-B - New Hampshire Accountancy Act|Section 309-B:21 - Severability.

    309-B:21 Severability. –||If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.|||Source. 1999, 236:1, eff. Sept. 7, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:1 - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification; Purpose.

    310-A:1 Office of Professional Licensure and Certification;  Purpose. –||The purpose of the office of professional licensure and certification is to promote efficiency and economy in the administration of the business processing, recordkeeping, and other administrative and clerical operations of professional licensing and certification boards, including both professional healthcare licensing and professional technical licensing. The individual licensing and certification boards that are organized under the office of professional licensure and certification have specialized knowledge and experience and are separate and distinct for the purpose of regulating their various professions. Notwithstanding the unique regulatory role of each board, the legislature finds that there are opportunities for improving efficiency and customer service by providing for the joint administration of the boards' administrative, clerical, business processing, and recordkeeping functions. Except as provided in this section, the licensing and certification boards and entities organized under the office of professional licensure and certification shall exercise the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities granted by statute.|||Source. 1981, 485:1. 1988, 281:3. 1990, 166:2. 1995, 284:57. 2000, 297:2. 2006, 246:2. 2007, 300:5. 2008, 339:2. 2011, 224:99. 2012, 237:1, eff. June 4, 2013. 2015, 276:45, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:1-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:1-b - Executive Director of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification.

    310-A:1-b Executive Director of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification. –||I. The position of executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification shall be an unclassified employee of the state. The executive director shall be qualified by reason of professional competence, education, and experience. A vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.||II. The current executive director of the joint board of licensure and certification shall become the first executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification, with a 4-year term beginning on July 1, 2015. Upon expiration of the term, or upon an earlier resignation, the governor shall appoint or re-appoint, with advice of council, an executive director for a 4-year term.||III. The salary of the executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification shall be as specified in RSA 94:1-a. The salary of the executive director shall be determined after assessment and review of the appropriate temporary letter grade allocation for the position for inclusion in RSA 94:1-a, I(b), which shall be conducted pursuant to RSA 94:1-d and RSA 14:14-c.||IV. The governor is hereby authorized to transfer such funds appropriated to the boards, councils and committees identified in RSA 310-A:1-a as are necessary to pay the salary and benefits of the executive director.|||Source. 2015, 276:46, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:1-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:1-c - Division Directors; Pharmacy Compliance Investigators.

    310-A:1-c Division Directors;  Pharmacy Compliance Investigators. –||I. There is established in the office of professional licensure and certification 2 unclassified directors: The director of the division of licensing and board administration and director of the division of enforcement. Each director shall be qualified to hold that position by reason of education and experience and shall perform such duties as the executive director from time to time may authorize.||II. The executive director shall nominate for appointment by the governor, with the consent of the council, each unclassified division director, each of whom shall serve for a term of 4 years.||III. There are established in the office of professional licensure and certification the unclassified position of chief pharmacy compliance investigator and 2 unclassified pharmacy investigator positions. Each investigator shall be qualified for the position by reason of education and experience, shall be nominated by the executive director for appointment by the governor and council, and shall serve at the pleasure of the executive director. The chief pharmacy compliance investigator shall oversee pharmacy compliance and investigations, shall supervise the pharmacy compliance investigators, and shall perform such duties as the executive director from time to time may authorize.|||Source. 2015, 276:46, eff. July 1, 2015. 2019, 346:247, eff. July 1, 2019. 2021, 91:79, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:1-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:1-f - Temporary Licensing Process; Rulemaking.

    310-A:1-f Temporary Licensing Process;  Rulemaking. –||Notwithstanding any other state law to the contrary, the office of professional licensure and certification shall be authorized to issue temporary licenses to out-of-state health care professionals who present evidence of an active license in good standing from another jurisdiction, in accordance with rules adopted by executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification under RSA 541-A. The rules shall contain the following provisions:||I. Health care professionals shall include those individuals licensed by the boards, councils, and commissions within the office of professional licensure and certification as set forth in RSA 310-A:1-a, who perform specified medical or ancillary services within the scope of his or her authority, as determined by the executive director.||II. The temporary licenses shall be valid for 120 days, or until the board, council, or commission takes action on an application for full licensure, whichever happens first.||III. All individuals licensed under this section shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the state licensing body for that profession.|||Source. 2020, 25:8, eff. July 20, 2020. 2021, 91:77, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:1-g (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:1-g - Telemedicine and Telehealth Services.

    310-A:1-g Telemedicine and Telehealth Services. –||I. "Telemedicine" means the use of audio, video, or other electronic media for the purpose of diagnosis, consultation, or treatment.||II. "Telehealth" means the use of audio, video, or other electronic media for the purpose of diagnosis, consultation, or treatment.||III. Individuals licensed, certified, or registered pursuant to RSA 137-F; RSA 151-A; RSA 315; RSA 316-A; RSA 317-A; RSA 326-B; RSA 326-D; RSA 326-H; RSA 327; RSA 328-E; RSA 328-F; RSA 328-G; RSA 329-B; RSA 330-A; RSA 330-C; RSA 327-A; RSA 329; RSA 326-B; RSA 318; RSA 328-I; RSA 328-J may provide services through telemedicine or telehealth, provided the services rendered are authorized by scope of practice. Nothing in this provision shall be construed to expand the scope of practice for individuals regulated under this chapter.||IV. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an out-of-state healthcare professional providing services by means of telemedicine or telehealth shall be required to be licensed, certified, or registered by the appropriate licensing board within the office of professional licensure and certification. This paragraph shall not apply to out-of-state physicians who provide consultation services pursuant to RSA 329:21, II.||V. An individual providing services by means of telemedicine or telehealth directly to a patient shall:||(a) Use the same standard of care as used in an in-person encounter;||(b) Maintain a medical record; and||(c) Subject to the patient's consent, forward the medical record to the patient's primary care or treating provider, if appropriate.||VI. Under this section, Medicaid coverage for telehealth services shall comply with the provisions of 42 C.F.R. section 410.78 and RSA 167:4-d.|||Source. 2020, 27:12, eff. July 21, 2020. 2021, 91:78, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:1-i (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:1-i - Repealed by 2021, 121:10, I, effective Jan. 31, 2022.

    310-A:1-i Repealed by 2021, 121:10, I, effective Jan. 31, 2022. –|
NH Rev Stat § 310-A:1-n (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 310-A - Office of Professional Licensure and Certification|Section 310-A:1-n - Rehearing; Appeals.

    310-A:1-n Rehearing;  Appeals. –||I. Any person who has been refused a license or certification by the board, which shall include all boards, councils, and commissions within the office of professional licensure and certification, or has been disciplined by the board shall have the right to petition for a rehearing within 30 days after the original final decision.||II. Appeals from a decision on rehearing shall be by appeal to the supreme court pursuant to RSA 541.||III. No sanction shall be stayed by the board during an appeal.|||Source. 2021, 205:2, Pt. V, Sec. 3, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|