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2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:14-a - Alternative Method of Apportioning Operating Costs.

195:14-a Alternative Method of Apportioning Operating Costs. –
I. As an alternative to the apportionment of operating costs set forth in RSA 195:14, the cooperative school board may fix a specific percentage of the state adequate education grant amount received in a given year to be applied to the operating costs of the cooperative school district, before the apportionment of remaining cooperative school district operating costs. Such percentage shall not be less than zero percent and not more than 100 percent and shall be the same in each city or town in the cooperative school district.
II. The question on the adoption of an alternative method of apportioning operating costs shall be proposed as an article in the warrant of the next cooperative school district annual or special meeting pursuant to RSA 195:13. A majority of voters present and voting on the question in each city or town in the cooperative school district shall be required to approve the alternative method of apportioning operating costs. Upon approval, the clerk of the cooperative school district shall send to the state board of education a certified copy of the warrant.
III. The procedure for modification or rescission of an alternative method of apportioning operating costs shall be as set forth in the alternative method of apportioning operating costs and shall not be subject to the provisions of RSA 195:18, III(i). A majority of voters present and voting on the question in each city or town in the cooperative school district shall be required to approve the modification or rescission.
Source.
2004, 244:1. 2006, 6:6. 2007, 270:3, eff. June 29, 2007.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:15 - State Aid.

195:15 State Aid. –
The state aid to which a cooperative elementary and/or secondary district shall be entitled shall be the total of those shares of the aid to which the pupils attending the cooperative district would have entitled the pre-existing districts, had they remained in the pre-existing districts. For the purposes of crediting the cooperative district's adequate education cost to the pre-existing districts, each such pre-existing district shall have its adequate education cost under RSA 198:38, VII credited against its share of the cooperative school district budget. However, cooperative school districts formed by 2 or more pre-existing districts whose boundaries approximate those of a single township in which they are located shall be treated as a single school district for the purposes of this section.
Source.
1947, 199:12. 1951, 213:1, par. 15. RSA 195:15. 1955, 334:13. 1996, 158:8. 1999, 281:9. 2004, 200:11, eff. June 9, 2004.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:15-a - Building Aid.

195:15-a Building Aid. –
Except as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of receiving state building aid, or other similar aid toward school buildings, which may hereafter be provided, the amount of such aid for cooperative school districts shall apply only to those cooperative or union school districts which were formed from 2 or more districts from 2 or more towns. A cooperative school district formed as a result of a conversion from an authorized regional enrollment area plan shall not be eligible for school building aid for the purchase of property in a pre-existing district which had received building aid for the construction of said building or buildings, provided, however, that any aid for which the pre-existing district is currently eligible shall be continued and shall be paid to the cooperative school district. A cooperative school district formed from 2 or more school districts within one town shall be deemed to be a school district and not a cooperative school district insofar as receipt of state building or other similar aid toward school buildings is concerned. The limitations of this section relative to cooperative school districts formed from districts within one town shall apply only to those which are so organized after July 1, 1955. Such cooperative school district organized prior to July 1, 1955, shall be deemed a cooperative school district for the purpose of receiving such building aid.
Source.
1955, 334:14. 1997, 320:1, eff. July 1, 1998.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:16-a - Increase or Decrease in Grades.

195:16-a Increase or Decrease in Grades. –
Any cooperative school district may amend its existing arrangement or articles of agreement to increase or decrease the grades for which the cooperative school district provides education. If the cooperative district was organized pursuant to RSA 195:18, it shall proceed by amendment of its articles of agreement. The cooperative school board shall cease responsibility for the excluded school grades as of the date specified in the amended articles of agreement or the existing arrangement.
Source.
1963, 258:13. 1996, 158:9. 1997, 320:3, eff. Aug. 22, 1997.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:16-b - Power of Eminent Domain.

195:16-b Power of Eminent Domain. –
Whenever a cooperative school district cannot acquire by purchase a good title to any real estate or interest therein needed by it for its purposes either because of the unwillingness of the owner to sell at a reasonable price, the owner's inability to convey a good title, or for other reason, the cooperative school district may apply by petition to the superior court for the county in which such real estate or interest therein is located to acquire such real estate or interest therein in the name of such district and to have assessed the damages occasioned by the taking. Thereafter the procedure shall follow that prescribed in RSA 498-A.
Source.
1963, 258:13. 1996, 222:9, eff. Aug. 9, 1996.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:16-c - Powers of Superior Court as to Pre-existing Districts.

195:16-c Powers of Superior Court as to Pre-existing Districts. –
If there shall arise any occasion which shall require the doing of any act or thing by or in behalf of a pre-existing district which has ceased to exist by reason of its inclusion in a cooperative school district, the superior court shall have the power, upon application of 3 registered voters domiciled in the territory of the pre-existing school district, to appoint an agent who, subject to the approval of the superior court, shall have the power on behalf of and in the name of the pre-existing school district to do any act or thing that may be just under the circumstances.
Source.
1963, 258:13. 2003, 289:19, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:19 - Statement of Policy.

195:19 Statement of Policy. –
It is the purpose of this subdivision to provide a means for cooperative school districts now existing or hereafter formed to meet the constitutional mandate of one-man one-vote as annunciated by the United States supreme court. It is the intention of the legislature to provide flexibility to the cooperative school district in meeting the requirements of the one-man one-vote doctrine within the limitations of this chapter.
Source.
1971, 252:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1971.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:19-a - Composition of Cooperative School Boards.

195:19-a Composition of Cooperative School Boards. –
The number, composition, method of selection, and terms of members of cooperative school boards shall be as provided in the bylaws or articles of agreement of the cooperative school district, as the case may be; provided, however, that such bylaws and articles of agreement shall be limited to the alternatives contained herein where applicable; and provided further that no cooperative school district in existence on August 22, 1971 shall be required to conform hereto unless it is so voted pursuant to RSA 671:9.
I. All members of the cooperative school board shall be elected at large; or
II. The cooperative school district shall be divided into single board member districts according to population with as nearly equal population in each district as possible; or
III. The cooperative school district shall be divided into multiboard member districts or a combination of single member or multimember districts so that proportional representation will be most nearly achieved; or
IV. The members of the cooperative school board shall each be domiciled in and represent a pre-existing district with each pre-existing district having at least one such resident representative but all members of the cooperative school board shall be elected at large; or
V. Such other method of selection of cooperative school board members compatible with proportional representation, one-man one-vote principle as may be approved by the state board of education.
VI. The terms of the members of the cooperative school board shall be as provided in the bylaws or articles of agreement provided that in no case shall such terms exceed 3 years.
VII. Whenever the bylaws or articles of agreement provide for the election of cooperative school board members pursuant to this chapter, said election shall be with the use of the non-partisan ballot system under RSA 669.
Source.
1996, 158:13, eff. July 1, 1996.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:19-b - Reapportionment.

195:19-b Reapportionment. –
Any cooperative school district organized under any of the provisions of RSA 195 or pursuant to any special act may at any regular or special meeting vote to change the number, composition, method of selection, and terms of office of members on the board of the district, provided that in no event shall the board exceed 15 members nor terms exceed 3 years; and may change the apportionment of the board in relation to the pre-existing school districts.
Source.
1996, 158:13, eff. July 1, 1996.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:19-c - Special Provisions for Cooperative School Districts.

195:19-c Special Provisions for Cooperative School Districts. –
I. At the organizational meeting of the cooperative school district, the checklists for each pre-existing district shall be used. The school board of any pre-existing district which does not have a checklist shall make a list of the legal voters in the district for use at such meeting as supervisors are required to do in towns as provided in RSA 654:25-654:31. Thereafter, the cooperative school board shall make, correct and post a list of the legal voters of the cooperative school district acting as supervisors are required to do; except that such list shall indicate with respect to each voter the pre-existing district in which he is domiciled. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, whenever each of the pre-existing school districts is coextensive with the town in which it is located, the cooperative school district may, at an annual cooperative school district meeting, under an article in the warrant for such meeting, vote that the supervisors of each town, acting as the supervisors of the cooperative school district, shall make, correct and post in each pre-existing district a checklist of the voters in each pre-existing district and shall certify to the same acting as supervisors of the cooperative school district and shall attend the cooperative school district meeting. At each cooperative school district election, the checklists prepared by the supervisors in each pre-existing district in accordance with this section shall be used.
II. An updated checklist shall be used at all cooperative school district elections and meetings for the same purposes as checklists are used by towns as provided in RSA 669:5.
III. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any registered voter on a town or city checklist, who has his domicile within a cooperative school district, shall be eligible to vote at any cooperative school district election or meeting in the district where he has his domicile. The supervisors of the checklists for the various cities and towns within a cooperative school district shall make an appropriate notation on their respective checklists with respect to which school district a registered voter is entitled to vote in.
IV. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any cooperative school district, which uses the checklists of the cities and towns within the district for an election or meeting pursuant to paragraph III, shall not be required to maintain a separate school district checklist or conduct sessions of the supervisors of the checklist.
Source.
1996, 158:13, eff. July 1, 1996.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:22 - Method of Proposal.

195:22 Method of Proposal. –
A plan for reapportionment, including the terms of office of members to be elected pursuant thereto, as provided for by RSA 195:19-c:
I. May be submitted to the voters by the school board at any regular meeting of the district, and
II. Shall be submitted to the voters on petition, which shall include the proposed plan, to the school board, signed by no less than 10 percent of the qualified voters in a cooperative district at the next regular meeting or at a special meeting of the district if requested in the petition.
Source.
1971, 252:1. 1996, 158:14, eff. July 1, 1996.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:26 - Withdrawal Plan.

195:26 Withdrawal Plan. –
A plan for the withdrawal of a member district or districts of a cooperative school district shall include the following:
I. The name of the withdrawing district or districts and the grades.
II. The number, composition, method of selection, and terms of office of the school board of the withdrawing district or districts and of the cooperative school board.
III. The method of apportioning the operating and capital expenses among the members of the cooperative school district if a change is to be proposed in conjunction with the withdrawal procedure.
IV. The proposed date of operating responsibility, at which time the withdrawing district shall be responsible for the education of its pupils and after which the cooperative district will no longer have such financial and educational responsibility.
V. The liability of the withdrawing district for its share of any outstanding indebtedness of the cooperative school district as detailed in RSA 195:27.
VI. A plan for the education of all students in the withdrawing school district and for the continuation of the school system of the cooperative district. This shall detail the proposed assignment of students in grades operated by the cooperative and withdrawing district or districts including, if any, tuition arrangements or contracts.
VII. Any other matters, not incompatible with law, which the planning committee may consider appropriate to include in the withdrawal plan.
Source.
1977, 439:1, eff. Sept. 3, 1977.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:27 - Liability of Withdrawing District.

195:27 Liability of Withdrawing District. –
Each withdrawing district shall remain liable for its share of the indebtedness of the capital costs of the cooperative school district which is outstanding when the withdrawal vote takes effect, and the withdrawing district shall pay to the cooperative school district annually (a) that percentage of the payments of principal and interest of such debt thereafter due which is the same as the percentage for which the withdrawing district was responsible in the school year immediately preceding the effective date of the withdrawal vote, and (b) all amounts of state aid for the purchase or construction of school buildings and any other state aids which are lost by the cooperative school district after the withdrawal of a district as a result of such withdrawal, as determined by the state board of education, except that the withdrawing district shall not be liable for any indebtedness or loss of state aid or other aid contracted after the district has duly notified the remaining districts in the cooperative that a withdrawal study is being requested. Payments in discharge of such liability shall be made in accordance with a schedule agreed upon by the school board of the cooperative school district and the withdrawing school district or, in the event they fail to agree, as fixed by the state board of education. Such payments shall be deemed to be trust funds and shall be applied by the cooperative school district solely in payment of its indebtedness which was incurred to finance cooperative school facilities and which was outstanding on the effective date of the withdrawal vote. A school district which withdraws from the cooperative school district shall forfeit its equity in any cooperative district schools.
Source.
1977, 439:1, eff. Sept. 3, 1977.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:28 - Disposition of Property.

195:28 Disposition of Property. –
If a pre-existing school district withdraws from the cooperative school district, the cooperative school district shall transfer and convey title to any school building and land located in the withdrawing district to the withdrawing district upon payment by the withdrawing district of the costs of capital improvements and additions to said school building incurred by the cooperative school district, less the share which the withdrawing school district has already paid toward such costs and the share which the withdrawing school district is required to contribute toward such costs as provided in RSA 195:27. The amount of said capital improvements and additions and the time of transfer of title shall be determined by the agreement for withdrawal between the cooperative school district and the withdrawing school district. The withdrawing school district forfeits its equity in all other cooperative school district facilities.
Source.
1977, 439:1, eff. Sept. 3, 1977.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:30 - Time of Withdrawal.

195:30 Time of Withdrawal. –
The vote to withdraw from a cooperative school district shall take effect on July 1 of the calendar year one year subsequent to the date on which the withdrawal vote is passed. A preexisting school district which withdraws from a cooperative school district shall remain a part of the school administrative unit of which it was a member prior to withdrawal unless the withdrawing district complies with the school administrative unit withdrawal process set forth in RSA 194-C:2. After passage of the withdrawal vote and the issuance by the state board of education of its certificate of withdrawal, a special meeting of the voters in the withdrawing district shall be held at a time set by the state board of education. The warrant for this special meeting, approved by the state board of education and signed by the commissioner, shall provide for the election of officers in the withdrawing school district. The commissioner of education shall have authority to appoint officers pro tem as may be necessary and prepare the warrant for the special meeting held to elect officers. This meeting shall have the same power and authority as an annual meeting with reference to the raising or appropriating of money. The district officers elected at said meeting shall take office immediately and shall carry out the duties of their office and may take any action otherwise permitted by law which is necessary in order to carry out the provisions of the withdrawal.
Source.
1977, 439:1. 1979, 129:3, eff. Aug. 4, 1979. 2010, 5:3, eff. June 18, 2010.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195 - Cooperative School Districts › Section 195:31 - Modification.

195:31 Modification. –
In the event that the cooperative district adopts the provisions of RSA 194-B, the percentage of pupils authorized by a vote of the cooperative school district shall be permitted to attend a chartered public school which may be established in the district and approved by the voters in accordance with RSA 194-B:3.
Source.
2000, 106:1, eff. July 7, 2000. 2008, 354:1, eff. Sept. 5, 2008. 2009, 241:12, eff. Sept. 14, 2009.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:2 - Policy and Standards.

195-A:2 Policy and Standards. –
I. It is the purpose of this chapter to increase educational opportunities within the state by encouraging the establishment of area schools in the receiving districts which will serve the receiving district and the sending districts throughout a natural social and economic region which has an adequate minimum taxable valuation and a number of pupils sufficient to permit efficient use of such area school facilities and to provide improved instruction. The state board may formulate and adopt additional standards consistent with this purpose and these standards; and the state board shall approve plans for the establishment of area schools only after determining that such establishment will be in accord with such standards and purposes set forth herein.
II.
Geographical Plan. The state board is authorized and directed to prepare and publish a plan subdividing the territory of the state into suggested regions for area schools indicating the suggested receiving district or districts for the schools of each region, which shall be compatible with the plan for suggested cooperative school districts, and which plan shall meet the standards formulated under paragraph I. This plan shall be reasonably compatible with the areas of the several school administrative units. From time to time thereafter the state board may modify such plan.
III.
Advisory Powers of State Board. The state board may prepare recommended forms of written plans for area schools and for enlargement of the areas served thereby and may furnish its advisory services to area school planning boards or school boards who have such matters under consideration.
Source.
1963, 277:1. 1979, 459:4, eff. Aug. 24, 1979.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:4 - Application of School Laws.

195-A:4 Application of School Laws. –
An area school shall be maintained and operated by the receiving district and its school board in accordance with all the general school laws applicable to schools of the grades which it includes, except only as otherwise provided in this chapter. The receiving district shall be obligated to provide for the elementary or secondary school education, or both, of all the resident pupils of the sending districts as well as its own, in accordance with the approved regional plan as adopted under RSA 195-A:3. The sending districts shall be obligated to assign and send their resident pupils to the area school, or schools, in the receiving district as provided in such plan and to raise and appropriate annually the tuition of each such pupil to be paid to the receiving district. The liability to pay tuition may be enforced by the receiving district in an action of debt against a delinquent sending district to be commenced in the superior court for the county in which either district is located. Transportation of resident pupils of the sending districts to the area school shall be governed by the general school laws applicable thereto and shall be the responsibility of each sending district. An area school shall be deemed the assigned school for all resident pupils in the region which it is established to serve, for purposes of the school attendance laws, except as provided in RSA 193:3.
Source.
1963, 277:1, eff. July 1, 1964.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:4-a - Exception.

195-A:4-a Exception. –
Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any agreement between a receiving district and a sending district, the school board of a receiving district and the school board of a sending district may mutually agree upon a showing of hardship by pupils from a sending district to exempt such pupils from any agreement requiring them to attend the receiving district's schools. A pupil exempted from such agreement would make suitable arrangements to attend school outside the receiving district. The sending district shall be liable for tuition payments to the district of actual attendance. Any exception so granted shall be for the period of one school year and shall be renewed only upon mutual agreement between the school boards concerned. In the case of the withdrawal of accreditation by the accrediting agency of the school attended in the receiving district, and by application of the person having custody of the pupil, the board of the sending district may agree to exempt pupils from a sending district from any agreement requiring them to attend the receiving district's schools. If the sending district grants the exemption, this exemption provision shall remain in effect until the accreditation of the receiving school is reinstated. A pupil exempted under this section may complete the academic year in the school to which the pupil is assigned. The provisions of this section shall apply only to area agreements negotiated on or after the effective date of this act unless the agreement indicates otherwise.
Source.
1973, 78:1. 1992, 134:2, eff. July 3, 1992.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:5 - Joint School Board Meetings.

195-A:5 Joint School Board Meetings. –
The state board shall cause to be held, at reasonable intervals, at the request of a school board or school boards of the receiving or sending district, or on its own motion, a joint board meeting of the school boards of all school districts in the authorized regional enrollment area for the purpose of consulting and advising about any and all matters of joint interest. Each school board shall be entitled to 3 representatives at such meetings, which shall be presided over by an agent of the state board designated by the commissioner of education. Such meetings shall be advisory, consultative, and informational in nature and shall not infringe upon the legal authority and responsibility of the school board of the receiving district over the schools within such district.
Source.
1963, 277:1, eff. July 1, 1964.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:6 - Area School Property.

195-A:6 Area School Property. –
The legal title to, and administration of, an area school building, land and equipment, shall be vested in the receiving district, but it shall hold such property in trust for the benefit of all the school districts in the authorized regional enrollment area, as their respective equitable interests therein may appear.
Source.
1963, 277:1, eff. July 1, 1964.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:7 - Construction of Area Schools.

195-A:7 Construction of Area Schools. –
The construction of an area school including the purchase of school buildings, the construction of additions or alterations to existing buildings, the required new construction of such facilities during the life of the plan, the equipment thereof, and necessary land acquisition therefor, shall be the responsibility of the receiving district but it must, at all times, provide facilities of sufficient capacity to meet the estimated educational needs of the receiving and sending districts together. A receiving district may borrow money for such purposes as provided in RSA 33 as amended. However, in calculating whether it is within its debt limit, there shall be charged thereto an amount no greater than its proportionate share of any such required capital outlay, which shall be the proportion which its then estimated enrollment in the area school to be purchased, constructed or enlarged, bears to the then estimated total enrollment therein as determined by order of the state board. Also in determining the debt limit of the receiving district this same proportion of its estimated enrollment in the area school shall apply to any indebtedness outstanding of the receiving district that existed at the time of the date of operating responsibility of the authorized regional enrollment area, when such indebtedness was incurred for facilities which are included in the area school plan. The total amount of such bond or serial note issue shall be general obligations of the receiving district, fully secured by its powers of taxation. Upon application of the school board of the receiving district, that amount of such bond or serial note issue, which is in excess of the proportionate share of the receiving district as determined by the state board, shall be eligible for state guarantee, either on a declining balance basis or as a separate issue fully guaranteed, as the governor and council may decide, in accordance with RSA 195-C. The school board of the receiving district, without vote of the district, shall apply all tuition payments received from sending districts in each year first to the payment of the currently scheduled, or any past due, annual installments of principal or interest on that amount of such bond or serial note issue which is guaranteed by the state; and only after adequate provision has been made therefor may any portion of such revenue be used for other purposes.
Source.
1963, 277:1. 1965, 112:5. 1969, 347:1. 1971, 83:1, eff. June 30, 1971.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:9 - Discontinuance of Schools Replaced by an Area School.

195-A:9 Discontinuance of Schools Replaced by an Area School. –
Upon the date of operating responsibility of an area school, the school buildings of the various sending districts and receiving district which formerly served the same grades as the area school and have been rendered surplus thereby under the approved plan, shall automatically be deemed closed and discontinued notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 194:35 or any other applicable statute, unless the school district in which any such building is located shall have expressly voted to devote the same to some different educational use.
Source.
1963, 277:1, eff. July 1, 1964.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:11 - Special Aid to Small Area High Schools.

195-A:11 Special Aid to Small Area High Schools. –
In certain areas of the state where due to sparsity of population and distance between centers of population, an area high school cannot be established to serve as many school districts or pupils as would otherwise be standard, the receiving districts in any such small authorized regional enrollment areas as may be approved and established hereunder for a high school, in addition to the aid granted in RSA 198:19, shall be paid annually by the state board, from a fund appropriated by the general court, special supplemental aid in such proportionate amounts from the fund thus made available as may be determined by the state board, in accordance with the relative need of such smaller area high schools, for the purpose of faculty improvement. Such special aid shall be fairly and equitably apportioned by the state board as of June 30 in each year and paid to the eligible receiving districts in the succeeding fiscal year based upon conditions prevailing in the preceding fiscal year. Such special aid shall be deducted from current expenses of operation before tuition is calculated.
Source.
1963, 277:1, eff. July 1, 1964.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:12 - Enlargement of Authorized Regional Enrollment Area.

195-A:12 Enlargement of Authorized Regional Enrollment Area. –
I. The school board of a school district located in proximity to an authorized regional enrollment area, which did not join the plan when it was initially established, may petition the school board of the receiving district of such area to join the area plan. Thereupon it shall be the duty of the 2 school boards to engage in a joint study of the advisability thereof. The 2 school boards acting jointly shall have all the powers of an area school planning board as provided in RSA 195-A:3 and may prepare and sign a written plan which shall contain such of the provisions required by RSA 195-A:3, V, as may be applicable.
II. An executed copy of the proposed plan shall be submitted by the joint board to the state board and thereafter the procedure shall be that prescribed in paragraphs VI, VII, VIII, IX and X of RSA 195-A:3; provided, however, that such plan shall be submitted only to the voters of the receiving district and proposed new sending district and that prior public hearing thereon may be waived by the joint board.
Source.
1963, 277:1. 1965, 112:8, eff. May 28, 1965.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:13 - Addition of New Grades to Area Plan.

195-A:13 Addition of New Grades to Area Plan. –
Whenever several school districts have adopted and established an authorized regional enrollment area plan as provided in this chapter but have not applied such plan to all grades of elementary and secondary schools in the area, they may subsequently extend such plan to all or part of the omitted grades by establishing a new area school planning board as provided in RSA 195-A:3 and by proceeding as provided in said section to prepare a supplemental authorized regional enrollment area plan for such additional grades.
Source.
1963, 277:1, eff. July 1, 1964.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:15 - Conversion of Area School Plan to Cooperative School District.

195-A:15 Conversion of Area School Plan to Cooperative School District. –
I. The school districts comprising an authorized regional enrollment area plan may convert the plan to a cooperative school district as provided in RSA 195:18 upon the expiration of 5 years after date of operating responsibility, and thereafter. Provided, however, that, if such area plan then includes a city school district or the dependent school department of a city, such conversion may only be accomplished by special act of the legislature upon petition of the cooperative school district planning board. In proceedings for conversion, the school boards of the several school districts in the area plan, acting jointly, shall constitute the cooperative school district planning board. The articles of agreement for such conversion shall provide for assumption by the cooperative school district of all outstanding debt of each receiving district incurred for its area schools, and shall provide for termination of tuition payments on date of operating responsibility of the new cooperative district.
II. [Repealed.]
Source.
1963, 277:1. 1969, 347:3. 1991, 188:4, eff. May 27, 1991 at 12:01 a.m.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools › Section 195-A:16 - Modification.

195-A:16 Modification. –
Parties to any authorized regional area agreement may, either at the time of the original agreement, or at any subsequent modification of the agreement, specify that the agreement shall cover less than 100 percent of the student population of the sending district. In the event that a chartered public school is approved within a sending or receiving district, after final approval by the state board, an area review board shall be convened pursuant to RSA 195-A:14 solely for the purpose of considering an amendment to the area agreement relative to the adoption of the chartered public school provisions under RSA 194-B. Any such amendment shall be consistent with the provisions of RSA 195-A:3, V(p). An area plan amended under this section shall be submitted to the state board for approval no later than December 1 of the year of amendment.
Source.
1992, 134:1. 2000, 106:3, eff. July 7, 2000. 2008, 354:1, eff. Sept. 5, 2008.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-C - School Building Authority-State Guarantee › Section 195-C:2 - State Guarantee.

195-C:2 State Guarantee. –
Upon the receipt of a report from the authority containing a recommendation that bonds or notes of a school district should be guaranteed by the state, the governor with the advice and consent of the council may award an unconditional state guarantee with respect to such bonds or notes in accordance with the authority's recommendation or in some lesser amount or percentage, or on the alternative basis of guarantee, as the best interests of the state may require. The full faith and credit of the state are and shall be pledged for any such guarantees, and the total outstanding amount of the principal of and interest on such bonds and notes which has been guaranteed by the state under this section shall at no time exceed $95,000,000. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is authorized to draw a warrant for such a sum out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of honoring any guarantee awarded under this section. In the event that any state funds shall be so used, the state may recover the amount thereof as provided in RSA 530.
Source.
1967, 154:1. 1970, 51:8. 1971, 294:1. 1985, 240:2. 1986, 172:1. 1987, 191:1. 1999, 335:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2000. 2008, 49:2, eff. July 1, 2008. 2009, 144:200, eff. July 1, 2009.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-C - School Building Authority-State Guarantee › Section 195-C:3 - Definition and Limit of Split Issue Guarantee.

195-C:3 Definition and Limit of Split Issue Guarantee. –
An award of a state guarantee on a split-issue basis under RSA 195-C:2 shall specify the face amount of the bonds or notes which shall comprise the guarantee portion of the total authorized borrowing, and such guarantee shall be applicable with respect to that amount of the bonds or notes and interest on such bonds or notes. The guaranteed portion of the total authorized borrowing shall not exceed 75 percent thereof. Bonds or notes bearing a state guarantee awarded on a split-issue basis shall be offered and sold at public sale, after such advertisement as the school board deems appropriate, as a separate and distinct issue from any issue of bonds or notes which are not guaranteed by the state. All state guaranteed bonds or notes issued to finance a particular project shall be made payable no later than the payment date of the last maturing unguaranteed bond or note which is issued to finance the same project. The bonds or notes comprising the guaranteed portion of an authorized borrowing and the bonds or notes comprising the unguaranteed portion of an authorized borrowing may be issued from time to time, provided that the guaranteed portion which shall have been issued at any time shall not exceed 3 times the unguaranteed portion which shall then have been issued. The state's guarantee shall be evidenced on each guaranteed bond or note by an endorsement signed by the state treasurer in substantially the following form:
The State of New Hampshire hereby unconditionally guarantees the payment of the whole of the principal and interest of the within (bond) (note) and for the performance of such guarantee the full faith and credit of the State are pledged.
State Treasurer
Source.
1967, 154:1. 1970, 51:9. 1985, 240:3, eff. Aug. 3, 1985.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-C - School Building Authority-State Guarantee › Section 195-C:4 - Definition and Limit of Declining Balance Guarantee.

195-C:4 Definition and Limit of Declining Balance Guarantee. –
An award of a state guarantee on a declining balance basis under RSA 195-C:2 shall specify the percentage of the guarantee, and such guarantee shall be applicable in such percentage with respect to any amount of a bond, note or coupon comprising the authorized borrowing which the issuing district is unable to pay or refuses to pay upon the presentation of such bond, note or coupon. Such percentage shall not be more than 75 percent. The bonds or notes comprising an authorized borrowing guaranteed on a declining balance basis may be issued from time to time and may be sold at public or private sale. The state's guarantee shall be evidenced on each bond or note by an endorsement signed by the state treasurer in substantially the following form:
The State of New Hampshire hereby unconditionally guarantees the payment of ... percent of any amount of the principal of or the interest on this (bond) (note) which the issuer of this (bond) (note) is unable to pay or refuses to pay upon presentation, and for the performance of such guarantee the full faith and credit of the State are pledged.
State Treasurer
Source.
1967, 154:1. 1970, 51:10. 1985, 240:4, eff. Aug. 3, 1985.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-D - New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority › Section 195-D:1 - Declaration of Policy.

195-D:1 Declaration of Policy. –
It is declared to be the policy of the state that for the benefit of the people of the state, the increase of their commerce, welfare, and prosperity and the improvement of their health and living conditions, it is essential that this and future generations of youths be given the fullest opportunity to learn and develop their intellectual and mental capacities; that it is essential that participating educational institutions within the state be provided with appropriate additional means to assist such youths in achieving the required levels of learning and development of their intellectual and mental capacities; that it is essential that participating health care institutions within the state be provided with appropriate additional means to expand, enlarge and establish health care and other related facilities; that it is essential that participating health care institutions and participating educational institutions within the state be encouraged and assisted in reducing the costs of providing health care or education; that it is essential that powers be conferred on the New Hampshire health and education facilities authority as will assure the successful completion of projects to be initiated by the corporation or the refinancing of existing indebtedness as provided in this chapter so as to accomplish the purposes of this chapter all to the public benefit and good. It is further declared that the exercise by the corporation of the powers conferred on the corporation under this chapter will constitute the performance of an essential governmental function.
Source.
1969, 318:1. 1970, 16:1. 1979, 384:1. 1981, 532:1. 1982, 16:1. 1991, 298:1. 1999, 253:2, eff. July 9, 1999.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-D - New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority › Section 195-D:2 - Citation.

195-D:2 Citation. –
This chapter as amended may be referred to as and cited as the "New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority Act".
Source.
1969, 318:1. 1970, 16:2. 1971, 198:1. 1999, 253:3, eff. July 9, 1999.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-D - New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority › Section 195-D:5-a - Exemption From Rules of Other Agencies; Exemption From Administrative Procedure Act; Rulemaking Authority.

195-D:5-a Exemption From Rules of Other Agencies;  Exemption From Administrative Procedure Act;  Rulemaking Authority. –
I. The corporation shall be exempt from the rules of any department, commission, board, bureau, or agency of the state except as provided in this chapter.
II. The corporation shall be exempt from the provisions of RSA 541-A and may adopt rules in accordance with its own procedures to facilitate, implement, execute the powers, duties, and purposes of the corporation enumerated in this chapter, and such additional powers and duties as may be conferred upon it by the legislature. The corporation shall file in the office of legislative services a copy of all existing rules adopted by the corporation. Any rule adopted after the effective date of this section or any amendment or repeal of any existing rule shall be filed in the office of legislative services within 7 days of such adoption, amendment, or repeal.
Source.
1999, 253:13, eff. July 9, 1999.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-D - New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority › Section 195-D:6 - Acquisition of Property.

195-D:6 Acquisition of Property. –
The corporation is authorized and empowered, directly or by and through a participating institution, as its agent to acquire by purchase, gift or devise, solely from funds provided under the authority of this chapter, such lands, structures, property, real or personal, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements and other interests in land, including lands lying under water and riparian rights, which are located within or without the state as it judges necessary or convenient for the construction or operation of a project, upon such terms and at such prices as considered by it to be reasonable and can be agreed upon between it and the owner thereof, and to take title thereto in the name of the corporation.
Source.
1969, 318:1. 1970, 16:17. 1991, 298:4, eff. Aug. 19, 1991.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XV - Education › Chapter 195-D - New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority › Section 195-D:7 - Title to Projects.

195-D:7 Title to Projects. –
When the principal of and interest on revenue bonds of the corporation issued to finance the construction and acquisition of a particular project or projects at a participating institution, including any revenue refunding bonds issued to refund and refinance such revenue bonds, have been fully paid and retired or when adequate provision has been made to fully pay and retire the same, and all other conditions of the resolution or trust agreement authorizing and securing the same have been satisfied and the lien of such resolution or trust agreement has been released in accordance with the provisions thereof, the corporation shall promptly do such things and execute such deeds and conveyances as are necessary and required to convey title to such project or projects to such participating institution, free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, all to the extent that title to such project or projects is not, at the time, then vested in such participating institution.
Source.
1969, 318:1. 1970, 16:18. 1991, 298:5, eff. Aug. 19, 1991.