Title XII, Public Safety and Welfare

Except as otherwise provided by law, the duties of the department of health and human services with respect to the public assistance and welfare activities of the state shall be as hereinafter prescribed, for which funds appropriated for the general purposes of this chapter or RS…

Any town, city, or county official, so designated in a written agreement between the commissioner of the department of health and human services and the selectmen of a town, the city council of a city or the county commissioners of a county, may receive, store, issue and sell foo…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amount collected pursuant to RSA 161:2, XVI which is unclaimed or undeliverable to a recipient and which is in the opinion of the commissioner of health and human services unreturnable to the payor for a period of one year shall be …

I. Supervision. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the department of health and human services to supervise and direct the department so that its duties herein defined be effectuated and take action necessary or desirable to carry out the provisions of this chapter or RS…

The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A relative to: I. The development, administration and supervision of child welfare services by the department of health and human services under RSA 161:2, II. II. The determination of…

The commissioner of the department of health and human services may destroy any reports, records and other documents in the department which in his opinion are no longer of any value to the state provided the records have been retained for a sufficient period of time to comply wi…

Subject to the rules of the division of personnel, the commissioner shall appoint such personnel as may be necessary for the efficient performance of the duties prescribed in this chapter or RSA 167 and shall prescribe their duties.

If appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall perform, under the supervision of such court, the function of probation officer or agent of the court in any welfare matters which may be before the court.

When the department is a petitioner or respondent in contested cases involving children in need of services, children who are alleged to be neglected or abused, and in contested termination of parental rights cases or contested cases involving protective services for adults, the …