Title II, Counties

I. The following powers shall be vested in the county convention: (a) To raise county taxes; (b) To make appropriations for the use of the county; (c) To authorize the purchase of real estate for its use, the sale and conveyance of its real estate; (d) To authorize the erection, …

The county convention of any county shall have the power to raise and appropriate such sums of money as it judges necessary to provide group plan life, accident, medical, surgical and hospitalization insurance benefits, or any combination of such benefits, for all regular employe…

A county may at any legal meeting vote to sponsor a group life, accident, medical, surgical and hospitalization insurance benefit or any combination of such benefits for regular employees of the county and their dependents under which plan said employees agree to pay the premiums…

I. Any county may establish computer-based geographic information systems and control the distribution of that information, subject to RSA 91-A. The county may finance the completion and perpetuation of the system through a special revenue fund or through nonprofit corporations. …

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary the following procedures shall apply in Hillsborough county and Rockingham county: I. The county commissioners shall deliver or mail to each member of the county convention, the chairperson of the board of selectmen in each town, and …

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the following procedure shall apply in Carroll county: I. Prior to the transfer of an appropriation, or any part thereof exceeding $1,000, or an accumulative total exceeding $1,000, from one line item to another, the following proced…

I. Appropriations by the county convention shall be itemized in detail and a record thereof shall be kept by the clerk of the convention. The executive committee of the county shall have authority to review the expenditures of the county after adoption of the county budget. Such …

The commissioners may apply to the county convention for an appropriation to be made subsequent to the adoption of the annual county budget, or the convention, on its own initiative, may consider and act upon a proposed supplemental appropriation. The clerk of the convention shal…

I. No county commissioner, or elected or appointed county officer, shall pay, or agree to pay, or incur any liability for the payment of, any sum of money for which the county convention has made no appropriation, or in excess of any appropriation so made except for the payment o…

Any violation of the provisions of RSA 24:15 or of provisions of RSA 29:8 shall subject the person or persons so violating to the provisions of RSA 661:9, providing for removal from office. A petition of 5 resident taxpayers of the county may be made to the the county commissione…

The county convention by a vote of a majority of all its members may appoint a committee of its own members, not to exceed 5, and not over 3 to be of either of the 2 major political parties, to investigate conditions pertaining to the conduct of county affairs by any county offic…

The county convention shall appropriate a certain sum for expenses for any committee established pursuant to RSA 24:17. The reasonable expenses of such investigation shall be paid by the county when approved by a judge of the superior court.

The recommendations of this committee when accepted by the county convention shall be entered at length in the next county report.

At its first regular meeting, or at any subsequent meeting when necessary, the county convention shall elect a chairperson, vice-chairperson, clerk, and an executive committee. Membership on the executive committee shall be divided between majority and minority party representati…

The executive committee shall elect its chairperson, vice-chairperson, and clerk. Officers of the county convention may be officers of the executive committee.

If a vacancy occurs in the membership of the executive committee, another member of the county delegation shall be elected to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term by a method to be determined by the county delegation at its first meeting convened according to the provisions of…

The county convention shall, during each biennial session of the legislature, grant county taxes for its county for 2 years; but the tax for each year shall be voted separately and collected in the year for which it was voted.

The county commissioners shall deliver or mail to each member of the county convention, the chairperson of the board of selectmen in each town and the mayor of each city within the county and to the secretary of state prior to the fifteenth day of February annually, a statement o…

I. Except as provided in paragraph II, the county commissioners shall deliver or mail to each member of the county convention who will be in office on the date that appropriations are voted and to the chairperson of the board of selectmen in each town and the mayor of each city w…

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary regarding the date for submitting budget estimates, the following procedures shall apply in Strafford county: I. The county commissioners shall, annually prior to January 15, deliver or mail to each member of the county convention who…

The form of the budget statement submitted by the county commissioners shall be as prescribed by the commissioner of revenue administration.

Not earlier than 5 nor later than 20 days after the mailing of the commissioners' statement there shall be held within the county at such time and place as the chairperson of the county convention may specify, a public hearing on the budget estimates as submitted by the commissio…

The final form of the county budget and the final form of all supplemental county appropriations adopted in accordance with RSA 24:14-a shall be filed with the secretary of state's office and the commissioner of revenue administration in accordance with the timeframes established…

Failure to comply with the requirements of RSA 24:21-24 shall constitute prima facie evidence of a violation of RSA 643:1.

The chair of the county delegation shall set the time and place for the first meeting of the county convention to be held during the week of the second Wednesday of December of each even-numbered year and shall notify the clerk of the house of representatives prior to the first W…

The chairperson of the convention or a majority of the members of the convention may, and the chairperson of the convention upon the written request of the county commissioners shall, call a further meeting or meetings of the county convention. On a day on which there is a meetin…

The clerk of the convention, or his or her designee, shall mail to each member of the convention a notice stating the time, place and purpose of further meetings at least 7 days before the day of the meeting and shall cause to be published a like notice at least 7 days before the…

Members of each county convention shall receive from the county treasury a sum not to exceed $25 per day for actual attendance at meetings of their respective conventions and an allowance for travel expenses to and from the place of meeting at a rate per mile not in excess of the…

Notwithstanding RSA 24:9-ee, members of the Coos county convention shall receive from the county treasury a sum not to exceed $50 per day for actual attendance at meetings of the convention and an allowance for travel expenses to and from the place of meeting at a rate per mile n…

Either the chairperson of the convention or the chairperson of the executive committee may call meetings of the executive committee to be held at any time either at the state house in Concord or at any place within the respective county. The members of the executive committee sha…