Title XXXI, Trade and Commerce

Any person to whom unsolicited merchandise is addressed may refuse delivery or accept the merchandise as a gift without incurring any legal obligation to the sender. Replacements or substitutes for original orders shall not be considered unsolicited merchandise for the purposes o…

Where there is no special agreement as to the amount of tare to be allowed on each bale, every bale of raw or unmanufactured cotton sold or offered for sale within this state shall have legibly marked upon it, or upon some tag securely fixed thereto, the gross weight of such bale…

For the purpose of ascertaining the weight of the packing material upon cotton, according to the provisions of this subdivision, and in the absence of a special agreement as to tare, it shall be lawful to weigh by sample; but there shall be an actual weighing of the packing mater…

The mayor and aldermen of every city, and the selectmen of every town of more than 1,500 inhabitants, and of every town of less than 1,500 inhabitants upon the written application of 5 or more citizens of such town therefor, shall appoint annually one or more suitable persons, no…

Their compensation shall be fixed by the selectmen and paid by persons requiring their services.

Any inspector guilty of fraud, deceit or culpable negligence in the performance of his duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

No person shall mix for sale gasoline with kerosene or other illuminating or fuel oils, or shall sell or offer for sale such mixture. No person shall sell or offer for sale kerosene or similar illuminating or fuel oils which flash under 100 degrees Fahrenheit, open cup test. Prov…

Whoever violates the provisions of RSA 339:25 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable for all damage occasioned to any person by the explosion or ignition of such oil thus unlawfully sold, kept or offered for sale; and such oil or compounds, and the casks or package…

Any person who shall keep, sell, or offer for sale naphtha under any false or assumed name shall for each offense be liable to the penalties and subject to the liabilities set forth in RSA 339:26.

Upon complaint made to a municipal court, or to a justice of the peace, by the mayor or an alderman of any city, or by a selectman of any town, or by an inspector appointed under the provisions of this chapter, or by an engineer of a fire department, fireward, chief of police or …

Such articles when kept for sale shall not be allowed to remain in any street, lane, alley or traveled way, or upon any wharf, or in any yard, or on the grounds of any railroad corporation, in any city for a longer time than 24 hours, or in any town for a longer time than 48 hour…

No person shall sell, or keep for sale or in storage, any crude or refined petroleum, naphtha, kerosene, earth-rock, machinery or illuminating oil, in a city or town, without having the same inspected and approved by an authorized inspector. Any person violating the provisions of…

I. All persons who shall offer for sale or sell gasoline or diesel fuel at retail shall post the price of all grades and services of such fuel in at least 2 of the following ways: (a) On a price sign affixed to the fuel dispenser in numerals not less than 4 inches high and 3/4 of…

No person shall make, sell or offer to sell or dispose of, or have in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise marked, stamped or branded with the words "sterling" or "sterling silver," or encased or enclosed in any thing in or by which the sai…

No person shall in any like way use the terms "coin" or "coin silver" unless .900 of the component parts of the metal of which the article is manufactured are pure silver.

Any person who violates any provision of RSA 339:31 or RSA 339:32 shall be guilty of a violation if a natural person, or guilty of a misdemeanor if any other person.

This subdivision shall not apply to such springs, catches or pins as may be necessary to adapt any article to its use.

If at any time the governor and council shall determine that an emergency exists requiring public regulation of the supply and sale of fuel for any purpose or allocation of available supplies of electrical energy, the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may appo…

The energy administrator shall have the authority to make such rules and regulations with respect to the sale and distribution of fuel, including the fixing of prices and standards, and with respect to the allocation of available supplies of electrical energy as the public good m…

He shall have authority to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents, may examine the books and papers of producers of or dealers in fuel or electrical energy, and may compel the cooperation of all officers, boards, commissions and departments of the stat…

He may also appoint such assistants as he may deem necessary to carry out the provisions hereof.

On appeal by any interested party, the governor and council shall hold a hearing and may modify or rescind any rule or regulation made by the energy administrator. Any party aggrieved by the decision of the governor and council with respect to any rule, regulation or ruling of th…

Any person who shall knowingly violate any provision of this or the preceding subdivision, or shall fail to comply with any rule or regulation of the energy administrator issued in accordance herewith, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person or shall be guilty of a f…

No person shall sell or offer for sale or exchange any woven fabric or paper containing arsenic in any form, or any article of dress or of household use composed wholly or in part of such woven fabric or paper, or any article of dress containing arsenic; provided, that this secti…

Any person who violates any provision of RSA 339:45 shall be guilty of a violation if a natural person, or guilty of a misdemeanor if any other person.

No person shall sell, offer for sale, deal in or supply, or have in his possession with intent to sell, offer for sale, give away, deal in or supply, any article of food or drink, or any medicinal or toilet preparation or perfume intended for human use internally or externally, w…

No person shall sell, offer for sale, have in possession with intent to sell, deal in, supply or give away any wood alcohol or methyl alcohol, either crude or refined, under or by whatever name the same may be called or known, or however manufactured, and whether in concentrated …

No person shall sell, offer for sale or label or advertise for sale, as "alcohol" without qualification, any fluid or solid which is not ethyl alcohol free from denaturing substances and from any other added matter; nor shall any person sell any product or preparation the label o…

Any person who violates any provision of this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

No person shall manufacture for sale, keep for sale, or sell, for household use, any ammonia or any laundry type chlorinated bleaching fluid the label or package of which shall bear any false or misleading statements. Any ammonia for household use whether or not the word ammonia …

The department of health and human services shall enforce the provisions of this subdivision and is authorized and empowered to approve such brands and labels intended for use hereunder as may be submitted to it for that purpose and as may in its judgment conform to the requireme…

Any article found in violation of this subdivision may be subject to embargo and condemnation in accord with the provisions of RSA 146:20.

Any person who violates any provision of this subdivision shall be guilty of a violation if a natural person, or guilty of a misdemeanor if any other person.

No person shall manufacture for purposes of sale, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, any mattress, pillow, cushion, muff bed, quilt, upholstered furniture or similar article having a filling of hair, down, feathers, wool, cotton, kapok or o…

If any such article is enclosed in a bale, box, crate or other receptacle, there shall be plainly marked upon such receptacle, or upon a durable tag securely attached thereto, a statement that the contents of the package are marked as herein required.

Whoever renovates or remakes any mattress shall attach a tag thereto bearing the word remade and a statement of the kind of material used for filling.

No person shall use, in the manufacture of any such article for purposes of sale, or sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession for the purpose of such use or for sale or for use in remaking or renovating any such article, any material which has previously been used in…

No person engaged in the business of selling any hair, down, feathers, wool, cotton, kapok or other materials commonly used for filling such articles, shall ship any box, crate, package or other container in which is placed any such hair or other such material unless there is att…

No person shall sell or offer for sale any such material which has been used before, representing the same to be new material.

Whoever violates any of the foregoing provisions of this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.

Whoever, except a purchaser at retail, removes or effaces any marking upon any article or receptacle or any tag or label attached therein as above provided shall be guilty of a violation.

Possession of any such article, not marked as herein provided, by any person engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling or offering the same for sale shall be prima facie evidence that such article is being manufactured, remade or renovated, or is offered or exposed for sa…

Any police officer, member of any local board of health, or other town official, who has reason to believe that any provision hereof has been or is being violated shall give notice thereof to the department of health and human services.

The department of health and human services, whenever there is reason to believe that any provision hereof is being violated in any factory, shop, warehouse, store or other place, shall cause an investigation of such place to be made, and for this purpose any member or duly autho…

The department of health and human services, or its duly authorized employee, whenever it is deemed necessary to safeguard the public health, may post upon any building or part thereof containing such materials or articles, or from which the same have been removed, a notice or wa…