Title XXXI, Trade and Commerce

I. When tested in accordance with RSA 339-F:3, no more than 25 percent of the cigarettes tested in a test trial shall exhibit full length burns. II. Each cigarette listed in a certification submitted pursuant to RSA 339-F:6 that uses lowered permeability bands in the cigarette pa…

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…

In the event of any termination, cancellation or refusal to renew, whether by mutual agreement or otherwise, a supplier shall make or cause to be made an offer in good faith to repurchase from the dealer at then current wholesale prices any and all merchantable products purchased…

No person shall expose or offer for sale or sell under any trademark, trade name, or name or other distinguishing mark, any liquid fuels, lubricating oils, greases, or other similar products, other than those manufactured or distributed by the manufacturer or distributor marketin…

In order to ensure compliance with the performance standard specified in RSA 339-F:4, data from testing conducted by manufacturers to comply with this performance standard shall be kept on file by such manufacturers for a period of 3 years and shall be sent to the commissioner up…

I. The department of health and human services is charged with the enforcement of this chapter. All inspectors and employees of the department, upon presenting appropriate credentials, shall be permitted access, at reasonable times, to any factory, warehouse, or establishment in …

The department may establish more stringent efficiency standards for the products listed in RSA 339-G:2, I. Every 2 years, the department shall propose to the general court new efficiency standards for products not listed in RSA 339-G:2, I. Standards proposed by the department sh…

Nothing in this chapter shall invalidate or restrict any other or additional right or remedy available to a sales representative, or preclude a sales representative from seeking to recover in one action on all claims against a principal.

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 supplier shall hinder, coerce or threaten any dealer for the purpose of preventing him from joining any trade association made up of dealers. Dealers shall have a right to select bargaining agents to negotiate and deal with suppliers on matters having to do with their supplier…

No person shall mix, blend or compound the liquid fuels, lubricating oils, greases or similar products of a manufacturer or distributor with the products of any other manufacturer or distributor, or adulterate the same, and expose, offer for sale, or sell such mixed, blended or c…

I. Each manufacturer shall submit a written certification attesting that each cigarette listed in the certification has been tested in accordance with RSA 339-F:3 and meets the performance standard set forth in RSA 339-F:4. II. Each cigarette listed in the certification shall be …

The manufacturers of products listed in RSA 339-G:2, I shall test samples of their products in accordance with the test procedures established in this chapter or those specified in the state building code as defined in RSA 155-A. The department shall adopt by rule test procedures…

Any misbranded hazardous substance found in violation of this chapter may be subject to embargo and condemnation in accord with the provisions of RSA 146:20.

A provision in any contract between a sales representative and a principal purporting to waive any provision of this chapter, whether by expressed waiver or by a contract subject to the laws of another state, shall be void.

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…

The provisions of this subdivision, except RSA 339:66 and 339:67, shall not apply to persons who sell or offer for sale goods of the kinds herein mentioned which are owned by them and have been in good faith used by them in their own houses or hotels, or to administrators, execut…

All dealers selling solid fuel heating appliances shall supply the purchaser with complete instructions on the safe installation and operation of the appliance. Such instructions shall include, but not be limited to, the following: I. Safe clearance from structural members, as es…

I. A dealer may bring an action for damages sustained as a result of: (a) Failure to make such disclosures as are required in RSA 339-C:3; or (b) Failure to make an offer in good faith to repurchase as required in RSA 339-C:5; or (c) Wrongful termination of or refusal to renew hi…

It is unlawful for any person to mix, blend, compound or adulterate the liquid fuel, lubricating oil, grease, or similar product of a manufacturer or distributor with a liquid fuel, lubricating oil, grease or similar product of the same manufacturer or distributor of a character …

Manufacturers certifying cigarettes in accordance with RSA 339-F:6 shall provide a copy of such certifications to all wholesalers and agents to which they sell cigarettes and also shall provide sufficient copies of an illustration of the cigarette packaging marking utilized by th…

Whoever violates any of the provisions of RSA 339-A or any regulations promulgated hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.