Title VI, Public Officers and Employees

I. A departmental award evaluation committee shall recommend such monetary or non-monetary recognition as it, within its discretion, concludes is appropriate for extraordinary service in the interest of the state that is either: (a) Outside of or beyond the scope of an employee's…

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed or held to constitute a waiver of any defense otherwise available against the claim.

Any person who has been or is caused to leave state service involuntarily by reason of reduction in force and who returned or shall return to state service may for purposes of future compensation only, count the time of said prior state service as continuous with his present serv…

Any person who is employed by a town, a village district, a school district, a city, or a county, and who subsequently becomes a state employee because the functions of his employment and his job with that political subdivision are taken over by the state, may count the time spen…

All persons performing work in the service of the state of New Hampshire shall be paid their compensation at such intervals, not more often than biweekly, as the commissioner of administrative services with the approval of the governor and council shall determine.

Appeal from denial of representation by the attorney general as provided in RSA 99-D:2 shall be available to any officer, trustee, official or employee who is so denied. Such appeal shall be by petition to the governor and council.

I. The amount of any monetary award recommended by a committee in regard to any one suggestion or service shall not be greater than $5,000. II. If an award evaluation committee determines, in its discretion, that an appropriate measure of award would be the amount of any savings …

The department of administrative services shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A to implement the provisions of this chapter.

Upon request of the appointing authority, the governor and council are hereby authorized and empowered, notwithstanding any other provisions of the law to the contrary, upon a finding by them and a recommendation from the director of personnel that a an increase in pay is needed …

A departmental award evaluation committee may, in its discretion, recommend, and the state suggestion and extraordinary service award evaluation committee may, in its discretion, issue or recommend, non-monetary recognition in lieu of, or in addition to, recommending a monetary a…

I. Without otherwise limiting or defining the sovereign immunity of the state and its agencies, this chapter shall apply to all claims against any nonprofit entity, or any employee, trustee, or director of such nonprofit entity when acting in the scope of such person's elected or…

I. Without otherwise limiting or defining the sovereign immunity of the state and its agencies, this chapter shall apply to all claims against any nonprofit entity, or any employee, trustee, or director of such nonprofit entity when acting in the scope of such person's elected or…

I. This chapter shall not be construed to confer any procedural or substantive rights upon persons submitting nominations or submissions, or persons making suggestions or rendering services, and no person shall have any right or vested right whatsoever to any award or recognition…

I. [Repealed.] II. [Repealed.] III. An employee whose position is reclassified or reallocated to a lower level as a result of the 1995 department of health and human services reorganization act shall be paid at the same level as such employee was paid prior to the reallocation or…

I. The department of administrative services, through its division of personnel, is authorized to convert non-term unclassified positions or qualifying classified positions to classified exempt salary positions. (a) Such conversions are only applicable to positions that meet the …

The following words and phrases as used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings: I. "Retirement system" shall mean the New Hampshire Retirement System as defined in RSA 100-A:2. II. "Board of trustees" or "…

The following words and phrases as used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings: I. "Accumulated contributions" means the sum of all the amounts deducted from the compensation of a member. II. "Actuarial eq…

The purpose of the length of service awards program is to provide service awards to volunteer and call firefighters and emergency medical personnel of volunteer municipal groups as organized under RSA 154:1, I(a)-(c). This program shall provide an income after a period of vesting…

I. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the maximum benefit payable to any retired member or beneficiary of the New Hampshire judicial retirement plan shall be limited to such extent as may be necessary to conform to the requirements of sections 401(a)(9) and 415…

I. Group I Members. (a) A group I member who has completed 10 years of creditable service and who, for reasons other than retirement or death, ceases to be an employee or teacher shall be deemed in vested status and upon meeting the eligibility requirements of subparagraph (b) ma…

I. All plan assets shall be held in trust for the exclusive purpose of providing contribution repayments to members and their beneficiaries or for the purpose of defraying the reasonable expenses of the operation and administration of the plan. If the service awards program and t…

I. (a) The trustee shall provide each active member who participates in a service awards program maintained under this chapter with a summary of the program's provisions, including the program's provisions relating to the participation requirements and the program's service award…

I. The judicial retirement plan shall be administered by a board of trustees, which shall be separate from the board of trustees of the New Hampshire retirement system. The board of the judicial retirement plan shall have the exclusive authority and full power to administer and t…

I. Group I Members. (a) If a group I member ceases to be an employee or teacher for reasons other than retirement or death and if he or she has not elected to receive a vested deferred retirement allowance under RSA 100-A:10, the amount of his or her accumulated contributions sha…

The distribution of benefits and return of accumulated contributions under this chapter shall be in conformance with the requirements of Internal Revenue Code section 401(a)(31) to the extent that the Code section applies to a qualified governmental plan within the meaning of Int…

I. Retired judges may participate in state retiree health plans offered under RSA 21-I:30 according to eligibility rules established under the judicial branch uniform personnel classification and compensation system. I-a. Retired judges and their applicable spouses who are not Me…

I. Upon the death of a retired group II member who retired before April 1, 1987, after the member's retirement allowance payments have commenced, there shall be paid to the person nominated by the member by written designation filed with the board, if living, otherwise to the ret…

I. The members of the board of trustees shall be the trustees of all funds of the judicial retirement plan created under this chapter and shall have full power to invest, and reinvest such funds, subject to all the terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions herein. Each mem…

I. The committee shall have the right to amend the plan at any time provided that no amendment shall: (a) Cause or permit any portion of the fund to become the property of the sponsor until contribution repayments to members and beneficiaries are satisfied; or (b) Deprive any mem…

I. Notwithstanding any other provision under this chapter to the contrary, in the event that any payment in the amount of $15,000 or less is to be made by the New Hampshire retirement system to the estate of a deceased member or beneficiary, the retirement system may, but is not …

I. Any active member; any member who has reached service retirement age as provided in RSA 100-A:5, I(a), or II(a), or RSA 100-A:19-b; any retiree within 120 days after the date of the original notice of retirement provided by the retirement system, not to include any future bene…

I. If any person to whom a contribution is repayable from the fund is a minor, or any person to whom such benefit is payable is incompetent by reason of physical or mental disability, any payment due, unless a proper claim shall have been made by a duly appointed guardian, conser…

I. All of the assets of the judicial retirement plan shall be credited, according to the purpose for which they are held, between 2 funds, namely, the member annuity savings fund and the state annuity accumulation fund. In making the determinations required under this section for…

When more than one person is designated by the member as beneficiary under this title, the member may provide the portion of the whole sum which each designee shall receive and may also provide that on the death of one of multiple designees the share of that designee shall automa…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the maximum benefit payable to any retired member or beneficiary of the New Hampshire retirement system shall be limited to such extent as may be necessary to conform to the requirements of sections 401(a)(9) and 415 of the Un…

I. All volunteer and call firefighters who have completed 5 or more years of service as volunteer or call firefighters shall be eligible for participation in the deferred compensation plan on January 1, 1997, even if they are not level one certified. II. All volunteer and call fi…

I. The administration of this system is vested in a board of 13 trustees. Each newly appointed or reappointed trustee shall have familiarity with or experience in finance or business management. The state treasurer shall be an ex officio voting member of the board. The governor a…

I. All member contributions to the judicial retirement plan shall be payable only with respect to membership service, and picked up by the state by means of payroll deduction and shall be treated as employer contributions for purposes of Section 414(h) of the Internal Revenue Cod…

I. The board of trustees shall establish subcommittees, to include but not be limited to, an audit committee. II. Each subcommittee shall consist of members of the board of trustees. At least one member of the audit committee shall be experienced in the field of public accounting…

There is hereby established the independent investment committee. I. The independent investment committee shall consist of not more than 5 voting members, 3 of whom shall be persons who are not members of the board of trustees appointed by the governor with the consent of the cou…

I. The members of the board of trustees shall be the trustees of the several funds created hereby and shall set the investment policy relative to those funds. The independent investment committee shall have full power to invest and reinvest such funds in accordance with the polic…

I. The right of a person to any benefit or to any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter, and the moneys in the funds created by this chapter, shall be exempted from any state, county, or municipal tax in the state; shall not be subject…

Any person who knowingly makes any false statement or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record or records of the judicial retirement plan in any attempt to defraud the system as a result of such act, shall be guilty of a class B felony if a natural person, or guilty of a f…

All of the assets of the retirement system shall be credited, according to the purpose for which they are held, between 2 funds, namely, the member annuity savings fund and the state annuity accumulation fund. Each of the funds shall be subdivided on account of the various member…

Each calendar year, the general court may approve supplemental benefits in an amount exceeding $50,000 in the aggregate upon recommendation of the board. The board shall have the authority to provide supplemental benefits annually in such percentages or amounts as the board deems…

Each full-time judge who was appointed prior to January 1, 2005, or an eligible beneficiary of such judge who retired after attaining age 65, shall notify the plan in writing no later than 90 days after the plan mails to each affected person a statement of the method by which ret…