Title VI, Public Officers and Employees

I. The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall submit a list of names of incumbents and identify all current unclassified position titles and associated job responsibilities for positions established pursuant to 1995, 310 to the department of administrat…

I. Effective July 1, 1953, the annual salary of each official holding any of the positions named in RSA 94:1 shall be the minimum salary provided for therein except as otherwise provided. Any such official whose salary on June 30, 1953 is in excess of said minimum provided for hi…

Upon recommendation of the appointing authority, the holder of any position mentioned in RSA 94:1-a shall be entitled to an annual increase in salary amounting to 1/6 of the difference between the minimum and maximum salary for said position but in no case shall the total salary …

I. Annual Leave. All full-time, nonelective unclassified legislative officials and employees shall accumulate annual or biennial leave to the extent authorized for each position by the appointing authority. If, at the time of his separation from service, such an official or emplo…

I. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, upon the request of an appointing authority submitted to the commissioner of administrative services for review and evaluation and upon approval by the joint committee on employee classification, the governor and cou…

I. Any state employee who is a certified disaster relief service volunteer of the American Red Cross may, with the authorization of the employee's supervisor, be granted leave not to exceed 15 working days in any fiscal year to participate in specialized disaster relief service w…

Any state official who has completed 10 years of service for the state shall be paid, in addition to his or her statutory salary the sum of $350 annually and an additional $350 for each additional 5 years of state service. Any state official who transfers, without a break in serv…

In the event any official named in RSA 94:1 and 1-a shall die while in office, his estate shall be paid as a death benefit, an additional 20 days salary beyond the date of death. Any payments made pursuant to this section shall be a charge against the salary adjustment fund.

I. A death benefit of an additional 20 days salary beyond the date of death shall be paid to the estate of the following legislative personnel: (a) Legislative officers, who are not members of the general court, who die while in office. (b) Nonelective full-time legislative offic…

Any unclassified state official or employee who transfers from the unclassified service, without a break in service, to the classified service, shall immediately begin to accumulate and utilize, as earned, annual and sick leave in accordance with the state collective bargaining a…

Any full-time classified employee who transfers from classified service to the court system, without a break in service, may transfer all annual leave, sick leave, longevity pay, and bonus time already accumulated in the classified service to the court system.

I. The following positions shall carry with them maintenance: (a), (b) [Repealed.] (c) at the Glencliff home; (1) administrator; (d) [Repealed.] II. Maintenance for the above positions shall consist only of the use of a furnished house or apartment located on the institution grou…

In case of a new appointment to fill any vacancy the entrance salary shall be at the minimum of the established range unless, upon recommendation of the appointing authority, the governor and council shall establish, after due and proper investigation as to qualifications, a diff…

Upon the request of the appointing authority, the governor and council upon a finding that it is in the best interest of the state may increase the annual salary of any classified or unclassified employee by $1,000 if said employee is eligible for certification by the American bo…

If any administrator at Laconia developmental services, New Hampshire hospital, New Hampshire Veterans' home or the Glencliff home is sued by a resident or his legal representative on the grounds that he has not been compensated for services rendered in violation of the Fair Labo…

I. Any full-time state official or employee other than those in the state classified system who retires, resigns, dies in office, or is terminated as a result of not being reappointed, shall receive upon such cessation of employment 3 days' salary for each year of employment in n…

No person holding a public office, as such, in state or any political subdivision governmental service shall, by contract or otherwise, except by open competitive bidding, buy real estate, sell or buy goods, commodities, or other personal property of a value in excess of $200 at …

With respect to any public works or construction contracts of any type that are paid for by public funds of the state or by any of its political subdivisions, or of any public authority, it is unlawful for any officer or employee of the state, or of any of its political subdivisi…

Anyone violating the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction there shall automatically be a vacancy in the office held by the person convicted which shall be filled as otherwise provided by law.

If any officer or employee of the state who is responsible for certification of any work progress report, invoice, manifest or other document used as a basis for payment of any money appropriated under any capital or other budget act shall knowingly or wilfully make or certify an…

If any officer or employee of the state in performing the duty of awarding any contract as a result of competitive bid, required under any capital budget act, shall knowingly or wilfully make or certify any false statement in connection therewith or shall recommend to the governo…

Each county, town, city, precinct, school board or other political subdivision of the state shall reemploy a veteran of any branch of the military service of the United States who has been placed on inactive status or is a veteran as defined by RSA 21:50 and who, within 90 days a…

Such political subdivision shall, upon receiving the foregoing notification and being satisfied that the applicant has been placed on inactive status or holds a discharge other than dishonorable, reinstate such veteran in the position he held at the time of entering the military …

In the event that the position held by said veteran at the time he entered the service is held by another when the notification required under RSA 97:1 is received, the political subdivision may continue to pay the person whom the veteran replaces for such time as is reasonable u…

In the event the position held by said veteran at the time he entered the service has been abolished or discontinued the political subdivision shall reemploy such veteran as provided hereunder and assign to him duties as nearly comparable as circumstances permit.

Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent a political subdivision from paying a veteran more than he was receiving upon entering the service nor employing him, if he wishes, in a different capacity provided he is paid at least as much and as often.

Any political subdivision lacking an appropriation providing funds from which to carry out the terms of this chapter, may borrow the amount necessary from the state paying, therefor, interest at the rate of one percent per annum. The state treasurer shall advance the sums necessa…

This chapter shall be liberally construed in favor of a veteran and the superior court shall have original jurisdiction on any question arising hereunder.

The State of New Hampshire recognizes that intergovernmental cooperation is an essential factor in resolving problems affecting this state and that the interchange of personnel between and among governmental agencies at the same or different levels of government is a significant …

The following terms shall be construed as follows: I. "Temporary employee" shall mean any person who is appointed to fill a position on a full-time or part-time basis for a limited duration. II. "Seasonal employee" shall mean any person who is appointed to fill a seasonal positio…

For the purposes of this chapter: I. "Employee" shall mean any person employed on a permanent basis in any branch of state government, and any person who has been or will be employed on a temporary basis for a period of not less than 6 months in any branch of state government. II…

State employees appearing in their official capacity before any legislative meeting or hearing for the purpose of promoting or opposing, directly or indirectly, any legislation pending or proposed before the general court shall wear their employee identification badges.

Notwithstanding any other rule or order to the contrary, a person employed as a public employee in any capacity shall have a full right to publicly discuss and give opinions as an individual on all matters concerning any government entity and its policies. It is the intention of …

In this chapter, "public employee" includes any person employed by the state or any subdivision thereof, including, but not limited to counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, and school administrative units.

For the purposes of this chapter: I. "Sending agency" means any department or agency of the federal government or a state or local government which sends any employee thereof to another government agency under this chapter. II. "Receiving agency" means any department or agency of…

Officials of the state government may enter into agreements with officials in other branches for the temporary transfer of employees from one branch to another. Said agreements shall be in writing and shall specify the names of employees to be temporarily transferred, the compens…

All appointments to temporary positions in state service shall be filled in the first instance from appropriate state layoff lists. If applicants from such lists are not available any individual meeting the minimum qualifications of the position may be certified by the director o…

No person shall interfere in any way with the right of freedom of speech, full criticism, or disclosure by any public employee.

Any person serving in a temporary position or any person serving in a seasonal position who works the equivalent of 6 months or more, not necessarily consecutively, in any 12-month period shall be deemed to be respectively a permanent temporary employee or a permanent seasonal em…

Any department, agency, or instrumentality of the state is authorized to participate in a program of interchange of employees with departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the federal government or another state, as a sending or receiving agency. Except as to employees assi…

Any agreement entered into pursuant to RSA 98-D:2 may be cancelled by mutual consent of the signatory officials. The office of the commissioner of administrative services shall be notified in writing by the transferor official of any cancellation.

Nothing in this chapter shall suspend or affect any law relating to confidential and privileged records or communications. For the purposes of this chapter, confidential records and communications shall include communication or records relating to investigations for law enforceme…

Funds appropriated for compensation of a position which is unfilled in any department, agency or instrumentality of the state may be used as full or partial compensation of any employee assigned to it as a receiving agency under title IV of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of …

During the period of a temporary transfer to another branch, the transferred employee: (1) if an employee of the executive or judicial branch, shall be compensated at no lower rate than that which he is receiving as an employee of the transferor office; (2) if an employee of the …

I. Employees of a sending agency participating in an exchange of personnel as authorized in RSA 98-B:3 may be considered during such participation to be on detail to regular work assignments of the sending agency. II. Employees who are on detail shall be entitled to the same sala…

I. A public employee may seek injunctive relief or maintain a civil action, or both, to recover damages for violation of this chapter in any court of competent jurisdiction by bench or jury trial. II. If the public employee prevails, in addition to damages the court may allow the…