Title XV, Education

I. There is hereby established the governor's scholarship program and the governor's scholarship fund. The program and fund shall be administered by the commission. The fund shall be kept distinct and separate from all other funds and shall be used to provide scholarships which a…

I. A cooperative school district at an annual meeting, under a proper article in the warrant, may vote to establish a budget committee pursuant to RSA 32:14 and may rescind such action in a like manner. The budget committee shall have the same number of members as the cooperative…

I. The state treasurer is hereby authorized to receive from the United States or from any department or agency thereof any amounts of money as and when appropriated, allocated, granted, turned over or in any way provided for the purposes of this chapter, and said amounts shall be…

I. Any person who meets the following requirements shall be an eligible student: (a) A person shall meet the residency requirements of RSA 193:12; be a graduate of a New Hampshire high school, public academy, chartered public school, New Hampshire private preparatory high school,…

All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this chapter whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, are trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this chapter. Any officer with whom, or any bank or trust company with which, such moneys are depo…

All reasonable expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this chapter shall be payable by the foundation, the respective qualified educational institutions, or the respective loan corporations, as the case may be, and no liability or obligation shall be incurred by the …

A meeting of every cooperative school district shall be held annually between the dates set forth in RSA 197:1 for the choice of district officers, raising and appropriating money for the support of its schools for the fiscal year beginning the next July, and for the transaction …

Whenever several school districts have adopted and established an authorized regional enrollment area plan as provided in this chapter but have not applied such plan to all grades of elementary and secondary schools in the area, they may subsequently extend such plan to all or pa…

Any holder of revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee or trustees under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by any such resolution authorizing the issu…

I. Voted Appropriations. (a) The cooperative school board shall annually within 20 days of the close of the meeting certify to the commissioner of revenue administration and the state department of education, upon blanks prescribed and provided by the commissioner of revenue admi…

I. After the third anniversary of the date of operating responsibility, if requested by either a sending or receiving district governing body, an area school plan review board shall be established. The review board shall consist of 3 members from the school board of each school d…

I. All scholarship funds shall be distributed to the eligible student by the eligible institution. The institution shall include the scholarship in the student's financial aid package and may seek subsequent reimbursement. The state shall provide the reimbursements twice per year…

In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter, the bank, in addition to any powers granted to it elsewhere in this chapter and in RSA 35-A, shall have the following powers: I. To charge for its costs and services in review or consideration of any proposed loan…

I. The foundation, a qualified educational institution and a loan corporation shall have the full power and authority and be subject to all rights, responsibilities and liabilities for the administration of a loan program and for the distribution and collection of loans to qualif…

I. As an alternative to the apportionment of operating costs set forth in RSA 195:14, the cooperative school board may fix a specific percentage of the state adequate education grant amount received in a given year to be applied to the operating costs of the cooperative school di…

I. The school districts comprising an authorized regional enrollment area plan may convert the plan to a cooperative school district as provided in RSA 195:18 upon the expiration of 5 years after date of operating responsibility, and thereafter. Provided, however, that, if such a…

The state aid to which a cooperative elementary and/or secondary district shall be entitled shall be the total of those shares of the aid to which the pupils attending the cooperative district would have entitled the pre-existing districts, had they remained in the pre-existing d…

The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for the increase of their commerce, welfare and prosperity, and for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and will constitute the performance of…

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or statute applicable to or constituting any limitation on the maximum rate of interest per annum payable on bonds or notes, or as to annual interest cost to maturity of money borrowed or received upon issuance of bonds or notes, every ed…

The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for the increase of their commerce, welfare and prosperity, and for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and will constitute the performance of…

New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation, a New Hampshire voluntary, nonprofit corporation, is hereby designated as "eligible lender" within the meaning of 20 U.S.C. section 1085(d)(1)(D), to enable it to provide a secondary market for federally guaranteed student loans. F…

Except as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of receiving state building aid, or other similar aid toward school buildings, which may hereafter be provided, the amount of such aid for cooperative school districts shall apply only to those cooperative or union school districts …

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to this end the p…

A cooperative school district organized prior to July 1, 1963 may be enlarged in the following manner: I. The school board of any school district situated in proximity to an existing cooperative school district may petition the cooperative school board to meet with it to study jo…

Parties to any authorized regional area agreement may, either at the time of the original agreement, or at any subsequent modification of the agreement, specify that the agreement shall cover less than 100 percent of the student population of the sending district. In the event th…

Upon the sale and issuance of any educational institution bonds to the bank by any educational institution, such educational institution shall be held and be deemed to have agreed that in the event of the failure of such educational institution to pay the interest on or the princ…

I. The corporation is authorized to provide for the issuance of its revenue bonds for the purpose of refunding any revenue bonds of the corporation then outstanding, including the payment of any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the earliest or s…

Any cooperative school district may amend its existing arrangement or articles of agreement to increase or decrease the grades for which the cooperative school district provides education. If the cooperative district was organized pursuant to RSA 195:18, it shall proceed by amend…

Whenever a cooperative school district cannot acquire by purchase a good title to any real estate or interest therein needed by it for its purposes either because of the unwillingness of the owner to sell at a reasonable price, the owner's inability to convey a good title, or for…

If there shall arise any occasion which shall require the doing of any act or thing by or in behalf of a pre-existing district which has ceased to exist by reason of its inclusion in a cooperative school district, the superior court shall have the power, upon application of 3 reg…

Bonds issued by the corporation under the provisions of this chapter are securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, credit unions, building and loan associa…

All officers, departments, boards, agencies, divisions and commissions of the state are hereby authorized and empowered to render any and all of such services to the bank as may be within the area of their respective governmental functions as fixed or established by law and as ma…

The bank is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into such agreements or contracts with any banks, trust companies, banking or financial institutions, within or without the state, as may be necessary, desirable or convenient in the opinion of the bank for rendering services t…

I. Within 4 months after the close of the second fiscal year of the corporation and biennially thereafter, it shall make a report to the governor and council of its activities for both preceding fiscal years and such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial state…

Cooperative school districts shall be organized solely in accordance with the following procedure: I. (a) Any school district pursuant to an article in the warrant for any annual or special meeting may vote to create a cooperative school district planning committee consisting of …

It is the purpose of this subdivision to provide a means for cooperative school districts now existing or hereafter formed to meet the constitutional mandate of one-man one-vote as annunciated by the United States supreme court. It is the intention of the legislature to provide f…

In order to effectively carry out its purpose under this chapter of making loans to educational institutions by purchase of educational institution bonds, and by receipt of its income from service charges and from payments of interest on and the maturing principal of educational …

All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this chapter shall be payable solely from funds provided under the authority of this chapter and no liability or obligation shall be incurred by the corporation under this chapter, beyond the extent to which moneys shall hav…

The number, composition, method of selection, and terms of members of cooperative school boards shall be as provided in the bylaws or articles of agreement of the cooperative school district, as the case may be; provided, however, that such bylaws and articles of agreement shall …

Any cooperative school district organized under any of the provisions of RSA 195 or pursuant to any special act may at any regular or special meeting vote to change the number, composition, method of selection, and terms of office of members on the board of the district, provided…

I. At the organizational meeting of the cooperative school district, the checklists for each pre-existing district shall be used. The school board of any pre-existing district which does not have a checklist shall make a list of the legal voters in the district for use at such me…

I. It is the purpose of this chapter to increase educational opportunities within the state by encouraging the establishment of area schools in the receiving districts which will serve the receiving district and the sending districts throughout a natural social and economic regio…

This chapter as amended may be referred to as and cited as the "New Hampshire Health and Education Financing Act".

This chapter shall be known as, and may be cited as, the New Hampshire municipal bond bank educational institutions bond financing act.

In this chapter "college saving bonds" means general obligation bonds of the state issued pursuant to RSA 6-A and this chapter.

I. (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to increase educational opportunities within the state by encouraging the formation of cooperative school districts which will each: (1) Be a natural social and economic region. (2) Have an adequate minimum taxable valuation. (3) Have a nu…