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United States — New Hampshire
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A district department of health may use additional funds allotted to it, and the department of health and human services may secure and allot those funds.
United States — New Hampshire
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A qualifying town or city council may vote to withdraw from the district, but the withdrawal does not take effect until July 1 after that vote.
United States — New Hampshire
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Town selectmen and city councils in covered cities must appoint 2 board members each year. Towns or cities over 5,000 people get one extra representative for each 5,000 population or part of that amount.
United States — New Hampshire
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Each board must annually elect a chairperson and district treasurer, set service levels across towns and cities in the district, and provide the offices and equipment needed to do its work.
United States — New Hampshire
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The board must periodically draw funds from each town or city treasurer in the district to cover district operating costs.
United States — New Hampshire
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The board must appoint a qualified health officer for the district, and the commissioner of health and human services must appoint one if no election happens within 60 days or a vacancy lasts 60 days or more.
United States — New Hampshire
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The district health officer must meet specified education and experience requirements, perform required duties, serve as secretary of the board, and has no right to vote. The board may remove the officer only for cause after a public hearing with reasonable notice and charges.
United States — New Hampshire
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The district treasurer must disburse district funds only when warrants are approved by a majority of the board and signed by the chairperson and secretary, and must give bond to the district on terms the board requires.
United States — New Hampshire
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The district health officer is the executive officer of the district department of health and must appoint necessary assistants or clerks with board approval.
United States — New Hampshire
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At a legal meeting, town or city councils may approve and vote money needed to pay the town’s or city’s share of a district department of health.
United States — New Hampshire
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The commissioner must appoint a health officer for each town from the town selectmen’s recommendation and issue a certificate of appointment.
United States — New Hampshire
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The commissioner of the department of health and human services may adopt administrative rules to implement this chapter, subject to RSA 541-A.
United States — New Hampshire
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The New Hampshire health officers association must report every year, starting November 1, 2021, on how ready municipal health officers are to respond to potential public health threats in New Hampshire.
United States — New Hampshire
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The commissioner of health and human services may appoint a qualified person to serve as a health officer in unorganized localities.
United States — New Hampshire
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The health officer serves as secretary and executive officer of the town’s local board of health, and the board must meet at least yearly and provide requested readiness information to the department of health and human services.
United States — New Hampshire
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The health officer serves for 3 years or until a successor is appointed, and the commissioner may remove the health officer for cause after notice and hearing.
United States — New Hampshire
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A town health officer or the officer’s agent may enter private property without consent to investigate sanitary conditions and is not guilty of criminal trespass for doing so, but may not enter living quarters.
United States — New Hampshire
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A health officer may appoint deputy health officer(s) with required approvals, and the deputy may enforce public health laws and make sanitation investigations.
United States — New Hampshire
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The town health officer must enforce public health laws, carry out directed sanitary investigations, and receive compensation set by the selectmen or town. The officer may enter private property for certain public-health purposes, but not living quarters, and may temporarily serve another New Hampshire town under the s
United States — New Hampshire
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A health officer serving several towns may appoint deputy health officers if the towns and the health department commissioner approve.