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    RSA 103:4. Membership.

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    Some permanent policemen keep retirement benefits, but others are barred from applying or receiving them.

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    RSA 103:5. Duties of Retirement Board.

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    The board must supervise assessments and benefit payments, may make reasonable rules, must employ a secretary, and the secretary must keep records and do administrative work.

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    RSA 103:6. Individual Accounts.

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    The board must keep an individual account for each permanent policeman who accepts the provisions, and each account must list specified employment and retirement details.

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    RSA 103:7. Assessment on Salaries.

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    The board sets the assessment rate for permanent policemen, and payroll officers must withhold and pay the monthly assessment from each covered officer’s salary.

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    RSA 103:9. Contributions.

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    Each employer other than the state must be assessed retirement contribution percentages, and its disbursing officer must pay the assessed amount as prescribed by the board of trustees.

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    RSA 104:1. Record of Birth.

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    A county sheriff may not exercise the office, do acts in it, or receive pay until a birth record copy or qualifying affidavit is deposited with the secretary of state.

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    RSA 104:10. Neglect of Duty.

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    An officer who refuses or neglects to serve a legal precept as directed must forfeit $50 if the stated tender or endorsement conditions are met.

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    RSA 104:11. Liability for Fees.

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    An attorney is generally not personally liable for sheriff or officer fees and expenses for serving process, unless there is an express contract to pay them.

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    RSA 104:12. Requiring Aid.

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    An authorized officer may require suitable aid, and a person who refuses or neglects to give it may be fined up to $20.

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    RSA 104:13. Completing Business.

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    When a sheriff leaves office, they must finish pending official business, execute precepts in hand, and deliver prisoners in custody to the successor.

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    RSA 104:14. Vacancy, Power of Deputies.

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    When the sheriff’s office is vacant, the deputies in office must keep carrying out the sheriff’s unfinished official business until a new sheriff is appointed and qualified, and until their own entrusted business is completed.

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    RSA 104:16. Remedies.

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    The executor or administrator of a deceased sheriff has the same remedy for the sheriff’s defaults and misfeasances that the sheriff would have if in office.

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    RSA 104:17. Accountability to County.

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    The sheriff must account to the county commissioners for county money and certain fines, forfeitures, and costs, unless he satisfies them that the amounts have not been and cannot be collected.

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    RSA 104:18. Forfeiture.

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    A sheriff must pay county money to the county treasurer immediately, and must also pay certain amounts after a prisoner escape; failure triggers forfeiture and possible removal from office.

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    RSA 104:19. List of Processes.

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    At each term of the superior court, the sheriff must give the county commissioners a list of certain uncollected warrants or process and return them to the clerk for renewal; neglect costs $50.

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    RSA 104:20. Account.

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    The sheriff must file a detailed yearly statement of chargeable services with the county commissioners, and the county commissioners may allow a just amount on it.

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    RSA 104:21. Liability to Creditor.

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    A sheriff, deputy sheriff, or constable who is demanded to pay money received on an execution to the execution creditor must pay, and if they do not, they owe 5 times the lawful interest for the time held after demand.

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