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2002 SESSION

01-2007

08/09

HOUSE BILL 1274

AN ACT relative to town clerks and deputy town clerks.

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill allows current non-domiciled deputy town clerks to retain their position for the duration of their term, but requires future appointed deputy town clerks to meet the domicile requirement. This bill also allows town clerks to receive death records from attending physicians.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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01-2007

08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two

AN ACT relative to town clerks and deputy town clerks.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

97:1 Town Officers; Deputy Town Clerk; Town Domicile Required. Amend RSA 41:18 to read as follows:

41:18 Deputy Town Clerk. Each town may have a deputy town clerk who shall be qualified in the same manner as the town clerk[, except that the deputy town clerk need not have his or her domicile in the town,] and who shall perform all the duties of the town clerk in case of his or her absence by sickness, resignation, or otherwise subject to the provisions of RSA 669:65. A deputy town clerk appointed hereunder shall be appointed by the elected town clerk with the approval of the selectmen.

97:2 Death Records. Amend RSA 290:1 to read as follows:

290:1 Death Records. Whenever a person shall die, the physician attending at the last sickness shall complete and deliver to the funeral director, town clerk, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent under RSA 290:17 or shall complete electronically and forward immediately to the bureau of vital records and health statistics, a death record, duly signed, setting forth, as far as may be, the facts required by rules of the department of health and human services as provided in RSA 126:2. The cause or causes of death shall be printed or typed on all records required to be furnished under this section. The funeral director, town clerk, next-of-kin, or designated agent shall transmit electronically the record of death to the bureau of vital records and health statistics.

97:3 Applicability. Any non-domiciled deputy town clerk who occupies that office on the effective day of this act shall be exempt from the domicile requirements of RSA 41:18 for the duration of his or her term of employment.

97:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: May 3, 2002)

(Effective Date: July 2, 2002)