CHAPTER 128
HB 659-FN - FINAL VERSION
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2003 SESSION
04/01
HOUSE BILL 659-FN
AN ACT relative to penalties for failure to obey a subpoena or summons.
SPONSORS: Rep. Dumaine, Rock 75; Rep. P. Smith, Rock 75; Rep. Fish, Ches 25
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
This bill provides that a person who fails to obey a subpoena or summons shall be guilty of a violation and may be ordered to pay costs.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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03-0546
04/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three
AN ACT relative to penalties for failure to obey a subpoena or summons.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
128:1 Attendance of Witnesses; Penalty. Amend RSA 516:7 to read as follows:
516:7 Penalty. Every court, justice, and notary, before whom a person has been summoned to appear and testify or to give a deposition, may bring the person neglecting or refusing to appear or to testify or to give [his] a deposition, by attachment, before them, and if, on examination, [he] such person has no reasonable excuse, [may find him] such person shall be guilty of a violation, and may [order him] be ordered to pay costs.
128:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2004.
(Approved: June 12, 2003)
(Effective Date: January 1, 2004)