New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:52 – Appeal
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:52
- Administrator: means the superintendent, executive director, or other chief administrative officer of any facility or of any community mental health program operated under the supervision of the commissioner. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:2
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:2
- Conditional discharge: means the release of an involuntarily admitted person from a receiving facility on the condition that the person accept treatment in the community or be subject to readmission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 135-C:2
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
A person whose conditional discharge is revoked, pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 135-C:51, may appeal the decision to the chief administrator of the state mental health services system. The person shall be entitled to a hearing on the appeal within 5 days, excluding weekends and holidays, of the administrator’s receipt of request for the hearing. The commissioner shall adopt rules, in accordance with RSA 541-A, which shall include provision for legal counsel and procedures for waiver of the hearing.