New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21-G:31-b – Interpretive Rulings; Procedure
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21-G:31-b
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
The committee may initiate or any person may request an interpretive ruling explaining or clarifying a law, guideline, or rule of general applicability within the committee’s jurisdiction. If the committee determines that a requested interpretive ruling will be helpful to those individuals under the committee’s jurisdiction, it shall take up the request in public, receive testimony and other information that it deems helpful on the issue, and render a public ruling.