New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:17-e – Drug Asset Forfeiture Guidelines Required
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:17-e
- Asset forfeiture: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Department: means the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
- justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
The department of justice shall adopt and maintain drug asset forfeiture guidelines. The attorney general shall submit the guidelines and any proposed amendments to such guidelines to the house judiciary and family law committee and to the senate judiciary committee for review and comment at least as often as annually. The attorney general shall submit any proposed amendments to the guidelines for legislative review and comment prior to their becoming effective.