New Hampshire Revised Statutes 337-A:2 – Destruction of Records
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 337-A:2
- Business: includes every kind of private business, profession, occupation, calling, or operation of private institutions, whether carried on for profit or not. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 337-A:1
- Records: or "business records" include books of account, vouchers, documents, cancelled checks, payrolls, correspondence, records of sales, personnel, equipment and production, reports relating to any or all such records, and other business papers. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 337-A:1
- 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
Unless a specific period is designated by law for their preservation, business records which persons by the laws of this state are required to keep or preserve may be destroyed after the expiration of 3 years from the making of such records without constituting an offense under such laws. This section does not apply to minute books of corporations nor to records of sales or other transactions involving weapons, poisons or other dangerous articles or substances capable of use in the commission of crimes.