Attorney's Note

Under the New Hampshire Revised Statutes, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class A felonyup to 15 yearsup to $4,000
For details, see N.H. Rev. Stat. 651:2

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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 402:51

  • 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
If any officer of an insurance company organized under the laws of this state shall embezzle, abstract or wilfully misapply any of the money, funds or other securities of the company, or shall represent as the property of the company any money, funds or other securities which belong to others, or shall make any false entry in any book, report or statement of the company with intent in either case to injure or defraud it, or to deceive any of its officers or the commissioner or any other person or persons appointed to examine its affairs, he shall be guilty of a class A felony.