Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 179 - Enforcement, Requirements and Penalties

• Adult: means any individual 21 years of age, or older. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Alcohol: means that substance known as ethyl alcohol or hydrated oxide of ethyl alcohol which is commonly produced by the fermentation or distillation of grain, starch, molasses, sugar, potatoes or other substances, including all solids, powders, crystals, dilutions and mixtures of these substances. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Beer: means beer, specialty beer as defined by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beverage vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, including any subsidiaries thereof, which sells beverages or specialty beverages to wholesale distributors. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brew pub: means a manufacturer of beer, specialty beer, or cider not exceeding 2,500 barrels annually, which as a functional part of its business, maintains a full service restaurant serving the beer it manufactures as well as other beverage and liquor as allowed by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brewery: means any place or premises where any beer is manufactured and all offices, granaries, mash-rooms, cooling-rooms, vaults, yards, cellars, and storerooms connected therewith or where any part of the process of manufacture of beer is carried on, or where any apparatus connected with such manufacture is kept or used, or where any of the products of brewing or fermentation are stored or kept. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Cider: means either the naturally fermented expressed juice of apples or the fermented expressed juice of apples to which activated yeast is added, containing not less than
  1/2 of one percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which may contain flavoring, coloring or related ingredients and may be carbonated or fermented in a sealed container to produce a sparkling beverage or liquor. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Cocktail lounge: means a room operated for the purpose of serving liquor and beverages without the benefit of food. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Commission: means the state liquor commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Common carrier: means a person who, for a fee, provides public transportation of goods or persons. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Direct shipper: means any licensee outside the state of New Hampshire who accepts orders placed from New Hampshire, by mail, telephone, Internet, or any electronic or other means, for liquor or beverages and who ships, packages for shipment, or facilitates in any way shipment of said liquor or beverages by a licensed carrier to a New Hampshire location. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
• Food service business: means a business kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public primarily as a place where meals are served. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Full course meal: means a diversified selection of food which ordinarily cannot be consumed without the use of tableware and which cannot be conveniently consumed while standing or walking. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• governing body: shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:48
• 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.
• 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
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• legislative body: shall mean a town meeting, school district meeting, village district meeting, city or town council, mayor and council, mayor and board of aldermen, or, when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county convention. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:47
• License: means the authority granted by the commission to engage in the sale of liquor, wine, beverages, tobacco products, or e-cigarettes otherwise unlawful unless evidenced by such document. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Licensee: means the person to whom a license of any kind is issued by the commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under the laws of this state or authorized to transact business within the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor: means all distilled and rectified spirits, alcohol, wines, fermented and malt liquors and cider, of over 6 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation, which sells liquor and fortified wines containing more than 15. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Live entertainment: means at least one person employed with or without compensation to entertain guests or patrons on the premises of a licensed establishment and shall include, but not be limited to, musicians, disc jockeys, theater companies and other related performers. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Minor: means an individual under the age of 21. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• month: shall mean a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:8
• Off-sale: means table or fortified wine and beverage sold for consumption off the premises as authorized in this title. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• petition: when used in connection with the equity jurisdiction of the superior court, and referring to a document filed with the court, shall mean complaint, and "petitioner" shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
• petitioner: shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
• Premises: means and includes all parts of the contiguous real estate occupied by a licensee over which the licensee has direct or indirect control or interest and which the licensee uses in the operation of the licensed business, and which have been approved by the commission as proper places in which to exercise the licensee's privilege. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Product display: means any rack, bin, placard, poster, sign and the like, on or under which liquor, wine or beverage are displayed and sold. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Rectifier: means a licensee who produces liquor by combining liquor with other products. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Restaurant: means a space, in a suitable or permanent building, kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public to be a place where meals are regularly served. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Retailer: when used with respect to tobacco products or e-cigarettes, means any person who sells tobacco products or e-cigarettes to consumers, and any vending machine in which tobacco products are sold. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty beer: means any beer as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• 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
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Wholesale distributor: means a person licensed by the commission to engage in the purchase of beverages only from the holders of wholesale distributor licenses, beverage manufacturer licenses, beverage vendor licenses, brew pub licenses, or nano brewery licenses. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, which sells table wine to the state, containing more than 6 percent but not more than 24 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1