21-L:1 Findings; Intent
21-L:2 Establishment; General Functions
21-L:3 Commissioner; Directors; Compensation
21-L:4 Duties of Commissioner
21-L:4-a Reports, Manuals, and Other Publications; Reimbursement Fees
21-L:5 Assistant Commissioner
21-L:5-a Deputy Commissioner
21-L:5-b Director of Policy and Administration
21-L:6 Division of Finance
21-L:7 Division of Aeronautics, Rail, and Transit
21-L:8 Aviation Users Advisory Board
21-L:9 Division of Project Development
21-L:10 Division of Operations
21-L:12 Required Rulemaking
21-L:12-a Optional Rulemaking
21-L:12-b Bridge and Highway Construction Requirements for State Bridge Aid and State Highway Aid Projects
21-L:12-c New Hampshire State Rail Trails Plan
21-L:12-d Rail Trail Advisory Stakeholders Committee
21-L:12-e Access to Crash Data
21-L:13 Definition
21-L:14 Appeals Board; Composition; Compensation; Removal
21-L:15 Powers and Duties
21-L:17 Administrative Support
21-L:18 Status as Rehearing
21-L:19 State Infrastructure Bank; Purpose
21-L:20 State Infrastructure Bank
21-L:21 State Infrastructure Bank Fund Established
21-L:22 Administration
21-L:23 Authorization
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 21-L - Department of Transportation

  • 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.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • 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
  • 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
  • governor and council: shall mean the governor with the advice and consent of the council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:31-a
  • 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.
  • 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: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • 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
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:21
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • road: shall include all bridges thereon. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:26
  • 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
  • United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4