The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Hampshire
- Level
- State
- Authority
- RSA ch. 141-C
- Issued
- 2008-07-07 July 7, 2008
- Effective
- standing (read as 2008-07-07)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since July 7, 2008 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureStanding duty
- Addressees
- owners or persons in control of premises accessible to the public; specified businesses, schools and universities
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: New Hampshire DUT-NH
Operative words
may close, direct, and compel the evacuation and decontamination of any building located within the state that is accessible to the public, such as businesses, primary and secondary schools, and universities, regardless of whether publicly or privately owned, when there is reasonable cause to believe the building may present an imminent danger to the public health.
Penalty
RSA 141-C:21; orders effective immediately pending superior court review (141-C:16-a, III)
What it required
Closure, evacuation and decontamination of any publicly accessible building, expressly including businesses, on the Commissioner's order with the Governor's approval; orders 'effective immediately,' notice posted on every means of ingress or egress, superior court review within five working days. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteCaptured August 13, 2022; no amendment after 2008 in the source note. Destruction of material is a taking compensable under RSA 4:46.