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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 21-G:6: Structure of Executive Branch Departments.

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  1. Title I: THE STATE AND ITS GOVERNMENT
  2. Chapter 21-G: ORGANIZATION OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH

All departments of the state established following July 1, 1983, shall be structured as follows, unless otherwise provided for specifically by the general court:

I. The department shall be the principal administrative unit of the executive branch, and each department shall be headed by a commissioner. Each department shall bear a title beginning with the words "The State of New Hampshire Department of .......... " and continuing with the name designated for the department.

II. All departments shall adhere to the following operational structure and standard terminology:

(a) The principal unit of the department shall be the division; and each division shall be headed by a director.

(b) The principal unit of the division shall be the bureau; and each bureau shall be headed by an administrator.

(c) The principal unit of the bureau shall be the section; and each section shall be headed by a supervisor.

(d) [Repealed.]

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