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

RSA 425:11-a: Revolving Fund for Agricultural Hearings Officers.

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  1. Title XL: AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
  2. Chapter 425: THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, MARKETS, AND FOOD
  3. Commissioner of Agriculture, Markets, and Food

I. There is established within the department of agriculture, markets, and food a revolving fund for agricultural hearings officers. All fines collected by the department, except as provided in RSA 427:14, shall be deposited into the fund. The fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the department to fund the department's adjudicative procedures, including, but not limited to, the costs associated with contracting with one or more hearing officers who shall be responsible for administering all aspects of the department's adjudicative procedure as directed by the commissioner. The amount withdrawn from the fund shall not exceed $75,000 in total each year. The department of agriculture, markets, and food shall every quarter forward any unpaid fines assessed in an adjudicative proceeding to the attorney general for collection in accordance with RSA 7:15-a.

II. At the end of each quarter of the fiscal year any balance in the fund in excess of $10,000 shall be deposited in the general fund.

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