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Section 126-A:22 – Rates for Community Living Facilities.

    126-A:22 Rates for Community Living Facilities. – I. The commissioner shall establish rates, by rules adopted under RSA 541-A, sufficient to provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health for persons in placement under this program. Payments hereunder may be made monthly by the commissioner from appropriated funds. II. The commissioner may establish […]

Section 126-A:24 – Placement.

    126-A:24 Placement. – Community living facilities serving persons with developmental disabilities shall be considered a part of the service delivery system as defined in RSA 171-A. Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

Section 126-A:25 – Purpose.

    126-A:25 Purpose. – The purpose of this subdivision is to assist in maintaining and making available additional emergency shelter facilities and other supportive and preventive services and to assist in meeting the operating costs of such shelters and services. Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

Section 126-A:26 – Program Established.

    126-A:26 Program Established. – There is hereby established an emergency shelter program to assist in providing safe and sanitary shelters on a short-term emergency or transitional basis for persons who are destitute, mentally ill, abandoned, or developmentally disabled, and other poor persons. Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

Section 126-A:27 – Capital Construction and Rehabilitation.

    126-A:27 Capital Construction and Rehabilitation. – Such funds as the general court may specifically appropriate from time to time may be granted to private nonprofit organizations on an equal matching grant formula basis for the capital costs of renovation, major rehabilitation, or conversion of buildings for use as emergency shelters for the homeless. Such […]

Section 126-A:28 – Operating Funds.

    126-A:28 Operating Funds. – Such funds as the general court may specifically appropriate from time to time may be granted to private nonprofit organizations on an equal matching formula basis to provide essential services including, but not limited to, maintenance, operation, utilities, and furnishings, and to support and maintain the volunteer operational structure. Source. […]

Section 126-A:29 – Eligibility; Grants.

    126-A:29 Eligibility; Grants. – I. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "private nonprofit organization" means a secular or religious organization described in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which is exempt from taxation under subtitle A of such code. Such organization shall also have an accounting system, a voluntary […]

Section 126-A:3 – General Provisions.

    126-A:3 General Provisions. – I. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner is hereby authorized to: (a) [Repealed.] (b) Transfer or reassign personnel within and between any division, office, unit, or other component of the department. Upon written notice to the commissioner of administrative services, such changes shall be reflected in […]

Section 126-A:30 – Residency.

    126-A:30 Residency. – Persons receiving short-term emergency housing under this subdivision shall continue to maintain their legal residence as it existed at the time of entering the emergency shelter. Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

Section 126-A:31 – Rulemaking.

    126-A:31 Rulemaking. – The commissioner may adopt such rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, as the commissioner deems reasonable and necessary to carry out the provisions of this subdivision. Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

Section 126-A:33 – Office Established.

    126-A:33 Office Established. – There shall be an office of reimbursements within the department of health and human services. Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

Section 126-A:34 – Duties.

    126-A:34 Duties. – I. Subject to the direction and supervision of the commissioner, the office of reimbursements shall: (a) Review and investigate all records of the New Hampshire hospital, the secure psychiatric unit, the Glencliff home, and the Hampstead hospital or other state-owned facilities that provide child inpatient psychiatric treatment within the state mental […]

Section 126-A:35 – Other State Departments.

    126-A:35 Other State Departments. – The office of reimbursements, with the approval of the commissioner, may, upon request, act on behalf of any state department, as defined in RSA 9:1, to recover any moneys due such department. The office of reimbursements shall not be liable for any expenses or costs incurred in any action […]

Section 126-A:37 – Estates Chargeable for Support.

    126-A:37 Estates Chargeable for Support. – Except as limited in RSA 126-A:39, expenses incurred by anyone in the institutions named in RSA 126-A:34, or, at the direction of the commissioner in any public or private institution, or elsewhere, may be recovered in any action in the name of the state from the estate of […]

Section 126-A:38 – Financial Statements.

    126-A:38 Financial Statements. – I. (a) Within 60 days after admittance, except as provided in paragraph II, and annually thereafter if requested by the commissioner, a financial statement shall be filed under penalty of perjury by a person legally chargeable for expenses pursuant to RSA 126-A:36 on forms provided for this purpose by the […]

Section 126-A:39 – Educational Expenses.

    126-A:39 Educational Expenses. – I. Educational expenses of any resident or patient, who is capable of being benefited by instruction and who is between 3 and 21 years of age, as required under statute and incurred in the institutions named in or at the direction of the commissioner in any public or private institution […]

Section 126-A:4 – Department Established.

    126-A:4 Department Established. – I. There shall be a department of health and human services under the executive direction of a commissioner of health and human services, which department shall be organized to provide a comprehensive and coordinated system of health and human services as needed to promote and protect the health, safety, and […]