New Hampshire Revised Statutes
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 166:1 (2026)
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166:1 Definitions. –
As used in this chapter:
I. "County assisted person" means an individual who is eligible for and receiving old age assistance, aid to the permanently and totally disabled or nursing home care in an intermediate care facility. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to mean that the county is responsible for providing general assistance to any town or city assisted person, except in accordance with RSA 165:33 and 165:34.
II. "Disabled individual" means a person receiving state administered aid to the totally and permanently disabled, veteran's disability benefits, social security disability benefits, supplemental security income benefits, or other disability benefits administered under the state or federal government.
III. "Elderly" means anyone 55 years of age and older.
As used in this chapter:
I. "County assisted person" means an individual who is eligible for and receiving old age assistance, aid to the permanently and totally disabled or nursing home care in an intermediate care facility. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to mean that the county is responsible for providing general assistance to any town or city assisted person, except in accordance with RSA 165:33 and 165:34.
II. "Disabled individual" means a person receiving state administered aid to the totally and permanently disabled, veteran's disability benefits, social security disability benefits, supplemental security income benefits, or other disability benefits administered under the state or federal government.
III. "Elderly" means anyone 55 years of age and older.
Source. PS 85:1. PL 107:1. RL 125:1. RSA 166:1. 1979, 202:1. 1985, 380:21, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases, 1955–1985 · leading case: City of Laconia v. Laconia Dist. Court, 454 A.2d 887 (N.H. 1982).
City of Laconia v. Laconia Dist. Court, 454 A.2d 887 (N.H. 1982). “1982) treats payments made in behalf of a child as “assistance to a pauper as to the person chargeable by law for the child’s support,” and because the children’s parents never obtained legal settlement in the city, the parents were therefore county paupers, see RSA 166:1, I…”
City of Claremont v. Truell, 489 A.2d 581 (N.H. 1985). “’ RSA 166:1, I (Supp. 1981). Consequently, the county is liable for their support, see RSA 166:10 (Supp.”
Hall v. Cnty. of Hillsborough, 445 A.2d 1125 (N.H. 1982). “Responsibility to relieve and maintain needy people such as the plaintiff who have no settlement within a town rests with the counties under RSA 166:1, :10 (Supp. 1981). The statute does not provide standards for the determination of who is poor and in need of relief, or what…”
In re Eva S., 435 A.2d 838 (N.H. 1981). “RSA 166:1 (Supp. 1979). RSA ch. 164-A entitled “Settlement of Persons” sets forth rules for determining how a settlement is gained or lost for purposes of fixing liability for assistance to a pauper on either the town or the county.”
Ebelt v. Ebelt, 172 A.2d 363 (N.H. 1961). “RSA 166:1. The determination of a person’s domicil and legal settlement and the consequent liability of a particular town or county at times have presented sticky problems which have not been always settled with dispatch.”
New Hampshire Child.'s Aid Soc'y v. Morgan, 221 A.2d 238 (N.H. 1966). “See RSA 166:1, 10; Belknap County v. Carroll County, 91 N.”
Manchester v. Hillsborough, 119 A.2d 333 (N.H. 1955). “” RSA 166:1. The question raised by the transferred question is whether Geraldine, the child whose support is involved in this case, has a legal settlement in Manchester.”
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