:New Hampshire Administration Division
{{Short description|Division within the New Hampshire State Department}}
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{{Notability|date=October 2022}}
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{{Infobox government agency
| type = division
| seal = Seal of New Hampshire.svg
| seal_size = 110px
| seal_caption = State seal
| jurisdiction = New Hampshire
| headquarters = State House, Concord, NH
| parent_agency = N.H. Dept. of State
| website = {{URL|https://sos.nh.gov/administration/administration/administration-division/}}
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The New Hampshire Administration Division, or NHAD, is a division within the New Hampshire Department of State{{Cite web |title=NH-SOS - Administration Division |url=https://sos.nh.gov/administration/administration/administration-division/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=sos.nh.gov}} that includes the governor and his executive council, the secretary of state and the state's justices of the peace, and has a variety of responsibilities, including presiding over the Board of Claims and the Board of Auctioneers, the application of apostilles and the issuing of special marriage licenses, among many other administrative tasks.
Activities
The Administration Division has several responsibilities to its constituents, including the following:
- Authorizing an apostille or certification for a legal document, via notarization or a justice of the peace's signature.{{Cite web |title=NH-SOS - Justice of the Peace |url=https://sos.nh.gov/administration/administration/justice-of-the-peace/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=sos.nh.gov}}
- Appointing new notaries and justices of the peace to their respective positions.{{Cite web |title=New Hampshire Statutes - Table of Contents |url=http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/NHTOC/NHTOC-XLII-455-A.htm |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.gencourt.state.nh.us}}{{Cite web |title=New Hampshire Statutes - Table of Contents |url=http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/NHTOC/NHTOC-XLII-456-B.htm |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.gencourt.state.nh.us}}
- Authorizing and overseeing athlete agents in the state.{{Cite web |title=Chapter 332-J ATHLETE AGENTS |url=http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/xxx/332-j/332-j-mrg.htm |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.gencourt.state.nh.us}}{{Cite web |title=Application for registration as an Athlete Agent under RSA 332-J |url=https://sos.nh.gov/media/xftfffiw/athlete-agent-application.pdf |access-date=11 October 2022}}
- Overseeing the state's board of auctioneers, including appointing new members, maintaining minutes from all past and future sessions dating from 2001 - 2030,{{Cite web |title=NH-SOS - Minutes 2001-2010 |url=https://sos.nh.gov/administration/administration/auctioneers/minutes-2001-2010/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=sos.nh.gov}}{{Cite web |title=NH-SOS - Minutes 2011-2020 |url=https://sos.nh.gov/administration/administration/auctioneers/minutes-2011-2020/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=sos.nh.gov}}{{Cite web |title=NH-SOS - Minutes 2021-2030 |url=https://sos.nh.gov/administration/administration/auctioneers/minutes-2021-2030/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=sos.nh.gov}} and authorizing new rules.{{Cite web |title=Auc 100-500 |url=http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rules/state_agencies/auc100-500.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.gencourt.state.nh.us}}
- Managing key prepaid petroleum sales contracts for hundreds of vendors in the state.{{Cite web |title=Prepaid Contracts for Petroleum Sales Contracts – RSA 339:79 |url=https://sos.nh.gov/media/olkisd5f/notaries-public-rsa-455-2-6-22.pdf }}
- Overseeing the Board of Claims of the state of New Hampshire.{{Cite web |date=9 September 2022 |title=AGENDA - NEW HAMPPSHIRE BOARD OF CLAIMS |url=https://sos.nh.gov/media/zylk24ay/2022-09-09_meeting-notice.pdf |access-date=11 October 2022}}
- Authorizing new Bonded Warehouses and Public Warehousemen{{Cite web |title=Application for Bonded Warehouse - RSA 348 |url=https://sos.nh.gov/media/fywdhhra/bonded-warehouse-app.pdf |access-date=11 October 2022}} and regulating current Bonded Warehouses.{{Cite web |title=Chapter 348 BONDED WAREHOUSES |url=http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXXI/348/348-mrg.htm |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.gencourt.state.nh.us}}
- Appointing a Commissioner of Deeds for a period of five years.{{Cite web |date=1 Jan 2006 |title=NOTARIES, COMMISSIONERS, JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |url=http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XLII/455/455-12.htm }}
- Authorizing new hawkers & peddlers, and regulating their sale of products.{{Cite web |title=Chapter 320 HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS |url=http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXX/320/320-mrg.htm |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.gencourt.state.nh.us}}
- Licensing and regulating itinerant vendors in the state of New Hampshire.{{Cite web |title=Chapter 321 ITINERANT VENDORS |url=http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXX/321/321-mrg.htm |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.gencourt.state.nh.us}}
- Authorizing special marriage licenses for ministers who reside out-of-state.
References
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External links
{{URL|https://sos.nh.gov/administration/administration/administration-division/|New Hampshire Department of State Administration Division Homepage - https://sos.nh.gov/}}