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New Hampshire regulations: details

Copied from the online copy of the rules that the Office of Legislative Services, Administrative Rules, places on gc.nh.gov on October 13, 2026. Check the official page before you rely on a rule.

What is here

Release 3: 35,087 sections of the New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules, read by us from the online copy the Office of Legislative Services places on gc.nh.gov: its 153 agency pages and the 730 chapter files they link. We copied the files on October 13, 2026. Each section keeps the source note the file prints after it (document numbers and effective dates). A rule changed after we copied its file is not reflected here.
It is not the official version. The General Court says the online rules are not the official version under RSA 541-A, and that there is no official publisher of the complete Code. A rule that has been filed but not yet certified and put online is not in this copy. Read the section in its chapter file there.
We found 38,258 sections with text. 3,171 are held and not shown yet, each by name with its reasons: mainly sections whose source note says Expired and names no later adoption (835) and sections their agency page’s table of contents does not list (786). 145 section numbers are printed as reserved and have no text. 2,608 sections the agency pages list were not found in the chapter files. 1 chapter files and 9 agency pages are held whole. A held section comes back as held, with its reasons and no text. Held is not absent.
New Hampshire ships in releases. Release 2 adds 9,217 sections that Release 1 held only because an earlier entry of their source note said Expired, although a later adoption follows it. It holds 118 sections whose source note’s last entry gives an end date (Expires) that has passed; 37 of them were shown in Release 1. Release 3, the last, adds 1,543 sections that Release 2 held because we did not find them in their agency page’s table of contents: the table of contents lists them, in spellings our first reading missed. 786 sections stay held because their agency page’s table of contents does not list them; in places it marks the chapter repealed while the chapter file still prints it. Sections still held stay held by name, with their reasons.
Look a section up by its number, as in Ath 101.01 or N.H. Code Admin. R. Ath 101.01. A long section comes back in pages, and nothing is cut. A part number such as Ath 101 lists its sections: shown and held.

How we checked it

Two separate readers, written with no shared code, read every chapter file: one walks the page’s structure, one reads its stream of tags and text. A section is shown only where both agree on its number, every word of its text and every word of its source note.
A section is held when a table or a picture is in it, when its characters look wrongly decoded, when its number is not in its agency page’s table of contents or occurs twice, when it has no source note with a document number and date, when a paragraph after its source note has no document number, when two source notes were read under its number, when its source note says Expired and names no later adoption, or when its note’s last entry gives an end date (Expires) that passed before we copied the files. A rule readopted after it once expired is shown. We read the agency pages’ tables of contents in their printed spellings: an entry with or without the word Section, a space beside the prefix’s hyphen, or a number under its PART heading with no prefix.
A check run on the whole release confirmed that every chapter file the agency pages link was read or held by name, that every held unit has a reason and no shown one has one, and that every shown section has text and a source note.
Before Release 1, a person compared 20 shown sections drawn at random with the chapter files (seed nh-s1011-hand). Before Release 2, a person compared 20 more shown sections, drawn at random (seed nh-s1012-hand) from the sections Release 2 adds, with the cached chapter files: all 20 texts and every paragraph of their source notes appear in the files in order, each running from its own section number to the next section or heading, and each note names a later adoption after its last Expired entry; punctuation and spacing were compared by eye on two of them only. Before Release 3, a person compared 20 more shown sections, drawn at random (seed nh-s1013-hand) from the sections Release 3 adds, with the cached agency pages and chapter files: each of the 20 is printed as an entry of its agency page’s table of contents, and all 20 texts and their source notes appear in the chapter files letter for letter and digit for digit; the texts were read beside the file by eye on 17 of them only.
Every comparison, read and ruling was made by one person, with no second reader.

What it can't tell you

Whether a rule is in force, valid or unexpired.
Whether a section that prints an old effective date has lapsed: 1,693 shown sections print a latest effective date before 2006, and RSA 541-A:17 makes most New Hampshire rules lapse ten years after they take effect unless readopted; the file’s marks may not show a lapse or a readoption.
Whether anything changed after we copied the files on October 13, 2026, or what was filed but not yet put online.
Whether it agrees with the official as-filed or as-certified text.
Whether a revision note elsewhere in a chapter marks a section expired or moved: we read Expired and Expires only from a section’s own source note.

Known gaps

3,171 sections are held and not shown yet; 1 chapter files and 9 agency pages are held whole.
Revision notes and appendices (statutory authority, incorporation by reference) are not shown.
Bold, underline, italic type and indentation are not shown; the words are the file’s.
Keyword search reads only the shown sections. Held sections have no text here and never match.

Notes you may see on an entry

A held section: “GLO holds this section and does not show its text yet, because its two readers or the release check did not clear it. Its reasons are listed by name.”
A section not in this copy: “Not in this copy of the New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules, neither shown nor held. That never means the section does not exist.”

Nothing here is legal advice or a judgment that a rule is in force. Full counts for software: the defect_floor field on every New Hampshire result (source=nh).