Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 171-A:24

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
A person whose conditional discharge is revoked pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 171-A:23 may appeal the decision to the chief administrator of the state developmental services system. The person shall be entitled to a hearing on the appeal, before the chief administrator of the state developmental services system or designee, within 5 days, excluding weekends and holidays, of the receipt of request for the hearing in accordance with rules adopted by the chief administrator pursuant to RSA 541-A. Such rules shall include provision for legal counsel and for waiver of the hearing.