A person may not exercise the authority of an agent or a surrogate while serving in one of the following capacities:
I. The principal’s attending practitioner or a person acting under the direct authority of the attending practitioner.

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 137-J:8

  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9

II. A nonrelative of the principal who is an employee of the principal’s health care provider or residential care provider.