Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 140:8

  • governing body: shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:48
  • 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
This chapter shall not be construed as repealing any laws of the state relating to chemical or physical agents or exposures to them but shall be held and construed as auxiliary and supplementary to them, except to the extent that they are in direct conflict with this chapter, in which case this chapter shall be controlling. Nothing in this chapter shall preclude the right of any governing body of a municipality to adopt ordinances or rules not inconsistent with this chapter.