Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 166:24

  • County assisted person: means an individual who is eligible for and receiving old age assistance, aid to the permanently and totally disabled or nursing home care in an intermediate care facility. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 166:1
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
If a county acting in its capacity as agent for a city or town under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 165:34 spends any sum for the support, return to his home or burial of a county assisted person having a residence in a town or city, or another county, or for the support, return to his home or burial of an assisted person having relations able to support him under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 165:19, such sum may be recovered from the town, city, county or relation so chargeable. In any civil action brought under this section to recover such sum, the court shall award costs to the prevailing party.