I. Except as provided in paragraph II, no person receiving old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled under this chapter or N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 161 shall at the same time receive any other relief from the state, or from any political subdivision thereof, except for medical and surgical assistance.
II. Notwithstanding paragraph I, a municipality may provide assistance under N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 165 to a person who is also receiving old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled if the guidelines adopted by the governing body under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 165:1 authorize assistance to such persons, and the acceptance of such relief shall not operate as a revocation of old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled.

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 167:27

  • 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
  • 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

III. The names of persons receiving old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled under the provisions of this chapter or N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 161 shall not be printed in any report of the county commissioners or of the commissioner of health and human services nor published in any state, county, or town report.