I. Any offender who is sentenced to make restitution under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 651:63, and who purposely violates the court’s order by either failing to make restitution or by defaulting in the payment or performance of the restitution authorized, may be prosecuted for contempt.
II. In the case of a juvenile offender, restitution must be paid before the juvenile’s eighteenth birthday, or for any person sentenced pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 169-B:4, before his nineteenth birthday. Any offender who fails to make restitution as ordered before the termination of juvenile court jurisdiction may be prosecuted, as an adult, for contempt.
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 651:67

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.