Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 160-B - Fireworks

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the department of safety. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 160-B:1
• Consumer fireworks: means consumer fireworks as defined in 27 C. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 160-B:1
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Display: means the use, explosion, activation, ignition, discharge, firing or any other activity which is intended to cause or which causes a firework to do what it was manufactured to do. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 160-B:1
• Display fireworks: means display fireworks as defined in 27 C. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 160-B:1
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fireworks: means fireworks as defined in 27 C. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 160-B:1
• 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
• 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
• legislative body: shall mean a town meeting, school district meeting, village district meeting, city or town council, mayor and council, mayor and board of aldermen, or, when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county convention. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:47
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
• Retail: means the sale to any consumer or person not engaged in the business of making sales of fireworks. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 160-B:1
• Sale: or "sell" means to sell, give or transfer to another, with or without consideration. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 160-B:1
• sell: means to sell, give or transfer to another, with or without consideration. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 160-B:1
• 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
• United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Wholesale: means engaging in the business of making sales to any other person engaged in the business of making sales of fireworks. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 160-B:1