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Title I: The State and Its Government, is the collection of New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated which relate to the state's government as a whole. Like other portions of the RSAs, the Title is divided into Chapters and Sections organized in numbers and subsections organized in lowercase letters.

Current RSAs In Title I

RSA Chapter 1 State Boundaries

RSA 1:1 Perambulation of the New Hampshire Line With the Adjoining States of Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont

• The borders will be reviewed and refined whenever they're needed. This was added recently, due in large part to border disputes with Maine regarding Kittery, Maine (due to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard border dispute), and Vermont regarding where the border lies in the Connecticut River and to a smaller extent, Killington, Vermont.

RSA 1:2 Notice

• The Governor and Executive Council are supposed to put the commissioner of the Department of Transportation in charge of any modifications espoused by the state to the boundary, advised by the Attorney General. The DOT Commssioner is the spokesperson of the state in regards to meeting with other parties in border matters.

RSA 1:3 Return

• Any changes to landmarks that constitute the state boundary must be noted by representatives of both parties (New Hampshire and Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont or Quebec), and given to the Secretary of State.

RSA 1:4 Expense

• New Hampshire should pay for half of the costs of a border review, although the Governor is authorized to take money out of the treasury for extra expenses if needed.

RSA 1:5 Perambulation of the New Hampshire-Massachusetts State Line

• The border of New Hampshire with Massachusetts is as was established and marked on the land in as provided in the laws of 1901.

RSA 1:6 Perambulation of New Hampshire-Maine State Line

• The border of New Hampshire with Maine is as was established and marked on the land in as provided in the laws of 1947, and extending from Bryant's Rock at East Pond to the Canadian line.

RSA 1:7 Perambulation of New Hampshire-Vermont State Line

The border of New Hampshire with Vermont is as established and marked on land in accordance with the decision in Vermont v. New Hampshire, 290 U.S. 579 (1933).

RSA 1:8 Preservation of Monuments on State Boundaries

• It is a misdemeanor for a person to willfully or maliciously disturb, injure, remove, obliterate, deface or cover up any monument or mark designating a boundary line between New Hampshire and a border state, unless they making application to the DOT commissioner.

It is also a misdemeanor to attempt or actually engage in an act on the banks or bed of the Connecticut river that would alter the boundary line with Vermont, without making an application to the DOT commissioner.

RSA 1:9 Determination of Need for Monuments

• Under application provided in RSA 1:8, the DOT commissioner in consultation with the AG meet with their respective counter parts in the affected border state and will decide if a monument or marker is needed or can be removed.

RSA 1:10 Permit for Resetting Markers and Bounds

• If needed, the DOT commissioner with the approval of the adjoining state, can issue a permit for the alteration or resetting of the original boundary or mark. The applicant is charged with all costs associated for the alteration or resetting as determined by the DOT commissioner. Any changes to the border by permits are to be fully described in writing, signed by the representatives of both states, and recorded with the secretary of state.

====RSA 1:11 Penalty for Alteration Without Application and Permit==== Whoever violates RSA 1:8 is guilty of a misdemeanor if a person, or a felony if any other entity, such as a corporation.

RSA 3 State Emblems

RSA 3's subchapters have to due with all of New Hampshire's symbolic and heraldic imagery and classifications.

RSA 3:1 State Emblem

The State Emblem is an elliptical panel, vertically orientated, with a picture of the Old Man of the Mountain surrounded on the top by the state name and on the bottom by the state motto, "Live Free or Die." It may be placed on all printed or related material issued by the state and its subdivisions relative to the development of recreational, industrial, and agricultural resources of the state.

• RSA 3:1 State Emblem
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RSA 3:9 State Seal

In order to make the official state seal, the following factors need to be in place according to 3:9.

• 2 inches across and a circular shape (which brings into doubt whether it's actually still "the seal" when its on the state flag)

• A horizon above the middle of the flag, with the sea below the horizon and a third of the sun above the direct center of the horizon

• Laurel wreaths on the sides

• Within the Laurel, a full broadside view of the frigate Raleigh

• The bow of the Raleigh has to be higher than the stern and on the "dexter" side(to the "holder" of the seal's right), and must show three masts, the masts' supports.

• The flag authorized by Congress as of 1777 on the stern(Colonial Circle Star Spangled Banner)

• The masts have to have banners heading towards the dexter side.

• The Raleigh can't have any oars

• There's a division of land and sea fairly parallel to the horizon marked by a double line that is highest when "sinister"(opposite of "dexter")4th one

• No detail on the water

• No detail on the land except for a Granite Boulder on the dexter side.

• Around the seal has to say Seal of the State of New Hampshire with periods between each word except for "New" and "Hampshire", as well as before "Seal" and after "Hampshire"

• At the bottom of the seal, it has to say "1776" with two five sided stars on each side surrounded by the beginning and the end of the phrase with the periods.

External links/See also

• RSA 3:9 State Seal
• Seal of New Hampshire

Repealed RSAs In Title I

• 7B:
• 8:
• 8A:
• 8B:
• 8C: