Revision: Jan. 11, 2010, midnight
CHAPTER 46
SB 39 – FINAL VERSION
02/08/07 0024s
2007 SESSION
09/03
SENATE BILL 39
AN ACT allowing a newly-retired supreme court justice to continue to participate as a temporary justice in a case held before retirement but decided after.
This bill allows a newly-retired supreme court justice to continue to participate as a temporary justice in a case held before retirement but decided after.
This bill was requested by the supreme court.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
02/08/07 0024s
07-0751
09/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT allowing a newly-retired supreme court justice to continue to participate as a temporary justice in a case held before retirement but decided after.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
46:1 New Paragraph; Temporary Justices. Amend RSA 490:3 by inserting after paragraph II-a the following new paragraph:
II-b. The chief justice of the supreme court may assign to a cause or matter as a temporary justice on a non-random basis a justice of the supreme court who sat in the cause or matter while it was pending before such court and who retired before the decision thereof. This paragraph shall not apply to any subsequent hearing of the same cause or matter.
46:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: May 21, 2007
Effective: May 21, 2007