HB 1380 - AS INTRODUCED

2016 SESSION

16-2657

09/01

HOUSE BILL 1380

AN ACT relative to duties of police commissions.

SPONSORS: Rep. Gray, Straf. 8

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

This bill limits the power of police commissioners to fix compensation for police personnel to the total police department budget established by the governing body.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2657

09/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT relative to duties of police commissions.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1  Duties and Powers of the Police Commission.  Amend RSA 105-C:4 to read as follows:

105-C:4  Duties; Powers.  It shall be the duty of the police commissioners to appoint such police personnel, including police officers, staff, constables and superior officers, as they deem necessary and to fix such persons' compensation.  The power of the police commissioners to fix compensation shall be limited by the total police department budget established by the governing body.  The commissioners shall make and enforce all rules necessary for the operation of the police force in the manner most beneficial to the public interest.  The commissioners may at any time remove police personnel for just cause and after a hearing satisfying the requirements of due process, which cause shall be specified in an order of removal except that special police officers appointed and designated as such shall serve at the pleasure of the commission and may be removed for other than just cause.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.