2015 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XXIV - GAMES, AMUSEMENTS, AND ATHLETIC EXHIBITIONS
Chapter 284 - HORSE AND DOG RACING
Section 284:38 - Malicious Interference With Horses.

    284:38 Malicious Interference With Horses. – Any person who willfully or maliciously attempts to or does interfere with, tamper with, injure, or destroy by the use of narcotics, drugs, stimulants, or appliances of any kind used by any horse for the purpose of racing, whether such horse is the property of such person or another, or who willfully or maliciously causes, instigates, counsels, or in any way aids or abets any such interference, tampering, injury, or destruction shall be guilty of a class B felony if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. The owner of any race horse engaged in racing within this state that is found to have been stimulated or doped, or any entry of which such horse is a part, shall be denied any part of the purse offered for such race, and the purse shall be distributed as in the case of a disqualification.

Source. 1939, 71:1. RL 171:14. RSA 284:38. 1971, 541:16. 1973, 528:184, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m. 2010, 272:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.