2016 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title X - PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 131 - LABORATORY OF HYGIENE
Section 131:5 - Contracts for Outside Services.

    131:5 Contracts for Outside Services. – They may enter into contracts with laboratories in localities accessible to the various portions of the state for the prompt examination of specimens received from local health officers or physicians and for an immediate report on such examinations, at the expense of the state, provided that all laboratories shall conform to the standards of efficiency as adopted by rules by the department of health and human services, and that the director, bacteriologist or pathologist in charge of such examinations shall possess such educational and technical qualifications as the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall establish by rule. No obligation shall be incurred by the department of health and human services relative to the examinations in excess of the sums made available for them.

Source. 1943, 118:1, par. 5. RSA 131:5. 1983, 291:1, I. 1985, 190:38. 1995, 310:181-183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.