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2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places
Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns
Section 31:106 - Indemnification; Civil Rights Suits.
Universal Citation: NH Rev Stat § 31:106 (2021)
31:106 Indemnification; Civil Rights Suits. –
All cities, towns, counties, village districts and precincts, school districts, chartered public schools, school administrative units, and other municipal corporations and political subdivisions shall indemnify and save harmless any person employed by it and any member or officer of its governing board, administrative staff, or agencies including but not limited to selectmen, school board members, chartered public school trustees, city councilors and aldermen, town and city managers, regional planning commissioners, town and city health officials, overseers of public welfare, and superintendents of schools from personal financial loss and expense including reasonable legal fees and costs, if any, arising out of any claim, demand, suit, or judgment by reason of any act or omission constituting a violation of the civil rights of an employee, teacher or student, or any other person under any federal law if such act or omission was not committed with malice, and if the indemnified person at the time of such act or omission was acting within the scope of employment or office.
Source. 1973, 595:1. 1991, 72:3. 1995, 260:3, eff. July 1, 1995. 2008, 354:1, eff. Sept. 5, 2008. 2010, 214:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.
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