Section 126-A:52 Definitions. - New Hampshire Statutes

In this subdivision:
   I. ""Department'' means the department of health and human services.
   II. ""Guarantee certificate'' means a document issued under this subdivision for the payment of the security deposit it guarantees.
   III. ""Landlord'' means a person and such person's employees, officers, or agents who rent or lease to another person a housing unit, including single family homes, apartments, mobile homes, prefabricated homes, or other real or personal property used as a dwelling for one or more persons.
   IV. ""Local administrator'' means the director, governing board, president, or other official with organizational authority to direct the day-to-day operations of a local housing security provider as that term is defined in paragraph V.
   V. ""Local housing security provider'' means a local or area governmental or private nonprofit agency or organization which contracts with the division to administer and provide assistance to tenants in obtaining security deposit funding and which shall comply with all federal fair housing standards.
   VI. ""Qualified tenant'' means a person whose total household income does not exceed the amount defined as ""very low income,'' as adjusted for household size and region, as is defined and published from time to time by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
   VII. ""Qualifying security deposit amount'' means an adjustable amount consistent with local market conditions as determined by the local or area administrator and reported to the division, such amount not to exceed one month's rental fee for the subject housing unit.
   VIII. ""Security deposit'' means any funds in excess of monthly rent which are required to be transferred from a tenant to a landlord for any purpose.
   IX. ""Security deposit guarantee application'' means an application for a guarantee certificate made in accordance with RSA 126-A:54.
   X. ""Subject housing unit'' means a specific dwelling unit, single family home, apartment, mobile home, prefabricated home, or other real or personal property used as a dwelling for one or more persons that satisfies legal health and safety standards and is specifically designated on an individual security deposit guarantee application.

Source. 1995, 310:1. 2000, 316:2, eff. July 1, 2000.