Section 126-D:4 Definitions. - New Hampshire Statutes

For the purposes of this chapter the following terms shall have the following meanings:
   I. ""Adoption assistance state'' means a state which is signatory to an adoption assistance agreement in a particular case.
   II. ""Commissioner'' means commissioner, department of health and human services.
   III. ""Residence state'' means the state of which the child is a resident by virtue of the residence of the adoptive parents.
   IV. ""State'' means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or a territory or possession of the United States or one administered by the United States.

Source. 1985, 367:13, eff. Aug. 17, 1985.