Section 135-C:3 State Services System Established. - New Hampshire Statutes

The department shall establish, maintain, implement, and coordinate a system of mental health services under this chapter and a system of developmental services under RSA 171-A. Both systems shall be supervised by the commissioner. At the discretion of the commissioner, the department may directly operate and administer any program or facility which provides, or which may be established to provide, services to mentally ill or developmentally impaired persons or may enter into a contract with any individual, partnership, association, public or private, for profit or nonprofit, agency or corporation for the operation and administration of any such program or facility.

Source. 1986, 212:1. 1995, 310:175, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.