Section 170-F:5 Agency Recommendation. - New Hampshire Statutes

Any public agency or licensed child-placing agency, having a hard-to-place child, may recommend to the department a subsidy for the adoption of such child, and may include in the recommendation advice as to the appropriate level of payment and any other information likely to assist the commissioner in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner or his designee shall make the determination as to whether or not an appropriate adoptive home exists for the child, but in so doing the recommendation of the referring agency shall be considered. If the commissioner or his designee concludes that the child referred is a hard-to-place child within the meaning of this chapter and that an appropriate adoptive home exists for the child, the commissioner is authorized, after consultation with local officials as required in RSA 170-F:4, to enter into a tentative adoption subsidy agreement with the prospective adoptive family.

Source. 1977, 508:1. 1995, 310:175, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.