Chapter 505: The State Reporter and Reports

The supreme court shall appoint a suitable person to be reporter of its decisions. The reporter shall be sworn before assuming the duties of the office. The reporter may be removed from office pursuant to procedures established by the supreme court.

The reporter shall, as soon as practicable after a decision is announced, publish a report of each case in which an opinion is furnished by the court.

I. The reports may be published either:

(a) In volumes entitled "New Hampshire Reports." The size, style, and price of the volumes shall be prescribed by the justices of the court; or

(b) On the supreme court website; or

(c) In volumes as described in subparagraph (a) and on the supreme court website.

II. The supreme court shall make available to the public printed copies of the New Hampshire Reports at the supreme court library.

The reporter may provide for the sale of the reports and may dispose of the copyright as the reporter shall deem expedient.

The reporter shall pay each month to the state treasurer all money received from the sale of reports or from any subscription service developed for delivery of the reports.

At the direction of the chief justice of the supreme court, the reporter may send one copy of the court reports to each of the following officers and bodies: Justices and clerks of the supreme and superior courts, the office of clerk in each county, state reporter, each free public library established under the laws of the state, the department of justice, the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Library of Congress at Washington, the judges and clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Hampshire, and the state library of each state of the United States with which the New Hampshire law library or state library maintains an exchange agreement covering court reports. The residue may be drawn upon by the law library or the state library for their own use or for additional exchange agreements. The law library or state library may recover all sets and/or partial sets of court reports located within those towns closing their free public libraries or desiring to dispose of court reports furnished under this section. The law library or state library may establish full sets in public libraries agreeing to make them available to all the people in the geographic area. The reclaimed sets may be placed in the stock held by the reporter.

For the benefit of the general fund of the state, there shall be paid to the reporter for any service rendered by the reporter such fees as shall from time to time be established by the court.