CHAPTER 4 POWERS OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL IN CERTAIN CASES
New Hampshire Recovery Monument Commission
Section 4:9-q
4:9-q Commission Membership and Duties. –
The members of the commission established in RSA 4:9-p shall be as follows:
(a) One senator, appointed by the president of the senate.
(b) Two representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.
(c) Two directors of recovery organizations, appointed by the governor.
(d) Two persons in recovery, appointed by the governor.
(e) Two family members of persons lost to substance use disorder, appointed by the governor.
(f) The chairperson of the recovery task force of the governor's commission on alcohol and drug abuse, prevention, treatment, and recovery, or designee.
(g) The president of New Futures, or designee.
(h) The director of National Alliance for Mental Illness, New Hampshire (NAMI-NH), or designee.
(i) The commissioner of the department of health and human services, or designee.
II. (a) The members appointed pursuant to subparagraphs (a), (b), and (i) shall serve coterminous with their terms in office. The remaining members of the commission shall serve 3-year terms and may be reappointed.
(b) Legislative members of the commission shall receive mileage at the legislative rate while attending to the duties of the commission. The members of the commission shall elect a chairperson from among the members. The first named house member shall call the first meeting of the commission. Seven members of the commission shall constitute a quorum.
III. The commission shall select the location and design for the New Hampshire recovery monument and oversee the construction and maintenance of the monument. In selecting a design for the monument, the commission shall develop a request for proposals and criteria for the evaluation of proposals. Design criteria shall include, after public consultation with interested parties, a monument including central features of a figural, representational, symbolic, or abstract form that recognize inclusively the varied New Hampshire historical and contemporary aspects of recovery from substance use disorders, with appropriate inscriptions and that recognize inclusively those New Hampshire individuals whose lives were lost and those affected by lost lives due to substance use disorders, with appropriate inscriptions. The design may also include an area surrounding the central monument for permanent individual commemoration for those New Hampshire individuals whose lives were lost due to substance use disorders. The design criteria shall include, after public consultation with interested parties, an area around the central features of the monument suitable for reflection and such commemorative activities as envisioned by the commission. The commission shall approve a memorandum of understanding with the host community governing the siting, design, and construction of the monument, and subsequent related activities.
IV. The commission shall privately raise all the money necessary for the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of the New Hampshire recovery monument.