TITLE LIX
PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES

CHAPTER 607-A
UNIFORM ACT ON STATUS OF CONVICTED PERSONS

Section 607-A:3

    607-A:3 Rights Retained by Convicted Person. – Except as otherwise provided by this chapter or by the constitution of this state, a person convicted of a crime does not suffer civil death or corruption of blood or sustain loss of civil rights or forfeiture of estate or property, but retains all of his rights, political, personal, civil, and otherwise, including the right to hold public office or employment, to vote, to hold, receive, and transfer property, to enter into contracts, to sue and be sued, and to hold offices of private trust in accordance with law.

Source. 1967, 289:1, eff. Aug. 26, 1967.