Section 21-G:5 Definitions.
In this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings:
I. ""Administratively attached agency'' means an independent agency linked to a department for purposes of reporting and sharing support services.
II. ""Advisory committee'' means a committee established pursuant to RSA 21-G:11 which shall furnish advice, gather information, make recommendations and perform such other activities as may be instructed or as may be necessary to fulfill advisory functions or to comply with federal funding requirements, but which shall not administer a program or function or set policy.
III. ""Agency'' means any department, commission, board, institution, bureau, office, or other entity, by whatever name called, other than the legislative and judicial branches of state government, established in the state constitution, statutes, session laws or executive orders.
IV. ""Bureau'' means the principal unit within a division, which is directly responsible to the division level and is concerned with individual program management.
V. ""Commissioner'' means the individual in charge of the operations of a department, who is directly responsible to the governor.
VI. ""Department'' means the principal administrative unit within the executive branch of state government, which is concerned with broad functional responsibilities.
VII. ""Division'' means the principal unit within a department, which is directly responsible to the department level and is concerned with related major functional programs and activities.
VIII. ""Field operations'' means district or area offices which may combine division, bureau and section functions.
IX. ""Section'' means the principal unit of a bureau, which is directly responsible to the bureau level and is concerned with direct provision of services to the public or other state agencies.
X. ""Subsection'' means the principal unit of a section which is directly responsible to the section level and is concerned with direct provision of services to the public or other state agencies.
Source. 1983, 372:1, eff. July 1, 1983.