Section 494:3 Duties of the Council.
It shall be the duty of the judicial council:
I. To serve as an institutional forum for the on-going and disinterested consideration of issues affecting the administration of justice.
II. To survey and study continuously the administration of justice within the state and the organization, procedure, practice, rules and methods of administration and operation of the courts of the state.
III. To devise ways of simplifying judicial procedure, expediting the transaction of judicial business, and of improving the administration of justice.
IV. To recommend and provide general information to the general court, to the supreme court, to the superior court, to the probate court, and to the district and municipal courts, to any public official, department or agency or to the state bar association, either upon request or upon the council's own motion, such changes in the law or in the rules, organization, operation or methods of conducting the business of the courts, or with respect to any other matter pertaining to the administration of justice, as it may deem desirable.
V. To collect, compile, analyze and publish statistics pertaining to the judicial system as prepared and provided by the administrative office of the courts.
VI. To serve as a catalyst for the discussion of legal and judicial issues through seminars, forums and special studies, and any other means, within the limits of available state and private funding.
Source. 1945, 169:1, par. 3. RSA 494:3. 1992, 284:18, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.