§ 622:28-a — Industries Inventory Account

I. An industries inventory account shall be maintained to enable the state prisons to implement RSA 622:26-28. All permanent personnel, operating expenses, materials, supplies, overtime and purchase and repair of equipment determined to be necessary for the growing or manufacture of products for resale shall be a proper charge against this account. Charges for the sale of goods and services produced by the industries program shall be sufficient to defray the expenditures charged against this account and any sums obtained therefrom shall be a credit to the account.
II. The state treasurer, upon presentation of manifests prepared by the commissioner of corrections and certified by the commissioner of administrative services, is authorized to pay for materials, supplies and equipment from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
III. The commissioner of corrections shall prepare a monthly profit and loss statement and at the end of each fiscal year shall file a report with the commissioner of administrative services in such format and containing such information as the commissioner of administrative services shall require. The commissioner of administrative services at the end of each fiscal year shall cause any profit which accrued during that year to lapse to the general fund.
IV. [Omitted.]
V. All purchases of materials, supplies, and equipment into the inventory account shall be made in accordance with the provisions of RSA 21-I:11 and any equipment purchase in excess of the approval threshold for contracts set by the governor and council manual of procedures, and made under the provisions of this section, shall require the prior approval of both the fiscal committee of the general court and the governor and council.

Legislative History

1979, 268:1. 1985, 399:3, I. 1998, 386:9, 16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998. 2021, 91:71, eff. July 1, 2021. 2025, 141:44, eff. July 1, 2025.