New Hampshire Hazing Law
631:7. Student
Hazing.631:7.
Student Hazing.
I. For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Educational institution" means any public or private
high school, college, university, or other secondary or postsecondary
educational establishment.
(b) "Organization" means a fraternity, sorority, association,
corporation, order, society, corps, athletic group, cooperative,
club, or service, social or similar group, whose members are or
include students, operating at or in conjunction with an educational
institution.
(c) "Student" means any person regularly enrolled on a
full-time or part-time basis as a student in an educational institution.
(d) "Student hazing" means any act directed toward a student,
or any coercion or intimidation of a student to act or to participate
in or submit to any act, when:
(1) Such act is likely or would be perceived by a reasonable person
as likely to cause physical or psychological injury to any person;
and
(2) Such act is a condition of initiation into, admission into,
continued membership in or association with any organization.
II. (a) A natural person is guilty of a class B misdemeanor if such
person:
(1) Knowingly participates as actor in any student hazing; or
(2) Being a student, knowingly submits to hazing and fails to report
such hazing to law enforcement or educational institution authorities;
or
(3) Is present at or otherwise has direct knowledge of any student
hazing and fails to report such hazing to law enforcement or educational
institution authorities.
(b) An educational institution or an organization operating at or
in conjunction with an educational institution is guilty of a misdemeanor
if it:
(1) Knowingly permits or condones student hazing; or
(2) Knowingly or negligently fails to take reasonable measures within
the scope of its authority to prevent student hazing; or
(3) Fails to report to law enforcement authorities any hazing reported
to it by others or of which it otherwise has knowledge.
III. The implied or express consent of any person toward whom an
act of hazing is directed shall not be a defense in any action brought
under this section.
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