Section Pol 302.11 - Limitation of Hours, Part-Time Officers(a) No part-time police officer shall work a cumulative total of more than 1300 hours in a given calendar year without successfully completing the full-time police academy.(b) The hiring authority shall submit within 30 days after the conclusion of each calendar year an affidavit certifying that it has complied with the requirement that officers not work more than 1300 hours in a calendar year, and further, provide the council with a list of all part-time officers employed by them and the number of hours worked by each officer in the last calendar year.(c) In cases where this total is exceeded by an officer who is employed by more than one agency, it shall be the responsibility of the individual police officer to forthwith notify each hiring authority that he or she has reached the maximum permissible hours and is unavailable for further duty during the calendar year unless and until a hiring authority has enrolled the officer in the police academy.(d) No hiring authority shall schedule an officer for further duty once it becomes aware by any means that the officer has exceeded the cumulative total hours.(e) Part-time police officers serving as radio dispatchers shall not count the hours spent dispatching if they are prohibited from functioning as a police officer during those hours.(f) Dog officers and animal control officers who do not have the power of arrest for other types of violations shall not be considered to be police officers and shall not report their hours as such.(g) Bailiffs shall be considered police officers and shall be certified as such unless their duties are limited to maintaining order in the courtroom, custody of prisoners at the courthouse, and carrying out related activities such as security on jury views at the discretion of the presiding justice.(h) Part-time police officers shall not report their on-call time if they are remaining at home out of uniform, engaged in personal pursuits and awaiting calls.(i) Part-time police officers while serving as an animal control officer shall count their hours toward the 1300 hours requirement unless all of the following conditions apply: (1) The officer's uniform or insignia shall be differentiated from that of a police officer with the same department;(2) The officer shall not be armed with a firearm other than a weapon necessary for the destruction of an animal; and(3) The officer shall not drive a vehicle marked or identified as other than an animal control vehicle.(j) Part-time police officers shall not report time spent actually attending court as witnesses or waiting for a case to be called.(k) Part-time police officers shall not report their time spent training in law enforcement topics.(l) All hours worked shall be documented pursuant to Pol 602.03.N.H. Admin. Code § Pol 302.11
#4437, eff 6-22-88; ss by #5836, eff 6-15-94; ss by #7302, eff 6-8-00; ss by #9168, INTERIM, eff 6-3-08, EXPIRES: 11-30-08; ss by #9224, eff 8-1-08; renumbered by #10126 (formerly Pol 302.12 )
Amended by Volume XXXVI Number 49, Filed December 8, 2016, Proposed by #12041, Effective 11/16/2016, Expires 11/16/2026.The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 40, Number 19, eff. 4/9/2020 is not yet available.