Section 564-B:1-102 - Scope(a) This chapter applies to express trusts, charitable or noncharitable, and trusts created pursuant to a statute, judgment, or decree that requires the trust to be administered in the manner of an express trust, including, but not limited to, a special needs trust authorized by 42 U.S.C. section 1396p(d)(4)(A) and (C) that requires the trust to be administered in the manner of an express trust.(b) This chapter shall not apply to a resulting or constructive trust, a business trust which provides for certificates to be issued to the beneficiary, an investment trust, a voting trust, a security instrument, a trust created by the judgment or decree by any other court, a liquidation trust, or a trust for the primary purpose of paying dividends, interest, interest coupons, salaries, wages, pensions or profits, or employee benefits of any kind, an instrument wherein a person is nominee or escrowee for another, a trust created in deposits in any financial institution, or other trust the nature of which does not admit of general trust administration.(c) Without precluding other means for establishing that this chapter applies to a specific trust, this chapter applies to a trust to the extent that the terms of the trust provide that this state's laws govern the trust's validity, interpretation, or administration.(d) Unless otherwise provided under the terms of the trust, New Hampshire law shall apply to the administrative matters of a trust that has its principal place of administration within this state.(e) This chapter shall not limit the authority of the director of charitable trusts or the department of health and human services as otherwise provided by statute or common law.Amended by 2024, 292:9, eff. 9/24/2024.Amended by 2014 , 195: 6, eff. 7/1/2014. 2004, 130 : 1 , eff. Oct. 1, 2004. 2014, 195 : 6 , eff. July 1, 2014.