RSA 169-C:24-a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights Required; Reasonable Efforts to Reunify.

I. The state, through an authorized agency, or if required by a district court, shall file a petition for termination of parental rights or, if such a petition has been filed by another party, the state shall seek to be joined as a party to such petition, where any one or more of the following circumstances exist:
(a) Where a child has been in an out-of-home placement pursuant to a finding of child neglect or abuse, under the responsibility of the state, for 12 of the most recent 22 months;
(b) Where a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that a child has been abandoned as defined by RSA 170-C:5, I; or
(c) Where a court of competent jurisdiction has made any one or more of the following determinations:
(1) That the parent has been convicted of murde