R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-28-3.1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-28 / Section 42-28-3.1
§ 42-28-3.1. AMBER Alert.
Status: in_force

(a) The division of state police, in consultation with other appropriate agencies, shall develop a voluntary partnership between law enforcement agencies, media outlets, and other appropriate entities to send out emergency alerts entitled the Rhode Island Americas Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response Plan (AMBER Plan). The AMBER Plan shall provide a proactive emergency public alert plan as part of the response to serious child abduction cases that may be expediently triggered by law enforcement personnel in accordance with protocols and procedures established by the division of state police in consultation with appropriate law enforcement authorities, the Rhode Island emergency management agency, state and local officials, and cooperating members of the broadcast media (AMBER Alert).

(b) Once a law enforcement agency has confirmed that a child has been abducted and that the circumstances of the abduction indicate that the child is in serious danger of bodily harm or death, the confirming agency will obtain descriptive information for the AMBER Alert, contact the state police to provide the descriptive information to the state police, and identify a point of contact within their agency.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-55-24 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-55 / Section 42-55-24
§ 42-55-24. Tax exemption.
Status: in_force

The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for their wellbeing and prosperity and for the improvement of their social and economic conditions, and the corporation, or any subsidiary thereof created or authorized pursuant to § 42-55-5.1, shall not be required to pay any tax or assessment on any property owned by the corporation or by any subsidiary thereof under the provisions of this chapter or upon the income from the property; nor shall the corporation or any subsidiary thereof be required to pay any recording fee or transfer tax of any kind on account of instruments recorded by it or on its behalf. Any bonds, notes, or other obligations issued by the corporation or any subsidiary thereof under the provisions of this chapter, their transfer, and the income from them (including any profits made on their sale), shall at all times be free from taxation by the state or any political subdivision or other instrumentality of the state, excepting inheritance, estate, and gift taxes.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-102-1.1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-102 / Section 42-102-1.1
§ 42-102-1.1. Consolidation of councils and advisory boards.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any provisions of the general laws of the state to the contrary, the employment security advisory council is consolidated into the workforce board. Should there be any changes in federal law or regulations permitting the consolidation of other employment and training councils, boards, or advisory committees, the workforce board is authorized to incorporate those bodies.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-18-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-18 / Section 42-18-4
§ 42-18-4. Cooperation with the department of environmental management.
Status: in_force

(a) The director of the department of health shall cooperate with the department of environmental management and shall make available to the department of environmental management such testing and laboratory facilities and such technical personnel as are within the jurisdiction of the department of health as directed by the environmental standards board.

(b) Whenever there arises an emergency, condition, or threat to the public health as a result of a disease in the animal population under the jurisdiction of the director of environmental management by virtue of the provisions of title 4 or § 21-2-22, the director of environmental management shall immediately notify the director of health. The director of health shall, upon notification of the emergency condition or threat to the public health, assign an agent to work with the director of environmental management until such time as the emergency or threat has been removed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-148-5 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-148 / Section 42-148-5
§ 42-148-5. Award of contract.
Status: in_force

After conducting a cost comparison pursuant to § 42-148-4, the director of administration may award the bid to an outside vendor only if the savings to the state is substantial and the quality of performance of service required and specified in the statement of work and performance standards will be met or exceeded by the outside vendor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-61-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-61 / Section 42-61-4
§ 42-61-4. Powers and duties of director.
Status: in_force

The director shall have the power and it shall be the directors duty to:

(1) Supervise and administer the operation of lotteries in accordance with this chapter, chapter 61.2 of this title and with the rules and regulations of the division;

(2) Act as the chief administrative officer having general charge of the office and records and to employ necessary personnel to serve at the directors pleasure and who shall be in the unclassified service and whose salaries shall be set by the director of the department of revenue, pursuant to the provisions of § 42-61-3;

(3) In accordance with this chapter and the rules and regulations of the division, license as agents to sell lottery tickets those persons, as in the directors opinion, who will best serve the public convenience and promote the sale of tickets or shares. The director may require a bond from every licensed agent, in an amount provided in the rules and regulations of the division. Every licensed agent shall prominently display the agents license, or a copy of the agents license, as provided in the rules and regulations of the committee;

(4) Confer regularly as necessary or desirable, and not less than four (4) times per year, and at the call of the chair and vice chair of the committee, with the permanent joint committee on state lottery on the operation and administration of the lotteries; make available for inspection by the committee, upon request, all books, records, files, and other information, and documents of the division; advise the committee and recommend those matters that the director deems necessary and advisable to improve the operation and administration of the lotteries;

(5) Suspend or revoke any license issued pursuant to this chapter, chapter 61.2 of this title or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter and chapter 61.2 of this title;

(6) Enter into contracts for the operation of the lotteries, or any part of the operation of the lotteries, and into contracts for the promotion of the lotteries;

(7) Ensure that monthly financial reports are prepared providing gross monthly revenues, prize disbursements, other expenses, net income, and the amount transferred to the state general fund for keno and for all other lottery operations; submit this report to the state budget officer, the auditor general, the permanent joint committee on state lottery, the legislative fiscal advisors, and the governor no later than the twentieth business day following the close of the month; the monthly report shall be prepared in a manner prescribed by the members of the revenue estimating conference; at the end of each fiscal year the director shall submit an annual report based upon an accrual system of accounting that shall include a full and complete statement of lottery revenues, prize disbursements, and expenses, to the governor and the general assembly, which report shall be a public document and shall be filed with the secretary of state;

(8) Carry on a continuous study and investigation of the state lotteries throughout the state, and the operation and administration of similar laws, which may be in effect in other states or countries; and the director shall continue to exercise the directors authority to study, evaluate, and where deemed feasible and advisable by the director, implement lottery-related initiatives, including but not limited to, pilot programs for limited periods of time, with the goal of generating additional revenues to be transferred by the lottery to the general fund pursuant to § 42-61-15(a)(3). Each such initiative shall be objectively evaluated from time to time using measurable criteria to determine whether the initiative is generating revenue to be transferred by the lottery to the general fund. Nothing herein shall be deemed to permit the implementation of an initiative that would be inconsistent with existing law or that would constitute an expansion of gambling requiring voter approval under applicable Rhode Island law;

(9) Implement the creation and sale of commercial advertising space on lottery tickets as authorized by this section as soon as practicable after June 22, 1994;

(10) Promulgate rules and regulations, which shall include, but not be limited to:

(i) The price of tickets or shares in the lotteries;

(ii) The number and size of the prizes on the winning tickets or shares;

(iii) The manner of selecting the winning tickets or shares;

(iv) The manner of payment of prizes to the holders of winning tickets or shares;

(v) The frequency of the drawings or selections of winning tickets or shares;

(vi) The number and types of locations at which tickets or shares may be sold;

(vii) The method to be used in selling tickets or shares;

(viii) The licensing of agents to sell tickets or shares, except that a person under the age of eighteen (18) shall not be licensed as an agent;

(ix) The license fee to be charged to agents;

(x) The manner in which the proceeds of the sale of lottery tickets or shares are maintained, reported, and otherwise accounted for;

(xi) The manner and amount of compensation to be paid licensed sales agents necessary to provide for the adequate availability of tickets or shares to prospective buyers and for the convenience of the general public;

(xii) The apportionment of the total annual revenue accruing from the sale of lottery tickets or shares and from all other sources for the payment of prizes to the holders of winning tickets or shares, for the payment of costs incurred in the operation and administration of the lotteries, including the expense of the division and the costs resulting from any contract or contracts entered into for promotional, advertising, consulting, or operational services or for the purchase or lease of facilities, lottery equipment, and materials, for the repayment of moneys appropriated to the lottery fund;

(xiii) The superior court upon petition of the director after a hearing may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents, papers, books, records, and other evidence in any matter over which it has jurisdiction, control, or supervision. If a person subpoenaed to attend in the proceeding or hearing fails to obey the command of the subpoena without reasonable cause, or if a person in attendance in the proceeding or hearing refuses without lawful cause to be examined or to answer a legal or pertinent question or to exhibit any book, account, record, or other document when ordered to do so by the court, that person may be punished for contempt of the court;

(xiv) The manner, standards, and specification for a process of competitive bidding for division purchases and contracts; and

(xv) The sale of commercial advertising space on the reverse side of, or in other available areas upon, lottery tickets provided that all net revenue derived from the sale of the advertising space shall be deposited immediately into the states general fund and shall not be subject to the provisions of § 42-61-15.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-83-3 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-83 / Section 42-83-3
§ 42-83-3. Authority to accept grants.
Status: in_force

In addition to any of its other powers and responsibilities, the commission is authorized and empowered to accept any grants made available by the United States government or any agency of the United States government, and the commission, with the approval of the governor, is authorized and empowered to perform such acts and enter into all necessary contracts and agreements with the United States of America or any agency of the United States government that may be necessary in any manner and degree that shall be deemed to be in the best interest of the state. The proceeds of grants received shall be paid to the general treasurer of the state and by the general treasurer deposited in a separate fund and shall be utilized for the purposes of the grants.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-4-14 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-4 / Section 42-4-14
§ 42-4-14. State flagships.
Status: in_force

The Class A Tall Ship, commonly known as the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, is hereby designated as the official flagship and tall ship ambassador of the state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-14-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-14 / Section 42-14-2
§ 42-14-2. Functions of department.
Status: in_force

(a) It shall be the function of the department of business regulation to license, regulate, and control all areas as required by this chapter and any and all other provisions of the general laws and public laws.

(b) Whenever any hearing is required or permitted to be held pursuant to law or regulation of the department of business regulation, and whenever no statutory provision exists providing that notice be given to interested parties prior to the hearing, no such hearing shall be held without notice in writing being given at least ten (10) days prior to such hearing to all interested parties. For purposes of this section, an interested party shall be deemed to include the party subject to regulation hereunder, and any party entitled to appear at the hearing. Notice to the party that will be subject to regulation, and any party who has made known the partys intention to appear at the hearing shall be sufficient if it be in writing and mailed, first-class mail, to the party at the partys regular business address. Notice to the general public shall be sufficient hereunder if it be by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality affected by the regulation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-41-1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-41 / Section 42-41-1
§ 42-41-1. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Budgeting, Appropriation, and Receipt of Federal Monies Act.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64-9.7 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-64 / Section 42-64-9.7
§ 42-64-9.7. Notice of hearing on orders.
Status: in_force

Before adopting or entering any order applicable to any one or more specific persons, the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall give to each of the persons, by registered or certified mail, twenty (20) days notice of the time and place of the hearing to be afforded to each of the persons if he, she, or it desires the hearing. The notice shall state the date, time, and location of the hearing.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-72-11 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-72 / Section 42-72-11
§ 42-72-11. Protective services.
Status: in_force

In furtherance of the purposes and duties imposed by this chapter, and in order to implement the procedures of the Rhode Island Child Abuse and Neglect Act contained in chapter 11 of title 40, the department shall provide protective services for children. The department shall:

(1) In cases in which reasonable efforts are required pursuant to § 15-7-7 or § 40-11-12.2, mobilize the services available in cases of child abuse and neglect that may assist the child and the childs family including, but not limited to, day care, homemaking services, medical attention, social, psychological, and psychiatric evaluation and treatment, emergency shelters, transportation, individual or group counseling, and information and referral;

(2) Establish procedures for administering purchase of service agreements from community and private agencies;

(3) Develop a policy and procedure manual to be available to all staff workers; and

(4) Require that the service plan developed for every child under protective care be geared to finding a permanent plan for the child within a time frame of one year, and require a review and evaluation program for all children for whom a plan has been developed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-72-27 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-72 / Section 42-72-27
§ 42-72-27. Liberal construction.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be liberally construed in aid of its declared purposes, the primary purpose of which is the coordination and integration of functions relating to children within one department and the allocation of these functions to the department established by this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-7-6.1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-7 / Section 42-7-6.1
§ 42-7-6.1. Drug program established  Use of the fund.
Status: in_force

There is hereby established the drug program account which shall be administered by the general treasurer in accordance with the same laws and fiscal procedures as the general funds of the state. The fund shall consist of such sums collected as a result of the taxpayer check-off as provided for in § 44-30-2.4. The governor is authorized to accept any grant, devise, bequest, donation, gift, or assignment of money, bonds, or other valuable securities for deposit as general revenues.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-60-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-60 / Section 42-60-2
§ 42-60-2. Findings, purposes, and policy.
Status: in_force

The legislature finds and declares that energy in its various forms is essential for the preservation of the safety, health, and welfare of the people of this state. The legislature further finds that events of recent years have demonstrated that abnormal market disruptions, as they relate to energy supplies, could be imminent due to both natural and man-made causes. It is therefore declared that the purpose of this chapter and the policy of this state is to grant to the governor powers to manage abnormal market disruptions as they relate to energy in order to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state and to preserve their lives and property.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-6-11 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-6 / Section 42-6-11
§ 42-6-11. Appointment.
Status: in_force

The governor shall appoint a director of health and in all cases of appointment of the director of health the governor shall while the senate is in session, notify the senate of the governors appointment and the senate shall, within sixty (60) legislative days after receipt of the notice, act upon the appointment. If the senate shall, within sixty (60) legislative days, vote to disapprove the appointment it shall notify the governor, who shall forthwith appoint and notify the senate of the appointment of a different person as director and so on in like manner until the senate shall fail to vote disapproval of the governors appointment. If the senate shall fail, for sixty (60) legislative days next after notice, to act upon any appointment of which it has been notified by the governor, the person appointed shall be the director. The governor may withdraw any appointment of which the governor has given notice to the senate, at any time within sixty (60) legislative days thereafter and before action has been taken thereon by the senate.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-29-24 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-29 / Section 42-29-24
§ 42-29-24. Service of process on waters.
Status: in_force

Any deputy sheriff duly authorized may serve any writ or other process, whether of a civil or criminal nature, within any part of the waters of Narragansett Bay, and within any waters not more than one marine league from the seashore of the state at high-water mark.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64-7.2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-64 / Section 42-64-7.2
§ 42-64-7.2. Amendment of articles of incorporation of a subsidiary public corporation.
Status: in_force

(a) A subsidiary public corporation may amend its articles of incorporation, from time to time, only with the express approval and authorization of the general assembly.

(b) Upon receipt of approval and authorization of the general assembly, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, amendments to the articles of incorporation of a subsidiary public corporation shall be made by the adoption of a resolution by the board of directors of the parent corporation setting forth the amendment. The resolution may incorporate the amendment in restated articles of incorporation which contain a statement that except for the designated amendment the restated articles of incorporation correctly set forth without change the corresponding provisions of the articles of incorporation, as theretofore amended, and that the restated articles of incorporation together with the designated amendment supersede the original articles of incorporation and all amendments thereto.

(c) The articles of amendment shall be executed in duplicate by the subsidiary public corporation, by its president or a vice president and by its secretary or an assistant secretary, and shall set forth: (1) the name of the corporation; (2) the amendment so adopted; (3) the date of the approval and authorization from the general assembly and the date of the adoption of the amendment by the board of directors of the parent corporation; and (4) if, pursuant to subsection (e) of this section, the amendment is to become effective at a time subsequent to the issuance of the certificate of amendment by the secretary of state, the date when the amendment is to become effective.

(d) Duplicate originals of the articles of amendment shall be delivered to the secretary of state. If the secretary of state finds that the articles of amendment conform to law, the secretary shall: (1) endorse on each duplicate original the word Filed, and the month, day, and year of the filing; (2) file one of these duplicate originals in the secretary's office; and (3) issue a certificate of amendment to which the secretary shall affix the other duplicate original. The certificate of amendment, together with the duplicate original of the articles of amendment affixed to the certificate of amendment by the secretary of state, shall be returned to the subsidiary public corporation or its representative.

(e)(1) Upon the issuance of the certificate of amendment by the secretary of state, or upon a later date, not more than thirty (30) days after the filing of the articles of amendment, as may be set forth in the articles, the amendment shall become effective and the articles of incorporation shall be deemed to be amended accordingly.

(2) No amendment shall affect any existing cause of action in favor of or against the subsidiary public corporation, or any pending suit to which the subsidiary public corporation shall be a party, or the existing rights of any persons and, in the event the corporate name shall be changed by amendment, no suit brought by or against the corporation under its former name shall abate for that reason.

(f)(1) A subsidiary public corporation may at any time restate its articles of incorporation, as amended, by authorization of the general assembly authorizing and approving a resolution to be adopted by the board of directors of the parent corporation. Upon the adoption of the resolution, restated articles of incorporation shall be executed in duplicate by the subsidiary public corporation by its president or a vice president and by its secretary or assistant secretary, and shall set forth all of the provisions of the articles of incorporation as theretofore amended, together with a statement that the restated articles of incorporation correctly set forth without change the corresponding provisions of the articles of incorporation, as amended and that the restated articles of incorporation supersede the original articles of incorporation and all amendments to these articles.

(2) Duplicate originals of the restated articles of incorporation shall be delivered to the secretary of state. If the secretary of state finds that the restated articles of incorporation conform to law, the secretary shall: (i) endorse on each of the duplicate originals the word Filed, and the month, day, and year of the filing thereof; (ii) file one of the duplicate originals in the secretary's office; and (iii) issue a restated certificate of incorporation, to which the secretary shall affix the other duplicate original. The restated certificate of incorporation, together with the duplicate original of the restated articles of incorporation affixed to the restated certificate of incorporation by the secretary of state, shall be returned to the subsidiary public corporation or its representative.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-55-11 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-55 / Section 42-55-11
§ 42-55-11. Admission and income limitations relative to housing developments.
Status: in_force

(a) Admission to housing developments financed or insured by corporation mortgage loans or by the proceeds of mortgage loans purchased by the corporation or the proceeds of a loan to a mortgage lender or financed by the proceeds of obligations issued by the corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be limited primarily to persons or families of low and moderate income.

(b) The corporation shall approve a residential selection plan submitted by a housing sponsor for a housing development to be financed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The corporation shall make and publish regulations from time to time governing the terms of the resident selection plans. These plans shall include criteria for resident selection which establish income limits for eligible residents which may vary with the size and circumstances of the person or family. Subject to the approval of the corporation, resident selection plans may provide, with respect to dwelling accommodations, that any local housing authority created pursuant to the Rhode Island law in the municipality in which the housing development is located, shall have the right to designate residents, who are otherwise eligible for these accommodations as they become available, either in the initial occupancy of the housing development, or as vacancies occur.

(c) The corporation shall by rules and regulations provide for the periodic examination of the income of any person or family residing in any housing development financed with a loan from the corporation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-32-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-32 / Section 42-32-4
§ 42-32-4. Travel expenses.
Status: in_force

The members of the science and research council shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be allowed their travel and necessary expenses.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-12-7 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-12 / Section 42-12-7
§ 42-12-7. Special veterans funds.
Status: in_force

The director of the department of human services shall have control and supervision over any special funds provided for decorating and installing metal markers on the graves of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, for the burial of honorably discharged soldiers, for the assistance of World War I veterans and other expenditures relating to veteran soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64-6 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-64 / Section 42-64-6
§ 42-64-6. General powers.
Status: in_force

(a) Except to the extent inconsistent with any specific provision of this chapter, the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall have the power:

(1) To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in its corporate name.

(2) To have a seal, which may be altered at pleasure and to use the seal by causing it, or a facsimile of the seal, to be impressed or affixed, or in any other manner reproduced.

(3) To purchase, take, receive, lease, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, use, and otherwise deal in and with, real or personal property, or any interest in real or personal property, wherever situated.

(4) To sell, convey, mortgage, pledge, lease, exchange, transfer, and otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property and assets for any consideration and upon any terms and conditions as the corporation shall determine.

(5) To make contracts and guarantees and incur liabilities, borrow money at any rates of interest as the corporation may determine.

(6) To make and execute agreements of lease, conditional sales contracts, installment sales contracts, loan agreements, mortgages, construction contracts, operation contracts, and other contracts and instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers and functions of the corporation granted by this chapter.

(7) To lend money for its purposes, invest and reinvest its funds, and at its option to take and hold real and personal property as security for the payment of funds so loaned or invested.

(8) To acquire or contract to acquire, from any person, firm, corporation, municipality, the federal government, or the state, or any agency of either the federal government or the state, by grant, purchase, lease, gift, condemnation, or otherwise, or to obtain options for the acquisition of any property, real or personal, improved or unimproved, and interests in land less than the fee thereof; and to own, hold, clear, improve, develop, and rehabilitate, and to sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, mortgage, or otherwise dispose or encumber that property for the purposes of carrying out the provisions and intent of this chapter, for any consideration as the corporation shall determine.

(9) To conduct its activities, carry on its operations, and have offices and exercise the powers granted by this chapter, within or outside of the state.

(10) To elect or appoint officers and agents of the corporation, and define their duties and fix their compensation.

(11) To make and alter bylaws, not inconsistent with this chapter, for the administration and regulation of the affairs of the corporation, and those bylaws may contain provisions indemnifying any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee, or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise, in the manner and to the extent provided in §7-1.2-814 of the business corporation act.

(12) To be a promoter, partner, member, associate, or manager of any partnership, enterprise, or venture.

(13) To have and exercise all powers necessary or convenient to effect its purposes; provided, however, that the corporation shall not have any power to create, empower or otherwise establish any corporation, subsidiary corporation, corporate body, any form of partnership, or any other separate entity without the express approval and authorization of the general assembly.

(b) Express approval and authorization of the general assembly shall be deemed to have been given for all legal purposes on July 1, 1995, for the creation and lawful management of a subsidiary corporation created for the management of the Quonset Point/Davisville Industrial Park, that subsidiary corporation being managed by a board of directors, the members of which shall be constituted as follows: (1) two (2) members who shall be appointed by the town council of the town of North Kingstown; (2) two (2) members who shall be residents of the town of North Kingstown appointed by the governor; (3) four (4) members who shall be appointed by the governor; (4) the chairperson, who shall be: (i) the executive director of the Rhode Island economic development corporation until such time that the secretary of commerce is appointed; (ii) Upon the appointment of a secretary of commerce, the chief executive officer of the Rhode Island commerce corporation, and who also shall be the secretary of the Rhode Island executive office of commerce; and (5) non-voting members who shall be the members of the general assembly whose districts are comprised in any part by areas located within the town of North Kingstown.

The approval and authorization provided herein shall terminate upon the establishment of the Quonset Development Corporation as provided for in chapter 64.10 of this title.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-41-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-41 / Section 42-41-4
§ 42-41-4. Inclusion of federal funds in budget.
Status: in_force

Pursuant to § 35-3-7, the budget officer shall henceforth include all federal monies received or anticipated by state agencies as a part of the budget request, showing for each budgetary category the amount of state monies requested by funding the amount of federal monies anticipated or due, the amount of other nonstate monies requested or anticipated, and the total anticipated expenditure from all sources for the respective category.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-45-9 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-45 / Section 42-45-9
§ 42-45-9. State historic preservation officer.
Status: in_force

The governor shall designate a state historic preservation officer to serve at the governors pleasure and until the officers successor is appointed and qualified. The state historic preservation officer for the national park service shall also serve as state historic preservation officer. The state historic preservation officer shall act as the states representative to the federal government, to other states, and to other interested parties in matters of historic preservation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-154-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-154 / Section 42-154-2
§ 42-154-2. Transfer of powers and duties from the department of elderly affairs.
Status: in_force

There is hereby transferred to the division of elderly affairs within the department of human services those powers and duties formerly administered by the department of elderly affairs as provided for in chapters 66 (Elderly Affairs Department) through 66.10 of this title (Elder Health Insurance Consumer Assistance Program), inclusive, and any other applicable provisions of the general laws; provided, however, in order that there is no interruption in the functions of elderly affairs and/or human services the transfer may be postponed until such time as determined by the secretary of the office of health and human services that the transfer may best be put into force and effect; provided, further, the governor shall submit to the 2012 Assembly any recommended statutory changes necessary to facilitate the merger.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-8-10 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-8 / Section 42-8-10
§ 42-8-10. Defaults in election returns.
Status: in_force

The secretary of state shall, within thirty (30) days after any default in the return of voting machines and election returns, certify the default to the attorney general, and the secretarys certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the default, and the attorney general shall prosecute every person guilty thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-28-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-28 / Section 42-28-4
§ 42-28-4. Composition of division.
Status: in_force

There shall be a division of state police consisting of the following members: a superintendent who shall have the rank of full colonel; as many captains as the superintendent shall deem necessary, two lieutenant colonels, three majors; as many lieutenants as the superintendent shall deem necessary; and such other personnel, the number and rank of whom shall be designated by the superintendent, and the general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary for the payment of the salaries of the members of the division. The member of the Rhode Island state police who shall be assigned by the superintendent to execute the duties of deputy superintendent shall have the rank of lieutenant colonel.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-82-16 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-82 / Section 42-82-16
§ 42-82-16. Charges for utility extension.
Status: in_force

(a) No city, town, quasi-municipal corporation, or public corporation may assess the owner of an agricultural operation having frontage on a public roadway for the extension of water and sewer utilities past the property.

(b) The owner of the agricultural operation may only be charged if the owner has requested the utility extension. The agricultural operation may tie into any utility extension made past that property for the normal cost of tie-in and no cost for the infrastructure improvement except for its base usable charge. The protection afforded by this section shall be null and void and the assessments made if the owner of the agricultural operation develops or sells to other than a qualifying agricultural operation the property or farmland within twenty (20) years of the date the utility extensions were operational.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-34-11 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-34 / Section 42-34-11
§ 42-34-11. Mortgage insurance premiums.
Status: in_force

The authority is authorized to fix mortgage insurance premiums for the insurance of mortgage payments under the provisions of this chapter, such premiums to be computed as a percentage, which shall not exceed three percent (3%) per annum, of the principal obligation of the mortgage in such manner in each case as the authority shall determine on the basis of all pertinent available data. The premiums shall be payable by the mortgagors or the mortgagees in such manner as shall be prescribed by the authority. The amount of premium need not be uniform among the various loans insured.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-166-3 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-166 / Section 42-166-3
§ 42-166-3. Oversight.
Status: in_force

The executive office of health and human services shall collaborate and coordinate with the department of labor and training and the office of the postsecondary commissioner in the development, implementation, and oversight of the program.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-61-16 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-61 / Section 42-61-16
§ 42-61-16. Penalties for forgery and counterfeiting.
Status: in_force

Any person who, with intent to defraud, shall falsely make, alter, forge, utter, pass, or counterfeit a state lottery ticket or share shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or both.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-35-18 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-35 / Section 42-35-18
§ 42-35-18. Effective date of chapter  Scope of application and exemptions.
Status: repealed

(a) This chapter shall take effect upon January 1, 1964, and thereupon all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall stand repealed; provided, however, that except as to proceedings pending on June 30, 1963, this chapter shall apply to all agencies and agency proceedings not expressly exempted.

(b) None of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the following sections and chapters:

(1) Section 16-32-10 (University of Rhode Island);

(2) Chapter 41 of title 16 (New England Higher Education Compact);

(3) Section 16-33-6 (Rhode Island College);

(4) Chapter 16 of title 23 (Health Facilities Construction Act);

(5) Chapter 8 of title 20 (Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact);

(6) Chapter 38 of title 28 (Chief Judge Robert F. Arrigan Rehabilitation Center);

(7) Chapter 7 of title 17 (State Board of Elections);

(8) Chapter 16 of title 8 (Judicial Tenure and Discipline);

(9) Chapter 61 of title 42 (State Lottery);

(10) Chapter 24.4 of title 45 (Special Development Districts);

(11) Chapter 12 of title 35 (The University of Rhode Island Research Corporation).

(c) The provisions of §§ 42-35-9, 42-35-10, 42-35-11, 42-35-12, and 42-35-13 shall not apply to:

(1) Any and all acts, decisions, findings, or determinations by the board of review of the department of labor and training or the director of the department of labor and training or their duly authorized agents and to any and all procedures or hearings before and by the director or board of review of the department of labor and training or their agents under the provisions of chapters 39  44 of title 28.

(2) Section 28-5-17 (Conciliation of charges of unlawful practices).

(3) Chapter 8 of title 13 (Parole).

(4) Any and all acts, decisions, findings, or determinations by the administrator of the division of motor vehicles or the administrators duly authorized agent and to any and all procedures or hearings before and by said administrator or the administrators said agent under the provisions of chapters 10, 11, 31 to 33, inclusive, of title 31.

(5) Procedures of the board of examiners of hoisting engineers under chapter 26 of title 28.

(6) Any and all acts, decisions, findings, or determinations made under authority from the provisions of chapters 29  38 of title 28, concerning workers compensation administration, procedure, and benefits.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-28-28 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-28 / Section 42-28-28
§ 42-28-28. Persons admissible to school.
Status: in_force

No person shall be admitted as a candidate to the municipal police training school unless he or she is a citizen of the United States and a resident of the state of Rhode Island and shall have reached the age of eighteen (18) years; nor shall any person be admitted who shall not have first been certified by a physician as being physically and mentally sound on an examination made within one month prior to the acceptance of the persons candidacy.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64-10 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-64 / Section 42-64-10
§ 42-64-10. Findings of the corporation.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as specifically provided in this chapter, the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall not be empowered to undertake the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, development, or improvement of a project, nor enter into a contract for any undertaking or for the financing of this undertaking, unless it first:

(1) Finds:

(i) That the acquisition or construction and operation of the project will prevent, eliminate, or reduce unemployment or underemployment in the state and will generally benefit economic development of the state;

(ii) That adequate provision has been made or will be made for the payment of the cost of the acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance and upkeep of the project;

(iii) That, with respect to real property, the plans and specifications assure adequate light, air, sanitation, and fire protection;

(iv) That the project is in conformity with the applicable provisions of chapter 23 of title 46; and

(v) That the project is in conformity with the applicable provisions of the state guide plan; and

(2) Prepares and publicly releases an analysis of the impact the proposed project will or may have on the state. The analysis shall be supported by appropriate data and documentation and shall consider, but not be limited to, the following factors:

(i) The impact on the industry or industries in which the completed project will be involved;

(ii) State fiscal matters, including the state budget (revenues and expenses);

(iii) The financial exposure of the taxpayers of the state under the plans for the proposed project and negative foreseeable contingencies that may arise therefrom;

(iv) The approximate number of full-time, part-time, temporary, seasonal, and/or permanent jobs projected to be created, construction and non-construction;

(v) Identification of geographic sources of the staffing for identified jobs;

(vi) The projected duration of the identified construction jobs;

(vii) The approximate wage rates for each category of the identified jobs;

(viii) The types of fringe benefits to be provided with the identified jobs, including healthcare insurance and any retirement benefits;

(ix) The projected fiscal impact on increased personal income taxes to the state of Rhode Island; and

(x) The description of any plan or process intended to stimulate hiring from the host community, training of employees or potential employees, and outreach to minority job applicants and minority businesses.

(b) With respect to the uses described in § 42-64-3(18), (23), (31), (36), and (37) and with respect to projects situated on federal lands, the corporation shall not be required to make the findings specified in subsection (a)(1)(i) of this section.

(c) Except for the findings specified in subsections (a)(1)(iv) and (a)(1)(v) of this section, the findings of the corporation made pursuant to this section shall be binding and conclusive for all purposes. Upon adoption by the corporation, any such findings shall be transmitted to the division of taxation, and shall be made available to the public for inspection by any person, and shall be published by the tax administrator on the tax division website.

(d) The corporation shall monitor every impact analysis it completes through the duration of any project incentives. Such monitoring shall include annual reports that shall be transmitted to the division of taxation, and shall be available to the public for inspection by any person, and shall be published by the tax administrator on the tax division website. The annual reports on the impact analysis shall include:

(1) Actual versus projected impact for all considered factors; and

(2) Verification of all commitments made in consideration of state incentives or aid.

(e) Upon its preparation and release of the analysis required by subsection (a)(2) of this section, the corporation shall provide copies of that analysis to the chairpersons of the house and senate finance committees, the house and senate fiscal advisors, the department of labor and training, and the division of taxation. Any such analysis shall be available to the public for inspection by any person and shall be published by the tax administrator on the tax division website. Annually thereafter, the department of labor and training shall certify to the chairpersons of the house and senate finance committees, the house and senate fiscal advisors, the corporation, and the division of taxation that: (i) The actual number of new full-time jobs with benefits created by the project, not including construction jobs, is on target to meet or exceed the estimated number of new jobs identified in the analysis above, and (ii) The actual number of existing full-time jobs with benefits has not declined. This certification shall no longer be required two (2) tax years after the terms and conditions of both the general assemblys joint resolution of approval required by § 42-64-20.1 and any agreement between the corporation and the project lessee have been satisfied. For purposes of this section, full-time jobs with benefits means jobs that require working a minimum of thirty (30) hours per week within the state, with a median wage that exceeds by five percent (5%) the median annual wage for full-time jobs in Rhode Island and within the taxpayers industry, with a benefit package that includes healthcare insurance plus other benefits typical of companies within the project lessees industry. The department of labor and training shall also certify annually to the chairpersons of the house and senate finance committees, the house and senate fiscal advisors, and the division of taxation that jobs created by the project are new jobs in the state of Rhode Island, meaning that the employees of the project are in addition to, and without a reduction in the number of, those employees of the project lessee currently employed in Rhode Island, are not relocated from another facility of the project lessee in Rhode Island or are employees assumed by the project lessee as the result of a merger or acquisition of a company already located in Rhode Island. The certifications made by the department of labor and training shall be available to the public for inspection by any person and shall be published by the tax administrator on the tax division website.

(f) The corporation, with the assistance of the taxpayer, the department of labor and training, the department of human services, and the division of taxation shall provide annually an analysis of whether any of the employees of the project lessee has received RIte Care or RIte Share benefits and the impact such benefits or assistance may have on the state budget. Any such analysis shall be available to the public for inspection by any person and shall be published by the tax administrator on the tax division website. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule or regulation, the division of taxation, the department of labor and training, and the department of human services are authorized to present, review, and discuss lessee-specific tax or employment information or data with the Rhode Island commerce corporation (RICC), the chairpersons of the house and senate finance committees, and/or the house and senate fiscal advisors for the purpose of verification and compliance with this tax credit reporting requirement.

(g) The corporation and the project lessee shall agree that, if at any time prior to pay back of the amount of the sales tax exemption through new income tax collections over three (3) years, not including construction job income taxes, the project lessee will be unable to continue the project, or otherwise defaults on its obligations to the corporation, the project lessee shall be liable to the state for all the sales tax benefits granted to the project plus interest, as determined in § 44-1-7, calculated from the date the project lessee received the sales tax benefits.

(h) Any agreements or contracts entered into by the corporation and the project lessee shall be sent to the division of taxation and be available to the public for inspection by any person and shall be published by the tax administrator on the tax division website.

(i) By August 15 of each year the project lessee shall report the source and amount of any bonds, grants, loans, loan guarantees, matching funds, or tax credits received from any state governmental entity, state agency, or public agency as defined in § 37-2-7 received during the previous state fiscal year. This annual report shall be sent to the division of taxation and be available to the public for inspection by any person and shall be published by the tax administrator on the tax division website.

(j) [Deleted by P.L. 2023, ch. 294, § 1 and P.L. 2023, ch. 295, § 1.]

(k) [Deleted by P.L. 2023, ch. 294, § 1 and P.L. 2023, ch. 295, § 1.]
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-107-1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-107 / Section 42-107-1
§ 42-107-1. Commission established.
Status: in_force

There shall be an American and Portuguese cultural exchange commission to consist of nine (9) members, all of whom shall be American citizens descended from Portuguese ancestry and residents of the state, three (3) of whom shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, three (3) of whom shall be appointed by the president of the senate, and three (3) of whom shall be appointed by the governor. The commission shall establish, maintain, and develop cultural ties between Portuguese and American people; foster a special interest in the historical and cultural background of both groups, as well as the social and artistic life of the countries involved.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-155-3 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-155 / Section 42-155-3
§ 42-155-3. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this chapter, quasi-public corporation means any body corporate and politic created, or to be created, pursuant to the general laws, including, but not limited to, the following:

(1) Capital center commission;

(2) Rhode Island convention center authority;

(3) Rhode Island industrial facilities corporation;

(4) Rhode Island industrial-recreational building authority;

(5) Rhode Island small business loan fund corporation;

(6) Quonset development corporation;

(7) Rhode Island airport corporation;

(8) I-195 redevelopment district commission;

(9) Rhode Island health and educational building corporation;

(10) Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation;

(11) Rhode Island student loan authority;

(12) Narragansett bay commission;

(13) Rhode Island infrastructure bank;

(14) Rhode Island water resources board;

(15) Rhode Island resource recovery corporation;

(16) Rhode Island public rail corporation;

(17) Rhode Island public transit authority;

(18) Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority;

(19) Rhode Island tobacco settlement financing corporation; and

(20) Any subsidiary of the Rhode Island commerce corporation.

(b) Cities, towns, and any corporation created that is an instrumentality and agency of a city or town, and any corporation created by a state law that has been authorized to transact business and exercise its powers by a city or town pursuant to ordinance or resolution, and fire and water districts are not subject to the provisions of this chapter.

(c) The Rhode Island commerce corporation, being subject to similar transparency and accountability requirements set forth in chapter 64 of this title; the Rhode Island public rail corporation established in chapter 64.2 of this title; Block Island power authority; and the Pascoag utility district shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64-9 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-64 / Section 42-64-9
§ 42-64-9. Condemnation power.
Status: in_force

(a) If, for any of the purposes of this chapter, the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall find it necessary to acquire any real property, whether for immediate or future use, the corporation may find and determine that the property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, is required for the acquisition, construction, or operation of a project, and upon that determination, the property shall be deemed to be required for public use until otherwise determined by the corporation; and with the exceptions hereinafter specifically noted, the determination shall not be affected by the fact that the property has been taken for, or is then devoted to, a public use; but the public use in the hands or under the control of the corporation shall be deemed superior to the public use in the hands of any other person, association, or corporation; provided further, however, that no real property or interest, estate, or right in these belonging to the state shall be acquired without consent of the state; and no real property or interest, estate, or right in these belonging to any municipality shall be acquired without the consent of the municipality; and no real property, or interest or estate in these, belonging to a public utility corporation may be acquired without the approval of the public utility commission or another regulatory body having regulatory power over the corporation except for the following real property or interest or estate in these: the underground electric distribution system, located at the Quonset Point/Davisville industrial complex (QP/D), North Kingstown, Rhode Island, consisting of lines of buried wires and cables and lines of wires and cables installed in underground conduits, together with all equipment and appurtenances to these for the furnishing of underground electric service running from the southwesterly side of Kiefer Park Substation 81 located in QP/D in an easterly and southeasterly direction to Carrier Pier Substation 82 located in QP/D together with any and all rights and easements as may be necessary to repair, maintain, operate, or otherwise gain access to the above-mentioned property.

(b) The corporation may proceed to acquire and is authorized to and may proceed to acquire property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in the manner prescribed in this chapter.

(c) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the corporation from bringing any proceedings to remove a cloud on title or any other proceedings that it may, in its discretion, deem proper and necessary, or from acquiring property by negotiation or purchase.

(d) The necessity for the acquisition of property under this chapter shall be conclusively presumed upon the adoption by the corporation of a vote determining that the acquisition of the property or any interest in property described in that vote is necessary for the acquisition, construction, or operation of a project. Within six (6) months after its passage, the corporation shall cause to be filed in the appropriate land evidence records a copy of its vote together with a statement signed by the chairperson or vice-chairperson of the corporation that the property is taken pursuant to this chapter, and also a description of the real property indicating the nature and extent of the estate or interest in the estate taken and a plat of the real property, which copy of the vote and statement of the chairperson or vice-chairperson shall be certified by the secretary of the corporation and the description and plat shall be certified by the city or town clerk for the city or town within which the real property lies.

(e) Forthwith thereafter the corporation shall cause to be filed in the superior court in and for the county within which the real property lies a statement of the sum of money estimated to be just compensation for the property taken, and shall deposit in the superior court to the use of the persons entitled to the money the sum set forth in the statement. The corporation shall satisfy the court that the amount deposited with the court is sufficient to satisfy the just claims of all persons having an estate or interest in the real property. Whenever the corporation satisfies the court that the claims of all persons interested in the real property taken have been satisfied, the unexpended balance shall be ordered repaid forthwith to the corporation.

(f) Upon the filing of the copy of the vote, statement, description, and plat in the land evidence records and upon the making of the deposit in accordance with the order of the superior court, title to the real property in fee simple absolute or any lesser estate or interest specified in the resolution shall vest in the corporation, and that real property shall be deemed to be condemned and taken for the use of the corporation and the right to just compensation for the condemned property shall vest in the persons entitled to compensation, and the corporation thereupon may take possession of the real property. No sum paid unto the court shall be charged with clerks fees of any nature.

(g) After the filing of the copy of the vote, statement, description, and plat, notice of the taking of that land or other real property shall be served upon the owners of, or persons having any estate or interest in, the real property by the sheriff or the sheriffs deputies of the county in which the real estate is situated by leaving a true and attested copy of the vote, statement, description, and plat with each of those persons personally, or at the last and usual place of abode in this state with some person living there, and in case any of those persons are absent from this state and have no last and usual place of abode therein occupied by any person, the copy shall be left with the person or persons, if any, in charge of, or having possession of the real property taken of the absent persons, and another copy shall be mailed to the address of the person, if the address is known to the officer serving the notice.

(h) After the filing of the vote, description, and plat, the corporation shall cause a copy to be published in some newspaper having general circulation in the city or town in which the real property lies at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks.

(i) If any party shall agree with the corporation upon the price to be paid for the value of the real property so taken and of appurtenant damage to any remainder or for the value of his or her estate, right, or interest therein, the court, upon application of the parties in interest, may order that the sum agreed upon be paid forthwith from the money deposited, as the just compensation to be awarded in the proceedings; provided, however, that no payment shall be made to any official or employee of the corporation for any property or interest in the property acquired from the official or employee unless the amount of the payment is determined by the court to constitute just compensation to be awarded in the proceedings.

(j) Any owner of, or person entitled to any estate or right in, or interested in any part of, the real property taken, who cannot agree with the corporation upon the price to be paid for his or her estate, right, or interest in the real property taken and the appurtenant damage to the remainder, may, within three (3) months after personal notice of the taking, or if he or she has no personal notice, may within one year from the time the sum of money estimated to be just compensation is deposited in the superior court to the use of the persons entitled to the compensation, apply by petition to the superior court for the county in which the real property is situated, setting forth the taking of his or her land or his or her estate or interest in these and praying for an assessment of damages by the court or by a jury. Upon the filing of the petition, the court shall cause twenty (20) days notice of the pendency of a trial to be given to the corporation by serving the chairperson or vice chairperson of the corporation with a certified copy of the notice.

(k) After the service of notice, the court may proceed to the trial thereof. The trial shall be conducted as other civil actions at law are tried. The trial shall determine all questions of fact relating to the value of the real property, and any estate or interest, and the amount of this value and the appurtenant damage to any remainder and the amount of this damage, and the trial and decision or verdict of the court or jury shall be subject to all rights to except to rulings, to move for new trial, and to appeal, as are provided by law. Upon the entry of judgment in those proceedings, execution shall be issued against the money deposited in court and in default against any other property of the corporation.

(l) In case two (2) or more petitioners make claim to the same real property, or to any estate or interest, or to different estate or interests in the same real property, the court shall, upon motion, consolidate their several petitions for trial at the same time, and may frame all necessary issues for the trial.

(m) If any real property or any estate or interest, in which any minor or other person not capable in law to act in his or her own behalf is interested, is taken under the provisions of this chapter, the superior court, upon the filing of a petition by or in behalf of the minor or person or by the corporation, may appoint a guardian ad litem for the minor or other person. Guardians may, with the advice and consent of the superior court, and upon any terms as the superior court may prescribe, release to the corporation all claims for damages for the land of the minor or other person or for any estate or interest. Any lawfully appointed, qualified, and acting guardian or other fiduciary of the estate of any minor or other person, with the approval of the court of probate within this state having jurisdiction to authorize the sale of lands and properties within this state of the minor or other person, may before the filing of any petition, agree with the minor or other person for any taking of his or her real property or of his or her interest or estate, and may, upon receiving the amount, release to the corporation all claims for damages for the minor or other person for the taking.

(n) In case any owner of or any person having an estate or interest in the real property fails to file his or her petition, the superior court for the county in which the real property is situated, in its discretion, may permit the filing of the petition within one year subsequent to the year following the time of the deposit in the superior court of the sum of money estimated to be just compensation for the property taken; provided, the person shall have had no actual knowledge of the taking of the land in season to file the petition; and provided, no other person or persons claiming to own the real property or estate or interest shall have been paid the value; and provided, no judgment has been rendered against the corporation for the payment of the value to any other person or persons claiming to own the real estate.

(o) If any real property or any estate or interest is unclaimed or held by a person or persons whose whereabouts are unknown, after making inquiry satisfactory to the superior court for the county in which the real property lies, the corporation, after the expiration of two (2) years from the first publication of the copy of the vote, statement, description, and plat, may petition the court that the value of the estate or interest of the unknown person or persons be determined. After the notice by publication to any person or persons that the court in its discretion may order, and after a hearing on the petition, the court shall fix the value of the estate or interest and shall order the sum to be deposited in the registry of the court in a special account to accumulate for the benefit of the person or persons, if any, entitled to it. The receipt of the clerk of the superior court shall constitute a discharge of the corporation from all liability in connection with the taking. When the person entitled to the money deposited shall have satisfied the superior court of the persons right to receive that money, the court shall cause it to be paid over to the person, with all accumulations thereon.

(p) The superior court shall have power to make any orders with respect to encumbrances, liens, taxes, and other charges on the land, if any, as shall be just and equitable.

(q) Whenever, in the opinion of the corporation, a substantial saving in the cost of acquiring title can be effected by conveying other real property, title to which is in the corporation, to the person or persons from whom the estate or interest in real property is being purchased or taken, or by the construction or improvement by the corporation of any work or facility upon the remaining real property of the person or persons from whom the estate or interest in real property is being purchased or taken, the corporation shall be and hereby is authorized to convey that other real property to the person or persons from whom the estate or interest in real property is being purchased or taken and to construct or improve any work or facility upon the remaining land of the person or persons.

(r) At any time during the pendency of any proceedings for the assessment of damages for property or interests taken or to be taken by eminent domain by the corporation, the corporation or any owner may apply to the court for an order directing an owner or the corporation, as the case may be, to show cause why further proceedings should not be expedited, and the court may upon that application make an order requiring that the hearings proceed and that any other steps be taken with all possible expedition.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-99-7 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-99 / Section 42-99-7
§ 42-99-7. Condemnation power.
Status: in_force

(a) If for any of the purposes of this chapter, the corporation shall find it necessary to acquire any real property, whether for immediate or future use, the corporation may find and determine that the property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, is required for the construction or operation of a convention center, and upon the determination, the property shall be deemed to be required for public use until otherwise determined by the corporation; and with the exceptions hereinafter specifically noted, the determination shall not be affected by the fact that the property has theretofore been taken for, or is then devoted to, a public use; but the public use in the hands or under the control of the corporation shall be deemed superior to the public use in the hands of any other person, association, or corporation; provided further, however, that no real property or interest, estate or right therein belonging to the state shall be acquired without consent of the state; and no real property or interest, estate, or right therein belonging to any municipality shall be acquired without the consent of that municipality; and no real property, or interest or estate therein, belonging to a public utility corporation, may be acquired without the approval of the public utility commission or another regulatory body having regulatory power over the corporation. Notwithstanding any requirements and limitations contained in § 39-6.1-9 to the contrary, the corporation shall at all times be permitted to exercise the rights and power of eminent domain conferred upon it under this chapter in order to take by condemnation any or all of the properties of any railway corporation, including all of the estate and interest of any railway corporation in the properties subject to condemnation proceedings.

(b) The corporation may proceed to acquire and is hereby authorized to and may proceed to acquire property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in the manner prescribed in this chapter.

(c) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the corporation from bringing any proceedings to remove a cloud on title or any other proceedings as it may, in its discretion, deem proper and necessary, or from acquiring any property by negotiation or purchase.

(d) The necessity for the acquisition of property under this chapter shall be conclusively presumed upon the adoption by the corporation of a vote determining that the acquisition of the property or any interest therein described in the vote is necessary for the acquisition, construction, or operation of a project. Within six (6) months after its passage, the corporation shall cause to be filed in the appropriate land evidence records a copy of its vote together with a statement signed by the chairperson or vice chairperson of the corporation that the property is taken pursuant to this chapter, and also a description of the real property indicating the nature and extent of the estate or interest therein taken and a plat thereof, which copy of the vote and statement of the chairperson or vice chairperson shall be certified by the secretary of the corporation and the description and plat shall be certified by the city or town clerk for the city or town within which the real property lies.

(e) The corporation shall cause to be filed in the superior court in and for the county within which the real property lies, a statement of the sum of money estimated to be just compensation for the property taken, and shall deposit in the superior court to the use of the persons entitled thereto the sum set forth in the statement. The corporation shall satisfy the court that the amount so deposited with the court is sufficient to satisfy the just claims of all persons having an estate or interest in the real property. Whenever the corporation satisfies the court that the claims of all persons interested in the real property taken have been satisfied, the unexpended balance shall be ordered repaid forthwith to the corporation.

(f) Upon the filing of the copy of the vote, statement, description, and plat in the land evidence records and upon the making of the deposit in accordance with the order of the superior court, title to the real property in fee simple absolute or any lesser estate or interest therein specified in the resolution shall vest in the corporation, and the real property shall be deemed to be condemned and taken for the use of the corporation and the right to just compensation for the real property shall vest in the persons entitled thereto, and the corporation thereupon may take possession of the real property. No sum so paid unto the court shall be charged with clerks fees of any nature.

(g) After the filing of the copy of the vote, statement, description, and plat, notice of the taking of the land or other real property shall be served upon the owners of, or persons having any estate or interest in, the real property by the sheriff or the sheriffs deputies of the county in which the real estate is situated by leaving a true and attested copy of the vote, statement, description, and plat with each of the persons personally, or at the last and usual place of abode in this state with some person living there, and in case any of the persons are absent from this state and have no last and usual place of abode therein occupied by any person, the copy shall be left with the person or persons, if any, in charge of, or having possession of, the real property taken of the absent persons, and another copy thereof shall be mailed to the address of the person, if the person is known to the officer serving the notice.

(h) After the filing of the vote, description, and plat, the corporation shall cause a copy thereof to be published in some newspaper having general circulation in the city or town in which the real property lies at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks.

(i) If any party shall agree with the corporation upon the price to be paid for the value of the real property taken and of appurtenant damage to any remainder or for the value of his or her estate, right, or interest in the real property, the court, upon application of the parties in interest, may order that the sum agreed upon be paid from the money deposited, as the just compensation to be awarded in the proceedings; provided, however, that no payment shall be made to any official or employee of the corporation for any property or interest in the property acquired from the official or employee unless the amount of the payment is determined by the court to constitute just compensation to be awarded in the proceedings.

(j) Any owner of, or person entitled to any estate or right in, or interested in any part of the real property taken, who cannot agree with the corporation upon the price to be paid for his or her estate, right or interest in the real property taken and the appurtenant damage to the remainder, may, within three (3) months after personal notice of the taking, or if he or she has no personal notice, within one year from the time the sum of money estimated to be just compensation is deposited in the superior court to the use of the persons entitled to the money, apply by petition to the superior court for the county in which the real property is situated, setting forth the taking of his or her land or his or her estate or interest therein and praying for an assessment of damages by the court or by a jury. Upon the filing of the petition the court shall cause twenty (20) days notice of the pendency of the trial to be given to the corporation by serving the chairperson or vice chairperson of the corporation with a certified copy.

(k) After the service of the notice the court may proceed to the trial. The trial shall be conducted as other civil actions at law are tried. The trial shall determine all questions of fact relating to the value of the real property, and any estate or interest therein, and the amount thereof and the appurtenant damage to any remainder and the amount thereof, and the trial and decision or verdict of the court or jury shall be subject to all rights to except to rulings, to move for new trial, and to appeal, as are provided by law. Upon the entry of judgment in the proceedings, execution shall be issued against the money deposited in court and in default thereof against any other property of the corporation.

(l) In case two (2) or more petitioners make claim to the same real property, or to any estate or interest therein, or to different estate or interests in the same real property, the court shall, upon motion, consolidate their several petitions for trial at the same time, and may frame all necessary issues for the trial.

(m) If any real property or any estate or interest in the real property, in which any minor or other person not capable in law to act in his or her own behalf is interested, is taken under the provisions of this chapter, the superior court, upon the filing of a petition by or in behalf of the minor or person or by the corporation may appoint a guardian ad litem for the minor or other person. Guardians may, with the advice and consent of the superior court, and upon any terms that the superior court may prescribe, release to the corporation all claims for damages for the land of the minor or other person or for any estate or interest therein. Any lawfully appointed, qualified, and acting guardian or other fiduciary of the estate of any minor or other person, with the approval of the court of probate within this state having jurisdiction to authorize the sale of lands and properties within this state of the minor or other person, may before the filing of any petition, agree with the minor or other person for any taking of his or her real property or of his or her interest or estate therein, and may, upon receiving that amount, release to the corporation all claims for damages for the minor or other person for the taking.

(n) In case any owner of or any person having an estate or interest in the real property shall fail to file his or her petition as provided in subsection (j), the superior court for the county in which the real property is situated, in its discretion, may permit the filing of the petition within one year subsequent to the year following the time of the deposit in the superior court of the sum of money estimated to be just compensation for the property taken; provided, the person shall have had no actual knowledge of the taking of the land in season to file the petition; and provided, no other person or persons claiming to own the real property or estate or interest in real property shall have been paid the value thereof; and provided, no judgment has been rendered against the corporation for the payment of value to any other person or persons claiming to own the real estate.

(o) If any real property or any estate or interest in real property is unclaimed or held by a person or persons whose whereabouts are unknown, after making inquiry satisfactory to the superior court for the county in which the real property lies, the corporation, after the expiration of two (2) years from the first publication of the copy of the vote, statement, description, and plat, may petition the court that the value of the estate or interest of the unknown person or persons be determined. After the notice by publication to the person or persons the court in its discretion may order, and after a hearing on the petition, the court shall fix the value of the estate or interest and shall order the sum to be deposited in the registry of the court in a special account to accumulate for the benefit of the person or persons, if any, entitled thereto. The receipt of the clerk of the superior court therefor shall constitute a discharge of the corporation from all liability in connection with the taking. When the person entitled to the money deposited shall have satisfied the superior court of his or her right to receive the money, the court shall cause it to be paid over to him or her, with all accumulations thereon.

(p) The superior court shall have the power to make any such orders with respect to encumbrances, liens, taxes, and other charges on the land, if any, that shall be just and equitable.

(q) Whenever in the opinion of the corporation a substantial saving in the cost of acquiring title can be effected by conveying other real property, title to which is in the corporation, to the person or persons from whom the estate or interest in real property is being purchased or taken, or by the construction or improvement by the corporation of any work or facility upon the remaining real property of the person or persons from whom the estate or interest in real property is being purchased or taken, the corporation shall be and is authorized to convey the other real property to the person or persons from whom the estate or interest in real property is being purchased or taken and to construct or improve any work or facility upon the remaining land of the person or persons.

(r) At any time during the pendency of any proceedings for the assessment of damages for property or interests in real property taken or to be taken by eminent domain by the corporation, the corporation or any owner may apply to the court for an order directing an owner or the corporation, as the case may be, to show cause why further proceedings should be expedited, and the court may upon the application make an order requiring that the hearings proceed and that any other steps be taken with all possible expedition.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-99-20 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-99 / Section 42-99-20
§ 42-99-20. Purchases.
Status: in_force

The corporation shall be considered a public agency and subject to the provisions of chapter 2 of title 37 entitled: State Purchases to the extent that those provisions are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-1-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-1 / Section 42-1-4
§ 42-1-4. Exemption from taxes.
Status: in_force

The premises described in § 42-1-3 shall be exempt from all taxes and assessments and other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of the state and shall so continue to be exempt as long as the property shall remain the property of the United States and no longer.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-55-28 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-55 / Section 42-55-28
§ 42-55-28. Inconsistent provisions in other laws superseded.
Status: in_force

Insofar as the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, general, special, or local, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-74-1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-74 / Section 42-74-1
§ 42-74-1. Childrens code commission.
Status: in_force

(a) There shall be a continuing childrens code commission charged with the duty of studying, revising, and codifying, if possible, all laws affecting the health and welfare of children.

(b) The childrens code commission shall consist of twenty-one (21) members, each of whom shall serve a two-year (2) term, expiring on the second anniversary of each individuals appointment or on the date that their respective successors are appointed and qualified, whichever is later. The membership of the childrens code commission shall consist of three (3) members of the senate, not more than two (2) from the same political party and three (3) members of the house of representatives, not more than two (2) from the same political party to be appointed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, respectively; the director of the department of children, youth and families, or the director's designee; the director of the department of human services, or the director's designee; the director of the department of health, or the director's designee; the director of the department of elementary and secondary education, or the director's designee; nine (9) members of the community at large to be appointed by the governor for their interest and expertise in the field under consideration; the child advocate for the state, or the child advocate's designee; and, the chief judge of the family court, or the chief judge's designee. The committee shall select one of its members as chairperson.

(c) The childrens code commission shall meet at least twelve (12) times a year and shall be charged with delivering on or before December 15 of each calendar year its report to the governor and the legislature regarding its findings for that calendar year. The commissions annual report shall include, but not be limited to, its recommendations for revisions, amendments, additions, or consolidation of the laws affecting children to insure that these laws promote, safeguard, and protect the well-being of children.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-113-1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-113 / Section 42-113-1
§ 42-113-1. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Rhode Island Housing and Conservation Trust Fund Act.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-140-9 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-140 / Section 42-140-9
§ 42-140-9. Adoption of rules.
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall have the authority to adopt, amend, and implement such rules as may be necessary to desirable to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. In any rulemaking by the commissioner, the commissioner shall consider as a matter of record the advice of the energy resources council and the renewable energy coordinating board.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-56-16 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-56 / Section 42-56-16
§ 42-56-16. Deputy warden and employees, womens division, adult correctional institutions.
Status: in_force

The director of corrections shall appoint a deputy warden, womens division, adult correctional institutions, who under the direction of the director, shall have the control and management of the division. The director shall appoint any other assistants and employees who may be deemed necessary for the proper management of the womens division.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-116-11 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-116 / Section 42-116-11
§ 42-116-11. Payment of state funds  Agreement between corporation and department.
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), upon the written request of the corporation, the general treasurer of the state shall pay to the corporation from time to time the proceeds of any bonds or notes issued by the state for the purposes of this chapter, any appropriations of the state made for the benefit of the corporation, or any other funds lawfully payable by the state to the corporation, or any revenues dedicated to corporate purposes.

(b) The executive director of the corporation, with the approval of the board and the governor on behalf of the state, may enter into, execute, and deliver one or more agreements with the corporation setting forth or otherwise determining the terms, conditions and procedures for, and the amount, time, and manner of payment of, all amounts available from the state to the corporation under this section. The agreement or agreements may include any covenants and undertakings of the state and the corporation that the governor and the corporation deem reasonable.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-99-8 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-99 / Section 42-99-8
§ 42-99-8. Limitation of liability.
Status: in_force

In any tort action against the corporation, any damages recovered therein shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-46-5 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-46 / Section 42-46-5
§ 42-46-5. Purposes for which meeting may be closed  Use of electronic communications  Judicial proceedings  Disruptive conduct.
Status: in_force

(a) A public body may hold a meeting closed to the public pursuant to § 42-46-4 for one or more of the following purposes:

(1) Any discussions of the job performance, character, or physical or mental health of a person or persons provided that the person or persons affected shall have been notified in advance in writing and advised that they may require that the discussion be held at an open meeting.

Failure to provide notification shall render any action taken against the person or persons affected null and void. Before going into a closed meeting pursuant to this subsection, the public body shall state for the record that any persons to be discussed have been so notified and this statement shall be noted in the minutes of the meeting.

(2) Sessions pertaining to collective bargaining or litigation, or work sessions pertaining to collective bargaining or litigation.

(3) Discussion regarding the matter of security including, but not limited to, the deployment of security personnel or devices.

(4) Any investigative proceedings regarding allegations of misconduct, either civil or criminal.

(5) Any discussions or considerations related to the acquisition or lease of real property for public purposes, or of the disposition of publicly held property wherein advanced public information would be detrimental to the interest of the public.

(6) Any discussions related to or concerning a prospective business or industry locating in the state of Rhode Island when an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the interest of the public.

(7) A matter related to the question of the investment of public funds where the premature disclosure would adversely affect the public interest. Public funds shall include any investment plan or matter related thereto, including, but not limited to, state lottery plans for new promotions.

(8) Any executive sessions of a local school committee exclusively for the purposes: (i) Of conducting student disciplinary hearings; or (ii) Of reviewing other matters that relate to the privacy of students and their records, including all hearings of the various juvenile hearing boards of any municipality; provided, however, that any affected student shall have been notified in advance in writing and advised that the student may require that the discussion be held in an open meeting.

Failure to provide notification shall render any action taken against the student or students affected null and void. Before going into a closed meeting pursuant to this subsection, the public body shall state for the record that any students to be discussed have been so notified and this statement shall be noted in the minutes of the meeting.

(9) Any hearings on, or discussions of, a grievance filed pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement.

(10) Any discussion of the personal finances of a prospective donor to a library.

(b) No meeting of members of a public body or use of electronic communication, including telephonic communication and telephone conferencing, shall be used to circumvent the spirit or requirements of this chapter; provided, however, these meetings and discussions are not prohibited.

(1) Provided, further however, that discussions of a public body via electronic communication, including telephonic communication and telephone conferencing, shall be permitted only to schedule a meeting, except as provided in this subsection.

(2) Provided, further however, that a member of a public body may participate by use of electronic communication or telephone communication while on active duty in the armed services of the United States.

(3) Provided, further however, that a member of that public body, who has a disability as defined in chapter 87 of this title and:

(i) Cannot attend meetings of that public body solely by reason of the members disability; and

(ii) Cannot otherwise participate in the meeting without the use of electronic communication or telephone communication as reasonable accommodation, may participate by use of electronic communication or telephone communication in accordance with the process below.

(4) The governors commission on disabilities is authorized and directed to:

(i) Establish rules and regulations for determining whether a member of a public body is not otherwise able to participate in meetings of that public body without the use of electronic communication or telephone communication as a reasonable accommodation due to that members disability;

(ii) Grant a waiver that allows a member to participate by electronic communication or telephone communication only if the members disability would prevent the member from being physically present at the meeting location, and the use of such communication is the only reasonable accommodation; and

(iii) Any waiver decisions shall be a matter of public record.

(5) The university of Rhode Island board of trustees members, established pursuant to § 16-32-2, are authorized to participate remotely in open public meetings of the board; provided, however, that:

(i) The remote members and all persons present at the meeting location are clearly audible and visible to each other;

(ii) A quorum of the body is participating;

(iii) If videoconferencing is used to conduct a meeting, the public notice for the meeting shall inform the public that videoconferencing will be used and include instructions on how the public can access the virtual meeting; and

(iv) The board shall adopt rules defining the requirements of remote participation including its use for executive session, and the conditions by which a member is authorized to participate remotely.

(6) The Rhode Island Life Science Hub board of directors, established pursuant to § 23-99-4, is authorized to participate remotely in open public meetings of the board, in accordance with the provisions of § 23-99-4(c).

(c) This chapter shall not apply to proceedings of the judicial branch of state government or probate court or municipal court proceedings in any city or town.

(d) This chapter shall not prohibit the removal of any person who willfully disrupts a meeting to the extent that orderly conduct of the meeting is seriously compromised.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-37-1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-37 / Section 42-37-1
§ 42-37-1. New England State Police Compact.
Status: in_force

The New England State Police Compact is hereby entered into and enacted into law with any and all of the states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:

The purposes of this compact are to:

(1) Provide close and effective cooperation and assistance in detecting and apprehending those engaged in organized criminal activities;

(2) Establish and maintain a central criminal intelligence bureau to gather, evaluate and disseminate to the appropriate law enforcement officers of the party states information concerning organized crime, its leaders and their associates;

(3) Provide mutual aid and assistance in the event of police emergencies, and to provide for the powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities of police personnel when rendering such aid.

(a) This compact shall enter into force when enacted into law by any three (3) of the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Thereafter, this compact shall become effective as to any other of the aforementioned states upon its enactment thereof.

(b) Any party state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing the same, but no such withdrawal shall take effect until one year after the governor of the withdrawing state has given notice in writing of the withdrawal to the governors of all other party states. No withdrawal shall effect any liability already incurred by or chargeable to a party state prior to the time of such withdrawal, and any records, files, or information obtained by officers or employees of a withdrawing state shall continue to be kept, used, and disposed of only in such manner as is consistent with this compact and any rules or regulations pursuant thereto.

(a) There is hereby established the New England State Police Administrators Conference, hereinafter called the Conference, to be composed of the administrative head of the state police department of each party state.

(b) If authorized by the laws of his or her party state, the administrative head of the state police department of a party state may provide for the discharge of his or her duties and the performance of his or her functions on the conference, for periods none of which shall exceed fifteen (15) days, by an alternate. No such alternate shall be entitled to serve unless notification of his or her identity and appointment shall have been given to the conference in such form as the conference may require.

(c) An alternate serving pursuant to subdivision (b) of this article shall be selected only from among the officers and employees of the state police department, the head of which such alternate is to represent.

(d) The members of the conference shall be entitled to one vote each. No action of the conference shall be binding unless taken at a meeting at which a majority of the total number of votes on the conference are cast in favor thereof. Action of the conference shall be only at a meeting at which a majority of the members of the conference, or their alternates, are present.

(e) The conference shall have a seal.

(f) The conference shall elect annually, from among its members, a chairperson, (who shall not be eligible to succeed himself or herself) a vice chairperson, and a treasurer. The conference shall appoint an executive secretary and fix his or her duties and compensation. Such executive secretary shall serve at the pleasure of the conference, and together with the treasurer shall be bonded in such amount as the conference shall determine. The executive secretary also shall serve as general secretary of the conference.

(g) Irrespective of the civil service, personnel or other merit system laws of any of the party states, the executive secretary subject to the direction of the conference, shall appoint, remove or discharge such personnel as may be necessary for the performance of the conference functions, and shall fix the duties and compensation of such personnel.

(h) The conference may establish and maintain independently or in conjunction with any one or more of the party states, a suitable retirement system for its full-time employees. Employees of the conference shall be eligible for social security coverage in respect of old age and survivors insurance provided that the conference takes such steps as may be necessary pursuant to the laws of the United States, to participate in such program of insurance as a governmental agency or unit. The conference may establish and maintain or participate in such additional programs of employee benefits as may be appropriate. Employment by the conference of a retired officer or employee of a party state shall not affect the pension or other retirement-connected benefits paid to such officer or employee by a party state.

(i) The conference may borrow, accept or contract for the services of personnel from any party state, the United States, or any subdivision or agency of the aforementioned governments, or from any agency of two (2) or more of the party states or their subdivisions.

(j) The conference may accept for any of its purposes and functions under this compact any and all donations, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials, and services, conditional or otherwise, from any state, the United States, or any other governmental agency, or from any person, firm or corporation, and may receive, utilize and dispose of the same. The conference shall publish in its annual report the terms, conditions, character, and amount of any resources accepted by it pursuant hereto together with the identity of the donor.

(k) The conference may establish and maintain such facilities as may be necessary for the transacting of its business. The conference may acquire, hold, and convey real and personal property and any interest therein.

(l) The conference shall adopt bylaws for the conduct of its business and shall have the power to amend and rescind these bylaws. The conference shall publish its bylaws in convenient form and shall file a copy thereof and a copy of any amendment thereto, with the appropriate agency or officer in each of the party states. The bylaws shall provide for appropriate notice to the conference members of all conference meetings.

(m) The conference annually shall make to the governor and legislature of each party state a report covering the activities of the conference for the preceding year, and embodying such recommendations as may have been issued by the conference. The conference may make such additional reports as it may deem desirable.

The conference shall have power to:

(1) Establish and operate a New England Criminal Intelligence Bureau, hereinafter called the Bureau, in which shall be received, assembled and kept case histories, records, data, personal dossiers, and other information concerning persons engaged or otherwise associated with organized crime.

(2) Consider and recommend means of identifying leaders and emerging leaders of organized crime and their associates.

(3) Facilitate mutual assistance among the state police of the party states pursuant to article VII of this compact.

(4) Formulate procedures for claims and reimbursements, pursuant to article VII of this compact.

(5) Promote cooperation in law enforcement and make recommendations to the party states and other appropriate law enforcement authorities for the improvement of such cooperation.

(6) Do all things which may be necessary and incidental to the exercise of the foregoing powers.

The bureau established and operated pursuant to article IV(1) of this compact is hereby designated and recognized as the instrument for the performance of a central criminal intelligence service to the state police departments of the party states. The files, records, data and other information of the bureau and, when made pursuant to the bylaws of the conference, any copies thereof shall be available only to duly designated officers and employees of the state police departments of the party states acting within the scope of their official duty. In the possession of the aforesaid officers and employees, such records, data, and other information shall be subject to use and disposition in the same manner and pursuant to the same laws, rules and regulations applicable to similar records, data, and information of the officers or employees agency and the provision of this compact.

The members of the conference from any two (2) or more party states, upon notice to the chairperson as to the time and purpose of the meeting, may meet as a section for the discussion of problems common to their states. Any two (2) or more party states may designate the conference as a joint agency to maintain for them such additional common services as they may deem desirable for combating organized crime. Except in those cases where all party states join in such designation for common services, the representative of any group of such designating states in the conference shall constitute a separate section of such conference for the performance of the common service or services so designated provided that, if any additional expense is involved, the state so acting shall provide the necessary funds for this purpose. The creation of such a section or joint agency shall not affect the privileges, powers, responsibilities or duties of the states participating therein as embodied in the other articles of this compact.

(a) As used in this article:

(1) Emergency means an occurrence or condition, temporary in nature, in which the state police department of a party state is, or may reasonably be expected to be, unable to cope with substantial and imminent danger to the public safety, and in which the cooperation of or aid from local police forces within the state is, or may reasonably be expected to be insufficient. Also emergency shall mean a situation in which an investigation of an aspect of organized crime, or events connected with organized crime, require augmentation, for a limited time, of the investigative personnel of the state police department from without the state.

(2) Requesting state means the state whose state police department requests assistance in coping with an emergency.

(3) Responding state means the state furnishing aid, or requested to furnish aid, pursuant to this article.

(b) In case of emergency, upon the request of the administrative head of the state police department of a party state, the administrative head of the state police department of each responding state, shall order such part of his or her state police forces as he or she, in his or her discretion, may find necessary, to aid the state police forces of the requesting state in order to carry out the purposes set forth in this compact. In such case, it shall be the duty of the administrative head of the state police department of each responding state to issue the necessary orders for such use of state police forces of his or her state without the borders of his or her state, and to direct such forces to place themselves under the operational control of the administrative head of the state police department of the requesting state.

(c) The administrative head of the state police department of any party state, in his or her discretion, may withhold or recall the police forces of his or her state or any part or any member thereof, serving without its borders.

(d) Whenever any of the state police forces of any party state are engaged outside their own state in carrying out the purposes of this compact, the individual members so engaged shall have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities as members of the state police department of the state in which they are engaged, but in any event, a requesting state shall save harmless any members of a responding state police department serving within its borders for any act or acts done by him or her in the performance of his or her duty while engaged in carrying out the purposes of this compact.

(e) All liability that may arise under the laws of the requesting state or under the laws of the responding state or under the laws of a third state on account of or in connection with a request for aid, shall be assumed and borne by the requesting state.

(f) Any responding state rendering aid pursuant to this compact shall be reimbursed by the requesting state for any loss or damage to, or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment answering a request for aid, and for the cost of the materials, transportation and maintenance of state police personnel and equipment incurred in connection with such request: provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any responding state from assuming such loss, damage, expense or other cost.

(g) Each party state shall provide, in the same amounts and manner as if they were on duty within their state, for the pay and allowances of the personnel of its state police department while engaged without the state pursuant to this compact and while going to and returning from such duty pursuant to this compact.

(h) Each party state providing for the payment of compensation and death benefits to injured members and the representatives of deceased members of its state police department in case such members sustain injuries or are killed within their own state, shall provide for the payment of compensation and death benefits in the same manner and on the same terms in case such members sustain injury or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact.

(a) The conference shall submit to the governor or designated officer or officers of each party state a budget of its estimated expenditures for such period as may be required by the laws of that party state for presentation to the legislature thereof.

(b) Each of the conferences budgets of estimated expenditures shall contain specific recommendations of the amount or amounts to be appropriated by each of the party states. The total amount of appropriations under any such budget shall be apportioned among the party states as follows: one-third ( 1 / 3 ) in equal shares; one-third ( 1 / 3 ) divided among the party states in the proportions that their populations bear to the total population of all the party states; and one-third ( 1 / 3 ) divided among the party states in the proportions that the major crimes committed in each party state bear to the total number of major crimes committed in all the party states. In determining population pursuant to this paragraph, the most recent decennial census compiled by the United States government shall be used. Numbers of major crimes shall be as reported in the most recent annual Uniform Crime Report compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Department of Justice, or by any agency which may assume responsibility for such compilation in the place of such bureau. In the event that any source of information required to be used for the purpose of this paragraph shall be discontinued, the conference shall make its calculations on the basis of the best alternative sources of information and shall identify the sources used.

(c) The conference shall not pledge the credit of any party state. The conference may meet any of its obligations in whole or in part with funds available to it under article III (j) of this compact, provided that the conference takes specific action setting aside such funds prior to incurring any obligation to be met in whole or in part in such manner. Except where the conference makes use of funds available to it under article III (j) hereof, the conference shall not incur any obligation prior to the allotment of funds by the party states adequate to meet the same.

(d) The conference shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. The receipts and disbursements of the conference shall be subject to the audit and accounting procedures established under its rules. However, all receipts and disbursements of funds handled by the conference shall be audited yearly by a qualified, public accountant and the report of the audit shall be included in and become part of the annual report of the conference.

(e) The accounts of the conference shall be open at any reasonable time for inspection by duly constituted officers of the party states and any persons authorized by the conference.

(f) Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent conference compliance with laws relating to audit or inspection of accounts by or on behalf of any government contributing to the support of the conference.

This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state participating herein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining party states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-26-11 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-26 / Section 42-26-11
§ 42-26-11. Cooperation of departments.
Status: in_force

All other departments and agencies of the state government are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the office and to furnish such information as the office shall require.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-55-22.1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-55 / Section 42-55-22.1
§ 42-55-22.1. Mortgage disclosure reports.
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to the requirements of § 9-1-28.1, the corporation shall compile a report and deliver it on or before the close of calendar year 1986 to the governor, general treasurer, and general assembly containing the following information:

(1) The number and total dollar amount of loans the corporation has made or participated in pursuant to § 42-55-6(1), (2), (3), and (7) and § 42-55-7(3) during each calendar year from 1974 to 1985, inclusive, in each census tract in the state;

(2) The name of each mortgage lender, the number and total dollar amount of loans made to each mortgage lender by the corporation, pursuant to § 42-55-7(2) during each calendar year from 1974 to 1985, inclusive, in each census tract in the state. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 37 of title 34, the number, total dollar amount, and seller or assignor of loans the corporation has purchased or taken assignment of broken down by the race of the borrower, pursuant to § 42-55-7, during the calendar year in each census tract in the state;

(3) The number, total dollar amount, and seller or assignor of loans the corporation has purchased or taken assignment of pursuant to § 42-55-7(1) during each calendar year from 1974 to 1985, inclusive, in each census tract in the state;

(4) The number and total dollar amount of federally insured mortgages the corporation has bought or sold pursuant to § 42-55-7(3) during each calendar year from 1974 to 1985, inclusive, in each census tract in the state; and

(5) The number of mortgage loans, the average sale price of homes purchased, the average size of mortgage loans made by the corporation for the purchase of homes, the average household income of borrowers, the average loan to value ratio, and the total number of new and existing homes, respectively, purchased with loans made by the corporation, without revealing the name, address, or income of individual borrowers during each fiscal year from 1977 to 1985, inclusive, in each census tract in the state.

(b) Subject to the requirements of § 9-1-28.1, the corporation shall compile a report and deliver it on or before the close of calendar year 1986 and every calendar year thereafter to the governor, general treasurer, and general assembly containing the following information:

(1) The number and total dollar amount of loans the corporation has made or participated in pursuant to § 42-55-6(1), (2), (3), and (7) and § 42-55-7(3) during the calendar year in each census tract in the state;

(2) The name of each mortgage lender, the number, and total dollar amount of loans made to each mortgage lender by the corporation, pursuant to § 42-55-7(2) during the calendar year in each census tract in the state;

(3) The number, total dollar amount, and seller or assignor of loans the corporation has purchased or taken assignment of pursuant to § 42-55-7(1) during the calendar year in each census tract in the state;

(4) The number and total dollar amount of federally insured mortgages the corporation has bought or sold pursuant to § 42-55-7(3) during the calendar year in each census tract in the state;

(5) The number of mortgage loans, the average sale price of homes purchased, the average size of mortgage loans made by the corporation for the purchase of homes, the average household income of borrowers, the average loan to value ratio, and the total number of new and existing homes, respectively, purchased with loans made by the corporation, without revealing the name, address, or income of individual borrowers during the calendar year in each census tract in the state;

(6) The aggregate number and average dollar value of all loans according to the age of the eldest applicant, in each of the following categories: 18-24; 25-34; 35-44; 45-54; 55-59; 60-64; 65-74; and 75 and older; and

(7) The aggregate number and average dollar value of all loans by each of the state representative districts, as the districts from time to time exist.

(c) The corporation shall make available to the public for inspection and copying at the corporations office all reports compiled by the corporation pursuant to this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-128-1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-128 / Section 42-128-1
§ 42-128-1. Findings.
Status: in_force

(a) Rhode Island has an older housing stock that contributes invaluably to community character, and in order to maintain the stability of neighborhoods and to sustain health communities, it is necessary to have programs for housing and community development and revitalization.

(b) Rhode Island has an active private sector that is engaged in supplying housing.

(c) Rhode Island has an active nonprofit housing sector, which can, if provided adequate support, assist low- and moderate-income persons and works to improve conditions in neighborhoods and communities.

(d) Housing that is not adequately maintained is a source of blight in communities and a cause of public health problems. Public health and safety are impaired by poor housing conditions; poisoning from lead paint and respiratory disease (asthma) are significant housing-related health problems in Rhode Island.

(e) There is an increasing need for supported living arrangements for the elderly and a continuing need for supported living arrangements for persons who are disabled and/or homeless.

(f) Fair housing, and the potential of unequal treatment of individuals based on race, ethnicity, age, disability, and family, must be given continuing attention.

(g) Housing costs consume a disproportionate share of income for many Rhode Islanders; housing affordability is a continuing problem, especially for first-time home buyers and lower and moderate income renters; the high cost of housing adversely affects the expansion of Rhode Islands economy. Housing affordability and availability affect conditions of homelessness. The high cost of housing and the lack of affordable, decent housing for low-income households is a source of hardship for very low-income persons and families in Rhode Island.

(h) The federal government has been reducing its commitment to housing since 1981, and there is no indication that earlier levels of federal support for housing will be restored.

(i) Public housing authorities, which rely on federal support that is being reconsidered, have been and continue to be an important housing resource for low-income families and the elderly.

(j) It is necessary and desirable in order to protect that public health and to promote the public welfare, to establish an executive office of housing and an advisory council on housing and homelessness for the purposes of advising the executive office of housing on improving housing conditions, promoting housing affordability, engaging in community development activities, preventing and ending homelessness, and assisting the urban, suburban, and rural communities of the state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-18-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-18 / Section 42-18-2
§ 42-18-2. Milk inspection powers.
Status: in_force

The department of health and director of health shall enforce the provisions of chapter 2 of title 21, relating to milk; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall infringe upon the powers and duties of the department of environmental management relating to the inspection of cattle, milk herds, or the economic control of milk.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-96-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-96 / Section 42-96-2
§ 42-96-2. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(1) Commission means the Rhode Island justice commission.

(2) Director means the executive director of the Rhode Island justice commission.

(3) Municipality means any city or town within the state.

(4) Organization means any neighborhood crime prevention organization, incorporated or unincorporated, organized exclusively for a purpose or purposes, not for pecuniary profit or financial gain and no part of the assets, income, or profit of which is distributable to, or inures to the benefit of, its members, directors (or their equivalent), or officers except to the extent permitted by law, and which is engaged in one or more of the organization activities specified in subsection (5) of this section.

(5) Organization activities means activities of neighborhood crime prevention, geared towards the heightened awareness and practice of community members in techniques stressing the reduction of opportunities for crimes to occur and the increased possibility of police apprehension of criminals. Organization activities should also seek to develop and strengthen a sense of neighborhood identity and a constructive attitude in that neighborhood. Activities may include, but not be limited to, tenant-lobby patrols, auto patrols, street-foot patrols, home and business security surveys, and dispersal of crime prevention literature and equipment; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be interpreted to authorize the possession, carrying, use, or dissemination of firearms or other deadly weapons regardless of whether the appropriate license has been issued for the activity. Activities may also include the involvement of senior citizens and youth in escort services, auxiliary police services, and the utilization of community outreach through publicity of approved anti-crime techniques.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-45-9.1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-45 / Section 42-45-9.1
§ 42-45-9.1. Historic preservation easement fund.
Status: in_force

It is hereby provided that the general treasurer establish a historic preservation easement fund for the purpose of receiving fees charged for acceptance of conservation easements. The historical preservation and heritage commission shall assess fees for acceptance of conservation easements. The fees shall be used to pay the costs of operating and maintaining the easements.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-69-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-69 / Section 42-69-2
§ 42-69-2. Purpose.
Status: in_force

The purpose of this commission is to accept as a gift or a donation, or otherwise acquire from the Republic of Cape Verde, title to and possession of the schooner Ernestina, formerly known as the Effie M. Morrissey, and to operate it for educational and training purposes.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-1-3 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-1 / Section 42-1-3
§ 42-1-3. Tracts ceded to United States  Reserved jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

The tracts of land hereinafter referred to are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States subject to the reservations and conditions contained in the acts of the general assembly ceding jurisdiction thereof, respectively; provided, that all civil and criminal process issued under the authority of this state may be executed thereon in the same manner as if the jurisdiction of the lands had not been ceded; that is to say:

(1) A tract of land at Beaver Tail, in the south part of the town of Jamestown;

(2) A tract of land at Whale Rock, at the entrance to Narragansett Bay;

(3) A tract of land at Watch Hill, in the town of Westerly;

(4) A tract of land at Point Judith, in the town of Narragansett;

(5) A tract of land at Poplar Point, in the town of North Kingstown;

(6) A tract of land at Old Gay Rock, in the harbor of Wickford, in the town of North Kingstown;

(7) A tract of land on the northwest point of Block Island, in the town of New Shoreham;

(8) A tract of land at the breakwater at Block Island, in the town of New Shoreham;

(9) A tract of land on the southeast point of Block Island, in the town of New Shoreham;

(10) A tract of land at Warwick Neck, in the city of Warwick;

(11) A tract of land at Sandy Point, on the island of Prudence, in the town of Portsmouth;

(12) An island or place in the harbor of Newport, known as Lime Rock;

(13) A lot of land near Bristol Ferry, in the town of Bristol;

(14) A shoal known as the Bullocks Point Shoal, in Providence River, and so much of the land below low water surrounding the same as is included within a circle of one hundred feet (100²) radius from the center of the lighthouse thereon; an island in the outer channel of Providence River known as Pomham Rock; with Fullers Rocks, in Providence River, and so much of the land below high-water mark as is within the circle of one hundred feet (100²) radius from the center of the lighthouse, beacon light, or range light at Fullers Rocks; and so much land below high-water mark as is included within a circle of one hundred feet (100²) radius from the center of the lighthouse, beacon light, or range light at Sassafras Point, in Providence River; all of which several tracts of land have been acquired by the United States as sites for lighthouses;

(15) A tract of land covered by the navigable waters of the state within a circle, seven hundred feet (700²) in diameter, the center of which shall be the Little Cormorant Rock, so-called, situated at the mouth of the Seaconnet River, on a course northwest from the northwesterly point of West Island, and distant therefrom about nine hundred feet (900²), as a site for a lighthouse, beacon, or other aid to navigation;

(16) A tract of land covered by the navigable waters of the state within a circle, three hundred feet (300²) in diameter, the center of which shall be the rocks known as Gull Rocks, in mid-channel between Rose Island and Coasters Harbor Island, in Newport Harbor, as a site for a lighthouse or other aid to navigation;

(17) A tract, piece or parcel of land lying and being in the Warren River, for the erection thereon of a light in aid of navigation, more particularly described as a circular plot one hundred feet (100²) in diameter including what is known as Allen Rock, the center of the plot being located in latitude forty-one degrees (41Â°), forty-two minutes (42Ê¹), forty-nine seconds (49³), north; longitude seventy-one degrees (71Â°), seventeen minutes (17Ê¹), thirty-seven and three-quarters seconds (37.75³) west, and further described by a circle in red ink adjacent to the words Allen Rk on a copy of the U.S. coast and geodetic survey chart, marked exhibit A and attached to chapter 1879 of the Public Laws of 1932;

(18) A tract of land on Brentons Neck, in Newport, being the site of Fort Adams;

(19) Goat Island in the harbor of Newport, being the site of Fort Walcott and a lighthouse;

(20) Dutch Island, between Jamestown and Narragansett, purchased for the purpose of a lighthouse and the location of a fort;

(21) An island called Castle Island, at the entrance of Bristol Harbor;

(22) An island between Newport and Jamestown, known as Rose Island, ceded for a fort;

(23) A lot of land on the east side of Weybosset Street, in the city of Providence, purchased for a customhouse, post office, and United States courtroom;

(24) A lot of land on the east side of Thames Street, in the city of Newport, purchased for a customhouse;

(25) A lot of land in the town of Bristol, purchased for a post office and customhouse;

(26) A lot of land in the city of Pawtucket, purchased for a post office and other public purposes;

(27) Coasters Harbor Island in Narragansett Bay, ceded for the location of the United States naval training school;

(28) A lot of land on Exchange Place in the city of Providence, purchased for a post office, courthouse, and customhouse;

(29) A tract of land south of Jamestown, on Conanicut Island, Rhode Island, being the site of Fort Wetherill;

(30) A tract of land on the northwesterly shore of Conanicut Island, commonly known as Fox Hill, being the site of Fort Getty;

(31) A tract of land south of Saunderstown, on the westerly shore of Narragansett Bay, commonly known as Boston Neck, being the site of Fort Kearny;

(32) A tract of land at Point Judith, being the site of the landing for the upper shore arm of Point Judith breakwater;

(33) A tract of land under water at the entrance of Great Salt Pond Harbor on Block Island in the town of New Shoreham for lighthouse purposes; the land being all that tract, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in a circle, two hundred feet (200²) in diameter, the center of which is in latitude north forty-one degrees (41Â°), eleven minutes (11Ê¹), fifty-seven and six-tenths seconds (57.6³), and longitude east, seventy-one degrees (71Â°), thirty-five minutes (35Ê¹), thirty-eight and four-tenths seconds (38.4³), and bears north thirty-nine degrees (39Â°), eighteen minutes (18Ê¹) west true from Great Salt Pond inner end light and distant from it by one thousand five hundred seventy-five feet (1,575²). Also a line parallel to and one hundred feet (100²) from the center line of the existing breakwater and another line perpendicular to the above-mentioned line at a point southerly of and one hundred feet (100²) distant from the northerly extremity of the breakwater intersect each other in a point which is the center of the circle. The area or content of the property thus limited and defined being seven hundred twenty-one one-thousandths ( 721 / 1000 ) of an acre more or less;

(34) A tract of land situated, lying and being within the city of Newport, the county of Newport and the state of Rhode Island, approximately one thousand five hundred feet (1,500²) north of Coasters Harbor Island and six hundred feet (600²) west of Coddington Point, and surrounded by the waters of Narragansett Bay, known as and called Bishops Rock, containing about six-tenths ( 6 / 10 ) of an acre;

(35) A parcel of land lying within the reservation of the Peters-Fournier Airport of Rhode Island situated in the towns of Lincoln and Smithfield, ceded to the United States for the express purpose of establishing and developing upon the land a specialist training center for the United States air force reserve and for the erection of buildings, utilities, and other structures for military uses in this regard;

(36) A parcel of land lying within the reservation of the Peters-Fournier Airport of Rhode Island situated in the towns of Lincoln and Smithfield, ceded to the United States for the express purpose of constructing and operating upon the land a tactical site support facility to provide logistical support to installations in the Providence defense area and for the erection of buildings, utilities, and other structures for uses in this regard;

(37) A tract of land situated in the town of Middletown and the city of Newport, located between the Rhode Island department of transportation railroad right-of-way and the portion of Narragansett Bay known as Coddington Cove, referred to as AREA V-A in the attached deed;

(38) A tract of land situated in the town of Middletown, located within the Naval Stations security perimeter of Coddington Cove, referred to as AREA V-B in the attached deed;

(39) A tract of land situated in the town of Middletown, located within the Naval Stations security perimeter of Coddington Cove, referred to as AREA V-C in the attached deed;

(40) A tract of land situated in the town of Middletown, located within the Naval Stations security perimeter of Coddington Cove, referred to as AREA V-D in the attached deed;

(41) A tract of land situated in the town of Middletown, located within the Still Water Basin area, referred to as AREA VI in the attached deed;

(42) A tract of land situated in the town of Middletown, said parcel containing the combined Naval Station Police and Fire Headquarters, referred to as AREA VII in the attached deed;

(43) A tract of land situated in the town of Middletown, lying adjacent to the easterly border of the Rhode Island department of transportation railroad right-of-way; referred to as AREA VII-A in the attached deed;

(44) A tract of land situated in the town of Middletown, encompassing the Naval Station Newports Fire Fighter Trainer complex; referred to as AREA VIII in the attached deed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64-13 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-64 / Section 42-64-13
§ 42-64-13. Relations with municipalities.
Status: in_force

(a)(1) With respect to projects situated on federal land, the Rhode Island commerce corporation is authorized to plan, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, alter, improve, develop, maintain, and operate projects: (i) in conformity with the applicable provisions of chapter 1 of title 2 except that the projects shall not require the approval of a town or city council provided for in § 2-1-21, and (ii) without regard to the zoning or other land use ordinances, codes, plans, or regulations of any municipality or political subdivision; provided, however, that the exemption from the zoning or other land use ordinances, codes, plans, or regulations shall be subject to the corporations compliance with the provisions of this subsection (a). Projects that are planned, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, altered, improved, or developed by the corporation on federal land in accordance with the provisions of this subsection (a) may be maintained and operated by lessees from and successors in interest to the corporation in the same manner as if the projects had been in existence prior to the enactment of the zoning or other land use ordinances, codes, plans, or regulations which, but for this chapter, would otherwise be applicable. With respect to other projects of the commerce corporation, or projects receiving state incentives as administered by the commerce corporation, developers are authorized to plan, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, alter, improve, develop, maintain, and operate a project subject only to the state building code and the state fire code, and all inspections regarding any such project shall be conducted by the state building commissioner or the commissioners designee without regard to the building and fire codes of any municipality or political subdivision; provided, however, that the exemption from the building and fire codes shall be subject to the corporations compliance with the provisions of this subsection (a).

(2) As used in this section, the comprehensive plan means a comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to chapter 22 of title 45 by a planning board or commission; the applicable comprehensive plan shall mean the comprehensive plan of any municipality within which any project is to be situated, in whole or in part; and the project plan shall mean a general description of a proposed project situated on federal land, describing in reasonable detail its location, nature, and size. A zoning ordinance adopted by a municipality pursuant to chapter 24 of title 45 shall not be deemed to be a comprehensive plan nor a statement of the land use goals, objectives, and standards.

(3) If any project plan of the corporation with respect to projects situated on federal land conforms to the land use goals, objectives, and standards of the applicable comprehensive plan as of the time of the corporations adoption of the project plan, or if there is no applicable comprehensive plan, then before proceeding with the project described in the project plan, the corporation shall refer the project plan to the appropriate community advisory committee which may thereafter hold any public hearings as it may deem to be desirable for the purpose of permitting the public to comment on the project plan. The community advisory committee shall not later than forty-five (45) days after its receipt of the project plan, transmit its comments on the project plan, in either written or oral form, to the corporation and thereupon, or upon the community advisory committees failure to take any action within the time specified, the corporation shall be authorized to proceed with the project described in the project plan without regard to the zoning or other land use ordinances, codes, plans, or regulations of a municipality within which the project is to be situated in whole or in part.

(4) If any project plan of the corporation with respect to projects situated on federal land does not conform to the land use goals, objectives, and standards of the applicable comprehensive plan as of the time of the corporations adoption of the project plan, then, before proceeding with the project described in the project plan, the corporation shall refer the project plan to the local governing body of any municipality within which any project is to be situated, in whole or in part. The local governing body may thereafter hold any public hearings as it may deem to be desirable for the purpose of permitting the public to comment on the project plan. The local governing body shall, not later than forty-five (45) days after its receipt of the project plan, advise the corporation of its approval or disapproval of that plan. If it shall disapprove the project plan, the corporation shall nevertheless be authorized to proceed with the project described in the project plan (without regard to the zoning or other land use ordinances, codes, plans, or regulations of a municipality within which the project is to be situated in whole or in part) upon the subsequent affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the board of directors then holding office as directors taken at a meeting open to the public. If the local governing body approves the project plan or fails to take any action within the time specified, the corporation shall be authorized to proceed with the project described in the project plan without regard to the zoning or other land use ordinances, codes, plans, or regulations of a municipality within which the project is to be situated in whole or in part.

(5) The project plans conformity with the applicable comprehensive plan shall be determined by the board of directors of the corporation and its determination shall be binding and conclusive for all purposes.

(b) With respect to projects situated on real property other than federal land, the corporation shall plan, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, alter, improve, develop, maintain, and operate projects in conformity with the applicable zoning or other land use ordinances, codes, plans, or regulations of any municipality or political subdivision of the state in which those projects are situated.

(c) The corporation shall, in planning, constructing, reconstructing, rehabilitating, altering, or improving any project, comply with all requirements of state and federal laws, codes, or regulations applicable to that planning, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration, or improvement. The corporation shall adopt a comprehensive building code (which may, but need not be, the Building Officials and Code Administrators International Code) with which all projects shall comply. That adoption shall not preclude the corporations later adoption of a different comprehensive building code or of its alteration, amendment, or supplementation of any comprehensive building code so adopted. Except as otherwise specifically provided to the contrary, no municipality or other political subdivision of the state shall have the power to modify or change in whole or in part the drawings, plans, or specifications for any project of the corporation; nor to require that any person, firm, or corporation employed with respect to that project perform work in any other or different manner than that provided by those drawings, plans, and specifications; nor to require that any such person, firm, or corporation obtain any approval, permit, or certificate from the municipality or political subdivision in relation to the project; and the doing of that work by any person, firm, or corporation in accordance with the terms of those drawings, plans, specifications, or contracts shall not subject the person, firm, or corporation to any liability or penalty, civil or criminal, other than as may be stated in the contracts or may be incidental to the proper enforcement thereof; nor shall any municipality or political subdivision have the power to require the corporation, or any lessee or successor in interest, to obtain any approval, permit, or certificate from the municipality or political subdivision as a condition of owning, using, maintaining, operating, or occupying any project acquired, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, altered, or improved by the corporation or pursuant to drawings, plans, and specifications made or approved by the corporation; provided, however, that nothing contained in this subsection shall be deemed to relieve any person, firm, or corporation from the necessity of obtaining from any municipality or other political subdivision of the state any license which, but for the provisions of this chapter, would be required in connection with the rendering of personal services or sale at retail of tangible personal property.

(d) Except to the extent that the corporation shall expressly otherwise agree, a municipality or political subdivision, including, but not limited to, a county, city, town, or district, in which a project of the corporation is located, shall provide for the project, whether then owned by the corporation or any successor in interest, police, fire, sanitation, health protection, and other municipal services of the same character and to the same extent as those provided for other residents of that municipality or political subdivision, but nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to require any municipality or political subdivision to make capital expenditures for the sole purpose of providing any of these services for that project.

(e) In carrying out a project, the corporation shall be empowered to enter into contractual agreements with municipalities and public corporations and those municipalities and public corporations are authorized and empowered, notwithstanding any other law, to enter into any contractual agreements with the corporation and to do all things necessary to carry out their obligations under the agreements.

(f) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special, or local law or charter, municipalities and public corporations are empowered to purchase, or to lease for a term not exceeding ninety-nine (99) years, projects of the corporation, upon any terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the municipality or public corporation and the corporation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-39-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-39 / Section 42-39-2
§ 42-39-2. Member of commission.
Status: in_force

The member of the New England interstate planning compact commission who represents this state thereon shall be the director of the department of economic development. The director of the department of economic development may designate an alternate who may act in his or her place and stead as contemplated by article IV of the compact; provided, however, that the alternate shall in no event cast a written vote pursuant to the thirty (30) day provision of article VII of the compact.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-27-5 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-27 / Section 42-27-5
§ 42-27-5. The governor authorized to enter into an agreement with federal authorities.
Status: in_force

The governor is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the proper authorities of the federal government for the transfer of regulatory responsibilities from the United States Atomic Energy Commission to the state of Rhode Island when such an agreement is recommended by the Rhode Island atomic energy commission under the powers and duties of the commission as set forth in this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-82-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-82 / Section 42-82-4
§ 42-82-4. Powers of commission.
Status: in_force

The commission has the power to:

(1) Retain by contract or employ counsel, auditors, engineers, appraisers, private consultants and advisors, or other personnel needed to provide necessary services;

(2) Conduct hearings, examinations, and investigations as may be necessary and appropriate to the conduct of its operations and the fulfillment of its responsibilities;

(3) Obtain access to public records and apply for the process of subpoena, if necessary, to produce books, papers, records, and other data;

(4) Purchase, receive by gift, or otherwise acquire development rights;

(5) Accept gifts, grants or loans of funds, property, or services from any source, public or private, and comply, subject to the provisions of this chapter, with the terms and conditions thereof;

(6) Accept from a federal agency loans or grants for use in carrying out its purposes and enter into agreement with an agency respecting those loans or grants; and

(7) Otherwise do all things necessary for the performance of its duties, the fulfillment of its obligations, and the conduct of its business.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-113-8 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-113 / Section 42-113-8
§ 42-113-8. Annual report.
Status: in_force

Prior to January 31 of each year, the board shall submit a report concerning its activities to the governor and legislative finance committees. The report shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(1) A list and description of activities funded by the board during the preceding year;

(2) A list of contributions received by the board, whatever their form or nature, and the source of the contributions, unless anonymity is a condition of a particular contribution;

(3) A full report of the boards activities;

(4) If more than seventy percent (70%) of the funds allocated by the board during the previous year were allocated to either one of the dual goals of this chapter, as established in § 42-113-2, the board shall set forth its reasons for allocating funds unequally between the two (2).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-102-6 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-102 / Section 42-102-6
§ 42-102-6. Powers and duties.
Status: repealed

(a) Strategic statewide employment-and-training plan. (1) The board shall meet with other entities involved with career and technical education, workforce development, and career training and shall be responsible for the development of a comprehensive and cohesive, statewide employment-and-training plan. The strategic, statewide employment-and-training plan shall include goals and objectives for serving the states existing and emerging workforce utilizing all state and federal workforce development programs. The board shall take into consideration the needs of all segments of the states citizenry in establishing goals and training objectives, including the workforce needs of the states employers. (2) The strategic, statewide employment-and-training plan shall be developed biennially and shall cover the subsequent, two (2) fiscal years. Said biennial plans shall be submitted on November 15. The biennial plan shall outline goals and objectives of the coordinated programs system, major priorities needed for the next two-year (2) period, and policies and requirements necessary to meet those priorities. The board shall provide a funding plan necessary to achieve system priorities and serve the anticipated number of participants and shall identify the general revenue funds necessary to meet program needs, taking into account anticipated federal, private, and other sources of funds. The biennial plan shall incorporate the annual, unified workforce development system report required pursuant to subsection (f) in those years in which both reports are due. (3) The board shall develop and maintain a comprehensive inventory and analysis of workforce development activities in the state to support the biennial, statewide employment-and-training plan. The analysis shall include, but not be limited to, an examination of the populations being served across the different employment and training and adult education programs across the state; the number of participants being served by these programs; the type of services provided; and the eligibility requirements of each of these programs. The analysis shall also identify the funding sources (all sources) used in these programs; the service providers within the state; as well as the range of services provided. The analysis shall also examine the employer role in workforce development activities, including, but not limited to, how employer needs are assessed; benefits employers receive for partnering with workforce development organizations; and the role employers play in developing programs and providing training. (4) The board shall establish and convene an advisory group to assist in the development of this comprehensive inventory and analysis that consists of stakeholders and organizations with specific knowledge and expertise in the area of workforce development. (5) All departments and agencies of the state shall furnish advice and information, documentary or otherwise, to the board and its agents as is deemed necessary or desirable by the board to facilitate the purposes of the board, including the development of the statewide employment and training plan. (6) Elements of the statewide employment and training plan established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section may inform the development of the state workforce investment plan required pursuant to subsection (d)(2)(i) of this section.

(b) Performance management and coordination of employment and training programs. (1) The board shall establish statewide policies, definitions, objectives, goals, and guidelines for the coordination of all employment and training programs and related services and programs within the state, including: (i) The state department of labor and training programs, sponsored under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Wagner-Peyser Act, 29 U.S.C. § 49 et seq., the Trade Act of 2002, and any other employment-related educational program administered by the state department of labor and training; (ii) The state department of human services training programs, sponsored under the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Title IV of the Social Security Act; the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training Program; Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and any other employment and training and related services and employment-related educational programs administered by the states department of human services; (iii) Employment and training programs sponsored under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, 20 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq., the Federal Adult Education Act, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, and any other employment-related educational programs administered by the board of education; (iv) The state department of corrections training programs for ex-offenders to help them reintegrate into the community and re-enter employment; (v) Projects and services funded through the job development fund pursuant to subsection (e) of this section; (vi) All other employment and training and related services and employment-related educational programs, either presently existing or hereinafter established, that are administered by any state agencies, departments, or councils; and (vii) Programs included within subsections (b)(1)(i) through (b)(1)(vi) shall be referred herein collectively as the coordinated programs system. (2) With respect to plans for employment and training programs sponsored under the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, 20 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq., and any other employment-related educational programs administered by the board of education, the workforce board and board of education shall establish a process for the development and preparation of all these plans and the board of education shall approve the plan subject to review and comment by the workforce board; provided, however, that the responsibilities and duties of the board of education, as set forth in the general laws, shall not be abridged. (3) With respect to plans for the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program, SNAP Employment and Training Program, Vocational Rehabilitation Services, and any other employment and training and related programs administered by the states department of human services, the authority and responsibilities of the department as the single state agency under Titles IV-A, 42 U.S.C. §§ 601 through 617, and IV-F, 42 U.S.C. §§ 681 through 687 [repealed], of the Federal Social Security Act shall not be abridged. (4) With respect to plans for training ex-offenders to help them reintegrate into the community and re-enter employment, and any other employment and training programs administered by the states department of corrections, the responsibilities and duties of the department, as set forth in the general laws, shall not be abridged. (5) The board shall review, comment on, or approve as appropriate all plans for employment and training within the coordinated programs system. The board shall establish policies and performance goals for the coordinated programs system. These policies and goals shall include, but not be limited to: (i) Establishing and communicating uniform policies and consistent terms and definitions; (ii) Gathering and distributing information from, and to, all agencies, departments, and councils within the coordinated programs system; (iii) Standardizing and coordinating program planning, evaluation, budgeting, and funding processes; (iv) Recommending structural and procedural changes; (v) Establishing performance goals and measurements for monitoring the effectiveness of the programs provided through the coordinated programs system; and (vi) Reconciling diverse agency, departmental, or council goals and developing priorities among those goals.

(c) Comprehensive system-improvement plan. (1) The 2015 unified workforce development system report required pursuant to subsection (f) of this section and due on November 15, 2015, shall include an additional, comprehensive system-improvement plan to facilitate the seamless and coordinated delivery of workforce services in this state, consistent with the goals and objectives of the boards statewide employment and training plan. In developing the comprehensive system-improvement plan, the board shall review the roles, responsibilities, and functions of all state employment and training programs. The study shall identify any gaps in the services provided by those programs; any barriers to integration and cooperation of these programs; and any other matters that adversely affect the seamless delivery of workforce development systems in the state. (2) The board shall include in the comprehensive system-improvement plan: (i) A list of specific barriers, whether structural, regulatory, or statutory, that adversely affect the seamless and coordinated delivery of workforce development programs and services in this state, as well as recommendations to overcome or eliminate these barriers; and (ii) Recommendations for providing, at a minimum, board comment and review of all state employment and training programs, to ensure such programs are consistent with the boards statewide employment and training plan, and meet the current and projected workforce demands of this state, including programs that, pursuant to state or federal law or regulation, must remain autonomous. (3) The recommendations developed by the board under subsection (c)(1) must identify the state agency or department that is responsible for implementing each recommendation and include a time frame for the implementation of each recommendation. The governor may include such recommendations in the governor's proposed budget the following fiscal year.

(d) Workforce investment act responsibilities. (1) The board shall assume the duties and responsibilities of the state workforce investment board established pursuant to Executive Order 05-18 dated September 22, 2005, as outlined in subsection (d)(2). (2) The board shall assist the governor and the general assembly in: (i) Developing a state workforce investment plan for the purposes of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) and the Wagner-Peyser Act; (ii) Actively promoting and coordinating private-sector involvement in the workforce investment system through the development of partnerships among state agencies, the business community, and the board; (iii) Ensuring that the current and projected workforce needs of Rhode Island employers inform and advise Rhode Islands education and workforce development system; (iv) Providing oversight of local workforce investment boards, whose primary role in the workforce investment system is to deliver employment, training, and related education services in their respective local area; and (v) Developing a statewide system of activities that are funded under the WIA or carried out through the one-stop delivery system, including: (A) Assuring coordination and non-duplication among the programs and activities carried out by one-stop partners; (B) Reviewing local workforce investment plans; (C) Designating local workforce investment areas in accordance with federal law; (D) Developing allocation formulas for the distribution of funds for adult employment and training activities, youth activities to local areas, and creating and expanding job and career opportunities for individuals with intellectual, developmental, or other significant disabilities; (E) Developing comprehensive, state performance measures as prescribed by federal law, including state-adjusted levels of performance, to assess the effectiveness of the workforce investment activities in the state; (F) Preparing the annual report to the Secretary of Labor described in WIA; (G) Developing the statewide employment statistics system; (H) Developing an application for incentive grants; (I) Carrying out the responsibilities of a local board as outlined in WIA; and (J) Addressing any other issue requiring input from the board under the provisions of WIA.

(e) Job development fund responsibilities. The board shall allocate monies from the job development fund for projects to implement the recommendations of the board consistent with the statewide employment and training plan established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(f) Unified workforce development system report. (1) The board shall produce and submit an annual, unified workforce development system report to the governor, the speaker of the house, the president of the senate, and the secretary of state. The report shall be submitted annually on November 15. The report shall cover activity having taken place the preceding fiscal year ending June 30 and shall include: (i) A fiscal and programmatic report for the governors workforce board covering the previous fiscal year, including: (A) A summary of the boards activities and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year; (B) A summary of clerical, administrative, professional, or technical reports received by the board during the previous fiscal year, if applicable; (C) A briefing on anticipated activities in the upcoming fiscal year; (D) A consolidated financial statement of all funds received, and expended, by the board, including the source of funds, during the previous fiscal year; (E) A listing of any staff supported by these funds; (ii) A unified, expenditure-and-program report for statewide employment and training programs and related services, including: (A) Expenditures by agencies for programs included in subsection (b)(1) of this section, including information regarding the number of individuals served by each program; demographic information by gender, race, and ethnicity; outcome and program-specific performance information as determined by the board; and such other information as may be determined by the board, including, but not limited to, the attainment of credentials; (2) Beginning November 15, 2015, program expenditures included in the unified workforce development system report shall be categorized as administrative, program delivery, or other costs; the report shall further include information on the cost per individual served within each program, through a manner determined by the board; (3) All state and local agencies, departments, or council, or similar organizations within the coordinated programs system, shall be required to provide the board with the information necessary to produce the unified workforce development system report.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-137-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-137 / Section 42-137-4
§ 42-137-4. Compensation and expenses of members.
Status: in_force

Members of the select commission shall receive no compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. No member shall lose any pay or benefits by reason of the members attendance at meetings of the select commission.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-55-13 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-55 / Section 42-55-13
§ 42-55-13. Bonds and notes.
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The corporation shall have the power and is hereby authorized to issue from time to time its negotiable notes and bonds, whether tax exempt or taxable in the principal amount that the corporation shall determine to be necessary to provide sufficient funds for achieving any of its corporate purposes including the payment of interest on the notes and bonds of the corporation, establishment of reserves to secure those notes and bonds including the reserve funds created pursuant to § 42-55-14, and all other expenditures of the corporation incident to and necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate purposes and powers.

(2) The corporation shall have the power, from time to time, to issue (i) notes to renew notes and (ii) bonds to pay notes, including the interest on these notes and, whenever it deems refunding expedient, to refund any bonds by the issuance of new bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and to issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any of its corporate purposes.

(3) Except as may otherwise be expressly provided by resolution of the corporation, every issue of its notes and bonds shall be general obligations of the corporation payable out of any revenues or moneys of the corporation, subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular notes or bonds pledging any particular revenues.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this section, proceeds of bonds issued by the corporation may be used to finance any housing development that constitutes a qualified residential rental project under section 142 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. § 142, and all regulations promulgated thereunder.

(b) The notes and bonds shall be authorized by resolution or resolutions of the corporation, shall bear the date or dates and shall mature at the time or times that the resolution or resolutions may provide, except that no bond shall mature more than sixty-five (65) years from the date of its issue. The bonds may be issued as serial bonds payable in annual installments or as term bonds or as a combination of bonds. The notes and bonds shall bear interest at the rate or rates, be in the denominations, be in the form, either coupon or registered, carry the registration privileges, be executed in the manner, be payable in the medium of payment, at the place or places within or without the state and be subject to the terms or redemption that the resolution or resolutions may provide. The notes and bonds of the corporation may be sold by the corporation, at public or private sale, at the price or prices that the corporation shall determine.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-144-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-144 / Section 42-144-4
§ 42-144-4. Reporting.
Status: in_force

The commission shall, prior to its expiration, submit a written report to the governor and to each chamber of the general assembly detailing its findings and proposals as required by its mission.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-72-5.3 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-72 / Section 42-72-5.3
§ 42-72-5.3. Accreditation.
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The standards set by the Council on Accreditation (COA) are nationally recognized as best practices for protecting and providing services to abused and neglected children;

(2) Achieving and maintaining these standards requires a solid commitment from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government;

(3) It is the intent of the general assembly to provide the resources for the department of children, youth and families to meet, achieve, and sustain accreditation by the Council on Accreditation.

(b) The department of children, youth and families shall initiate the process for seeking COA accreditation no later than September 1, 2019, and shall submit an accreditation plan to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the chairperson of the house committee on health, education and welfare, the chairperson of the senate committee on health and human services, the chairpersons of the finance committees of the house and senate, and to the chairpersons of the judiciary committees of the house and senate no later than October 1, 2020. Said plan shall include, at a minimum, the following:

(1) Inputs, including updated staffing requirements, a timetable for achieving those requirements, and any additional costs associated with achieving accreditation;

(2) Outcomes, including an assessment based on statistical and other evidence, of the impact of accreditation on the number of abused and neglected children, the nature of their abuse, and the relationships between such children and their families.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-143-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-143 / Section 42-143-2
§ 42-143-2. Terms of office.
Status: in_force

The members shall be appointed for terms of four (4) years except that the initial terms shall be as follows: six (6) members originally appointed pursuant to executive order shall serve initial terms of six (6) years; one of the house and one of the senate appointees shall serve initial terms of five (5) years; the governors appointees shall serve initial terms of four (4) years; and the other of the house and senate appointees shall serve initial terms of three (3) years; no member shall serve for more than two (2) concurrent terms.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-39-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-39 / Section 42-39-4
§ 42-39-4. Execution by governor.
Status: in_force

The governor is hereby authorized and directed to execute any formal documents which may be necessary in order to effectually enter into the compact in substantially the form provided in this chapter with any other state mentioned in article XI of the compact.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-132-5 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-132 / Section 42-132-5
§ 42-132-5. Expedited state licensure process.
Status: in_force

(a) Notification of status. Any applicant for a license or occupational license as defined in this chapter and identified by the Business Fast-Start Office, shall be notified within sixty (60) days of filing a substantially complete application of the status of that application. Should there be no determination on the application, the applicant shall also be notified thirty (30) days later on the status of that application. Such notification shall be made by the appropriate licensing agency of the state to which the application for licensure has been made, or by another means so designated by the licensing agency.

(b) Expedited determination. All state departments and agencies with regulatory or permitting authority over a business shall calculate the average processing time for each application for a license or occupational license as defined in this chapter, from time of application to time of issuance and shall report quarterly to the economic development corporation beginning June 1, 2010, and annually to the Rhode Island general assembly beginning January 1, 2011. The economic development corporation shall make the quarterly reports available to the public and shall publish the reports electronically on their website.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-72-18 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-72 / Section 42-72-18
§ 42-72-18. Transfer of functions from department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.
Status: in_force

There are transferred to the director of the department of children, youth and families:

(1) Those children and youth functions and services of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals administered through or with respect to the division of curative services excluding the pediatric unit of Zambarano Hospital but including generally and specifically components within the institute of mental health and services for emotionally disturbed children in chapter 7 of title 40.1, services for emotionally disturbed children and of all officers, employees, agencies, advisory councils, committees, and commissions relating to children and youth services of the division of curative services; provided, further, that the director shall establish a task force to determine the feasibility of transferring to the department of children, youth and families, those functions relating to children within the division of developmental disabilities; and

(2) So much of other functions or parts of functions and employees and resources, physical and funded, related thereto, of the director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals as are incidental to and necessary for the performance of subsection (1).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-55-9 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-55 / Section 42-55-9
§ 42-55-9. Terms and conditions of loans.
Status: in_force

Mortgage and other loans made by the corporation to housing sponsors of multi-family residential housing units or healthcare facilities shall be subject to the following terms and conditions:

(1) No application for a loan for a housing development or healthcare facility shall be processed unless the applicant is a housing sponsor or healthcare facility sponsor as defined in §42-55-3;

(2) The ratio of loan to total housing development or healthcare facility cost and the amortization period of loans made under this chapter that are insured by any agency or instrumentality of the United States government shall be governed by the mortgage insurance commitment for each housing development or healthcare facility; but in no event shall the amortization period exceed fifty (50) years; in the case of a mortgage loan not insured by an agency or instrumentality of the United States government, the amount of the loan to: (i) nonprofit housing sponsors shall not exceed one hundred percent (100%) of the total housing development cost as determined by the corporation; and (ii) other housing sponsors and healthcare sponsors shall not exceed ninety-five percent (95%) of the total development cost as determined by the corporation, and the amortization period of the loan shall be determined in accordance with regulations formulated and published by the corporation, but in no event shall the amortization period exceed fifty (50) years;

(3) A loan made under this chapter may be prepaid to maturity after a period of years as determined by the rules and regulations of the corporation, provided the corporation finds that the prepayment of the loan will not result in a material escalation of rents charged to the persons and families of low and moderate income occupying the housing development or charges to the persons using the healthcare facilities;

(4) The corporation shall have authority to set from time to time the interest rates at which it shall make loans and commitments. The interest rates shall be established by the corporation at the lowest level consistent with the corporations cost of operation and its responsibilities to the holders of its bonds, bond anticipation notes and other obligations. In addition to these interest charges, the corporation may make and collect those fees and charges, including, but not limited to, reimbursement of the corporations financing costs, service charges, insurance premiums, and mortgage insurance premiums, that the corporation determines to be reasonable;

(5) In considering any application for a loan to finance a housing development or housing project, the corporation shall determine that the housing developments will be well planned and well designed; and shall also give consideration to:

(i) The comparative need for housing for persons and families of low and moderate income in the area to be served by the proposed development;

(ii) The ability of the applicant sponsor to construct, operate, manage, and maintain the proposed housing development;

(iii) The existence of zoning or other regulations to adequately protect the proposed housing development against detrimental future uses which could cause undue depreciation in the value of the development;

(iv) The existence of federal and statewide housing, land use, and pollution abatement plans and programs;

(v) A detailed plan of security proposed for the safety of the inhabitants of any development hereinafter constructed within the city of Providence;

(6) In considering any application for a loan to finance healthcare facilities, the corporation shall give consideration to:

(i) The availability of healthcare facilities presently located or to locate in the area;

(ii) The ability of the sponsor to meet the health needs of the inhabitants of the area and to operate, manage, and maintain the proposed healthcare facilities;

(iii) The regulations of the state to standards of construction and design and equipment of healthcare facilities of the type proposed to be financed;

(7) Each mortgage loan shall contain the terms and provisions and be in a form approved by the corporation. The corporation may require the housing sponsor or healthcare sponsor receiving a loan or its contractor to execute any other assurances and guarantees that the corporation may deem necessary, including without limitation, payment and performance bonds, and letters of credit;

(8) Each loan shall be subject to an agreement between the corporation and the housing sponsor which will subject the sponsor and its principals or stockholders, if any, to limitations established by the corporation as to rentals and other charges, builders and developers profits and fees, and the disposition of its property and franchise to the extent more restrictive limitations are not provided by the law under which the borrower is incorporated or organized or by this chapter;

(9) As a condition of the loan, the corporation shall have the power at all times during the construction or rehabilitation of a housing development or housing project by a housing sponsor or of healthcare facilities by a healthcare sponsor and the operation thereof:

(i) To enter upon and inspect any housing development or housing project or healthcare facility, including all parts thereof, for the purpose of investigating the physical and financial condition thereof, and its construction, rehabilitation, operation, management, and maintenance, and to examine all books and records of the housing sponsor or healthcare sponsor with respect to capitalization, income and other related matters and to make any charges that may be required to cover the cost of those inspections and examinations;

(ii) To order any alterations, changes or repairs that may be necessary to protect the security of its investment in a housing development, housing project, or healthcare facility or the health, safety, and welfare of the occupants or users thereof and to insure that the housing development or healthcare facility is, or has been, constructed or rehabilitated in conformity with all applicable federal, state, and local building codes;

(iii) To order any managing agent, housing development or healthcare facility manager, or owner of a housing development or healthcare facility, or sponsors of these, to do those acts that may be necessary to comply with the provisions of all applicable laws, ordinances, or building codes or any rule or regulation of the corporation or the terms of any agreement concerning the development or facilities or to refrain from doing any acts in violation thereof, and in this regard the corporation shall be a proper party to file a complaint and to prosecute any violations of law, ordinances, or building codes as set forth herein;

(iv) A housing sponsor may not make distributions of income or earnings from a housing development or housing project financed by the corporation in any one year in excess of six percent (6%) (or a higher or lower percent as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the corporation) of the housing sponsors equity in the development, nor shall any of the principals or stockholders of the housing sponsor at any time earn, accept, or receive a return greater than six percent (6%) per annum (or a higher or lower percent as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the corporation) of his or her investment in any housing development financed by the corporation. The sponsors equity in a housing development shall consist of the difference between the corporation assisted mortgage loan and the total housing development cost. With respect to every housing development assisted by the provisions of this chapter the corporation shall, pursuant to regulations adopted by it, establish the sponsors equity at the time of the making of the final mortgage advance and, for the purposes of this subsection (9)(iv), that figure shall remain constant during the life of the corporations mortgage on the development;

Notwithstanding the above, the corporation shall allow existing project owners to withdraw a rate of return on redefined equity provided the corporation finds that the project is stable and financially secure. Properties meeting this definition would have healthy finances and reserves and be in good condition, as determined by the corporation; provided, however, no project owner of a housing development financed by the corporation may apply for redefinition until fifteen (15) years from the date of financing. In addition, the following requirements must occur:

(A) There is no deferred maintenance as determined by the corporation.

(B) There are no major repairs or replacements (three thousand dollars ($3,000) or more) anticipated or required for the coming year that would reduce the reserve accounts below required levels.

(C) All operating expenses have been paid within thirty (30) days of their due date.

(D) Operating account balance equals one months total operating expenses.

(E) The development has sustained ninety-five percent (95%) or greater economic occupancy for the prior twenty-four (24) consecutive months and has a current waiting list equal to at least one and one-half (1Â½) times the annual turnover for the two (2) preceding years.

(F) The mortgage has not been delinquent for the preceding twenty-four (24) months.

(G) Reasonable reserve account balances.

(H) The owner agrees to limit future rent increases to the amount needed to pay all annual operating expenses including return on equity and maintaining reserves at five thousand dollars ($5,000) per unit or twenty percent (20%) of the outstanding mortgage.

(I) The owner agrees to maintain the housing affordable to persons of low and moderate income for (a) a minimum of twenty (20) years from the date that owner could prepay a mortgage securing a development, as that term is defined in §34-45-4, or could elect not to renew a Section 8 assistance contract under §34-45-5 or (b) twenty (20) years from the maturity date of a note evidencing indebtedness to the corporation which is secured by a housing development.

Not-for-profit sponsors shall be eligible to receive unlimited annual cash flow, subject to the above criteria, up to the cumulative amount of their initial equity investment. Subsequent annual cash flow may be distributed provided the distributions are restricted to low and moderate income housing related expenditures.

Equity would be redefined by either capitalizing the annual cash flow using corporation-approved appraisal practices or by the difference between the fair market value of the housing project using corporation approved appraisal practices less the unpaid principal balance of any outstanding mortgage loans, whichever is greater.

Equity would be subject to recalculation every five (5) years, or more frequently at the corporations discretion.

The corporation shall receive a one-time fee equal to one-half percent (Â½%) of the outstanding mortgage for redefining equity. This will be an eligible operating expense. The fee may be waived by the corporation in whole or in part;

(v) Whenever any housing sponsor accumulates an earned surplus, in addition to the reserves the corporation may require for maintenance, operation, and replacement, in excess of ten percent (10%) of the initial annual rent roll for the housing development, rents in the housing development shall be reduced to the extent necessary to lower the earned surplus accumulation to that ten percent (10%) figure in the following fiscal year. Every five (5) years the housing sponsor may seek the approval of the corporation for increases in those reserves. To the extent warranted the corporation may grant that approval if in its judgment there have been increased price levels or unusual maintenance and repayment requirements;

(vi) The corporation may provide by rules and regulations for the terms and conditions of mortgage loans to housing sponsors of single family residential housing units or healthcare facilities and the supervision of housing sponsors or healthcare sponsors.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-35-6.1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-35 / Section 42-35-6.1
§ 42-35-6.1. Variance between proposed and final rule.
Status: in_force

An agency may not file a rule that differs from the rule proposed in the notice of proposed rulemaking unless the final rule is consistent with, and a logical outgrowth of, the rule proposed in the notice.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-87-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-87 / Section 42-87-4
§ 42-87-4. Civil liability.
Status: in_force

(a) Any person with a disability who is the victim of discrimination prohibited by this chapter may bring an action in the superior court against the person or entity causing the discrimination for equitable relief, compensatory and/or punitive damages or for any other relief that the court deems appropriate.

(b) No person with a disability whose action for discrimination is otherwise within the jurisdiction of the commission for human rights under chapter 5 of title 28, chapter 24 of title 11, or chapter 37 of title 34 may bring an action under this section, unless the commission for human rights has failed to act upon that persons complaint within sixty (60) days of filing, or the commission has issued a final order on the complaint.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-55-17 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-55 / Section 42-55-17
§ 42-55-17. Remedies of bondholders and note holders.
Status: in_force

(a) In the event that the corporation shall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any bonds or notes issued under this chapter after they shall become due, whether at maturity or upon call for redemption, and that default shall continue for a period of thirty (30) days, or in the event that the corporation shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or shall default in any agreement made with the holders of an issue of bonds or notes of the corporation, the holders of twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the bonds or notes of the issue then outstanding, by instrument or instruments filed in the office of the secretary of state and proved or acknowledged in the same manner as a deed to be recorded, may appoint a trustee to represent the holders of the bonds or notes for the purposes provided in this section.

(b) The trustee may, and upon written request of the holders of twenty-five percent (25%) in principal amount of the bonds or notes then outstanding shall, in the trustees own name:

(1) Enforce all rights of the bondholders or note holders, including the right to require the corporation to collect interest and amortization payments on the mortgages held by it adequate to carry out any agreement as to, or pledge of, the interest and amortization payments, and to require the corporation to carry out any other agreements with the holders of the bonds or notes and to perform its duties under this chapter;

(2) Enforce all rights of the bondholders or note holders, including the right to collect and enforce the payment of principal of and interest due or becoming due on loans to mortgage lenders and collect and enforce any collateral securing the loans or sell that collateral, so as to carry out any contract as to, or pledge of, revenues, and to require the corporation to carry out and perform the terms of any contract with the holders of the bonds or notes or its duties under this chapter;

(3) Bring suit upon all or any part of the bonds or notes;

(4) By action or suit, require the corporation to account as if it were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of the bonds or notes;

(5) By action or suit, enjoin any acts or things that may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the holders of the bonds or notes;

(6) Declare all bonds or notes due and payable and if all defaults shall be made good then with the consent of the holders of twenty-five percent (25%) of the principal amount of the bonds or notes then outstanding, annul the declaration and its consequences.

(c) The trustee shall in addition to the foregoing have and possess all of the powers necessary or appropriate for the exercise of any functions specifically set forth herein or incident to the general representation of bondholders or note holders in the enforcement and protection of their rights.

(d) Before declaring the principal of bonds or notes due and payable, the trustee shall first give thirty (30) days notice in writing to the governor, to the corporation, and to the attorney general of the state.

(e) The superior court of Providence County shall have jurisdiction of any suit, action, or proceeding by the trustee on behalf of bondholders or note holders.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-114-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-114 / Section 42-114-2
§ 42-114-2. Terms of office.
Status: in_force

The term of service of the legislative members shall extend from the date of their appointment until the expiration of the legislative term during which they were appointed to the audio/video committee. The terms of service of the other appointees by the speaker of the house and the president of the senate shall be three (3) years from the date of appointment. All members shall serve until their successors on the committee are appointed and qualified. All appointed members shall be eligible for reappointment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64-9.9 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-64 / Section 42-64-9.9
§ 42-64-9.9. Public access to information.
Status: in_force

Any permit, permit application, or effluent data shall be available to the public for inspection and copying in accordance with chapter 2 of title 38 (Access to Public Records). Confidential or privileged materials may be disclosed or transmitted to other officers, employees, or agents of the corporation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-61-17 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-61 / Section 42-61-17
§ 42-61-17. Prizes exempt from taxation.
Status: in_force

The prizes received pursuant to this chapter shall be exempt from the state sales or use tax.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-28-49.1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-28 / Section 42-28-49.1
§ 42-28-49.1. Non-state agency reimbursements.
Status: in_force

There is hereby established within the general fund a restricted receipt account to be known as the state police non-state-agency reimbursements account. All revenues deposited into the account from non-state agencies shall be used to reimburse the state police for costs incurred in support of non-state agency programs and activities. All funds deposited into the account shall be exempt from the indirect cost recovery provisions of § 35-4-27.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-34-8 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-34 / Section 42-34-8
§ 42-34-8. Permission to lease or rent property after default.
Status: in_force

When a local development corporation or project owner does not meet mortgage payments insured by the authority by reason of vacancy of its industrial and/or recreational project, the authority, for the purpose of maintaining income from industrial and/or recreational projects on which mortgage payments have been insured by the authority and for the purpose of safeguarding the mortgage insurance fund, may grant the local development corporation or project owner permission to lease or rent the property to a tenant for a use other than that specified in § 42-34-6(4), such lease or rental to be subject to such conditions as the authority may prescribe. The foregoing provisions shall be in addition to any other provisions contained in this chapter empowering the authority to act in the event of a default.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-4-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-4 / Section 42-4-4
§ 42-4-4. State song.
Status: in_force

(a) The song entitled Rhode Islands It for Me, words by Charlie Hall, music by Maria Day and arrangement by Kathryn Chester, shall be and is hereby established as and declared to be the state song.

(b) The words and musical presentation of the state song shall be as follows:
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-61-12 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-61 / Section 42-61-12
§ 42-61-12. Deposit of receipts  Reports.
Status: in_force

The director shall, in accordance with rules and regulations, require any and all lottery sales agents to deposit to the credit of the state lottery fund in financial institutions designated by the division all moneys received by those agents from the sale of lottery tickets or shares, less the amount, if any, retained as compensation for the sale of tickets or shares and less any moneys paid out as prizes by the agents, and to file with the director, or the directors designated agents, reports of their receipts and transactions in the sale of lottery tickets in any form and containing any information the director may require. The director may make any arrangements for any person, including a financial institution, to perform any functions, activities, or services in connection with the operation of the lottery as the director may deem advisable pursuant to this chapter and the rules and regulations of the division, and the functions, activities, or services shall constitute lawful functions, activities, and services of the person.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64-1.1 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-64 / Section 42-64-1.1
§ 42-64-1.1. Change of name.
Status: in_force

(a) The corporation known as the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation shall now be known as the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation. Whenever in any general law, public law, rule, regulation and/or bylaw, reference is made to the department of economic development or the Rhode Island port authority and economic development corporation, or the Rhode Island economic development corporation, the reference shall be deemed to refer to and mean the Rhode Island commerce corporation, which may also be referred to as the commerce corporation.

(b) Whenever in any general or public law, reference is made to the director of the department of economic development or the executive director of the Rhode Island port authority and economic development corporation, the reference shall be deemed to refer to and mean the executive director of the Rhode Island economic development corporation. Upon the appointment of a secretary of commerce; whenever in any general or public law, reference is made to the director of the department of economic development or the executive director of the Rhode Island port authority and economic development corporation, or the executive director of the Rhode Island economic development corporation, the reference shall be deemed to refer to and mean the chief executive officer of the Rhode Island commerce corporation, who shall also be the secretary of the Rhode Island executive office of commerce.

(c) Whenever in any general or public law, reference is made to the economic development council, the reference shall be deemed to refer to and mean the board of directors of the Rhode Island commerce corporation.

(d) Nothing in this act shall be construed to change or modify the corporate existence of the former Rhode Island economic development corporation, which shall now be known as the Rhode Island commerce corporation, or to change or modify any contracts or agreements of any kind by, for, between, or to which the economic development corporation is a party or to effect in any way the property or assets of the Rhode Island economic development corporation. The commerce corporation is the successor in interest to the Rhode Island economic development corporation and the secretary of state shall change the name of the corporation on the articles of incorporation on file with the secretary of state from the Rhode Island economic development corporation to the Rhode Island commerce corporation effective as of January 1, 2014.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-56-28 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-56 / Section 42-56-28
§ 42-56-28. Prisoners previously sentenced.
Status: in_force

All persons imprisoned in the state prison, the mens reformatory, the Providence County jail, and the jails in the several counties, on October 1, 1956 shall be deemed to be imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions in accordance with this chapter and all sentences imposed upon those persons prior to October 1, 1956, shall, insofar as the sentences shall not be inconsistent with the provisions hereof, be in full force and effect and all good conduct and industrial good conduct time and parole eligibility credits earned by those persons prior to October 1, 1956, shall be credited pursuant to the provisions of any general or special law in effect prior to October 1, 1956.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-64-36 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-64 / Section 42-64-36
§ 42-64-36. Program accountability.
Status: in_force

(a) The board of the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall be responsible for establishing accountability standards, reporting standards, and outcome measurements for each of its programs to include, but not be limited to, the use of tax credits, loans, loan guarantees, and other financial transactions managed or utilized by the corporation. Included in the standards shall be a set of principles and guidelines to be followed by the board to include:

(1) A set of outcomes against which the board will measure each programs and offerings effectiveness;

(2) A set of standards for risk analysis for all of the programs especially the loans and loan guarantee programs; and

(3) A process for reporting out all loans, loan guarantees, and any other financial commitments made through the corporation that includes the purpose of the loan, financial data as to payment history, and other related information.

(b) The board shall annually prepare a report starting in January 2015 which shall be submitted to the house and senate. The report shall summarize the above listed information on each of its programs and offerings and contain recommendations for modification, elimination, or continuation.

(c) The commerce corporation shall prepare a report beginning January 1, 2019, which shall be submitted to the house and senate within a period of forty-five (45) days of the close of each quarter. The report shall summarize the information listed in subsection (a) of this section on each of its programs and offerings, including any modifications, adjustments, clawbacks, reallocations, alterations, or other changes, made from the close of the prior fiscal quarter and include comparison data to the reports submitted pursuant to §§ 42-64.20-9(b), 42-64.21-8(a) and (c), 42-64.22-14(a), 42-64.23-5(d), 42-64.24-5(d), 42-64.25-12, 42-64.26-6, 42-64.27-4, 42-64.28-9, 42-64.29-7(a), 42-64.31-3, 44-48.3-13(b) and (c), chapters 64.20, 64.21, 64.22, 64.23, 64.24, 64.25, 64.26, 64.27, 64.28, 64.29, 64.30, 64.31, and 64.32 of this title, and § 44-48.3-13.

(d) The board shall coordinate its efforts with the office of revenue analysis to not duplicate information on the use of tax credits and other tax expenditures.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-131-4 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-131 / Section 42-131-4
§ 42-131-4. Meetings, hearings, committees.
Status: in_force

(a) The council shall hold meetings quarterly and at such other times as it deems necessary. The council may hold public hearings from time-to-time on matters within its purview.

(b) Each officer, board, commission, council, department or agency of state government, and each political subdivision of the state, shall cooperate with the council in carrying out the functions and duties imposed by this chapter.

(c) The council may establish committees as it deems advisable and feasible, whose membership shall include at least one member of the council, but only the council itself may set policy or take other official action.

(d) The council shall promulgate rules of procedure governing its operations.

(e) All meetings of the council, or any committee thereof, at which public business is discussed or formal action is taken shall conform to the state open meetings laws.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-106-2 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-106 / Section 42-106-2
§ 42-106-2. Creation of fund and advisory council.
Status: in_force

There is created and established the Rhode Island aqua fund and advisory council.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-82-7 — RI Code / Title 42 / Chapter 42-82 / Section 42-82-7
§ 42-82-7. Bonds authorized  Maturity  Certification and execution.
Status: in_force

(a) The general treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered, with the approval of the governor and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to issue from time to time bonds in the name and behalf of the state and in amounts that may be specified in an amount not to exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000) from time to time by the governor to be designated as agricultural lands preservation commission loan of 1981. Bonds shall be in denominations of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each or multiples thereof, and shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United States which at the time of payment shall be legal tender for public or private debts. Bonds shall bear a date or dates, mature at a time or times not exceeding twenty (20) years from their respective date of issue, bear interest payable semiannually at a rate or different varying rates, be payable at a time or times, at a place or places, be subject to terms of recall or redemption, with or without premium, be in a form with or without interest coupons attached carrying a registration, conversion, re-conversion, transfer, debt requirement, acceleration and other provisions that may be fixed by the general treasurer, with the approval of the governor, upon each issue of the bonds at the time of each issue.

(b) Whenever the governor shall approve the issuance of bonds, the governor shall certify the approval to the secretary of state; the general treasurer shall countersign the bonds and affix the seal of the state. The approval of the governor shall be endorsed on each bond so approved with a facsimile of the governors signature.