R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-1 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-1
§ 30-15-1. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Rhode Island Emergency Management Act.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-22 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-22
§ 30-3-22. Physical fitness boards.
Status: in_force

The physical fitness for service of commissioned officers or warrant officers of the national guard shall be determined by a board of five (5) medical persons, who shall be appointed by the governor for that purpose. Two (2) of the medical persons shall be selected by the governor and two (2) shall be selected by the officer under examination. The four (4) medical persons shall select a fifth medical person. The officer shall submit his or her selections to the governor within ten (10) days of receipt of notice that he or she is to be examined for physical fitness. Failure of the officer to submit his or her selections to the governor within the prescribed period of time shall be deemed to have been a waiver of his or her rights and the governor shall select the remaining members of the examining board. The findings and recommendations of the board shall be transmitted to the governor. If the officer is found to be physically unfit for service by a majority vote of the examining board, and the finding is approved by the governor, the officer shall be discharged from the national guard, subject to the provisions of § 30-3-39.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-45 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-45
§ 30-15-45. Essential mental health and substance use disorder services.
Status: in_force

During any declared state or local disaster emergency pursuant to this chapter, mental health and substance use disorder services provided by Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, or other agencies that provide similar services to those seeking support for substance use disorders shall be considered an essential health benefit and the services provided thereby shall be permitted during the disaster emergency; provided, that adequate measures are implemented to provide the services safely within whatever guidelines may be established to address the issues relative to the declared disaster emergency.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-22-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-22 / Section 30-22-2
§ 30-22-2. Merchant marine.
Status: in_force

(a) All credits, benefits, and privileges, excepting bonuses, granted and bestowed as of December 7, 1941 by the state upon men and women in the armed forces of the United States of America and then enjoyed by those armed forces, shall be extended to include members of the American merchant marine service, who, at the date of enlistment, were legal residents of the state; provided, however, that those members of the American merchant marine service shall have been in service for at least six (6) months, but in the event any member shall meet death before the expiration of that six (6) months of service, he or she shall receive all credits, benefits, and privileges to which he or she would have been entitled by this section had death not intervened in that six-months service.

(b) All eligible members under this section shall file with the department of veterans affairs for a discharge certificate on forms provided by the department of veterans affairs for that purpose.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-18 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-18
§ 30-13-18. Jurisdiction of general courts-martial.
Status: in_force

Subject to § 30-13-17, general courts-martial have jurisdiction to try persons subject to this code for any offense made punishable by this code and may, under such limitations as the governor may prescribe, adjudge any of the following punishments:

(1) Confinement with hard labor for not more than two hundred (200) days;

(2) A fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200);

(3) Forfeiture of pay and allowances of not more than two hundred dollars ($200);

(4) Dismissal, bad conduct discharge, or dishonorable discharge;

(5) A reprimand;

(6) Reduction of enlisted persons to a lower grade; or

(7) Any combination of these punishments.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-13 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-13
§ 30-3-13. Previous military experience of officers  Retirement  Vacancies.
Status: in_force

All commissioned officers of the staff corps and departments, hereafter appointed, shall have had previous military experience, except chaplains, officers of the judge advocate generals corps, and medical corps officers. They shall hold their positions until they shall have reached the age of sixty (60) years, unless retired prior to that time by reason of resignation or disability, or for cause to be determined by an efficiency board or a court-martial legally convened for that purpose. Vacancies among these officers shall be filled by appointment from the commissioned officers of the national guard or from such other civilians as may be specifically qualified for duty therein.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-19-1 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-19 / Section 30-19-1
§ 30-19-1. Obtaining federal loans.
Status: in_force

Every minor of sane mind, whether or not under guardianship by reason of minority, who, under the provisions of federal law is eligible for housing loans, may, with the same force, effect, and validity as if that minor were eighteen (18) years of age with full legal capacity, enter into, make, swear to, or affirm, execute, acknowledge, and deliver any and all mortgages of real and personal property, notes, and bonds secured by mortgage and other instruments of mortgage and any and all contracts, agreements, notes, bonds, obligations, covenants, warranties, affidavits, and vouchers which may be requisite, necessary, desirable, or incident to obtaining any loan guaranteed, in part or in full, under the provisions of federal law, or to obtaining any loan, guaranty, or other benefit thereunder; and with like force, effect, and validity may contract for and purchase real and personal property and pay the consideration therefor in all cases in which part or all of the purchase price consists of the proceeds of a loan guaranteed, in part or in full, under the provisions of federal law.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-39 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-39
§ 30-13-39. Governor may prescribe procedure.
Status: in_force

The procedure, including modes of proof, in cases before military courts and other military tribunals may be prescribed by the governor by regulations, which shall, so far as he or she considers practicable, apply the principles of law and the rules of evidence generally recognized in the trial of criminal cases in the courts of the state, but which may not be contrary to, or inconsistent with, this code.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-10-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-10 / Section 30-10-2
§ 30-10-2. Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

The adjutant general may make all proper rules and regulations for the government and use of all arsenals, armories, quarters, military storehouses, camp grounds, rifle ranges, and other military facilities owned, leased, or controlled by the state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-8 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-8
§ 30-13-8. Apprehension of deserters.
Status: in_force

Any civil officer having authority to apprehend offenders under the laws of the United States or of a state, territory, commonwealth, or possession, or the District of Columbia, may summarily apprehend a deserter from the state military forces and deliver him or her into the custody of the state military forces. If an offender is apprehended outside the state, his or her return to the area must be in accordance with normal extradition procedures or reciprocal agreement.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-121 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-121
§ 30-13-121. Courts of inquiry.
Status: in_force

(a) Courts of inquiry to investigate any matter may be convened by the governor or by any other person designated by the governor for that purpose, whether or not the persons involved have requested an inquiry.

(b) A court of inquiry consists of three (3) or more commissioned officers. For each court of inquiry, the convening authority shall also appoint counsel for the court.

(c) Any person subject to this code whose conduct is subject to inquiry shall be designated as a party. Any person subject to this code or employed in military or naval affairs of the state, who has a direct interest in the subject of inquiry, has the right to be designated as a party upon request to the court. Any person designated as a party shall be given due notice and has the right to be present, to be represented by counsel, to cross-examine witnesses, and to introduce evidence.

(d) Members of a court of inquiry may be challenged by a party, but only for cause stated to the court.

(e) The members, counsel, reporter, and interpreters of courts of inquiry shall take an oath or affirmation to faithfully perform their duties.

(f) Witnesses may be summoned to appear and testify and be examined before courts of inquiry, as provided for courts-martial.

(g) Courts of inquiry shall make findings of fact but may not express opinions or make recommendations unless required to do so by the convening authority.

(h) Each court of inquiry shall keep a record of its proceedings that shall be authenticated by the signatures of the president and counsel for the court and forwarded to the convening authority. If the record cannot be authenticated by the president, it shall be signed by a member in lieu of the president. If the record cannot be authenticated by counsel for the court, it shall be signed by a member in lieu of counsel.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-21-12 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-21 / Section 30-21-12
§ 30-21-12. Appointment to police or fire forces.
Status: in_force

Any citizen who has served in the military service of the United States, in the Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Space Force, or Air Force thereof, and who has received an honorable discharge therefrom, may be eligible for appointment as a police officer or firefighter in any city or town of this state in the same manner as though that citizen were a qualified elector of the city or town on the date of their appointment; provided, however, that the citizen, if registered at any time during the military service, would be a qualified elector of that city or town at the date of that appointment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-25 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-25
§ 30-3-25. Revocation of commission or warrant  Right to trial by court-martial.
Status: in_force

The governor may revoke and cancel the commission of any commissioned officer or the warrant of any warrant officers in his or her discretion. The revocation and cancellation shall not be effectual if, within ten (10) days after receiving notice thereof, the officer shall demand of his or her immediate superior to be informed of the cause thereof and to be tried by a court-martial. If this demand is made, the officer on whom it is made shall transmit the demand to the governor who shall give the officer the required information and order that charges be duly preferred and that a court-martial be convened to try the charges.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-5-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-5 / Section 30-5-2
§ 30-5-2. Method of call to active duty.
Status: in_force

Whenever it may be necessary to call out any portion of the unorganized militia for active duty, the governor shall direct his or her order to the mayor of any city or the president of a town council of any town, who, upon the receipt of the order, shall forthwith proceed to draft, by lot, as many of the unorganized militia in the city or town, or accept as many volunteers, as are required by the governor, and shall forthwith give personal notice by proper warrant, to the persons so drafted or volunteering, and make return of service to the governor, together with a list of the persons so drafted or accepted as volunteers.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-11-8 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-11 / Section 30-11-8
§ 30-11-8. Reservists right to other advantages of employment  Civil remedies.
Status: in_force

A reservists absence for military training will in no way affect the employees right to receive normal vacation, sick leave, bonus, advancement, and other advantages of his or her employment normally to be anticipated in his or her particular position. In the event of the failure of any employer to comply with the foregoing, the employee may, at his or her election, bring an action at law for damages for this noncompliance, or apply to the superior court for such equitable relief as may be just and proper under the circumstances, and this action shall take precedence on the court calendar.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-2-22 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-2 / Section 30-2-22
§ 30-2-22. Publication of laws and regulations  Forms, stationery, and postage.
Status: in_force

The adjutant general may, when necessary, cause the militia laws and regulations of the state, together with such parts of the Constitution, laws, and regulations of the United States, as relate thereto, as he or she deems necessary, to be prepared, procured, printed, and distributed to the officers of the militia and shall also prepare, procure, and issue all printing, stationery, blank books, blanks, forms, notices, and postage, required to carry into effect the provisions of chapters 1  14 of this title and the proper administration of the militia. All books, blanks, stationery, and postage issued by the adjutant general shall be receipted for by the officer receiving them, to be held or accounted for by him or her as public property. In the event of the removal from office of the receipting officer, this property, when required by the adjutant general, shall be delivered to his or her successor, returned to the adjutant general, or otherwise satisfactorily accounted for.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-92 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-92
§ 30-13-92. Failure to obey order or regulation  Derelict performance.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who:

(1) Violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation;

(2) Having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the state military forces that it is that persons duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or

(3) Is derelict in the performance of his or her duties;

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-72 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-72
§ 30-13-72. Petition for new trial.
Status: in_force

At any time within two (2) years after approval by the convening authority of a court-martial sentence that extends to dismissal, or dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge, the accused may petition the governor for a new trial on the grounds of newly discovered evidence or fraud on the court-martial.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-9 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-9
§ 30-15-9. Governors responsibilities relating to disaster emergencies.
Status: in_force

(a) The governor shall be responsible for meeting the dangers to the state and people presented by disasters.

(b) A state of emergency shall be declared by executive order or proclamation of the governor if he or she finds a disaster has occurred or that this occurrence, or the threat thereof, is imminent. The state of disaster emergency shall continue until the governor finds that the threat or danger has passed or the disaster has been dealt with to the extent that emergency conditions no longer exist and terminates the state of disaster emergency by executive order or proclamation, but no state of disaster emergency may continue for longer than thirty (30) days unless renewed by the governor. The general assembly, by concurrent resolution, may terminate a state of disaster emergency at any time. Thereupon, the governor shall issue an executive order or proclamation ending the state of disaster emergency and what actions are being taken to control the emergency and what action the public should take to protect themselves. All executive orders or proclamations issued under this subsection shall indicate the nature of the disaster, the area or areas threatened, and the conditions that have brought it about or that make possible termination of the state of disaster emergency. An executive order or proclamation shall be disseminated promptly by means calculated to bring its contents to the attention of the general public and, unless the circumstances attendant upon the disaster prevent or impede, promptly filed with the agency, the secretary of state, and the city and town clerks in the area to which it applies.

(c) An executive order or proclamation of a state of disaster emergency, shall activate the state and local disaster emergency plans applicable to the political subdivision or area in question and shall be authority for the deployment and use of any forces to which the plan or plans apply and for the use or distribution of any supplies, equipment, and materials and facilities assembled, stockpiled, or arranged to be made available pursuant to this chapter or any other provision of law relating to disaster emergencies.

(d) During the continuance of any state of disaster emergency the governor is commander-in-chief of the organized and unorganized militia and of all other forces available for emergency duty. To the greatest extent practicable, the governor shall delegate or assign command authority by prior arrangement embodied in appropriate executive orders or regulations, but nothing herein restricts the governors authority to do so by orders issued at the time of the disaster emergency.

(e) In addition to any other powers conferred upon the governor by law, the governor may exercise the following powers, subject to the provisions of subsection (g) of this section, limited in scope and duration as is reasonably necessary for emergency response:

(1) Suspend the provisions of any regulatory statute prescribing the procedures for conduct of state business, or the orders, rules, or regulations of any state agency, if strict compliance with the provisions of any statute, order, rule, or regulation would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay necessary action in coping with the emergency, provided that the suspension of any statute, order, rule or regulation will be limited in duration and scope to the emergency action requiring said suspension;

(2) Utilize all available resources of the state government as reasonably necessary to cope with the disaster emergency and of each political subdivision of the state;

(3) Transfer the direction, personnel, or functions of state departments and agencies or units thereof for the purpose of performing or facilitating emergency services;

(4) Subject to any applicable requirements for compensation under § 30-15-11, commandeer or utilize any private property if the governor finds this necessary to cope with the disaster emergency;

(5) Direct and compel the evacuation of all or part of the population from any stricken or threatened area within the state if the governor deems this action necessary for the preservation of life or other disaster mitigation, response, or recovery;

(6) Prescribe routes, modes of transportation, and destinations in connection with evacuation;

(7) Control ingress and egress to and from a high risk area, the movement of persons within the area, and the occupancy of premises therein;

(8) Suspend or limit the sale, dispensing, or transportation of alcoholic beverages, firearms, explosives, and combustibles;

(9) Make provision for the availability and use of temporary emergency shelter;

(10) Make and promulgate such rules and regulations as the governor may deem advisable for the assigning, detailing, and making available for duty and use in any city or town of this state any of the personnel, apparatus, or equipment of any police or fire department of any other city or town, or of any volunteer fire company, or of any fire district, and that personnel shall have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges, and immunities as if performing their duties in the city or town in which they normally would be employed, but the personnel shall obey the orders of the police and fire authorities of the city or town to which assigned, detailed, or made available. When assigned, detailed, or made available as aforesaid, the city or town in which the police or firefighters shall perform outside duties shall provide them with subsistence or pay them a reasonable allowance therefor, and shall also be liable for any damage to the apparatus or equipment incurred while being so used; provided, however, that a city or town shall be reimbursed by the state out of the general fund of the state for all expenses incurred under the foregoing provisions of this subsection;

(11) Designate as a special emergency health and sanitation area, any area within the state that has been seriously damaged by disaster, or in which the existence of any military, naval, or air establishment of the United States of America or of any industrial establishment constructed or enlarged for purposes of national defense, has caused an increase in the population of that area to such an extent as to produce unusual problems of health and sanitation. It is the duty of state health authorities and the local code enforcement officials to make and enforce rules and regulations designed to prevent the introduction of any contagious or infectious disease and to safeguard the public health within the area. The governor may promulgate and enforce additional rules and regulations for the protection of the public health within areas as may be necessary;

(12) Whenever, in the governors opinion, due to a disaster there is liable to be a serious shortage in the supply of food, fuel, clothing, antitoxins, serums, immunizing agents, or any other pharmaceutical agents or medical supplies, or any other necessity of life or defense, and the federal authorities are not adequately dealing with the situation, promulgate such rules and regulations as he or she, from time to time, deems necessary to regulate the sale, purchase, or distribution of those necessities and to prohibit and prevent the wasting, secreting, hiding, or hoarding of, or profiteering from, those necessities; additionally, during a declared time of state or national emergency, no person, firm, or corporation shall increase the price of any item it sells or offers for sale at retail immediately prior to the proclamation of emergency or during the proclaimed state of emergency. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the fluctuation in the price of items sold at retail that occurs during the normal course of business. Any person, firm, or corporation who or that violates any provision of this subsection shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100);

(13) Do all other things necessary to effectively cope with disasters in the state not inconsistent with other provisions of law;

(14) Adopt and enforce measures to provide for the safe disposal of infectious waste as may be reasonable and necessary for emergency response due to a state disaster emergency. Such measures may include, but are not limited to, the collection, storage, handling, destruction, treatment, transportation, and disposal of infectious waste;

(15) Adopt and enforce measures to provide for the safe disposal of corpses as may be reasonable and necessary for emergency response due to a state disaster emergency. Such measures may include, but are not limited to, the embalming, burial, cremation, interment, disinterment, transportation, and disposal of corpses; and

(16) Compel a person to submit to a physical examination and/or testing as necessary to diagnose or treat the person. The medical examination and/or testing may be performed by any qualified person authorized by the department of health and must not be reasonably likely to result in serious harm to the affected individual. The medical examination and/or testing shall be performed immediately upon the order of the department of health without resort to judicial or quasi-judicial authority. If the department of health is uncertain whether a person who refuses to undergo medical examination and/or testing may have been exposed to an infectious disease or otherwise poses a danger to public health, the department of health may subject the individual to isolation or quarantine pursuant to § 23-8-4.

(f) Nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit or restrict the power of the general assembly to appropriate any federal funds received by the state of Rhode Island pursuant to § 35-4-22.1.

(g) Powers conferred upon the governor pursuant to the provisions of subsection (e) of this section for disaster emergency response shall not exceed a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of the emergency order or proclamation of a state of disaster emergency, unless and until the general assembly extends the one hundred eighty (180) day period by concurrent resolution.

(h) Nothing contained in subsection (g) of this section shall be construed to apply to the following executive orders issued by the governor that shall remain in effect and may be extended by further executive order up to, but not beyond, September 1, 2021:

(1) 20-06;

(2) 20-19;

(3) 20-37;

(4) 20-46 as amended by 21-60;

(5) 20-72;

(6) 21-26;

(7) 21-67; and

(8) 21-68, limited to paragraph 8.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-33-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-33 / Section 30-33-2
§ 30-33-2. Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following words or phrases, as used in this chapter, mean the following:

(1) Employee means any person who may be permitted, required, or directed by an employer in consideration of direct or indirect gain or profit to engage in any employment. Employee does include an independent contractor. Employee includes an employee of a covered employer who has been employed by the same employer for at least twelve (12) months, and has been employed from at least one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) hours of service during a twelve-month (12) period immediately preceding the commencement of leave.

(2) Employee benefits means all benefits, other than salary or wages, provided or made available to employees by an employer and includes group life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance, and pensions, regardless of whether benefits are provided by a policy or practice of an employer.

(3) Employer means any person, partnership, corporation, association, other business entities, the state of Rhode Island, Rhode Island municipalities, and other units of local government.

(4) Family military leave, means leave requested by an employee who is the spouse or parent of a person called to military service lasting longer than thirty (30) days with the state of Rhode Island or the United States pursuant to the orders of the governor of Rhode Island or the President of the United States.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-28-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-28 / Section 30-28-4
§ 30-28-4. Office equipment of veterans organizations.
Status: in_force

Proper office equipment shall be furnished and supplied for each state department of chartered veterans organizations located in the William F. Powers Building, One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI, or any other substantially equivalent space to be provided by the department of administration without cost to the organization.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-38 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-38
§ 30-13-38. Confinement pending trial  Bail.
Status: in_force

When an accused person shall have been arrested for failure to appear before a court-martial for trial, the president of the court-martial or summary court officer to whom the charges have been referred for trial may issue a commitment for the confinement of that person pending trial. In these cases, the accused shall be admitted to bail, the amount of bail fixed, and the surety or sureties thereon approved by the president of the court-martial or the summary court officer issuing the commitment. In default of bail, that person shall be confined pending trial. No person shall be kept in confinement pending trial for more than five (5) days.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-32-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-32 / Section 30-32-5
§ 30-32-5. Military facility protection program.
Status: in_force

(a) The purpose of this fund is to address emergent needs relating to mission sustainment, encroachment reduction or prevention, and base retention. All funds appropriated for the purposes of this program are eligible to be used for matching of federal funds.

(b) The specific allocation of the funds shall be determined by the commerce corporation, after consultation with the funds advisory board, and within the following program guidelines:

(1) To provide grants and loans to improve water, sewer, electric, gas, roads, rail systems, runways, navigational, or security systems relating to the support of national security infrastructures located within the state;

(2) To secure real estate and tangible property, as well as non-conservation lands, to be used for expansion or to protect against encroachment around national security installations within the state;

(3) To support best practices in energy efficiency savings initiatives at military facilities, including renewable energy applications;

(4) To support innovative public/private partnerships in military facility operations, including utility, housing, purchasing, and transportation services; and

(5) To provide grants to increase the mission-related capabilities of the national security infrastructures located within the state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-99 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-99
§ 30-13-99. Misbehavior before the enemy.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who before or in the presence of the enemy:

(1) Runs away;

(2) Shamefully abandons, surrenders, or delivers up any command, unit, place, or military property that it is his or her duty to defend;

(3) Through disobedience, neglect, or intentional misconduct endangers the safety of any such command, unit, place, or military property that it is his or her duty to defend;

(4) Casts away his or her arms or ammunition;

(5) Is guilty of cowardly conduct;

(6) Quits his or her place of duty to plunder or pillage;

(7) Causes false alarms in any command, unit, or place under control of the armed forces of the United States or the state military forces;

(8) Willfully fails to do his or her utmost to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy any enemy troops, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any other thing, that it is his or her duty so to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy; or

(9) Does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to any troops, combatants, vessels, or aircraft of the armed forces belonging to the United States or their allies, to the state, or to any other state, when engaged in battle;

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-62 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-62
§ 30-13-62. Approval of sentence.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in §§ 30-13-22 and 30-13-68, a court-martial sentence, unless suspended, may be ordered executed by the convening authority when approved by him or her and his or her staff judge advocate or, in the absence of a staff judge advocate on the staff of the convening authority, by the staff judge advocate of the next highest command. The convening authority shall approve the sentence or such a part, amount, or commuted form of the sentence as the convening authority sees fit, and may suspend the execution of the sentence as approved by him or her.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-69 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-69
§ 30-13-69. Error of law  Lesser included offense.
Status: in_force

(a) A finding or sentence of a court-martial may not be held incorrect on the ground of an error of law unless the error materially prejudices the substantial rights of the accused.

(b) Any reviewing authority with the power to approve or affirm a finding of guilty may approve or affirm so much of the finding as includes a lesser included offense.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-11-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-11 / Section 30-11-2
§ 30-11-2. Discrimination in employment against members of militia.
Status: in_force

No employer, or officer, or agent of any corporation, company, or firm, or other person shall discharge any person from employment because of being an officer or enlisted person in the military forces of this state; or hinder or prevent that person from performing any military service he or she may be called upon to perform by proper authority; or dissuade any person from membership in the military forces of the state by threat of injury to that person in respect to his or her employment, trade, or business in case of his or her enlistment or commission. Any person violating any of the above provisions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-1-10 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-1 / Section 30-1-10
§ 30-1-10. Conformity of state provisions to federal law.
Status: in_force

The intent of chapters 1  14 of this title is to conform to all acts and regulations of the United States affecting the same subjects, and all provisions of these chapters shall be construed to effect this purpose.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-33 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-33
§ 30-3-33. Promotion and reduction of enlisted persons.
Status: in_force

The appointment of noncommissioned officers, privates first class, and specialists, in the national guard, and their reductions, shall be made as provided by the laws of the United States and the regulations pertaining to the national guard and of this state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-11 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-11
§ 30-3-11. Classes from which commissioned officers selected.
Status: in_force

Persons hereafter commissioned as officers of the National Guard shall be selected from the following classes:

(1) Officers or enlisted persons of the National Guard;

(2) Officers, active or retired, reserve officers, and former officers of the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard, enlisted personnel and former enlisted personnel of the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard who have received an honorable discharge therefrom;

(3) Graduates of any of the United States military and naval academies;

(4) Graduates of schools, colleges, universities, and officers training camps, where they have received military instruction under the supervision of an officer of the armed forces on active duty who certified their fitness for appointment as commissioned officers;

(5) For the technical branches or staff corps and departments, such other civilians as may be specially qualified for duty therein; and

(6) Or otherwise, as the above classes shall be changed or altered by the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-2-13 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-2 / Section 30-2-13
§ 30-2-13. Qualifications of adjutant general.
Status: in_force

No person shall be eligible to hold the office of adjutant general unless he or she holds, or has held, a commission of at least colonel in the armed forces of the United States, or in a reserve component thereof, and shall have served not less than five (5) years in one or more of the federal services, and shall meet the criteria for federal recognition in the rank to which he or she has been appointed as prescribed by the laws and regulations of the United States.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-24-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-24 / Section 30-24-6
§ 30-24-6. Acceptance of gifts  Veterans home restricted account.
Status: in_force

(a) The director of human services is hereby authorized and empowered to take and receive in the name of the state any grant, devise, gift, or bequest of real or personal property that may be made for the use and benefit of the Rhode Island veterans home or the residents or purposes thereof. All money so received, and all money received under the provisions of §§ 30-24-9 and 30-24-10, shall be paid over to the general treasurer and shall be kept by him or her as a restricted account to be known as the veterans home restricted account. Use of the veterans home restricted account funds may only be made upon prior approval of the house of representatives finance committee and senate finance committee. The director may sell and dispose of any real or personal property received under this section, and any property received under § 30-24-9, and the proceeds of the sale shall be paid over to the general treasurer to be made a part of the restricted account. The restricted account shall be used for the improvement of social, recreational, and educational programs, including the purchase of educational and recreational supplies and equipment for the welfare of members and for operational expenses and capital improvements at the veterans home and veterans cemetery, as deemed necessary by the director of human services.

(b) [Deleted by P.L. 1999, ch. 11, section 5 .]

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, there is hereby established a restricted receipt account within the general fund of the state for the sole purpose of the collection and disbursement of any grant, devise, gift, or bequest of real or personal property that may be made for the use and benefit of the design, construction, and furnishing of a new Rhode Island veterans home in Bristol. This account shall be known as donations  new veterans home construction.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-25-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-25 / Section 30-25-4
§ 30-25-4. Designation of person to conduct burial  Burial by relatives or friends  Maximum allowance.
Status: in_force

The town council of any town, and the city council of any city, shall annually designate some proper person, other than those designated by law for the care of paupers or the custody of criminals, who shall cause to be interred the body of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor, airperson, or marine, who may not have left sufficient means to pay his or her funeral expenses; and in case the deceased has relatives or friends who desire to conduct the burial, and who are unable or unwilling to pay the charge thereof, they shall be allowed to conduct the funeral, and the cost of the interment shall be paid to them or their representatives by the town or city treasurer upon due proof; provided, however, that claim for the payment of the burial expenses under the provisions of this chapter shall be made within sixty (60) days after the decease of the honorably discharged soldier, sailor, airperson, or marine; and provided, further, that the whole expense of the funeral shall not in any case exceed the sum of fifty-five dollars ($55.00).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-12-9 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-12 / Section 30-12-9
§ 30-12-9. Unlawful wearing of uniform.
Status: in_force

It shall be a misdemeanor for any person not an officer or enlisted person of the national guard to wear the duly prescribed uniform of the national guard, or any distinctive part of that uniform, or a uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive part of the duly prescribed uniform of the national guard, except members of the Department of Defense of the United States and the national guard or naval militia of this or any other state, members of associations wholly composed of soldiers, sailors, or marines and air persons honorably discharged from the service of the United States, veterans of the national guard or naval militia, members of the Order of the Sons of Veterans, and such others as may be specially authorized so to do by the governor, or under the laws of the United States, or of this state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-28-11 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-28 / Section 30-28-11
§ 30-28-11. Monument to veterans of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
Status: in_force

(a) The general assembly shall appropriate a sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the construction of a monument that shall be dedicated to the men and women from this state who served in the armed forces in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The monument shall be located in the pond at the water place site in the capital center in Providence. The general assembly shall also appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary for the care and maintenance of the monument, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer, from time to time, for the payment of the cost of construction and maintenance of the monument upon the receipt by him or her of proper vouchers approved by the adjutant general.

(b) The POW-MIA flag, which is also the official flag of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, shall be flown over the monument until such time as all prisoners and missing in southeast Asia are accounted for.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-102 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-102
§ 30-13-102. Forcing a safeguard.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who forces a safeguard shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-4-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-4 / Section 30-4-2
§ 30-4-2. Field days for range practice.
Status: in_force

The governor is authorized and empowered, in his or her discretion, to order a field day annually for each of the independent chartered military organizations for the purpose of visiting the state rifle range in order that all officers and persons may qualify in rifle practice. Organizations having their own rifle range may hold their field day on that range by making application to the governor, who shall issue proper orders giving the required permission, and detail a proper officer to take charge of the rifle practice on the field day.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-16-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-16 / Section 30-16-4
§ 30-16-4. Powers of inspector of buildings.
Status: in_force

In cities and towns having an inspector of buildings, the powers, duties, and prerogatives given to the state department of transportation by this chapter shall be exercised and performed by that inspector of buildings, without reference in any manner to the state department of transportation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-105 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-105
§ 30-13-105. Misconduct of prisoner of war.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who, while in the hands of the enemy in time of war:

(1) For the purpose of securing favorable treatment by his or her captors, acts without proper authority in a manner contrary to law, custom, or regulation, to the detriment of others of whatever nationality held by the enemy as civilian or military prisoners; or

(2) While in a position of authority over other persons maltreats them without justifiable cause;

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-25-10 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-25 / Section 30-25-10
§ 30-25-10. Care of neglected graves.
Status: in_force

The director of human services is authorized and empowered to undertake the care of any grave of any soldier or sailor who fought in the war of the revolution, or who at any time served the United States in any war, when the grave appears to have been neglected or abandoned. For that purpose, the director, and the agents or employees of the division, when duly authorized thereunto by the director, may enter into and upon any public or private cemetery or burial place to clear any grave of grass, weeds, brush, briars, or rubbish; to erect, replace, repair, or renovate fences, memorial stones, or markers; and to perform the other tasks as may be necessary to restore and maintain the grave and its surroundings in a decent and orderly condition.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-18-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-18 / Section 30-18-4
§ 30-18-4. Powers of director.
Status: in_force

(a) The director of the office of veterans services shall promulgate any rules, regulations, and forms as shall be necessary for the full and proper implementation of this chapter, including but not limited to:

(1) Informing former members of the armed services that they may be entitled to benefits and privileges that were previously denied;

(2) Recording all military discharges;

(3) Verifying the characterization of the discharge for the purpose of benefits and privileges authorized by the general and public laws; and

(4) Publishing and distributing materials to all state, municipal, and quasi-public entities highlighting the changes made to this chapter and the effect those changes will have on the application of the general and public laws.

(b) The regulations shall be adopted only in accordance with the procedures established by chapter 35 of title 42.

(c) The director of the office of veterans services shall also be empowered to enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter with regard to ensuring that each state or quasi-public agency and municipality is in compliance with this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-25-12 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-25 / Section 30-25-12
§ 30-25-12. Appropriations for care of graves.
Status: in_force

The general assembly shall, from time to time, appropriate such sums as it may deem necessary to be expended by the director of human services in carrying out the purposes of §§ 30-25-10 and 30-25-11, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed, upon the receipt of the proper vouchers approved by the director, to draw orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of such sums as may be required, within the amount appropriated therefor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-9-7 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-9 / Section 30-9-7
§ 30-9-7. Clothing issued to state guard reserve.
Status: in_force

Articles of clothing purchased by the state and issued to members of the provisional companies, Rhode Island state guard reserve, and worn by them in the service of the state, will become the property of these persons upon return of the companies to the unorganized militia after being disbanded and mustered out of active service by the governor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-7-10 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-7 / Section 30-7-10
§ 30-7-10. Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
Status: in_force

All national guard members on state active duty for a continuous period exceeding ninety (90) days shall be entitled to the rights, protections, privileges, and immunities afforded under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. § 3901 et seq. These rights, protections, privileges, and immunities shall include, but are not limited to, the following: maximum rate of interest not to exceed six percent (6%); continuation of insurance policies; protection from eviction as well as the right to terminate a lease due to military service; and continuance or stay of civil proceedings. Jurisdiction shall be exclusive to the superior court for any alleged violations of this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-31-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-31 / Section 30-31-3
§ 30-31-3. Selection of officers.
Status: in_force

Upon organization of the committee, by majority vote, one of its members shall be chosen as chairperson, another of its members shall be chosen vice chairperson, and another of its members shall be chosen as secretary.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-10-13 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-10 / Section 30-10-13
§ 30-10-13. Use of federal funds.
Status: in_force

The adjutant general, with the approval of the governor, is authorized to accept and direct the disbursement of the funds made available to the state, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 18231 et seq. (Facilities for Reserve Components) and shall deposit all these funds received from the federal government with the general treasurer, to be placed in a special account, and drawn upon only on receipt of properly authenticated vouchers signed by the adjutant general with the approval of the governor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-5-8 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-5 / Section 30-5-8
§ 30-5-8. Relief from active duty.
Status: in_force

The unorganized militia on active duty under call of the governor, may be disbanded and mustered out of active service by the governor at any time.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-134 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-134
§ 30-13-134. Uniformity of law.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of this state, so far as practical, with the law of the United States.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-55 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-55
§ 30-13-55. Number of votes required.
Status: in_force

(a) No person may be convicted of an offense, except by concurrence of two-thirds ( ) of the members present at the time the vote is taken.

(b) All sentences shall be determined by the concurrence of two-thirds ( ) of the members present at the time that the vote is taken.

(c) All other questions to be decided by the members of a general or special court-martial shall be determined by a majority vote. A tie vote on a challenge disqualifies the member challenged. A tie vote on a motion for a finding of not guilty or on a motion relating to the question of the accuseds sanity is a determination against the accused. A tie vote on any other question is a determination in favor of the accused.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-57 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-57
§ 30-13-57. Record of trial.
Status: in_force

(a) Each court-martial shall keep a separate record of the proceedings of the trial of each case brought before it and the record shall be authenticated by the signatures of the president and the law officer. If the record cannot be authenticated by either the president or the law officer by reason of his or her death, disability, or absence, it shall be signed by a member in lieu of him or her. If both the president and the law officer are unavailable, the record shall be authenticated by two (2) members. A record of the proceedings of a trial in which the sentence adjudged includes dishonorable discharge, dismissal, or bad-conduct discharge, or is more than that which could be adjudged by a special court-martial, shall contain a verbatim account of the proceedings and testimony before the court. All other records of trial shall contain such matters and be authenticated in such a manner as the governor may by regulation prescribe.

(b) A copy of the record of the proceedings of each general and special court-martial shall be given to the accused as soon as it is authenticated. If a verbatim record of trial by general court-martial is not required by subsection (a) of this section, but has been made, the accused may buy the verbatim record under such regulations as the governor may prescribe.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-29-7 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-29 / Section 30-29-7
§ 30-29-7. Solicitation of funds.
Status: in_force

The committee on naval affairs may designate any person or persons to solicit funds for the committee, from the general public, government, or otherwise, in furtherance of the pursuits of the committee. The committee shall designate those persons by vote of the committee and shall supply each person designated with written authorization from the committee allowing them to identify themselves to those solicited. Any person designated by the committee to solicit funds shall give an itemized accounting of all funds collected to the committee.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-30 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-30
§ 30-3-30. Causes for discharge of enlisted persons.
Status: in_force

Causes for the discharge of enlisted persons of the national guard are as enumerated under the laws of the United States, and the regulations pertaining to the national guard, and for such other reason as the governor deems adequate, satisfactory, and for the best interests of the service.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-9-9 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-9 / Section 30-9-9
§ 30-9-9. Recovery of value of lost or damaged property.
Status: in_force

Except as indicated in § 30-9-8, the value of the public funds or public property lost, damaged, destroyed, or unreturned, in an amount to be determined by a surveying officer, to be appointed by the governor, shall be charged against the person at fault and it shall be an indebtedness from that person to the state. If any person at fault, or his or her surety if any, shall fail to pay the full value of the lost, damaged, destroyed, or unreturned funds or property, the adjutant general may deduct the amount due from any pay or allowances due, or to become due, if any, to that person and the attorney general of the state, upon request of the adjutant general, shall bring such action or actions, in the name of the people of the state, in any court of competent jurisdiction, as may be necessary to recover from that person, or his or her surety, if any, the amount of the indebtedness or any balance remaining unpaid.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-40 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-40
§ 30-3-40. Entitlement to educational benefits.
Status: in_force

Any person who is an active member of the Rhode Island national guard and who is enrolled in, or otherwise eligible to attend, any college or university in Rhode Island and who is not eligible to receive Veterans Administration educational benefits, shall be entitled to an educational benefit amounting to fifty percent (50%) of each semesters basic tuition or general fee charges, under such provisions as the adjutant general may determine.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-21-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-21 / Section 30-21-6
§ 30-21-6. Hiring of unqualified persons not required.
Status: in_force

Nothing in §§ 30-21-2  30-21-7 shall require any employer to hire any person who, in the judgment of the employer, is not qualified for the position.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-30-1 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-30 / Section 30-30-1
§ 30-30-1. Appropriations  Purposes.
Status: in_force

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as may be necessary, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of creating and maintaining a dependents education fund from which shall be paid in whole or in part the charges for the tuition and books of such of the sons, daughters, and surviving spouses of veterans who died as the result of hostile action or a service-connected disability arising out of active service in the armed forces, or who died from any cause while such a disability was in existence, or of those who are serving in the far east and had a legal residence in this state at the time they were commissioned, warranted, enlisted, or inducted into the military or naval service of the United States and were either missing in action or are prisoners of war, provided that the next of kin has not been advised by the armed forces that the serviceperson has been released or is no longer classified as missing in action. The benefits shall be extended to dependents who are attending, or may attend, the university of Rhode Island, Rhode Island college, or any institution of higher education or technical/professional learning. The maximum aid granted shall not exceed the in-state tuition cost plus average cost of books of attending the university of Rhode Island in that year, the costs to be yearly certified by the Board of Education to the administering agency; provided, any child dependent shall enter the institution while between the ages of sixteen (16) and twenty-six (26); and provided, further, that the aid herein granted shall be available to that child for such period of time as shall equal the normal time for completing the courses regularly offered by the institution, but in no case more than four (4) years; and provided, further, that this chapter shall apply also to the children of those who are serving in the far east, but did not have legal residence in this state at the time those persons were commissioned, warranted, enlisted, or inducted into the military or naval service of the United States; provided that those children have resided in this state continuously for five (5) years and are otherwise eligible, upon the presentation to the proper administering authority of sufficient evidence that the parent qualifies the child to receive the benefits under this section; and provided, further, that, as to surviving spouses, the benefits must be utilized within a period of ten (10) years from the date eligibility is found or from the date of death of the spouse from whom eligibility is derived.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-27-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-27 / Section 30-27-4
§ 30-27-4. Flower of Italian American organization.
Status: in_force

The daisy, in labeled, artificial form, is hereby declared to be the official flower of the Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-10-9 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-10 / Section 30-10-9
§ 30-10-9. Appropriations for rent of armories.
Status: in_force

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary and sufficient to provide for the armory rental of the national guard, to be paid upon proper vouchers certified to by the adjutant general.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-10 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-10
§ 30-13-10. Restraint of persons charged with offenses.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code, charged with an offense under this code, shall be ordered into arrest or confinement, as circumstances may require; but when charged only with an offense normally tried by a summary court-martial, that person shall not ordinarily be placed in confinement. When any person subject to this code is placed in arrest or confinement prior to trial, immediate steps shall be taken to inform that person of the specific wrong of which he or she is accused and to try that person or to dismiss the charges and release him or her.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-15 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-15
§ 30-13-15. Nonjudicial punishment.
Status: in_force

(a) Under such regulations as the governor may prescribe, and under such additional regulations as may be prescribed by the adjutant general, limitations may be placed on the powers granted by this chapter with respect to the kind and amount of punishment authorized; the categories of commanding officers and warrant officers exercising command authorized to exercise those powers; the applicability of this chapter to an accused who demands trial by court-martial; and the kinds of courts-martial to which the case may be referred upon that demand. However, punishment may not be imposed upon any member of the state military forces under this section if the member has, before the imposition of punishment, demanded trial by court-martial in lieu of punishment. Under similar regulations, rules may be prescribed with respect to the suspension of punishments authorized hereunder. If authorized by regulations of the adjutant general, a commanding officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction, or an officer of general rank in command, may delegate his or her powers under this chapter to a principal assistant.

(b)(1) Subject to subsection (a) of this section, any commanding officer may, in addition to, or in lieu of, admonition or reprimand, impose one or more of the following disciplinary punishments for minor offenses without the intervention of court-martial:

(i) Upon officers of his or her command:

(A) Restriction to certain specified limits, with or without suspension from duty, for not more than thirty (30) consecutive days; and

(B) If imposed by an officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction or an officer of general rank in command:

(I) Arrest in quarters for not more than thirty (30) consecutive days;

(II) Forfeiture of not more than one-half (Â½) of one months pay per month for two (2) months;

(III) Restriction to certain specified limits, with or without suspension from duty, for not more than sixty (60) consecutive days; and

(IV) Detention of not more than one-half (Â½) of one months pay per month for three (3) months; and

(ii) Upon other personnel of his or her command:

(A) Correctional custody for not more than seven (7) consecutive days;

(B) Forfeiture of not more than seven (7) days pay;

(C) Reduction to the next inferior pay grade, if the grade from which demoted is within the promotion authority of the officer imposing the reduction or any officer subordinate to the one who imposes the reduction;

(D) Extra duties, including fatigue or other duties, for not more than fourteen (14) consecutive days;

(E) Restrictions to certain specified limits, with or without suspension from duty, for not more than fourteen (14) consecutive days;

(F) Detention of not more than fourteen (14) days pay; and

(G) If imposed by an officer of the grade of major or above:

(I) Correctional custody for not more than thirty (30) consecutive days;

(II) Forfeiture of not more than one-half (Â½) of one months pay per month for two (2) months;

(III) Reduction to the lowest or any intermediate pay grade, if the grade from which demoted is within the promotion authority of the officer imposing the reduction, or any officer subordinate to the one who imposes the reduction, but an enlisted member in a pay grade above E-4 may not be reduced more than two (2) pay grades;

(IV) Extra duties, including fatigue or other duties, for not more than forty-five (45) consecutive days;

(V) Restrictions to certain specified limits, with or without suspension from duty, for not more than sixty (60) consecutive days; and

(VI) Detention of not more than one-half (Â½) of one months pay per month for three (3) months.

(2) Detention of pay shall be for a stated period of not more than one year, but if the offenders term of service expires earlier, the detention shall terminate upon that expiration. No two (2) or more of the punishments of arrest in quarters, correctional custody, extra duties, and restriction may be combined to run consecutively in the maximum amount imposable for each. Whenever any of those punishments are combined to run consecutively, there must be an apportionment. In addition, forfeiture of pay may not be combined with detention of pay without an apportionment. For the purposes of this subsection, correctional custody is the physical restraint of a person during duty or nonduty hours and may include extra duties, fatigue duties, or hard labor. If practicable, correctional custody will not be served in immediate association with persons awaiting trial or held in confinement pursuant to trial by court-martial.

(c) An officer in charge may impose upon enlisted members assigned to the unit of which that officer is in charge such of the punishments authorized under subsection (b)(1)(ii) of this section as the adjutant general may specifically prescribe by regulation.

(d) The officer who imposes the punishment authorized in subsection (b) of this section, or his or her successor in command, may, at any time, suspend probationally any part or amount of the unexecuted punishment imposed and may suspend probationally a reduction in grade or forfeiture imposed under subsection (b) of this section, whether or not executed. In addition, that officer may, at any time, remit or mitigate any part or amount of the unexecuted punishment imposed and may set aside in whole or in part the punishment, whether executed or unexecuted, and restore all rights, privileges, and property affected. He or she may also mitigate reduction in grade to forfeiture or detention of pay. When mitigating: (1) arrest in quarters to restriction; (2) correctional custody to extra duties or restriction or both; or (3) extra duties to restriction; the mitigated punishment shall not be for a greater period than the punishment mitigated. When mitigating forfeiture of pay to detention of pay, the amount of the detention shall not be greater than the amount of the forfeiture. When mitigating reduction in grade to forfeiture or detention of pay, the amount of the forfeiture or detention shall not be greater than the amount that could have been imposed initially under this chapter by the officer who imposed the punishment mitigated.

(e) A person punished under this chapter who considers his or her punishment unjust or disproportionate to the offense may, through the proper channel, appeal to the next superior authority. The appeal shall be promptly forwarded and decided, but the person punished may in the meantime be required to undergo the punishment adjudged. The superior authority may exercise the same powers with respect to the punishment imposed as may be exercised under subsection (d) of this section by the officer who imposed the punishment. Before acting on an appeal from a punishment of:

(1) Arrest in quarters for more than seven (7) days;

(2) Correctional custody for more than seven (7) days;

(3) Forfeiture of more than seven (7) days pay;

(4) Reduction of one or more pay grades from the fourth or a higher pay grade;

(5) Extra duties for more than fourteen (14) days;

(6) Restriction for more than fourteen (14) days; or

(7) Detention of more than fourteen (14) days pay;

the authority who is to act on the appeal shall refer the case to the staff judge advocate of the command, or in a command to which no staff judge advocate is assigned, then to the state judge advocate, for consideration and advice, and may so refer the case upon appeal from any punishment imposed under subsection (b) of this section.

(f) The imposition and enforcement of disciplinary punishment under this chapter for any act or omission is not a bar to trial by court-martial for a serious crime or offense growing out of the same act or omission, and not properly punishable under this chapter; but the fact that a disciplinary punishment has been enforced may be shown by the accused upon trial, and when so shown shall be considered in determining the measure of the punishment to be adjudged in the event of a finding of guilty.

(g) The adjutant general may, by regulation, prescribe the form of records to be kept of proceedings under this chapter and may also prescribe that certain categories of those proceedings shall be in writing.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-9-13 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-9 / Section 30-9-13
§ 30-9-13. Failure to comply with court order.
Status: in_force

If the person complained against in accordance with § 30-9-12 shall not deliver up the military property as described in the petition on or before the day set for the hearing or show good cause to the contrary, on due proof of service of a copy of the order, the court may issue forthwith an attachment for contempt against the person. The person shall be held in contempt and dealt with accordingly until he or she shall comply with the order of the court and deliver up the military property to the petitioner and pay the reasonable costs of the proceedings to be taxed by the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-8-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-8 / Section 30-8-2
§ 30-8-2. Bronze service medal.
Status: in_force

In recognition of honorable service in the militia of Rhode Island other than in the national guard, every commissioned officer, warrant officer, and enlisted person, now or hereafter in the militia of this state, who has rendered seven (7) years continuous honorable service, and any officer or enlisted person hereafter completing a like service, shall receive, upon application to the adjutant general, a bronze service medal; and for ten (10) years of honorable service, at least seven (7) of which shall have been continuous, and for each additional five (5) years of honorable service, whether continuous or not, the officer or enlisted person shall receive appropriate clasps to be worn on the ribbon of the medal; provided, that, officers and enlisted persons of the militia who were in federal service during World War I, World War II, and the Korean Emergency shall be given credit for this service as state service and those who were commissioned, warranted, or enlisted in the militia upon its reorganization or within six (6) months from the time of discharge from federal service shall be entitled to have the intervening period counted as state service for the purposes of this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-16-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-16 / Section 30-16-2
§ 30-16-2. Registration of bomb shelter builders  Permit.
Status: in_force

Each seller, builder, and/or erector of bomb shelters, so-called, shall register his or her name and place of business with the state department of transportation and furnish it with the specifications of those bomb shelters and a copy of the statement referred to in § 30-16-1, and if the department finds that if those specifications are followed the bomb shelter will afford the degree of protection claimed in that statement, then the department shall issue to that seller, builder, and/or erector, as the case may be, a permit to sell, build, and/or erect the bomb shelter described in those specifications.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-24-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-24 / Section 30-24-4
§ 30-24-4. Appointments to advisory council  Organization and meetings.
Status: in_force

Annually, on or before July 1, the governor shall appoint a successor of each member of the advisory council whose term expires, these appointments to be for a term of three (3) years. In case of any vacancy or additional members on the council, the governor shall appoint a new member for the unexpired portion of the term of that membership as hereinbefore provided. Members of the council shall serve without pay. The advisory council shall elect one of its members to serve as chairperson for a period of one year and until a successor is elected and qualified. Meetings shall be held at the call of the chairperson; provided, however, that a majority of the members may call a meeting of the advisory council at any time, all members being notified in any case by mail and reasonably in advance of any such meetings. A majority of members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The governor may remove a member of the council for neglect of duty. Administrative support for the council shall be provided by the director of veterans services.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-31-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-31 / Section 30-31-6
§ 30-31-6. Place of meeting  Quorum.
Status: in_force

The joint committee on legislative services shall provide adequate space in the state house for the use of the committee; provided, however, that the committee may conduct hearings and hold meetings elsewhere when doing so will better serve its purposes. A majority in number of the committee shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-43 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-43
§ 30-13-43. Continuances.
Status: in_force

A court-martial may, for reasonable cause, grant a continuance to any party for such time, and as often, as may appear to be just.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-32-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-32 / Section 30-32-4
§ 30-32-4. Administration of funds.
Status: in_force

(a) The commerce corporation is designated as the public corporation to administer the national security infrastructure support fund and may receive annual funding from appropriations made for that purpose. The funds shall be separately identified with corresponding revenues and expenses within the financial statements of the commerce corporation. No charges or fees for the operating expenses of the fund, such as legal fees or appraisals related to a specific transaction, shall be allocated from the fund to the commerce corporation.

(b) Within the national security infrastructure support fund, two (2) distinct grant programs shall be established to carry out the legislative intent of the fund. They shall be known as the:

(1) Military facility protection program (MFPP), and

(2) The defense economy community reinvestment program (DECRP).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-11 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-11
§ 30-13-11. Confinement in jails.
Status: in_force

Persons confined other than in a guard house, whether before, during, or after trial by a military court, shall be confined in civil jails, penitentiaries, or prisons designated by the governor or by that person as he or she may authorize to act.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-79 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-79
§ 30-13-79. Lesser included offenses.
Status: in_force

An accused may be found guilty of an offense necessarily included in the offense charged or of an attempt to commit either the offense charged or an offense necessarily included therein.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-6-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-6 / Section 30-6-4
§ 30-6-4. Personal performance of duty required.
Status: in_force

No commissioned officer or warrant officer or enlisted person in the national guard shall receive the compensation provided for in chapters 1  14 of this title unless he or she personally performs the duties prescribed by law, and no substitute shall be allowed compensation for service belonging to another to perform, nor shall excuses granted for absence from, or nonperformance of, militia duty entitle the person excused to receive this compensation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-11-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-11 / Section 30-11-4
§ 30-11-4. National guard members right to other advantages of employment.
Status: in_force

A national guard members absence for military training will in no way affect the employees right to receive normal vacation, sick leave, bonus, advancement, and other advantages of his employment normally to be anticipated in his or her particular position.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-6-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-6 / Section 30-6-3
§ 30-6-3. Pay of enlisted persons on active duty.
Status: in_force

Each enlisted person of the Rhode Island army or air national guard ordered to duty by the governor, or under his or her authority, shall receive or be entitled to, for every day actually on duty, the same pay and allowances that an enlisted person of the same grade and length of service in a federally recognized unit of the Rhode Island army or air national guard would receive or be entitled to, when participating in a federal pay status, in encampments or maneuvers prescribed or authorized under the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder; provided, however, that no enlisted person shall receive less than the minimum federal hourly wage rate then prevailing on the day of duty for the hours served on duty up to a maximum of twelve (12) hours of duty, regardless of the extra hours served.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-31-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-31 / Section 30-31-2
§ 30-31-2. Creation of committee  Members  Vacancies.
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created a permanent committee on Rhode Island medal of honor recipients to consist of nine (9) members of the general public with knowledge of veterans affairs to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate; provided, however, that:

(1) Those members of the committee as of the effective date of this act [March 29, 2006], who were appointed to the committee by members of the general assembly, shall cease to be members of the committee on the effective date of this act [March 29, 2006] and the governor shall nominate six (6) new members, each of whom shall serve for the balance of the current term of his or her predecessor.

(2) Those members of the committee as of the effective date of this act [March 29, 2006], who were appointed to the committee by the governor, shall continue to serve for the duration of their current terms.

(b) No person shall be eligible for appointment to the committee unless he or she is a resident of this state. Vacancies shall be filled in like manner as the original appointments. Members shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. The members of the committee shall be eligible to succeed themselves.

(c) No person shall be eligible for appointment to the committee after the effective date of this act [March 29, 2006] unless he or she is a resident of this state.

(d) Members of the committee shall be removable by the governor pursuant to the provisions of § 36-1-7 and for cause only, and removal solely for partisan of personal reasons unrelated to capacity or fitness for the office shall be unlawful.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-12-10 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-12 / Section 30-12-10
§ 30-12-10. Discrimination because of military service.
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall discriminate against any officer or enlisted person of the military or naval forces of the United States or of this state because of his or her membership therein.

(b) No person shall prohibit or refuse entrance to any officer or enlisted person of the military or naval forces of the United States or of this state into any public entertainment or place of amusement or common carrier because the officer or enlisted person is wearing the uniform of the organization to which he or she belongs.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-23 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-23
§ 30-3-23. Dismissal of officers.
Status: in_force

No commissioned officer of the national guard shall be dismissed from the service, except by reason of a sentence of dismissal of a general court-martial, which sentence is approved by the governor. No warrant officer of the national guard shall be dismissed from the service except by reason of a sentence of dismissal of a general court-martial or a special court-martial, which sentence is approved by the governor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-70 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-70
§ 30-13-70. Review counsel.
Status: in_force

(a) Upon the final review of a sentence of a general court-martial or of a sentence to a bad-conduct discharge, the accused has the right to be represented by counsel before the reviewing authority, before the staff judge advocate or legal officer, as the case may be, and before the state judge advocate.

(b) Upon the request of an accused entitled to be so represented, the state judge advocate shall appoint a lawyer who is a member of the state military forces and who has the qualifications prescribed in § 30-13-29, if available, to represent the accused before the reviewing authority, before the staff judge advocate or legal officer, as the case may be, and before the state judge advocate, in the review of cases specified in subsection (a) of this section.

(c) If provided by him or her, an accused entitled to be so represented may be represented by civilian counsel before the reviewing authority, before the staff judge advocate or legal officer, as the case may be, and before the state judge advocate.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-22-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-22 / Section 30-22-4
§ 30-22-4. Korean service defined.
Status: in_force

Active conduct of and/or fighting in the Korean Campaign shall mean service by any man or woman of the armed forces of the United States between June 27, 1950, and January 31, 1955, inclusive. Provided, however, that the extension of the date from July 27, 1953, to January 31, 1955, in the definition of Korean service shall not entitle any veteran who served between July 27, 1953, to January 31, 1955, to any bonus previously paid, nor to any veterans tax exemption pursuant to § 44-3-4.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-2-12 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-2 / Section 30-2-12
§ 30-2-12. Adjutant general  Appointment and duties.
Status: in_force

There shall be an adjutant general with rank not to exceed that of lieutenant general. The adjutant general shall be appointed by the governor and shall hold office for a term of four (4) years from the time of appointment and until his or her successor shall be appointed in his or her place and stead; provided, however, that this appointment may be revoked by the governor for cause or if the adjutant general shall have been found to be physically unfit for service, as provided by § 30-3-22. The first appointment under this section shall be made on the first Tuesday of January, 1967, or within ten (10) days thereafter, and subsequent appointments shall be made during the similar period in each fourth year thereafter. By virtue of his or her office, the adjutant general shall be the chief of staff to the governor and the commanding general of the Rhode Island army and air national guard; he or she shall be subordinate to only the governor in matters pertaining to the military and naval affairs of the state. The adjutant general shall perform such duties as may be required by chapters 1  14 and any other law of the state, and such other duties as pertain to the adjutant general under the regulations and customs of the United States Department of Defense and the laws of Rhode Island.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-42 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-42
§ 30-15-42. Committee created  Purpose and composition.
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created within the Rhode Island emergency management agency a committee consisting of twenty-one (21) members, pursuant to the provisions of §30-15-2 of this chapter, the interoperable communications committee (ICC), for the purpose of addressing the challenges associated with the statewide communications interoperability.

(b) The interoperable communications committee (hereinafter referred to as the committee) shall consist of the following members who shall assemble no less than twelve (12) times annually or more often at the call of the chairperson or upon petition of a majority of its members:

(1) The adjutant general of the Rhode Island national guard, or his/her designee;

(2) The president of the Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Association, or his/her designee;

(3) The president of the Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association, or his/her designee;

(4) The executive director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency, or his/her designee;

(5) A representative from a Rhode Island Level 1 trauma center designated by the president of the facility;

(6) The chairperson of the Hospital Association of Rhode Island (HARI), or his/her designee;

(7) The director of the city of Providence communications division, or his/her designee;

(8) A representative of the Rhode Island statewide communications network (RISCON) system north zone appointed by the executive director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency;

(9) A representative of the Rhode Island statewide communications network (RISCON) system south zone appointed by the executive director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency;

(10) The colonel/superintendent of the Rhode Island state police, or his/her designee;

(11) The director of the Rhode Island department of environmental management, or his/her designee;

(12) The director of the Rhode Island department of transportation, or his/her designee;

(13) The director of the Rhode Island department of corrections, or his/her designee;

(14) The director of the Rhode Island department of information technology, or his/her designee;

(15) The director of the Rhode Island department of health, or his/her designee;

(16) The director of the Rhode Island public transit authority, or his/her designee;

(17) The director of the Rhode Island bridge and turnpike authority, or his/her designee;

(18) The associate director of the Rhode Island E-911 system, or his/her designee;

(19) Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, or his/her designee;

and two (2) members appointed by the executive director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency.

Each member of the committee may appoint a permanent designee to attend committee meetings in his/her absence. A quorum at meetings of the committee shall consist of a majority of its current membership.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-8-8 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-8 / Section 30-8-8
§ 30-8-8. Rhode Island national guard emergency service ribbon.
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever members of the national guard are ordered into state service pursuant to the provisions of § 30-2-5 or 30-2-6, then the Rhode Island national guard emergency service ribbon may be awarded for performance over and above the line of duty in the name of the governor, to any person who, while a commissioned officer, warrant officer, or enlisted person of the Rhode Island national guard, serves honorably during any part of that emergency. No more than one Rhode Island national guard emergency service ribbon shall be awarded to any one person, but for each succeeding service, sufficient to justify the award of a Rhode Island national guard emergency service ribbon, a bronze oak-leaf cluster shall be awarded in lieu thereof.

(b) The adjutant general shall follow the provisions of §§ 30-8-6 and 30-8-7 with reference to the design and procurement of the ribbon and the rules, regulations, and orders with reference thereto.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-110 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-110
§ 30-13-110. Drunken or reckless driving.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who operates any vehicle while drunk, or in a reckless or wanton manner, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-50 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-50
§ 30-13-50. Refusal to appear or testify.
Status: in_force

Any person not subject to this code who:

(1) Has been duly subpoenaed to appear as a witness or to produce books and records before a military court or before any military or civil officer designated to take a deposition to be read in evidence before a military court;

(2) Has been duly paid or tendered the fees and mileage of a witness at the rates allowed to witnesses attending the superior courts of the state; and

(3) Willfully neglects or refuses to appear, or refuses to qualify as a witness or to testify or to produce any evidence which that person may have been legally subpoenaed to produce;

is guilty of an offense against the state and a military court may punish that person in the same manner as the civil courts of the state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-1-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-1 / Section 30-1-5
§ 30-1-5. Composition of unorganized militia.
Status: in_force

The unorganized militia shall consist of all persons liable to service in the militia who are not members of the national guard, naval militia, or independent chartered military organizations.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-37 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-37
§ 30-13-37. Service of charges.
Status: in_force

The trial counsel to whom court-martial charges are referred for trial shall cause to be served upon the accused a copy of the charges upon which trial is to be had. In time of peace, no person may, against his or her objection, be brought to trial before a general court-martial within a period of five (5) days after the service of the charges upon the person, or before a special court-martial within a period of three (3) days after the service of the charges upon the person.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-4-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-4 / Section 30-4-3
§ 30-4-3. Allowances for maintenance of armories.
Status: in_force

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary for the purpose of heating, lighting, and repairing the armories of the independent chartered military organizations of the state, which sum shall be apportioned as follows:

(1) For the artillery company in the town of Newport, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(2) For the Kentish guards, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(3) For the train of artillery in the town and county of Bristol, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(4) For the naval militia battalion in their armory afloat, the U.S.S. Providence, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(5) For the Glocester light infantry in the town of Glocester, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(6) For the Pawtuxet rangers in the city of Cranston, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(7) For the Varnum Continentals in the town of East Greenwich, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500); and

(8) For the Federal Blues in the town of Warren, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-28-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-28 / Section 30-28-3
§ 30-28-3. Organizations accommodated in The William F. Powers Building, One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI.
Status: in_force

The director of administration shall direct such areas as may be reasonably allocated to the following chartered veterans organizations: The American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Disabled American Veterans; Korean War Veterans; American Veterans (AMVETS); Jewish War Veterans of Rhode Island; The Marine Corps League; Military Women Across the Nation Unit 118; The Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-9-12 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-9 / Section 30-9-12
§ 30-9-12. Court order for delivery of property.
Status: in_force

When the adjutant general, or some commissioned officer authorized by the adjutant general, shall by petition, verified by his or her oath, represent to the superior court that the person named in the petition, resident or to be found in the state, detains any arms, ammunition, uniforms, equipment, supplies, or other military property of the state or for which the state is responsible, describing the military property generally, after demand is made for the military property by the petitioner, or someone duly authorized by the petitioner, the superior court shall, upon the filing of the petition, make an order requiring the person complained against to deliver up the military property to the petitioner by such day as the court shall fix, or show cause on that day, before the court, why the military property should not be delivered up. A copy of the order, certified by the clerk of the court, shall be served on the respondent personally, or if not served personally, shall be left at his or her residence or last and usual place of abode, or place of business or employment, with a person of full age at least four (4) days before the day set for the hearing.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-1-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-1 / Section 30-1-3
§ 30-1-3. Female members.
Status: in_force

The governor may authorize the appointment or enlistment of female citizens of the state between the ages of eighteen (18) and forty-five (45) in the medical corps, nursing corps, and other noncombatant branches and services of the national guard or unorganized militia, and while so serving, they shall have the same status as male members of the non-combatant branches and services.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-29 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-29
§ 30-3-29. Means of separation of enlisted persons.
Status: in_force

The separation from the service of an enlisted person of the national guard is effected by death or by discharge by proper authority.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-25-9 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-25 / Section 30-25-9
§ 30-25-9. Expenses of north cemetery.
Status: in_force

The director of human services is authorized to make such expenditures as may be necessary in carrying out the purposes of § 30-25-8, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed upon receipt of proper vouchers approved by the state director of human services, to draw orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of such sums as may be required, from the funds under the control of the director of human services, known as the veterans home, restricted account.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-5
§ 30-3-5. Minimum strength of organizations.
Status: in_force

The commissioned or enlisted strength of any organization of the national guard shall not, without the consent of the President, be reduced below the minimum that shall be prescribed therefor by the President.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-32-1 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-32 / Section 30-32-1
§ 30-32-1. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the national security infrastructure support fund.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-32 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-32
§ 30-13-32. Charges and specifications.
Status: in_force

(a) Charges and specifications shall be signed by a person subject to this code, under oath before a person authorized by this code to administer oaths, and shall state:

(1) That the signer has personal knowledge of, or has investigated, the matters set forth therein; and

(2) That they are true in fact to the best of the signers knowledge and belief.

(b) Upon the preferring of charges, the proper authority shall take immediate steps to determine what disposition should be made thereof in the interest of justice and discipline, and the person accused shall be informed of the charges against him or her as soon as practicable.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-32-8 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-32 / Section 30-32-8
§ 30-32-8. National security infrastructure support fund advisory commission.
Status: in_force

(a) There shall be established a permanent advisory board that shall consist of seven (7) members:

(1) One of whom shall be the secretary of commerce, or his or her designee;

(2) Two (2) of whom shall be the co-chairs of the Rhode Island defense economy planning commission;

(3) Four (4) of whom shall be representatives of defense dependent-communities, one named by the speaker of the house, one named by the senate president, one named by the minority leader of the house, and one named by the minority leader of the senate; and

(4) Additionally, the co-chairpersons may designate additional non-voting, ad hoc members whose technical expertise may be needed based upon national security infrastructure investment issues pending or projects submitted to the fund.

(b) This board shall be purely advisory and shall meet whenever a quorum of four (4) shall deem it necessary or at the request of the secretary when grant rounds are contemplated or in process.

(c) The co-chairs of the Rhode Island defense economy planning commission shall chair the advisory commission and its meetings.

(d) The advisory commission shall meet at the call of the chairpersons.

(e) The members of the board shall serve for a period of three (3) years.

(f) The purpose of this commission shall be to identify potential projects and to assist the secretary of commerce in evaluating projects for funding under the provisions of this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-130 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-130
§ 30-13-130. Presumption of jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

The jurisdiction of the military courts and boards established by this code shall be presumed and the burden of proof rests on any person seeking to oust those courts or boards of jurisdiction in any action or proceeding.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-11-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-11 / Section 30-11-6
§ 30-11-6. Discrimination in employment against reservists.
Status: in_force

No employer, or officer, or agent of any corporation, company, or firm, or other person shall discharge any person from employment because of being an officer or enlisted person in the reserve military forces of the United States; or hinder or prevent that person from performing any military service he or she may be called upon to perform by proper authority; or dissuade any person from membership in the reserve military forces of the United States by threat of injury to that person in respect to his or her employment, trade, or business in case of his or her enlistment or commission. Any person violating any of the above provisions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-53 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-53
§ 30-13-53. Admissibility of records of courts of inquiry.
Status: in_force

(a) In any case not extending to the dismissal of a commissioned officer, the sworn testimony, contained in the duly authenticated record of proceedings of a court of inquiry, of a person whose oral testimony cannot be obtained may, if otherwise admissible under the rules of evidence, be read in evidence by any party before a court-martial if the accused was a party before the court of inquiry and had the opportunity to cross-examine the witness and if the same issue was involved or if the accused consents to the introduction of the evidence.

(b) This testimony may be read in evidence only by the defense in cases extending to the dismissal of a commissioned officer.

(c) This testimony may also be read in evidence before a court of inquiry or a military board.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-30 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-30
§ 30-13-30. Reporters and interpreters.
Status: in_force

Under such regulations as the governor may prescribe, the convening authority of a general or special court-martial or court of inquiry shall detail or employ qualified court reporters, who shall record the proceedings of and testimony taken before that court. Under like regulations, the convening authority of a military court may detail or employ interpreters who shall interpret for the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-6
§ 30-13-6. Judge advocates and legal officers.
Status: in_force

(a) The governor, on the recommendation of the adjutant general, shall appoint an officer of the state military forces as state judge advocate. To be eligible for appointment, an officer must be a member of the bar of the highest court of the state and must have been a member of the bar of the state for at least five (5) years.

(b) The adjutant general may appoint as many assistant state judge advocates as he or she considers necessary. To be eligible for appointment, assistant state judge advocates must be officers of the state military forces and members of the bar of the highest court of the state.

(c) The state judge advocate, or his or her assistants, shall make frequent inspections in the field in the supervision of the administration of military justice.

(d) A person punished under this section who considers his or her punishment unjust or disproportionate to the offense may, through the proper channel, appeal to the next superior authority. The appeal shall be promptly forwarded and decided and the person to be punished shall not be required to undergo the punishment adjudged until affirmed or modified by the next superior authority. The officer who imposes the punishment, the officers successor in command, and the officers superior authority may suspend, set aside, or remit any part or amount of the punishment and restore all rights, privileges, and property affected.

(e) No person who has acted as a member, law officer, trial counsel, assistant defense counsel, or investigating officer, or who has been a witness for either the prosecution or defense in any case, may later act as staff judge advocate or legal officer to any reviewing authority upon the same case.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-20 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-20
§ 30-15-20. References to agency predecessor.
Status: in_force

Wherever in any general or public law, the words state council of defense, Rhode Island state council of defense, or council of defense shall appear, these words shall mean and include the Rhode Island emergency management agency as established by this chapter. The Rhode Island emergency management agency, renamed by the action of this chapter, is hereby declared to be the successor to the Rhode Island state council of defense. All provisions of law shall, so far as applicable, be so construed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-43 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-43
§ 30-15-43. Statewide interoperable communications system.
Status: in_force

The Rhode Island emergency management agency is hereby authorized and empowered to provide for the installation, operation, and maintenance of a statewide interoperable communications system for the purpose of promptly collecting, exchanging, disseminating, and distributing information relating to police, fire, first responder, and first-receiving health care facilities of the state. The system is to be installed, operated, and maintained in such cities and towns and entities as have organized systems and may connect directly or indirectly with similar systems in other states in accordance with rules and regulations as promulgated by the Rhode Island emergency management agency. These rules and regulations shall be reviewed and revised from time to time by the interoperable communications committee as established in § 30-15-42. The Rhode Island emergency management agency is authorized to provide, for the location of the receiving system sites and to employ the necessary personnel for its operation. The system shall be called the Rhode Island statewide communications network (RISCON). The state departments and agencies and the cities and towns are authorized to provide through federal funding when available and general revenue when allocated, within the appropriations provided by law, for the location of equipment and for the personnel and supplies for their proper operation. The character of communication sent, and the time, place, and manner of sending messages, and all matters in connection with the RISCON system, shall be under the control and management of the executive director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-5-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-5 / Section 30-5-3
§ 30-5-3. Failure to answer call to duty.
Status: in_force

Every member of the unorganized militia called out, or who volunteers or is drafted under the provisions of chapters 1  14 of this title, who, after being duly notified in accordance with the provisions hereof, does not appear at the time and place designated by his or her commanding officer, the mayor, or president of the town council, or who does not produce, from a physician in good standing, a sworn certificate of physical disability so to appear, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-40.4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-40.4
§ 30-3-40.4. Payment of life insurance premiums.
Status: in_force

Any member of the national guard who has been mobilized in excess of thirty (30) days and who elects coverage under a term life insurance policy issued by the federal government, shall be reimbursed from the general fund for the cost of premiums incurred by the member for said policy for any month or part thereof that the member has been mobilized. In the event that a member of the national guard elects coverage in an amount in excess of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) under such policy, the member shall receive reimbursement from the general fund in an amount not to exceed the amount of the premiums attributable to the first four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) of coverage under said policy.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-12 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-12
§ 30-3-12. Oath of officers.
Status: in_force

Commissioned and warrant officers of the national guard shall take and subscribe to the oath of office prescribed by the laws of the United States and any other oath prescribed by the laws of the United States, the governor, or the law of this state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-13 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-13
§ 30-15-13. Local disaster emergencies.
Status: in_force

(a) A local disaster emergency may be declared only by the principal executive officer of a political subdivision. It shall not be continued or renewed for a period in excess of seven (7) days except by, or with the consent of, the governing board of the political subdivision. Any order or proclamation declaring, continuing, or terminating a local disaster emergency shall be given prompt and general publicity and shall be filed promptly with the city or town clerk.

(b) The effect of a declaration of a local disaster emergency is to activate the mitigation response and recovery aspects of any and all applicable local disaster emergency plans and to authorize the furnishing of aid and assistance thereunder.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-8-10 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-8 / Section 30-8-10
§ 30-8-10. Rhode Island commendation medal.
Status: in_force

The Rhode Island commendation medal may be awarded in the name of the governor, to each person who, while a commissioned officer, warrant officer, or enlisted person of the armed forces of the United States, including reserve components thereof, or of the Rhode Island national guard, while on active, state, or federal services, distinguished himself or herself conspicuously by heroism, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service to the state or federal government in a duty of responsibility. The Rhode Island commendation medal may be awarded in the name of the governor to each member of the United States Naval Armed Guard who has received the award of the Asiatic-Pacific campaign medal, the European-African-Middle East campaign medal, or the American campaign medal. No more than one Rhode Island commendation medal shall be awarded to any one person, but for each succeeding service, sufficient to justify the award of a Rhode Island commendation medal, a bronze oak leaf cluster shall be awarded in lieu thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-9-10 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-9 / Section 30-9-10
§ 30-9-10. Seizure of property in possession of unauthorized person.
Status: in_force

The adjutant general, any commissioned officer authorized by the adjutant general, and any commanding officer of an organization, unit, or separate detachment of the national guard, may seize and hold any arms, ammunition, uniforms, equipment, supplies, or other military property of the state or for which the state is responsible, found in the possession of any person not entitled to the possession thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-40.5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-40.5
§ 30-3-40.5. Tuition to children of National Guard members dying as a result of service.
Status: in_force

If an active member of the Rhode Island national guard is killed or dies while in the performance of his or her duty as a member, there shall be paid out of the general fund of the state of Rhode Island the charges for the tuition of children of the deceased member and/or the spouse of the member killed in the line of duty. The benefits are extended to the children and/or spouse who are attending or may attend the University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, or any other college or university operated by the state; provided, that the child has entered the institution while between the ages of sixteen (16) and twenty-one (21); and provided, further, that the aid granted is available to the child and/or spouse for the period of time that may equal the normal time for completing the courses regularly offered by the institution, but in no case more than four (4) years.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-88 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-88
§ 30-13-88. Contempt towards officials.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who uses contemptuous words against the president, the governor of this state, or the governor of any other state, territory, commonwealth, or possession in which that person may be serving shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-95 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-95
§ 30-13-95. Resistance, breach of arrest, and escape.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who resists apprehension or breaks arrest or who escapes from physical restraint lawfully imposed shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-1-1 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-1 / Section 30-1-1
§ 30-1-1. Short title.
Status: in_force

Chapters 1  14 of this title shall be cited and known as the Military Code of Rhode Island.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-37 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-37
§ 30-3-37. Retirement of enlisted persons.
Status: in_force

Any enlisted person who shall have served in the national guard for fifteen (15) years may, upon his or her own application to the commander-in-chief, be placed upon the retired list of enlisted persons and withdrawn from active service; provided, however, that if an enlisted person served in active federal service during World War I, World War II or the Korean Emergency and enlisted in the national guard within six (6) months from the time of discharge from active federal service, that person shall be entitled to have the intervening period counted as state service for the purposes of this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-32 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-32
§ 30-3-32. Form of discharge of enlisted persons  Discharge prior to expiration of enlistment.
Status: in_force

An enlisted person discharged from service in the national guard shall receive a discharge, in writing, in such form and with such classification as is, or shall be, prescribed by the laws of the United States. In time of peace, discharges may be given prior to the expiration of terms of enlistments under such regulations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-4-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-4 / Section 30-4-4
§ 30-4-4. Allowance for armorers expenses.
Status: in_force

Each independent chartered military organization of the state that has been entered on the approved active roll of the state adjutant general may also receive annually the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for armorers expenses, to be paid in January of each year. The adjutant general shall not allow this sum of five hundred dollars ($500) to be paid unless the functions of the armorer have been properly performed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-25-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-25 / Section 30-25-2
§ 30-25-2. Appropriations for firing squads.
Status: in_force

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of § 30-25-1; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of such sums as may, from time to time, be required upon the receipt by the state controller of proper vouchers, approved by the adjutant general.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-131 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-131
§ 30-13-131. Delegation of authority by governor.
Status: in_force

The governor may delegate any authority vested in him or her under this code, and may provide for the subdelegation of any of that authority, except the power given him or her by §§ 30-13-21 and 30-13-24.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-19-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-19 / Section 30-19-3
§ 30-19-3. Purchase of insurance.
Status: in_force

A minor veteran may, with like force, effect, and validity, purchase and own policies of insurance relating to real or personal property mortgaged to secure any loan described in § 30-19-1 and may make any policy payable in case of loss to any holder of any mortgage on the property, and may endorse any check, draft, order, or negotiable instrument made payable to such minor in connection with that loan.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-25 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-25
§ 30-13-25. Who may convene special courts-martial.
Status: in_force

(a) In the state military forces, the commanding officer of a garrison, fort, post, camp, air base, auxiliary air base, or other place where troops are on duty, or of a brigade, regiment, wing, group, detached battalion, separate squadron, or other detached command if not lower than a battalion or squadron level, may convene special courts-martial. Special courts-martial may also be convened by superior authority. When any commanding officer is an accuser, the court shall be convened by superior competent authority.

(b) A special court-martial may not try a commissioned officer.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-59 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-59
§ 30-13-59. Maximum limits.
Status: in_force

The punishment which a court-martial may direct for an offense may not exceed the limits prescribed by this code.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-108 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-108
§ 30-13-108. Property other than military property  Waste, spoilage, or destruction.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who, while in a duty status, willfully or recklessly wastes, spoils, or otherwise willfully and wrongfully destroys or damages any property other than military property of the United States, or of the state, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-19 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-19
§ 30-15-19. Construction of chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be construed liberally, but those charged with the exercise or enforcement of its great powers are directed to act with restraint and moderation and with strict regard to the rights of the people.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-6
§ 30-3-6. Unit funds.
Status: in_force

Each unit of the Rhode Island national guard will be allowed the sum of one dollar ($1.00) per enlisted person per year to enable purchase of various supplies for use of each unit; provided, however, that no part of this fund shall be used to pay dues or assessments in any club or association. The sums so allowed shall be based upon the average membership in the units for the year ending June 30th in each year. The amount shall be paid to the commanding officer of the respective unit on July 1 of each year and placed in the unit fund. Expenditures from this fund shall be audited by the next higher headquarters every three (3) months.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-89 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-89
§ 30-13-89. Disrespect towards superior commissioned officer.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who behaves with disrespect towards his or her superior commissioned officer shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-7-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-7 / Section 30-7-2
§ 30-7-2. Immunity from civil process.
Status: in_force

No person belonging to the militia of the state shall be arrested on any civil process while going to, remaining at, or during the performance of any militia duty, or returning from any place at which he or she may be required, by competent authority, to attend for militia duty.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-24-10.1 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-24 / Section 30-24-10.1
§ 30-24-10.1. Domiciliary care program for homeless veterans.
Status: in_force

The director of the department of human services is hereby authorized and empowered to establish and maintain a domiciliary care program for homeless veterans (veterans transitional supportive program, V.T.S.P.) at the Rhode Island veterans home. Any veteran admitted to the Rhode Island veterans home pursuant to this section shall be exempt from the maintenance fee assessment established pursuant to § 30-24-10; provided, however, that the director shall assess against each veteran admitted under this program a monthly maintenance fee equal to ten percent (10%) of the veterans monthly gross income, from whatever source derived and whether taxable or non-taxable. In addition there will also be additional beds called extended, V.T.S.P. beds to which a monthly maintenance fee of thirty percent (30%) will be charged. Extended V.T.S.P. will be available to eligible veterans in the V.T.S.P. program, but occupancy will not exceed four (4) months. The maintenance fee shall be paid monthly to the veterans home and shall be deposited in the veterans home fund. Any failure to make payment when due shall be cause for dismissal from the facility. Prior to any dismissal for non-payment of fees, the veteran shall be afforded administrative due process. The director is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the intent and provisions of this section, and this grant of authority to promulgate rules and regulations shall be liberally construed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-2-15 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-2 / Section 30-2-15
§ 30-2-15. Seal of office.
Status: in_force

The adjutant general shall have a seal of office approved by the governor, and all papers and copies thereof in the military division of the executive department duly certified and authenticated under that seal shall be evidence in like manner as if the original were produced.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-23-7 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-23 / Section 30-23-7
§ 30-23-7. Previous actions ratified.
Status: in_force

The actions before April 23, 1945, of cities and towns in establishing veterans information service centers, and the appointment by the committees of executive secretaries and the hiring of clerical and other assistance, and the actions theretofore of cities and towns in allocating funds and making appropriations for those purposes, are hereby ratified and validated and all those actions shall have the same full force and effect as if they had been previously authorized by the provisions of this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-115 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-115
§ 30-13-115. Provoking speeches or gestures.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who uses provoking or reproachful words or gestures towards any other person subject to this code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-3
§ 30-13-3. Jurisdiction to try certain personnel.
Status: in_force

(a) Each person discharged from the state military forces who is later charged with having fraudulently obtained his or her discharge is, subject to § 30-13-46, subject to trial by court-martial on that charge and is, after apprehension, subject to this code while in the custody of the military for that trial. Upon conviction of that charge, he or she is subject to trial by court-martial for all offenses under this code committed before the fraudulent discharge or after conviction.

(b) No person who has deserted from the state military forces may be relieved from amenability to the jurisdiction of this code by virtue of a separation from any later period of service.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-11-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-11 / Section 30-11-5
§ 30-11-5. Civil remedies of.
Status: in_force

In the event of the failure of any employer to comply with §§ 30-11-2  30-11-4, the employee may, at his or her election, bring an action at law for damages for this noncompliance, or apply to the superior court for such equitable relief as may be just and proper under the circumstances, and this action shall take precedence on the court calendar.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-129 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-129
§ 30-13-129. Immunity for action of military courts.
Status: in_force

No accused may bring an action or proceeding against the convening authority or a member of a military court, or officer or person acting under its authority or reviewing its proceedings, because of the approval, imposition, or execution of any sentence, or the imposition or collection of a fine or penalty, or the execution of any process or mandate of a military court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-1-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-1 / Section 30-1-6
§ 30-1-6. Enrollment.
Status: in_force

Whenever the governor deems it necessary, he or she may order an enrollment to be made of all persons liable to service in the militia. The enrollment shall be accomplished and exemptions from liability to perform militia duty shall be determined and established in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the governor, and the rules and regulations so prescribed shall have the force and effect of law. Any person required to perform any act under this section who neglects or refuses to properly perform that act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-14-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-14 / Section 30-14-4
§ 30-14-4. Reference to laws includes amendments.
Status: in_force

Whenever any reference is made to any section of chapters 1  14 of this title, or any regulation authorized thereunder, or to any law of this state, or the United States, or the rules and regulations authorized thereunder, that reference shall apply to all amendments and additions thereto now or hereafter made.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-122 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-122
§ 30-13-122. Authority to administer oaths.
Status: in_force

(a) The following members of the state military forces may administer oaths for the purposes of military administration, including military justice, and affidavits may be taken for those purposes before persons having the general powers of a notary public:

(1) The state judge advocate and all assistant state judge advocates;

(2) All law specialists;

(3) All summary courts-martial;

(4) All adjutants, assistant adjutants, acting adjutants, and personnel adjutants;

(5) All commanding officers of the naval militia;

(6) All legal officers;

(7) The president, law officer, trial counsel, and assistant trial counsel for all general and special courts-martial;

(8) The president and counsel for the court of any court of inquiry;

(9) All officers designated to take a deposition;

(10) All persons detailed to conduct an investigation; and

(11) All other persons designated by regulations of the governor.

(b) Officers of the state military forces may not be authorized to administer oaths as provided in this section unless they are on active duty in or with those forces under orders of the governor as prescribed in this code.

(c) The signature without seal of any above-mentioned person, together with the title of that persons office, is prima facie evidence of his or her authority.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-125 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-125
§ 30-13-125. Redress of injuries to property.
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever complaint is made to any commanding officer that willful damage has been done to the property of any person or that persons property has been wrongfully taken by members of the state military forces, that officer may, subject to such regulations as the governor may prescribe, convene a board to investigate the complaint. The board shall consist of from one (1) to three (3) commissioned officers and, for the purpose of that investigation, it has power to summon witnesses and examine them upon oath or affirmation; to receive depositions or other documentary evidence; and to assess the damages sustained against the responsible parties. The assessment of damage made by the board is subject to the approval of the commanding officer, and in the amount so approved by the commanding officer, shall be charged against the pay of the offenders. The order of the commanding officer directing charges herein authorized is conclusive, except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, on any disbursing officer for the payment by that officer to the injured parties of the damages so assessed and approved.

(b) If the offenders cannot be ascertained, but the organization or detachment to which they belong is known, charges totaling the amount of damages assessed and approved may be paid to the injured parties from the military funds of the units of the state military forces to which the offenders belonged.

(c) Any person subject to this code who is accused of causing willful damage to property has the right to be represented by counsel, to summon witnesses in his or her behalf, and to cross-examine those appearing against him or her. He or she has the right of appeal to the next higher commander.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-3
§ 30-15-3. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(1) Bioterrorism means the intentional use of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance or biological product that may be engineered as a result of biotechnology or any naturally occurring or bioengineered component of any such microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product, to cause death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant or other living organism;

(2) Disaster means occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or man-made cause, including, but not limited to:

(i) Fire;

(ii) Flood;

(iii) Earthquake;

(iv) Wind, storm, wave action, oil spill, or other water contamination requiring emergency action to avert danger or damage;

(v) Volcanic activity;

(vi) Epidemic;

(vii) Air contamination;

(viii) Blight;

(ix) Drought;

(x) Infestation;

(xi) Explosion;

(xii) Riots;

(xiii) Hostile military or paramilitary action;

(xiv) Endangerment of the health, safety, or resources of the people of the state;

(xv) Acts of bioterrorism;

(3) Political subdivision means any city or town in Rhode Island; and

(4) Unorganized militia means all able-bodied persons between the ages of sixteen (16) and fifty (50) years.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-27 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-27
§ 30-3-27. Qualifications of enlisted persons.
Status: in_force

Hereafter the qualifications for enlistment and reenlistment in the national guard; period or periods of enlistment; form of enlistment contract to be signed; and oath of enlistment to be subscribed to; shall be as provided by the laws of the United States and the regulations pertaining to the national guard, and of this state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-1-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-1 / Section 30-1-4
§ 30-1-4. Classes of militia.
Status: in_force

The militia of the state shall be divided into four (4) classes:

(1) The Rhode Island national guard, which shall be sub-divided into the Rhode Island army national guard and the Rhode Island air national guard;

(2) The naval militia;

(3) The independent chartered military organizations; and

(4) The unorganized militia.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-10-11 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-10 / Section 30-10-11
§ 30-10-11. Maintenance of state arsenal in Providence.
Status: in_force

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of heating, lighting, and maintaining the state arsenal on Benefit Street in the city of Providence occupied by the Providence marine corps of artillery, so long as these premises are also occupied by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, or the United Spanish War Veterans, or the associated or auxiliary organizations of any of them, as quarters for the different posts camps, or headquarters for the department of Rhode Island, and so long as these premises are also occupied by the first light infantry regiment, Rhode Island militia, or the first light infantry veterans, or any organization auxiliary to them, or so long as any portion of these premises is also occupied for any other purpose under the authority of the laws of this state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-31-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-31 / Section 30-31-5
§ 30-31-5. Technical assistance.
Status: in_force

The joint committee shall, if it finds it cannot obtain the proper assistance from available sources, contract for such technical services as it shall require to effectuate its purposes.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-7-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-7 / Section 30-7-6
§ 30-7-6. Right-of-way on streets or highways.
Status: in_force

(a) The commanding officer of any portion of the militia parading or performing any militia duty in any street or highway may require all persons in such street or highway to yield the right-of-way to the militia, except that the carriage of the United States mail, the legitimate functions of the police, and the progress and operation of hospital ambulances, fire engines, and fire apparatus shall not be interfered with thereby.

(b) Any person, other than those above excepted, who shall hinder, delay, obstruct, or interfere with any portion of the militia parading or performing any militia duty, or who shall attempt to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-28 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-28
§ 30-13-28. Law officer of a general court-martial.
Status: in_force

(a) The authority convening a general court-martial shall detail as the law officer thereof a commissioned officer who is a member of the bar of the supreme court of the state, or a member of the bar of a federal court, and who is certified to be qualified for that duty by the state judge advocate. No person is eligible to act as law officer in a case if that person is the accuser or a witness for the prosecution or has acted as investigating officer or as counsel in the same case.

(b) The law officer may not consult with the members of the court, other than on the form of the findings as provided in § 30-13-42, except in the presence of the accused, trial counsel, and defense counsel, nor may the law officer vote with the members of the court.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-10-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-10 / Section 30-10-6
§ 30-10-6. Rental of armories for nonmilitary purposes.
Status: in_force

The adjutant general may authorize the use of any armory under his or her control, for nonmilitary purposes, subject to such rules and conditions as he or she may prescribe, that are lawful and approved, provided that the person, corporation, organization, or society to whom the use may be authorized shall pay in advance to the adjutant general such a sum for the use thereof as may be prescribed by the adjutant general. This sum shall in no case, where admission is charged, be less than the fair rental value of halls of a similar nature, in the same or a similar city or town. These persons, corporations, organizations, or societies shall, if required by the adjutant general, furnish a bond, with good and sufficient surety, to protect and indemnify the state from loss or damage to the armory, or to any federal or state property, or to the property of any military organization or members thereof, contained therein.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-32-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-32 / Section 30-32-3
§ 30-32-3. Definition.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, national security infrastructure means the land, buildings, equipment or other forms of infrastructure that are principally and predominantly used to support and advance the national security of the United States.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-6
§ 30-15-6. Advisory council.
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created the Rhode Island emergency management advisory council (hereinafter in this chapter called the council). The council will consist of thirty-eight (38) members as follows:

(1) Twenty-three (23) ex officio members as follows:

(i) The lieutenant governor or designee;

(ii) The adjutant general or designee;

(iii) The director of the department of administration or designee;

(iv) The director of the department of health or designee;

(v) The director of transportation or designee;

(vi) The director of human services or designee;

(vii) The director of the department of public safety or designee;

(viii) The administrator of the division of public utilities and carriers or designee;

(ix) The director of the department of environmental management or designee;

(x) The director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals or designee;

(xi) [Deleted by P.L. 2017, ch. 84, § 1 and P.L. 2017, ch. 86, § 1];

(xii) [Deleted by P.L. 2017, ch. 84, § 1 and P.L. 2017, ch. 86, § 1];

(xiii) The chairperson of the governors commission on disabilities or designee;

(xiv) The chairperson of the Rhode Island public transit authority or designee;

(xv) The executive director of the coastal resources management council or designee;

(xvi) The executive director of the American Red Cross, Rhode Island chapter, or designee;

(xvii) The director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency or designee;

(xviii) The state court administrator or designee;

(xix) The executive director of the commission on the deaf and hard of hearing or designee;

(xx) The director of the Providence emergency management agency or designee;

(xxi) The executive director of the E-911 emergency telephone system division or designee;

(xxii) [Deleted by P.L. 2017, ch. 84, § 1 and P.L. 2017, ch. 86, § 1];

(xxiii) The secretary of the executive office of health and human services or designee;

(xxiv) The president of the Rhode Island Association of Emergency Managers or designee;

(xxv) The president of the United Way of Rhode Island or designee; and

(xxvi) The executive director of the Rhode Island commission for national and community services or designee.

(2) Fifteen (15) members appointed by, and serving at the pleasure of, the governor, as follows:

(i) Two (2) members of the senate, recommended by the president of the senate, not more than one of whom shall be from the same political party;

(ii) Two (2) members of the house of representatives, recommended by the speaker of the house, not more than one of whom shall be from the same political party;

(iii) One representative of the gas and electric industry;

(iv) [Deleted by P.L. 2017, ch. 84, § 1 and P.L. 2017, ch. 86, § 1];

(v) One representative of the telephone industry;

(vi) [Deleted by P.L. 2017, ch. 84, § 1 and P.L. 2017, ch. 86, § 1];

(vii) Two (2) representatives of the general public, one of whom shall have expertise in disaster preparedness;

(viii) One representative of the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns;

(ix) One representative of the media;

(x) One representative of the water supply industry;

(xi) One representative of the healthcare industry;

(xii) One representative of the Rhode Island State Association of Firefighters;

(xiii) One representative of the Rhode Island Association of Fire Chiefs; and

(xiv) [Deleted by P.L. 2017, ch. 84, § 1 and P.L. 2017, ch. 86, § 1];

(xv) [Deleted by P.L. 2017, ch. 84, § 1 and P.L. 2017, ch. 86, § 1];

(xvi) One representative of the Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association.

(b) It shall be the duty of the council to advise the governor and the director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency on all matters pertaining to disaster preparedness. The lieutenant governor shall serve as chairperson of the council and the director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency shall serve as vice-chairperson. A quorum shall consist of twelve (12) members of the council. In providing advice to the governor and the director, the council shall, among other matters reasonably related to its authority, do the following:

(1) Establish a regular meeting schedule and form subcommittees as may be appropriate;

(2) Review emergency management plans and other matters as may be acted upon or otherwise provided for in this chapter;

(3) Establish priorities and goals on emergency management matters on an annual basis;

(4) Study emergency management plans in conjunction with the director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency, and otherwise conduct such other studies as may be deemed appropriate;

(5) Review the coordination of the states emergency management programs with appropriate authorized agencies and conduct studies on the programs as may be necessary;

(6) Review the plans and operations of the various cities and towns in disaster preparedness in conjunction with the director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency and his or her office as required or necessary; and

(7) [Deleted by P.L. 2000, ch. 170, § 2];

(8) Provide an annual report on its activities in conjunction with the director.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-135 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-135
§ 30-13-135. Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Rhode Island Code of Military Justice.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-112 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-112
§ 30-13-112. Dueling.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who fights or promotes, or is concerned in or connives at fighting a duel, or who, having knowledge of a challenge sent or about to be sent, fails to report the fact promptly to the proper authority, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-21-14 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-21 / Section 30-21-14
§ 30-21-14. Preference in private employment.
Status: in_force

(a) A private employer may adopt an employment policy that provides a preference in hiring or promotion, or both, to a veteran.

(b) A policy adopted under this section shall:

(1) Be in writing; and

(2) Be uniformly applied to employment decisions regarding hiring and promotion.

(c) A private employer may require that a veteran submit a Department of Defense DD Form 214 or similar documentation of separation from the U.S. Armed Forces to be eligible for a preference in hiring or promotion pursuant to this section.

(d) As used in this section, veteran means an individual who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces and received an honorable or general discharge.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-109 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-109
§ 30-13-109. Improper hazarding of vessel.
Status: in_force

(a) Any person subject to this code who willfully and wrongfully hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the armed forces of the United States, or of the state military forces, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(b) Any person subject to this code who negligently hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the armed forces of the United States, or of the state military forces, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-25-7 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-25 / Section 30-25-7
§ 30-25-7. Veterans dying in state institutions.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to require the city treasurer of the city of Cranston to pay any money to meet the funeral expenses of, or the erection of any headstone for, any person who shall have died at any of the state institutions in Cranston, unless admitted or committed from that city; but the treasurer of the town or city from which the person was admitted, or from which he or she has been committed, shall be liable for and shall pay the funeral expenses as provided in this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-17 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-17
§ 30-15-17. Severability.
Status: in_force

If any part, subdivision, or section of this chapter shall be declared unconstitutional, the validity of the remaining parts thereof shall not be affected thereby. If any provision of this chapter, or the application of that provision to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter and the application of that provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-12-1 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-12 / Section 30-12-1
§ 30-12-1. Use of military forces outside state.
Status: in_force

No military forces of this state other than the national guard (and the naval militia) shall be required to serve outside the boundaries of this state except:

(1) Upon the request of the governor of another state, the governor of this state may, in his or her discretion, order any portion of, or all of, the forces of this state to assist the military or police forces of the other state who are actually engaged in defending the other state. These forces may be recalled by the governor at his or her discretion.

(2) Any organization, unit, or detachment of state forces, upon the order of the officer in immediate command thereof, may continue in fresh pursuit of insurrectionists, saboteurs, enemies, or enemy forces beyond the borders of this state into another state until they are apprehended or captured by the organization, unit, or detachment, or until the military or police forces of the other state or the forces of the United States have had a reasonable opportunity to take up the pursuit, or to apprehend, or capture these persons; provided, the other state shall have given authority by law for the pursuit by the forces of this state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-21 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-21
§ 30-13-21. Sentences to be approved by governor.
Status: in_force

No sentence of dismissal, bad conduct discharge, or dishonorable discharge may be executed until it is approved by the governor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-17 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-17
§ 30-13-17. Jurisdiction of courts-martial  In general.
Status: in_force

Each force of the state military forces has court-martial jurisdiction over all persons subject to this code. The exercise of jurisdiction by one force over the personnel of another force shall be in accordance with regulations prescribed by the governor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-14 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-14
§ 30-13-14. Delivery of offenders to civil authorities.
Status: in_force

(a) Under such regulations as may be prescribed under this code, a person subject to this code who is accused of an offense against civil authority may be delivered, upon request, and upon direction of the governor so to do, to the civil authority for trial.

(b) When delivery under this section is made to any civil authority of a person undergoing sentence of a court-martial, and the delivery, if followed by conviction in a civil tribunal, interrupts the execution of the sentence of the court-martial, the offender, after having answered to the civil authorities for his or her offense, shall, upon the request of competent military authority, be returned to military custody for the completion of his or her sentence.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-5-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-5 / Section 30-5-5
§ 30-5-5. Organization of reserve units for active duty.
Status: in_force

When the national guard of the state shall have been called, ordered, or drafted into the service of the United States for war or an emergency, the governor shall (and at any time, if he or she deems it necessary for the public safety, when not in conflict with the provisions of the laws of the United States, he or she may) call and organize the unorganized militia, or any part thereof, for active duty and may organize such reserve units thereof as may be necessary or the situation may require for the purpose of training and, if and when he or she may deem it necessary, the governor may order these reserve units, or any part thereof, into service.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-19-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-19 / Section 30-19-5
§ 30-19-5. Powers of minor spouse.
Status: in_force

Any minor spouse of any person who under the provisions of federal law is eligible for housing loans and whether or not under guardianship by reason of minority, may, with the same force, effect, and validity as if he or she were eighteen (18) years of age with full legal capacity do all that a minor veteran is empowered to do under §§ 30-19-1  30-19-3, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, join with the minor veteran in the execution and delivery of any mortgage or other instrument that may be requisite, necessary, desirable, or incidental to the obtaining of any loan guaranteed, in part or in full, under the provisions of federal law, or to the obtaining of any loan, guaranty, or other benefit thereunder, and, in that mortgage or other instrument, may release curtesy or dower in any property described in the mortgage or other instrument.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-2-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-2 / Section 30-2-5
§ 30-2-5. Declaration of martial law.
Status: in_force

In case of war, invasion, rebellion, insurrection, riot, tumult, public calamity or catastrophe, or other emergency, or imminent danger thereof, or resistance to the laws of this state, or the United States, the governor may, if in his or her judgment the maintenance of law and order and the protection of person and property will thereby be promoted, by proclamation, declare the state, or any part thereof, to be under martial law.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-41 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-41
§ 30-15-41. Approval of emergency response plans for the transportation of liquefied natural gas.
Status: in_force

(a) Findings. The general assembly hereby recognizes the paramount importance of establishing an emergency response plan for the transportation of liquefied natural gas within the state. The general assembly hereby also declares that the establishment of the emergency response plan is in the interest of the public health, safety, and welfare as a means to protect against the potential hazards presented by the transportation of liquefied natural gas.

(b) No emergency response plan for the transportation of liquefied natural gas through the waters of Narragansett Bay and/or Mount Hope Bay shall be issued or implemented by the Rhode Island emergency management agency prior to the approval of the aforementioned emergency response plan by the general assembly and the city or town councils of Bristol, Jamestown, Middletown, Newport, Portsmouth, Tiverton, and Warren.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-11 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-11
§ 30-15-11. Emergency claims commission.
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created an emergency claims commission, consisting of three (3) qualified electors of this state, who shall, if deemed necessary, within ten (10) days after the governor proclaims an emergency, be appointed by the presiding justice of the superior court. Any vacancy in the membership of the commission shall be filled immediately by the presiding justice. The presiding justice shall fix the per diem compensation of the members of the commission. The commission shall determine what sum will justly compensate the claimant for the property taken, and that determination shall be made in accordance with the procedure established by the majority of the justices of the superior court, which procedure shall be designed to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of claims for compensation. The commission may hire, and the state shall pay for, the services of any skilled and disinterested appraisers that the commission shall deem necessary to assist it in the performance of its duties. The clerk of the superior court for Providence county shall detail one of the assistant clerks and any clerical assistance that may be necessary to assist the commission in performing its duties, and when and if the commission so requests, the clerks of the superior courts for the other counties of the state shall furnish the commission any clerical assistance that it may require. The proper authorities shall provide the commission with suitable and convenient quarters in the courthouses of the state.

(b) Whenever the governor takes possession of, or title to, any real or personal property pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, he or she shall immediately cause the owner and/or possessor of the property, referred to as the claimant, to be notified in any manner that the commission provides, and shall also cause a copy of the notice to be filed with the commission. If the claimant or the attorney general representing the state is not satisfied with the award made by the commission, he or she may appeal within thirty (30) days after the award to the superior court and the proceedings shall thereafter be conducted in the superior court in accordance with the guaranties of the constitution and any rules of procedure that a majority of the justices of the court may adopt. Review by the supreme court shall be available to the state and to the claimant in accordance with any rules that a majority of the justices of the supreme court may adopt provided a petition for review is filed in the office of the clerk of the supreme court within thirty (30) days after entry of the decision of the superior court. These proceedings shall have precedence on the calendars of the courts. All unappealed awards and final judgments entered against the state in all proceedings and the fees and expenses of the commission shall be paid by the general treasurer out of any money in the treasury appropriated for this purpose and/or any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and this direction shall constitute an appropriation for the payment of the awards, judgments, fees, and expenses.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-2-17 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-2 / Section 30-2-17
§ 30-2-17. Quartermaster.
Status: in_force

(a) The governor shall appoint, designate, or detail, upon recommendation of the adjutant general, subject to the approval of the secretary of defense, an officer of the national guard who shall be regarded as property and fiscal officer of the United States, and state property officer. He or she shall receipt and account for all funds and property belonging to the United States in possession of the national guard and shall make such returns and reports concerning the funds and property as may be required by the Secretary of Defense.

(b) The United States property and fiscal officer shall be designated as the state quartermaster and shall issue and be held accountable for, under the adjutant general, all state military property and shall make such property returns and reports of the military property as the adjutant general may direct.

(c) The governor shall require the state quartermaster to give bond to the state in such sum as the governor may require and with good and sufficient surety, to be approved by the governor to faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the state quartermaster. The costs of the bond is to be paid for by state funds.

(d) The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary to compensate the property and fiscal officer, provided that no person receiving annual compensation from the state for other service shall be paid as property and fiscal officer.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-16 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-16
§ 30-13-16. Courts-martial  Composition.
Status: in_force

(a) In the state military forces not in federal service, there are general, special, and summary courts-martial constituted like similar courts of the armed forces of the United States. They have the jurisdiction and powers, except as to punishments, and shall follow the forms and procedures provided for those courts.

(b) The three (3) kinds of courts-martial are:

(1) General courts-martial, consisting of a law officer and not less than five (5) members;

(2) Special courts-martial, consisting of not less than three (3) members; and

(3) Summary courts-martial, consisting of one commissioned officer of a rank not less than major.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-2-8 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-2 / Section 30-2-8
§ 30-2-8. Appointment of temporary officers.
Status: in_force

Whenever the exigencies of the service require, the governor may appoint such additional officers, with rank not exceeding that of colonel, as may be actually necessary to perform the duties required, and these officers shall receive the same pay and allowances as are allowed officers of similar rank in the national guard; provided, however, that whenever the exigency ceases to exist, the officers appointed under this chapter shall be mustered out of service.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-10-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-10 / Section 30-10-5
§ 30-10-5. Use of armories by armed services.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general or public law, the governor, with the approval of the adjutant general, is hereby authorized to make available, from time to time, to the soldiers, sailors, air persons, and marines now serving their country, the facilities of the several state armories to be used without charge to them, for recreational, athletic, and such other purposes as under all circumstances may seem proper to the governor and to the adjutant general.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-24-11 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-24 / Section 30-24-11
§ 30-24-11. Severability.
Status: in_force

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this chapter is adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, that judgment will not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but will be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part directly involved in the controversy in which the judgment has been rendered.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-9-1 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-9 / Section 30-9-1
§ 30-9-1. Organizational property provided by state.
Status: in_force

All organizations of the militia shall be provided by the state with arms, ammunition, equipment, uniforms, and supplies, not supplied by the United States, necessary for the proper performance of the functions and duties authorized or prescribed by the laws and regulations of the state and the United States.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-8-5 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-8 / Section 30-8-5
§ 30-8-5. Marksmanship and attendance badges.
Status: in_force

The adjutant general may issue appropriate badges or insignia for excellence in marksmanship, drill attendance, and other meritorious service.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-27 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-27
§ 30-13-27. Who may serve on courts-martial.
Status: in_force

(a) Any commissioned officer of or on duty with the state military forces is eligible to serve on all courts-martial for the trial of any person who may lawfully be brought before these courts for trial.

(b) Any warrant officer of, or on duty with, the state military forces is eligible to serve on general and special courts-martial for the trial of any person, other than a commissioned officer, who may lawfully be brought before these courts for trial.

(c)(1) Any enlisted member of the state military forces who is not a member of the same unit as the accused is eligible to serve on general and special courts-martial for the trial of any enlisted member who may lawfully be brought before these courts for trial, but the enlisted member shall serve as a member of a court only if, before the convening of the court, the accused personally has requested, in writing, that enlisted members serve on it. After that request, the accused may not be tried by a general or special court-martial the membership of which does not include enlisted members in a number comprising at least one-third ( ) of the total membership of the court, unless eligible members cannot be obtained on account of physical conditions or military exigencies. If these members cannot be obtained, the court may be convened and the trial held without them, but the convening authority shall make a detailed written statement, to be appended to the record, stating why they could not be obtained.

(2) In this subsection, the word unit means any regularly organized body of the state military forces not larger than a company, a squadron, or a division of the naval militia, or a body corresponding to one of them.

(d) When it can be avoided, no person subject to this code may be tried by a court-martial any member of which is junior to that person in rank or grade.

(e) When convening a court-martial, the convening authority shall detail as members thereof such members as, in his or her opinion, are best qualified for duty by reason of age, education, training, experience, length of service, and judicial temperament. No member is eligible to serve as a member of a general or special court-martial when he or she is the accuser or a witness for the prosecution or has acted as investigating officer or as counsel in the same case. If within the command of the convening authority there is present and not otherwise disqualified a commissioned officer who is a member of the bar of the supreme court of the state and of appropriate rank and grade, the convening authority shall appoint that officer as president of a special court-martial. Although this requirement is binding on the convening authority, failure to meet it in any case does not divest a military court of jurisdiction.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-19-4 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-19 / Section 30-19-4
§ 30-19-4. Power to receive proceeds of guaranteed loan.
Status: in_force

The funds loaned on any housing loan guaranteed, in part or in full, under the provisions of federal law may be paid over by the lender to the minor receiving that loan or at the direction of the minor and no person or corporation making payment of those funds shall be responsible for the proper application thereof, and prior to the application of those funds to any purchase or other purpose of that loan, any guardian of the minor shall not have, or be entitled to, the title, possession, or management of those funds and shall not inventory or account for them as part of the estate of the minor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-27-2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-27 / Section 30-27-2
§ 30-27-2. Recognition of Italian American organization.
Status: in_force

The Italian American war veterans of the United States, incorporated, as federally chartered, whose membership and officers consist solely of honorably discharged American war veterans who served in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Space Force, or Air Force, is hereby declared to be an officially recognized veterans organization in this state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-14 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-14
§ 30-15-14. Interstate emergency management and disaster compact.
Status: in_force

(a) This state hereby enacts into law and enters into the interstate emergency management and disaster compact with all states, as defined therein, which states have enacted or shall hereafter enact the compact in the form substantially as follows:

Article 1.The purpose of this compact is to provide mutual aid among the states in meeting any emergency or disaster from enemy attack or other cause (natural or otherwise) including terrorism. The prompt, full and effective utilization of the resources of the respective states, including such resources as may be available from the United States government or any other source, are essential to the safety, care and welfare of the people thereof in the event of any emergency, and any other resources, including personnel, equipment or supplies, shall be incorporated into a plan or plans of mutual aid to be developed among various state emergency management agencies or similar bodies of the states that are parties hereto. The directors of emergency management of all party states shall constitute a committee to formulate plans and take all necessary steps for the implementation of this compact.

Article 2.It shall be the duty of each party state to formulate emergency management plans and programs for application within such state. There shall be frequent consultation between the representatives of the states and with the federal emergency management agency and the free exchange of information and plans, including inventories of any materials and equipment available. In carrying out such plans and programs the party states shall so far as possible provide and follow uniform standards, practices and rules and regulations including:

(a) Official identification to designate and distinguish the different emergency management services;

(b) Mobilization of emergency management forces and other tests and exercises;

(c) Warnings and signals tests, including mechanical devices to be used in connection therewith;

(d) The effective utilization of the emergency alert system;

(e) Shutting off water mains, gas mains, electric power connections and the suspension of all other utility services when deemed in the interest of overall public safety;

(f) All materials or equipment used or to be used for emergency management purposes in order to assure that such materials and equipment will be easily and freely interchangeable when used in or by any other party state;

(g) The conduct of population and the movement and cessation of movement of pedestrians and vehicular traffic, prior, during and subsequent to drills or actual emergencies or disasters;

(h) The safety of public meetings or gatherings; and

(i) Mobile support units.

Article 3.Any party state requested to render mutual aid shall take such action as is necessary to provide and make available the resources covered by this compact in accordance with the terms hereof; provided that it is understood that the state rendering aid may withhold resources to the extent necessary to provide reasonable protection for such state. Each party state shall extend to the emergency management forces of any other party state, while operating within its state limits under the terms and conditions of this compact, the same powers (except that of arrest unless specifically authorized by the receiving state), duties, rights, privileges and immunities as if they were performing their duties in the state in which normally employed or rendering services, State of Rhode Island emergency management forces will continue under the command and control of their regular leaders but the organizational units will come under the operational control of the emergency management authorities of the state receiving assistance.

Article 4.Whenever any person holds a license, certificate or other permit issued by a state evidencing the meeting of qualifications for professional, mechanical or other skills, such person may render aid involving such skill in any party state to meet an emergency or disaster and such state shall give due recognition to such license, certificate or other permit as if issued in the state in which aid is rendered.

Article 5.No party state or its officers or employees rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be liable on account of any act or omission in good faith on the part of such forces while so engaged, or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection therewith.

Article 6.Inasmuch as it is probable that the pattern and detail of the machinery for mutual aid among two (2) or more states may differ from that appropriate among other states party hereto, this instrument contains elements of a broad base common to all states, and nothing herein contained shall preclude any state from entering into supplementary agreements with another state or states. Such supplementary agreements may comprehend, but shall not be limited to, provisions for evacuation, and reception of injured and other persons, and the exchange of medical, fire, police, public utility, reconnaissance, public assistance, transportation and communications personnel, equipment and supplies.

Article 7.Each party state shall provide for the payment of compensation and death benefits to injured members of the emergency management forces of that state and the representatives of deceased members of such forces in case such members sustain injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within such state.

Article 8.Any party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be reimbursed by the party state receiving such aid for any loss or damage to, or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment answering a request for aid, and for the cost incurred in connection with such request; provided, that any aiding party state may assume in whole or in part such loss, damage, expense, or other cost, or may loan such equipment or donate such services to the receiving party state without charge or cost; and provided further that any two (2) or more party states may enter into supplementary agreements establishing a different allocation of costs as among those states. The United States government may relieve the party state receiving aid from any liability and reimburse the party state supplying emergency management forces for the compensation paid to and the transportation, subsistence and maintenance expenses of such assistance during the time of the rendition of such aid or assistance outside the state and may also pay fair and reasonable compensation for the use or utilization of the supplies, materials, equipment or facilities so utilized or consumed.

Article 9.Plans for the orderly evacuation and reception of the general population as the result of an emergency or disaster shall be worked out from time to time between representatives of the party states and the various local emergency management areas thereof. Such plans shall include the manner of transporting such evacuees, the number of evacuees to be received in different areas, the manner in which food, clothing, housing, and medical care will be provided, the registration of the evacuees, the providing of facilities for the notification of relatives or friends and the forwarding of such evacuees to other areas or the bringing in of additional materials, supplies, and all other relevant factors. Such plans shall provide that the party state receiving evacuees shall be reimbursed generally for the out-of-pocket expenses incurred in receiving and caring for such evacuees, for expenditures for transportation, food, clothing, medicines and medical care and like items. Such expenditures shall be reimbursed by the party state of which the evacuees are residents, or by the United States government under plans approved by it. After the termination of the emergency or disaster the party state of which the evacuees are resident shall assume the responsibility for the ultimate support or repatriation of such evacuees.

Article 10.This compact shall be available to any state, territory or possession of the United States, and the District of Columbia. The term state may also include any neighboring foreign country or province or state thereof.

Article 11.The committee established pursuant to article 1 of this compact may request the civil defense agency of the United States government to act as an informational and coordinating body under this compact, and representatives of such agency of the United States government may attend meetings of such committee.

Article 12.This compact shall become operative immediately upon its ratification by any state as between it and any other state or states so ratifying and shall be subject to approval by congress unless prior congressional approval has been given. Duly authenticated copies of this compact and of such supplementary agreements as may be entered into shall, at the time of their approval, be deposited with each of the party states and the Rhode Island emergency management agency and other appropriate agencies of the United States government.

Article 13.This compact shall continue in force and remain binding on each party state until the legislature or the governor of such party state takes action to withdraw therefrom. Such action shall not be effective until thirty (30) days after notice thereof has been sent by the governor of the party state desiring to withdraw to the governors of all other party states.

Article 14.(a) This compact shall be construed to effectuate the purposes stated in article 1 hereof. If any provision of this compact is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to limit previous or future entry into the interstate emergency management and disaster compact of Rhode Island with other states.

(c) If any person holds a license, certificate, or other permit issued by any other state or political subdivision thereof evidencing the meeting of qualifications for professional, mechanical, or other skills, the person may render aid involving that skill in Rhode Island to meet an emergency or disaster, and this state shall give due recognition to the license, certificate, or other permit.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-10-7 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-10 / Section 30-10-7
§ 30-10-7. Use of armories by veterans organizations.
Status: in_force

The adjutant general may authorize the use of any armory under his or her control, when not required for military purposes, by any regularly organized body of veterans of the wars of the United States, subject to such rules and conditions as he or she may prescribe, for the purpose of holding meetings for the conduct of its business without any charge therefor, other than a necessary fee for janitor service and attendants.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-33-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-33 / Section 30-33-3
§ 30-33-3. Family military leave requirements.
Status: in_force

(a) Any employer, as defined in § 30-33-2, that employs between fifteen (15) and fifty (50) employees shall provide up to fifteen (15) days of unpaid family military leave to an employee during the time federal or state orders are in effect, in accordance with the provisions set forth in this section. Family military leave granted under this act may consist of unpaid leave.

(b) Any employer, as defined in § 30-33-2, that employs more than fifty (50) employees shall provide up to thirty (30) days of unpaid family military leave to an employee during the time federal or state orders are in effect, in accordance with the provisions set forth in this section. Family military leave granted under this act may consist of unpaid leave.

(c) The employee shall give at least fourteen (14) days notice of the intended date upon which family military leave will commence if the leave will consist of five (5) or more consecutive workdays. Where able, the employee shall consult with the employer to schedule the leave to not unduly disrupt the operations of the employer. Employees taking military family leave for less than five (5) consecutive days shall give the employer advance notice as is practicable. The employer may require certification from the proper military authority to verify the employees eligibility to take the requested family military leave.

(d) An employee shall not take leave as provided under this act unless he or she has exhausted all accrued vacation leave, personal leave, compensatory leave or time, and any other leave that may be granted to the employee, with the exception of sick leave and disability leave.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-44 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-15 / Section 30-15-44
§ 30-15-44. International emergency management assistance compact.
Status: in_force

The International Emergency Management Assistance 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:

Article I Purpose and Authorities  The International Emergency Management Assistance Memorandum of Understanding, hereinafter referred to as the compact, is made and entered into by and among such of the jurisdictions as shall enact or adopt this compact, hereinafter referred to as party jurisdictions. For the purposes of this agreement, the term jurisdictions may include any or all of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and the Provinces of QuÃ©bec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, and such other states and provinces as may hereafter become a party to this compact.

The purpose of this compact is to provide for the possibility of mutual assistance among the jurisdictions entering into this compact in managing any emergency or disaster when the affected jurisdiction or jurisdictions ask for assistance, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster or civil emergency aspects of resource shortages.

This compact also provides for the process of planning mechanisms among the agencies responsible and for mutual cooperation, including, if need be, emergency-related exercises, testing, or other training activities using equipment and personnel simulating performance of any aspect of the giving and receiving of aid by party jurisdictions or subdivisions of party jurisdictions during emergencies, with such actions occurring outside actual declared emergency periods. Mutual assistance in this compact may include the use of emergency forces by mutual agreement among party jurisdictions.

Article II General Implementation  Each party jurisdiction entering into this compact recognizes that many emergencies may exceed the capabilities of a party jurisdiction and that intergovernmental cooperation is essential in such circumstances. Each jurisdiction further recognizes that there will be emergencies that may require immediate access and present procedures to apply outside resources to make a prompt and effective response to such an emergency because few, if any, individual jurisdictions have all the resources they need in all types of emergencies or the capability of delivering resources to areas where emergencies exist.

The prompt, full and effective utilization of resources of the participating jurisdictions, including any resources on hand or available from any other source that are essential to the safety, care and welfare of the people in the event of any emergency or disaster, shall be the underlying principle on which all articles of this compact are understood.

On behalf of the party jurisdictions participating in the compact, the legally designated official who is assigned responsibility for emergency management is responsible for formulation of the appropriate inter-jurisdictional mutual aid plans and procedures necessary to implement this compact, and for recommendations to the jurisdiction concerned with respect to the amendment of any statutes, regulations or ordinances required for that purpose.

Article III Party Jurisdiction Responsibilities  (a) Formulate plans and programs. It is the responsibility of each party jurisdiction to formulate procedural plans and programs for inter-jurisdictional cooperation in the performance of the responsibilities listed in this section. In formulating and implementing such plans and programs the party jurisdictions, to the extent practical, shall:

(1) Review individual jurisdiction hazards analyses that are available and, to the extent reasonably possible, determine all those potential emergencies the party jurisdictions might jointly suffer, whether due to natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster or emergency aspects of resource shortages;

(2) Initiate a process to review party jurisdictions individual emergency plans and develop a plan that will determine the mechanism for the inter-jurisdictional cooperation;

(3) Develop inter-jurisdictional procedures to fill any identified gaps and to resolve any identified inconsistencies or overlaps in existing or developed plans;

(4) Assist in warning communities adjacent to or crossing jurisdictional boundaries;

(5) Protect and ensure delivery of services, medicines, water, food, energy and fuel, search and rescue and critical lifeline equipment, services and resources, both human and material to the extent authorized by law; and

(6) Inventory and agree upon procedures for the inter-jurisdictional loan and delivery of human and material resources, together with procedures for reimbursement or forgiveness.

(b) Request assistance. The authorized representative of a party jurisdiction may request assistance of another party jurisdiction by contacting the authorized representative of that jurisdiction. These provisions only apply to requests for assistance made by and to authorized representatives. Requests may be verbal or in writing. If verbal, the request must be confirmed in writing within fifteen (15) days of the verbal request. Requests must provide the following information:

(1) A description of the emergency service function for which assistance is needed and of the mission or missions, including, but not limited to, fire services, emergency medical, transportation, communications, public works and engineering, building inspection, planning and information assistance, mass care, resource support, health and medical services and search and rescue;

(2) The amount and type of personnel, equipment, materials and supplies needed and a reasonable estimate of the length of time they will be needed; and

(3) The specific place and time for staging of the assisting partys response and a point of contact at the location.

(c) Consultation among party jurisdiction officials. There shall be frequent consultation among the party jurisdiction officials who have assigned emergency management responsibilities, such officials collectively known hereinafter as the International Emergency Management Group, and other appropriate representatives of the party jurisdictions with free exchange of information, plans and resource records relating to emergency capabilities to the extent authorized by law.

Article IV Limitation  Any party jurisdiction requested to render mutual aid or conduct exercises and training for mutual aid shall undertake to respond as soon as possible, except that it is understood that the jurisdiction rendering aid may withhold or recall resources to the extent necessary to provide reasonable protection for that jurisdiction. Each party jurisdiction shall afford to the personnel of the emergency forces of any party jurisdiction, while operating within its jurisdictional limits under the terms and conditions of this compact and under the operational control of an officer of the requesting party, the same powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities as are afforded similar or like forces of the jurisdiction in which they are performing emergency services. Emergency forces continue under the command and control of their regular leaders, but the organizational units come under the operational control of the emergency services authorities of the jurisdiction receiving assistance. These conditions may be activated, as needed, by the jurisdiction that is to receive assistance or upon commencement of exercises or training for mutual aid and continue as long as the exercises or training for mutual aid are in progress, the emergency or disaster remains in effect or loaned resources remain in the receiving jurisdiction or jurisdictions, whichever is longer. The receiving jurisdiction is responsible for informing the assisting jurisdictions of the specific moment when services will no longer be required.

Article V Licenses and Permits  Whenever a person holds a license, certificate or other permit issued by any jurisdiction party to the compact evidencing the meeting of qualifications for professional, mechanical or other skills, and when such assistance is requested by the receiving party jurisdiction, such person is deemed to be licensed, certified or permitted by the jurisdiction requesting assistance to render aid involving such skill to meet an emergency or disaster, subject to such limitations and conditions as the requesting jurisdiction prescribes by executive order or otherwise.

Article VI Liability  Any person or entity of a party jurisdiction rendering aid in another jurisdiction pursuant to this compact are considered agents of the requesting jurisdiction for tort liability and immunity purposes. Any person or entity rendering aid in another jurisdiction pursuant to this compact are not liable on account of any act or omission in good faith on the part of such forces while so engaged or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection therewith. Good faith in this article does not include willful misconduct, gross negligence or recklessness.

Article VII Supplementary Agreements  Because it is probable that the pattern and detail of the machinery for mutual aid among two (2) or more jurisdictions may differ from that among the jurisdictions that are party to this compact, this compact contains elements of a broad base common to all jurisdictions, and nothing in this compact precludes any jurisdiction from entering into supplementary agreements with another jurisdiction or affects any other agreements already in force among jurisdictions. Supplementary agreements may include, but are not limited to, provisions for evacuation and reception of injured and other persons and the exchange of medical, fire, public utility, reconnaissance, welfare, transportation and communications personnel, equipment and supplies.

Article VIII Workers Compensation and Death Benefits  Each party jurisdiction shall provide, in accordance with its own laws, for the payment of workers compensation and death benefits to injured members of the emergency forces of that jurisdiction and to representatives of deceased members of those forces if the members sustain injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within their own jurisdiction.

Article IX Reimbursement  Any party jurisdiction rendering aid in another jurisdiction pursuant to this compact shall, if requested, be reimbursed by the party jurisdiction receiving such aid for any loss or damage to or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment and the provision of any service in answering a request for aid and for the costs incurred in connection with those requests. An aiding party jurisdiction may assume in whole or in part any such loss, damage, expense or other cost or may loan such equipment or donate such services to the receiving party jurisdiction without charge or cost. Any two or more party jurisdictions may enter into supplementary agreements establishing a different allocation of costs among those jurisdictions. Expenses under article VIII are not reimbursable under this section.

Article X Evacuation  Each party jurisdiction shall initiate a process to prepare and maintain plans to facilitate the movement of and reception of evacuees into its territory or across its territory, according to its capabilities and powers. The party jurisdiction from which the evacuees came shall assume the ultimate responsibility for the support of the evacuees, and after the termination of the emergency or disaster, for the repatriation of such evacuees.

Article XI Implementation  (a) This compact is effective upon its execution or adoption by any two (2) jurisdictions, and is effective as to any other jurisdiction upon its execution or adoption thereby: subject to approval or authorization by the U.S. Congress, if required, and subject to enactment of provincial or state legislation that may be required for the effectiveness of the Memorandum of Understanding.

(b) Any party jurisdiction may withdraw from this compact, but the withdrawal does not take effect until thirty (30) days after the governor or premier of the withdrawing jurisdiction has given notice in writing of such withdrawal to the governors or premiers of all other party jurisdictions. The action does not relieve the withdrawing jurisdiction from obligations assumed under this compact prior to the effective date of withdrawal.

(c) Duly authenticated copies of this compact in the French and English languages and of such supplementary agreements as may be entered into shall, at the time of their approval, be deposited with each of the party jurisdictions.

Article XII Severability  This compact is construed to effectuate the purposes stated in Article I. If any provision of this compact is declared unconstitutional or the applicability of the compact to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability of the compact to other persons and circumstances are not affected.

Article XIII Inconsistency of Language  The validity of the arrangements and agreements consented to in this compact shall not be affected by any insubstantial difference in form or language as may be adopted by the various states and provinces.

Article XIV Amendment  This compact may be amended by agreement of the party jurisdictions.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-4-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-4 / Section 30-4-6
§ 30-4-6. Retirement of members.
Status: in_force

(a) Any enlisted member of an independent chartered military organization who shall have served as an enlisted member for a period of fifteen (15) years may, upon his or her own application to the governor, be placed upon the retired list of enlisted persons and withdrawn from active service.

(b) When an enlisted person of the militia attains the maximum age provided by the charter of the organization in which he or she enlisted or by rules or regulations made thereunder, that person shall be retired from active service or discharged.

(c) Any commissioned officer who shall have served as a commissioned officer in the militia of the state for ten (10) years, or who shall have served as an enlisted person and officer for thirteen (13) years, may, upon his or her own application to the commander-in-chief, be placed upon the retired list of officers and withdrawn from active service with the highest rank attained; provided, however, that any officer who shall have served in the armed forces of the United States or the Rhode Island state guard in time of war, and has also served as a commissioned officer in the militia of this state for ten (10) years, shall be retired with the rank next higher than the highest rank held by that officer; provided, that no officer shall be retired with a rank higher than the rank of colonel. These officers shall be carried on the retired list of the militia and, during any emergency, may be placed on duty by the commander-in-chief.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-33-6 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-33 / Section 30-33-6
§ 30-33-6. Enforcement.
Status: in_force

A civil action may be brought to the state court having jurisdiction by any employee to enforce this act. The court may enjoin any act or practice that violates or may violate this act and may order any other equitable relief that is necessary and appropriate to redress the violation or to enforce this act.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-132 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-132
§ 30-13-132. Conformity to federal law.
Status: in_force

The military courts of this state shall be constituted like, have cognizance of the same subjects as, and possess like powers as, except as to punishments, similar courts provided for by the laws and regulations governing the army of the United States and the proceedings of state military courts shall follow the forms and modes of procedure prescribed for similar federal military courts as far as applicable, except as otherwise provided in this title.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-11-9 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-11 / Section 30-11-9
§ 30-11-9. Penalty  Surety for costs.
Status: in_force

Any person found guilty of a misdemeanor as provided for in §§ 30-11-2 and 30-11-6 shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or to confinement for not more than one year, or both. Any person making a complaint for the violation of the provisions of §§ 30-11-2  30-11-8 shall not be required to give surety for costs.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-40.2 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-40.2
§ 30-3-40.2. Termination of educational benefits.
Status: in_force

In the event of a resumption of a national system of selective service, the provisions of §§ 30-3-40 and 30-3-40.1 shall be terminated within a period of twelve (12) months of the effective date of this selective service and no further state funds shall be appropriated for educational benefits of Rhode Island national guard members, except for those guard members then in attendance under the terms of §§ 30-3-40 and 30-3-40.1.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-45 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-45
§ 30-13-45. Oaths.
Status: in_force

(a) The law officer, interpreters, and, in general and special courts-martial, members, trial counsel, assistant trial counsel, defense counsel, assistant defense counsel, and reporters shall take an oath or affirmation in the presence of the accused to perform their duties faithfully.

(b) Each witness before a military court shall be examined on oath or affirmation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-127 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-127
§ 30-13-127. Process of military courts.
Status: in_force

(a) Military courts may issue any process or mandate necessary to carry into effect their powers. A military court may issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum and enforce by attachment attendance of witnesses and production of books, and records, when it is sitting within the state and the witnesses, books, and records sought are also so located.

(b) Process and mandates may be issued by summary courts-martial, provost courts, or the president of other military courts and may be directed to, and may be executed by, the marshals of the military court or any peace officer and shall be in such form as may be prescribed by regulations issued under this code.

(c) All officers to whom process or mandates may be so directed shall execute them and make return of their acts thereunder according to the requirements of those documents. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this code, no officer may demand or require payment of any fee or charge for receiving, executing, or returning process or mandate or for any service in connection therewith.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-126 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-126
§ 30-13-126. Execution of processes and sentences.
Status: in_force

In addition to the officers prescribed under the laws and regulations of the United States and in § 30-13-127(b), all processes and sentences of the military courts of the state military forces shall be directed to, and executed by, any deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constable, member of the state police, or member of the police department of any municipality, or any officer or enlisted person of the state military forces appointed by the court to serve or execute processes and sentences.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-10-10 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-10 / Section 30-10-10
§ 30-10-10. Appropriations for maintenance of armories.
Status: in_force

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary and sufficient to provide for the repair, care, maintenance, upkeep, and janitorial service of the various armories owned, rented, leased, and controlled by the state, occupied and used by the national guard, and under the control of the adjutant general.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-26 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-26
§ 30-3-26. Unassigned list of officers.
Status: in_force

The adjutant general shall maintain a list to be known as the unassigned list. A commissioned officer or warrant officer of the national guard may be transferred to the unassigned list:

(1) Pending the acceptance of his or her resignation;

(2) If the officer shall have been absent without leave for over three (3) months;

(3) If the officer shall fail to maintain his or her qualifications for federal recognition;

(4) Pending reassignment after disbandment of organization; and

(5) For such other reasons as may be established by the governor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-28-9 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-28 / Section 30-28-9
§ 30-28-9. Despoiling any veterans monument or memorial.
Status: in_force

Any person or persons who shall mutilate, deface, or otherwise despoil any veterans monument and/or memorial shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined no less than five hundred dollars ($500) for each and every offense plus the cost of full restoration.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-58 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-58
§ 30-13-58. Cruel and unusual punishment prohibited.
Status: in_force

Punishment by flogging, or by branding, marking, or tattooing on the body, or any other cruel or unusual punishment, may not be adjudged by any court-martial or inflicted upon any person subject to this code. The use of irons, single or double, except for the purpose of safe custody, is prohibited.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-12-8 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-12 / Section 30-12-8
§ 30-12-8. Misappropriation of military property.
Status: in_force

Any person who shall secrete, sell, dispose of, offer for sale, purchase, retain after demand made by the adjutant general or a commissioned officer of the national guard, willfully damage, or in any manner pledge or pawn any arms, ammunition, uniforms, equipment, supplies, or other property issued by the United States, or this state, for the use of the militia shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-44 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-44
§ 30-13-44. Challenges.
Status: in_force

(a) Members of a general or special court-martial and the law officer of a general court-martial, may be challenged by the accused or the trial counsel for cause stated to the court. The court shall determine the relevancy and validity of challenges for cause, but may not receive a challenge to more than one person at a time. Challenges by the trial counsel shall ordinarily be presented and decided before those by the accused are offered.

(b) Each accused and the trial counsel is entitled to one peremptory challenge, but the law officer may not be challenged except for cause.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-9 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-9
§ 30-3-9. Qualifications of officers.
Status: in_force

Commissioned officers and warrant officers of the national guard hereafter appointed shall be citizens of the United States, between the ages of eighteen (18) and sixty (60) years, who shall have successfully passed such tests as to their moral, physical, and professional fitness as shall be prescribed by the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder and as may be prescribed by the governor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-116 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-116
§ 30-13-116. Perjury.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who, in a judicial proceeding or in a course of justice conducted under this code, willfully and corruptly gives, upon a lawful oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, any false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry is guilty of perjury and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-2-1 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-2 / Section 30-2-1
§ 30-2-1. Commander-in-chief.
Status: in_force

The governor shall be the captain general and commander-in-chief of the military and naval forces of the state, except when they shall be called into the service of the United States.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-38 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-38
§ 30-3-38. Retirement of officers.
Status: in_force

(a) Every commissioned officer or warrant officer of the National Guard shall, upon reaching the age of retirement as provided by the laws of the United States, be placed on the retired list with the rank held by the person at the time of retirement.

(b) Any commissioned officer of the National Guard who shall have served in the militia of the state for ten (10) years, or who shall have served as an enlisted person or officer for thirteen (13) years, may, upon their own application to the commander-in-chief, be placed upon the list of retired officers and withdrawn from active service with the highest rank held by that officer.

(c) In computing the time necessary for retirement, officers shall be credited for all service in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard, and the Rhode Island state guard in time of war.

(d) These officers shall be borne on the rolls of the National Guard and, during any emergency, may be placed on duty by the governor.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-104 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-13 / Section 30-13-104
§ 30-13-104. Aiding the enemy.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code who:

(1) Aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other things; or

(2) Without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects, or gives intelligence to, or communicates or corresponds with, or holds any intercourse with, the enemy, either directly or indirectly;

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-12-3 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-12 / Section 30-12-3
§ 30-12-3. Pursuit into this state by forces of another state.
Status: in_force

Any military force or organization, or unit, or detachment thereof of another state that is in fresh pursuit of insurrectionists, saboteurs, enemies, or enemy forces may continue that pursuit into this state until the military or police forces of this state, or the forces of the United States, have had a reasonable opportunity to take up the pursuit or to apprehend or capture these persons, and is hereby authorized to arrest or capture these persons within this state while in fresh pursuit. Any of the above described persons who shall be captured or arrested by the military forces of another state while in this state shall, without unnecessary delay, be surrendered to the military or police forces of this state to be dealt with according to law. This section shall not be construed so as to make unlawful any arrest in this state which would otherwise be lawful.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-17 — RI Code / Title 30 / Chapter 30-3 / Section 30-3-17
§ 30-3-17. Uniforms and equipment of officers.
Status: in_force

Every commissioned officer and every warrant officer of the national guard shall provide himself or herself with the arms, uniforms, and equipment prescribed and approved by the governor.