R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-13-1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-13 / Section 36-13-1
§ 36-13-1. Deferred compensation plans authorized.
Status: in_force

(a) The state or any city, town, or other political subdivision may, by contract, agree with any employee to defer, in whole or in part, any portion of that employees compensation, and may subsequently contract with financial institutions for the purchase of government securities or with other financial entities for the purchase of mutual funds, and procure a fixed or variable life insurance or annuity contract for the purpose of providing funds to meet its obligations under a deferred compensation program for the employees from any financial institutions or from any life underwriters duly licensed by this state who represents an insurance company licensed to contract business in this state.

(b) In the administration of a deferred compensation plan for employees in the state plan authorized under this chapter, after October 1, 1998, the state shall engage three companies (Authorized Companies) to administer such deferred compensation plans. After October 1, 1998, only such Authorized Companies shall be entitled to enroll employees in the state deferred compensation plans in accordance with the following guidelines:

(1) Employees must have the option of purchasing or investing in alternative financial products referred to herein which have been approved by the State Investment Commission;

(2) The alternative financial products shall include, without limitation, a variable product and a fixed product;

(3) The Authorized Companies (or an entity related thereto) must:

(i) Be selected in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,

(ii) Covenant that all employees covered under any plan authorized under this chapter shall, at all times, be granted the unfettered right to cancel, change, liquidate, amend or interchange any investment contract or product purchased in any such plan without such employees incurring a financial penalty or fee of any kind or nature imposed by contract, and

(iii) Be granted equal access to all eligible employees;

(4) Procedures shall be established to ensure that personalized information regarding employees shall not be provided to third parties by the Authorized Companies. Personalized Information shall include, without limitation, social security numbers, home addresses, telephone numbers, amounts invested, medical or disability information; and

(5) The Authorized Companies shall be permitted to offer any financial product referred to herein which shall have been approved by the State Investment Commission. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subsection (b), if the department of administration determines that less than three companies are qualified to be engaged as Authorized Companies because of (a) insufficient experience in the administration of deferred compensation plans or (b) a failure to assure adherence to the guidelines set forth herein, the state may engage less than three Authorized Companies.

(6) If any provision of this section or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the section which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this section are declared to be severable.

(c) Effective January 1, 2024, any participating municipality as defined in § 45-21-2 may elect to offer to its municipal employees the deferred compensation plans offered by the state. The account of any municipal employee who participates in the state deferred compensation plan shall be subject to the same administration, charges, costs, rules, and regulations as are applicable and applied to the accounts of employees in the state deferred compensation plan.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-9 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-9
§ 36-7-9. Denial of participation to city, town, or agency.
Status: in_force

The general treasurer may deny participation under the federal state agreement to any city, town, or agency of the state only upon reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the city, town, or agency of the state affected thereby.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-5-6 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-5 / Section 36-5-6
§ 36-5-6. Veterans point credits.
Status: in_force

(a) While the examinations shall be limited to honorably discharged veterans of all wars, regulations of the director of administration, as applied to disabled veterans, shall be applicable to this position, that is, disabled veterans will receive ten (10) point credits and nondisabled veterans five (5) point credits.

(b) Veteran is defined herein as any man or woman who has been engaged heretofore, is now, or may hereafter be engaged in the active service of the armed forces of the United States with a minimum of ninety (90) days of active duty time served during any declared war, undeclared war, Korean campaign, conflict in Vietnam or any war, campaign or conflict which the armed forces of the United States of America actively engages in and for which service a campaign ribbon or expeditionary medal was earned.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-5 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-5
§ 36-8-5. Vacancies on board.
Status: in_force

If, for any reason whatsoever, there shall be a vacancy in the office of an appointed member of the board the appointing authority shall appoint a successor within seventy (70) days for the balance of the vacated term; provided, however, that all gubernatorial and general treasurer appointments made under this section after July 4, 2006 shall be subject to the advice and consent of the senate. If, for any reason whatsoever, there shall be a vacancy in the office of an elected member of the board the seat shall be filled by a new election of the respective group within seventy (70) days for the balance of the vacated term.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-28 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-28
§ 36-4-28. Probationary period.
Status: in_force

All original appointments and promotional appointments to the classified service shall be for a probationary period of six (6) months, during which time the appointment authority shall report to the personnel administrator every sixty (60) days concerning the work of the employee and at the expiration of the probationary period unless the appointing authority files with the personnel administrator a statement in writing that the services of the employee during the probationary period have not been satisfactory and that it is not desired that he or she be continued in the service, he or she shall receive permanent status in this classification. Any employee may be dismissed by the appointing authority during the probationary period for reasons relating to the employees qualifications or for the good of the service stated by the appointing authority in writing and filed with the personnel administrator. The probationary period is further defined to be one hundred and thirty (130) days worked in the classified position to which the person has been appointed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-19 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-19
§ 36-8-19. Annual audits.
Status: in_force

The auditor general shall conduct upon the request of the retirement board a separate annual performance audit of the retirement system which shall include a report on the actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the retirement system. The auditor general may examine all records, files, and other documents, and evaluate all policies and procedures for purposes of conducting the audit. The aforementioned performance audit shall be in addition to the annual audit conducted by the auditor general of the financial statements of the retirement system. A copy of the report shall be given to the governor, the state retirement board, and the joint committee on legislative services.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-23.1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-23.1
§ 36-10-23.1. Benefit payable on death of retired legislator.
Status: in_force

In addition to any service retirement allowance paid to any person who shall have served as a member of the senate or of the house of representatives pursuant to § 36-10-10, there shall be payable, in lieu of the benefit payable on death after retirement as provided by § 36-10-23, the ordinary death benefit provided in § 36-10-21, P.L. 1960, ch. 132, to be paid upon the death of a member occurring while in an employee status before retirement, notwithstanding the death of the former member of the general assembly in fact occurs after retirement, provided the former member of the general assembly had retained his or her ordinary death benefit insurance coverage by paying the annual contribution provided in § 36-10-22.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-13 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-13
§ 36-8-13. Periodic actuarial investigations and valuations  Adoption of tables and rates.
Status: in_force

Every year beginning with the year 1976, the actuary shall make an actuarial investigation into the mortality, service, and compensation experience of the members and beneficiaries of the retirement system, and shall make a valuation of the assets and liabilities of the system, and, taking into account the result of the investigation and valuation, the retirement board shall:

(1) Adopt for the retirement system such mortality, service, and other tables as shall be deemed necessary; and

(2) Certify the rates of contribution payable by the state of Rhode Island to carry out the provisions of chapters 8  10 of this title in accordance with the provisions of § 36-10-2.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-25 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-25
§ 36-7-25. Payments by cities, towns, and agencies  Interest on delinquent payments.
Status: in_force

Each city, town, or agency of the state participating under the federal state agreement as herein described shall make payment to the general treasurer of the state at such time or times as he or she may prescribe of the contributions with respect to salaries or wages as herein defined equal to the sum of the taxes which would be imposed by §§ 3101 and 3111 of the federal Insurance Contributions Act, 26 U.S.C. §§ 3101, 3111, if the services covered by the federal state agreement to which the city, town, or agency of the state has subscribed constituted employment within the meaning of that act. The payments shall be made to the state for the purpose of meeting the requirements of § 36-7-3(2). In the event any city, town, or agency of the state does not make payment of the required amounts at the time or times the amounts shall be due and payable, there shall be added as a part of the amounts payable, interest at the rate of twelve percent (12%) per annum from the date the amounts shall be due until paid.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-9-43 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-9 / Section 36-9-43
§ 36-9-43. Rhode Island economic development corporation  Uninterrupted state service.
Status: in_force

Transferred employees, as defined in § 36-9-42, who return to employment with the state of Rhode Island directly from uninterrupted employment with the Rhode Island economic development corporation shall have their length of service at the Rhode Island economic development corporation deemed to be uninterrupted active state service for purposes of service credits in the retirement system.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-57 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-57
§ 36-4-57. Compliance with federal standards.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter, chapter 3 of this title, or of the personnel rules shall not apply in each instance where it is contrary to merit standards established by the federal government or any agency of the state where compliance with the merit standards is a condition precedent to the granting of federal funds to the state or any agency of the state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-32 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-32
§ 36-7-32. Validation of ordinances and resolutions.
Status: in_force

All ordinances, resolutions, and votes adopted by all cities, towns, and agencies pursuant to the provisions of §§ 36-7-1  36-7-31 as the sections were in effect prior to April 21, 1955, and all action taken pursuant to those ordinances, resolutions, and votes shall be valid and of the ordinances, resolutions, and votes force and effect as if the ordinances, resolutions, and votes were adopted pursuant to the provisions of §§ 36-7-1  36-7-31.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-4 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-4
§ 36-7-4. Application to state employees.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter, insofar as the provisions shall be applicable, shall apply in the case of employees in the agencies of the state as defined in § 36-7-2(3).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-12-2.2 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-12 / Section 36-12-2.2
§ 36-12-2.2. Disabled retired employees  Hospital care and surgical-medical service benefits.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, an employee of the state of Rhode Island who retires under the provisions of title 36 of the Rhode Island general laws with a disability pension benefit shall receive only the following state-sponsored health care and subsidies:

(1) Disabled retired employees who retire on or before September 30, 2008, and who are at least sixty (60) years of age as of September 30, 2008.

(i) Any disabled retired employee of the state of Rhode Island who retires on or before September 30, 2008, and is at least sixty (60) years of age as of September 30, 2008, will be eligible until age sixty-five (65) to continue to purchase hospital care and surgical-medical service benefits as set forth in § 36-12-2 and as are received by classified employees. Furthermore, if he/she retired subsequent to July 1, 1989, he/she shall receive for himself or herself a subsidy on the individual medical plan in accordance with the following formula until attaining age sixty-five (65):

(ii) Any disabled retired employee of the state of Rhode Island who retires on or before September 30, 2008, and is at least sixty-five (65) years of age as of September 30, 2008, will be eligible to continue to purchase hospital care and surgical-medical service benefits as set forth in § 36-12-2 and as are received by classified employees. Furthermore, if he/she retired subsequent to July 1, 1989, he/she shall receive for himself or herself a subsidy on his or her individual medical plan in accordance with the following formula applied to the cost of the Medicare supplemental plan:

(iii) Payment for the coverage shall be at the same group rate used by the state in making payment for state employees.

(2) Disabled retired employees who retire after September 30, 2008, or are under sixty (60) years of age on September 30, 2008. Any disabled retired employee of the state of Rhode Island who retires after September 30, 2008, or any disabled retired employee of the state of Rhode Island who is under sixty (60) years of age on September 30, 2008, will be eligible to receive state-sponsored medical coverage and subsidies as follows:

(i) If the retiree is under fifty-nine (59) years of age, the retiree shall have the right to purchase hospital care and surgical-medical service benefits as set forth in § 36-12-2 and as are received by classified employees. Payment for the coverage shall be at the same group rate used by the state in making payment for state employees.

(ii) Furthermore, if the retiree is under fifty-nine (59) years of age, and retired after July 1, 1989, and before September 30, 2008, and the retiree had a minimum of twenty-eight (28) years of total service, he/she shall receive for himself or herself a ninety percent (90%) subsidy on the individual medical plan until attaining age fifty-nine (59).

(iii) At age fifty-nine (59) the retiree and his/her dependents shall be eligible only for enrollment in the medical plans available to non-disabled state employee retirees. If the retiree has a minimum of ten (10) years of contributory service, and up to twenty (20) years of total service, the retiree will be eligible for a fifty percent (50%) state subsidy on the cost of the individual retiree medical plan. If the retiree has a minimum of ten (10) years of contributory service, and twenty (20) years or more of total service, the retiree will be eligible for an eighty percent (80%) state subsidy on the cost of the individual retiree medical plan. The retiree is responsible for full payment for any additional dependent plans.

(3) Disabled retired employees who retire after September 30, 2008, or are under sixty-five (65) years of age on September 30, 2008. Any disabled retired employee of the state of Rhode Island who retires after September 30, 2008, or any disabled retired employee of the state of Rhode Island who is under sixty-five (65) years of age on September 30, 2008, will be eligible to receive only the following state-sponsored medical coverage and subsidies upon attaining age sixty-five (65):

(i) If the retiree is eligible for Medicare at age sixty-five (65), the retiree and spouse shall enroll in a state-sponsored Medicare supplemental plan.

(ii) If a retiree is not eligible for Medicare at age sixty-five (65), the retiree may remain in the same medical plan that the retiree was enrolled in prior to attaining age sixty-five (65).

(iii) If the retiree has a minimum of ten (10) years of contributory service, and up to twenty (20) years of total service, the retiree will receive a fifty percent (50%) state subsidy based on the cost of the individual Medicare supplemental plan. If the retiree has a minimum of ten (10) years of contributory service and twenty (20) years or more of total service, the retiree will be eligible for an eighty percent (80%) state subsidy based on the cost of the individual Medicare supplemental plan. The retiree is responsible for full payment for any additional dependent plans.

(4) Payments for retiree and dependent medical coverage shall be deducted from the purchasers retirement benefits received pursuant to chapter 10 of this title.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-9.6 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-9.6
§ 36-10-9.6. Aeronautics inspectors  Retirement.
Status: in_force

(a) This section shall only apply to the retirement of members employed as aeronautics inspectors.

(b) In determining the creditable service of any aeronautics inspector employed by the state of Rhode Island for the purpose of retirement of a service retirement allowance, not including a deferred retirement allowance, there may be added to, and included in, total service as defined in this chapter, not more than four (4) years of applied work experience, the experience to be defined as a pilot or aeronautics inspector. The service shall not be counted as credible service unless the member shall pay into the retirement system the contribution equal to ten percent (10%) of the members first year earnings as an aeronautics inspector for the first year purchased, ten percent (10%) of the members second year earnings as an aeronautics inspector for the second year purchased, ten percent (10%) of the members third year earnings as an aeronautics inspector for the third year purchased, and ten percent (10%) of the members fourth year earnings as an aeronautics inspector for the fourth year purchased. Application to purchase credit and payment for each year of the year for which he or she claims credit shall be made on or before December 31, 1987. Thereafter, a member applying for credits shall pay full actuarial costs.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-3-6 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-3 / Section 36-3-6
§ 36-3-6. Personnel appeal board  Appointment and terms of members.
Status: in_force

There is hereby established a personnel appeal board to consist of five (5) qualified electors who shall be known to be in sympathy with the application of modern personnel practices, under a merit system of personnel administration, in the public service and not more than three (3) of whom shall be members of the same political party. In the month of March in each odd numbered year, the governor, with the consent of the senate, shall appoint members of the personnel appeal board to succeed the members whose term will next expire. Each member of the board so appointed shall hold office until the first day of April in the sixth year following his or her appointment and until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. A vacancy, whatever the circumstances of its creation, shall be filled by appointment of the governor with the consent of the senate within sixty (60) days and only for the unexpired portion of the term.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-7 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-7
§ 36-8-7. Reimbursement of board members.
Status: in_force

Members of the board shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for any necessary expenditures and no employee shall suffer any loss of salary or wages through serving upon the board.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-21 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-21
§ 36-10-21. Ordinary death benefit.
Status: in_force

Upon the death of a member before retirement from any cause other than one compensable under § 36-10-20, a payment shall be made of the contributions of the member without interest. If the death of a member occurred while in an employee status, or while on an official leave of absence for illness from his or her position which had not extended at the date of death for a continuous period in excess of one year, a death benefit shall be paid which shall be equal to eight hundred dollars ($800) for each completed year of total service subject to a minimum payment of four thousand dollars ($4,000) and a maximum payment of sixteen thousand dollars ($16,000).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-5-4 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-5 / Section 36-5-4
§ 36-5-4. Retirement credit provision supplementary.
Status: in_force

Section 36-5-3 shall be deemed to prevail as being in addition to chapters 8 to 10, of this title and any other existing retirement law for any city, town or political subdivision thereof.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-11 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-11
§ 36-6-11. Withholding tax deductions.
Status: in_force

The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to make appropriate salary deductions from the salary or wages of each employee of the state, or of any agency thereof, in compliance with the withholding provisions of the internal revenue code of the United States of America, and all amendments thereto, and to make all necessary and appropriate reports and payments required thereby. The action of the state controller in making those deductions, reports, and payments, is hereby ratified and confirmed.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-1
§ 36-6-1. Salary of governor.
Status: in_force

Until December 31, 1998, the salary of the governor shall be sixty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars ($69,900) per annum. After December 31, 1998, the salary of the governor shall be ninety-five thousand dollars ($95,000) per annum and shall thereafter be adjusted at the beginning of each succeeding term by the total percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) published by the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Northeast Region for the four (4) previous fiscal years, but in any event not to exceed twelve percent (12%).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-12 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-12
§ 36-8-12. Actuarial investigations authorized by board.
Status: in_force

Immediately after his or her selection, the actuary shall make such investigation of the mortality, service, and compensation experience of the members as the retirement board shall authorize for the purpose of determining the proper tables to be prepared and submitted to the retirement board for adoption.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-12-2.3 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-12 / Section 36-12-2.3
§ 36-12-2.3. Health insurance benefits  Administrative services fees for continued coverage requirements of group health plans.
Status: in_force

In accordance with the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-514), amending § 162(k) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 162(k), in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), 42 U.S.C. § 403, a general revenue receipt account is created to be used solely for deposit of any applicable administrative services fees.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-10.2 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-10.2
§ 36-10-10.2. Amount of service retirement allowance  Correctional officers.
Status: in_force

(a) Upon retirement for service under § 36-10-9.2, a member with twenty-five (25) or more years of service as of June 30, 2012, shall receive a retirement allowance of an amount determined under (1) below. All other members shall receive a retirement allowance of an amount equal to the sum of (1) below for service prior to July 1, 2012, plus (2) below for service on and after July 1, 2012.

(1) Two percent (2%) of his or her average compensation multiplied by his or her first thirty (30) years of total service within the department of corrections; any and all years of remaining service shall be issued to the member at a retirement allowance of an amount equal to his or her average compensation multiplied by the percentage allowance determined in accordance with Schedule A below:

(2) On and after July 1, 2012, two percent (2%) of his or her average compensation multiplied by his or her first thirty (30) years of total service within the department of corrections, and three percent (3%) of his or her average compensation multiplied by the members thirty-first (31st) through thirty-fifth (35th) years of service.

(b) A member who has rendered service as a state employee under § 36-10-9 and/or as a teacher under § 16-16-12 shall be eligible to combine the accrued benefit under § 36-10-10 as a state employee and/or § 16-16-13 as a teacher with the accrued benefit under this section, provided the member has first obtained eligibility under § 36-10-9.2(a), (b)(1), or (b)(2). The accrual under § 36-10-10 or § 16-16-13 will be added in the year in which service was rendered consistent with the schedules provided under § 36-10-10 and/or § 16-16-13.

(c) The provisions of subsection (b) shall also apply to members who have retired on a service retirement allowance on or after July 1, 2012. Any such request for adjustment shall be in writing to the retirement board and will only apply prospectively from the date the request is received by the retirement board.

(d) In no case shall a retirement percentage allowance exceed the greater of the members retirement percentage allowance on June 30, 2012, or seventy-five percent (75%). Any member who has in excess of thirty-five (35) years on or before July 1, 1987, shall not be entitled to any refund. Any member with thirty-five (35) years or more on or after July 1, 1987, shall contribute from July 1, 1987, until his or her retirement, provided, however, that any member with thirty-eight (38) years of service prior to July 1, 1987, shall not be required to contribute.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-24 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-24
§ 36-7-24. State contributions.
Status: in_force

The state shall make the contributions required under the federal state agreement as provided in § 36-7-3, and the general treasurer is hereby authorized to make those payments.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-14-21 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-14 / Section 36-14-21
§ 36-14-21. Severability.
Status: in_force

If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter and the application of the provisions to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-22 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-22
§ 36-8-22. Board meetings  Online distribution. [Effective January 1, 2026.]
Status: in_force

(a) The retirement board shall provide:

(1) The online distribution of any archived video or audio recordings of meetings of the board to be displayed on the employees retirement system website; and

(2) The online distribution of all video or audio recordings of meetings occurring on or after the enactment of this section, which shall be displayed on the employees retirement system website.

(b) The provisions of this section shall apply to any subsidiary board to the retirement board that specializes in state investments.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-25 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-25
§ 36-4-25. Designation of appropriate list for filling of vacancies.
Status: in_force

The preferred reemployment list shall have precedence over all other lists for the filling of vacancies of comparable or less comparable positions in state service until the list is exhausted. Vacancies in positions in the classified service shall be filled as far as practicable by promotional appointments. Whenever a vacancy does exist in any position in the classified service, the appointing authority may choose to use either the employment, promotion, or reemployment list to fill the vacancy and shall request the personnel administrator to certify the names of persons eligible for appointment from the designated list; provided, however, that in the event of the reorganization of a department or division, or the abolishment of a position or positions in state service, any classified employee with permanent status affected thereby shall be placed in a comparable position within the department or division. If, however, placement within the department or division is not possible, then the affected employee shall be placed in a comparable position elsewhere in state service. Whenever a position is allocated or reallocated upward, the classified employee with permanent status holding that position shall be given an opportunity to qualify for the allocated or reallocated position by taking a qualifying examination and shall be placed on leave of absence from the old position until the employee has gained status or failed to qualify for the position.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-5-3 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-5 / Section 36-5-3
§ 36-5-3. Retirement or pension credit for period in military service.
Status: in_force

Whenever any employee of the state, or of any city, town, or political subdivision thereof, has been, is now, or shall be on a leave of absence from that employment because of service in the armed forces of the United States of America during any war in which the United States has been, is now, or shall be engaged, the leave of absence shall be construed as continuous employment for retirement pension and prescribed rights or benefits in any established retirement system or pension fund by whatever name called, as though the employee had not been on a leave of absence. The employee shall be entitled to all the rights, protections and privileges offered under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), Title 38 U.S. Code, §§ 4301  4333 (38 U.S.C. 4301  4333) as those sections apply to retirement or pension benefits.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-9-5 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-9 / Section 36-9-5
§ 36-9-5. Officers and employees exempt  Former court judges and clerks.
Status: in_force

(a) The members of the general assembly and the general officers of the state, except to the extent herein provided, the judges of the supreme, superior, family, district courts, the traffic tribunal, judges of the workers compensation court except to the extent herein provided, school teachers as defined by § 16-16-1 except to the extent provided by chapter 17 of title 16, and members of the Rhode Island state police shall be exempt from the provisions of chapters 8  10 of this title; provided, however, that any justice or associate justice or judge of the supreme court, superior court, family court, district court, or traffic tribunal, chairperson of the workers compensation court, or judge of the workers compensation court who was a member of the retirement system prior to becoming a justice or associate justice or judge, shall, upon his or her filing with the retirement board a written waiver of all benefits under the provisions of §§ 8-3-7  8-3-11 or 28-30-15  28-30-18 be permitted to elect to remain a member of the retirement system by paying into the retirement system such sums as provided in § 36-10-1 computed on his or her salary as a justice, associate justice, or judge and shall be eligible for all benefits under this title.

(b) Any justice, associate justice, or judge who shall have retired in accordance with the provisions of this section and who shall be recalled to service shall be recalled in accordance with the provisions of § 8-3-7(c), § 28-30-15(b), or § 28-30-16, or § 28-30-16.1.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-37 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-37
§ 36-4-37. Layoffs  Preference for retention or reemployment.
Status: in_force

An appointing authority may lay off a classified employee whenever he or she deems it necessary because of a material change in duties or organization, or shortage or stoppage of work or funds. In every case of layoff, the appointing authority shall, before the effective date of the layoff, give written notice of his or her action to the personnel administrator and the employee and shall certify that consideration has been given to length and quality of service of all employees in the affected class under his or her jurisdiction. No employee with full status shall be laid off while probational, provisional, or temporary employees are employed by the same appointing authority in the same class of positions. No probationary employee shall be laid off while provisional or temporary employees are employed by the same appointing authority in the same class of positions. No provisional employee shall be laid off while temporary employees are employed by the same appointing authority in the same class of positions. Nor shall any temporary appointment be made to any position in the class by the appointing authority while any employee who has been laid off by the appointing authority is available for certification from a reemployment list. Any person who has held full status and who has been laid off shall have his or her name placed on the appropriate reemployment list.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-3 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-3
§ 36-4-3. Branches of classified service.
Status: in_force

The classified service shall be divided into a competitive branch and a noncompetitive branch. The competitive branch shall consist of all positions in the classified service except those assigned to the noncompetitive branch as hereinafter provided.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-12-2.5 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-12 / Section 36-12-2.5
§ 36-12-2.5. Health insurance benefits  Coverage of former spouse.
Status: in_force

Commencing January 1, 2014, a state employees family health plan shall not provide coverage to a former spouse unless the former spouse was covered by said plan in accordance with § 27-20.4-1 as of December 31, 2013.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-1-6 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-1 / Section 36-1-6
§ 36-1-6. Tenure of officers appointed by governor.
Status: in_force

(a) All persons appointed by the governor, or appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, shall severally continue in and hold their respective offices for and during the term for which they were severally appointed and until their respective successors are qualified to act, unless sooner removed in accordance with law.

(b) Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, no person appointed to any office or position subject to the advice and consent of the senate shall assume such office or position or exercise any of the powers of such office or position until the senate shall have given its advice and consent to such appointment. In no case shall the governor appoint or designate any person to serve on an interim or acting basis in circumvention of this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-21 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-21
§ 36-4-21. Open continuous competitive tests.
Status: in_force

The personnel administrator may use open continuous competitive tests to establish lists and fill vacancies in an agency or agencies where there is a continued shortage of available qualified persons or where there is a manifest imbalance of minorities (as currently defined in employment law as Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians including Alaska Natives, and Asians including Pacific Islanders) in the job category. Open continuous competitive tests shall be subject to the conditions established in this chapter for the preparation of employment lists.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-3-7 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-3 / Section 36-3-7
§ 36-3-7. Appointment of minority members of board.
Status: in_force

The governor shall submit the name of the two (2) members of the board whom he or she desires to appoint and who are not of the same political party as the governor to the chairperson of the state central committee of the party of which that person is a member for the approval of the chairperson. If the chairperson shall disapprove the names submitted to him or her, the governor shall submit another name, and so on in like manner until approval is obtained; provided, however, that if no disapproval is made within five (5) days from the submission of a name by the governor, the name of the person to be appointed shall be deemed to have been approved. Thereafter, if an appointment is to be made to the board of a member who is not of the same political party as the governor, the appointment shall be made as above provided.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-2 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-2
§ 36-6-2. Salaries of other general state officers.
Status: in_force

(a) Until December 31, 1998, the salary of the lieutenant governor shall be fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum; the salary of the secretary of state shall be fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum; and the salary of the attorney general shall be fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000) per annum; the salary of the general treasurer shall be fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum. After December 31, 1998, the salary of the lieutenant governor shall be eighty thousand dollars ($80,000); the salary of the secretary of state shall be eighty thousand dollars ($80,000); the salary of the attorney general shall be eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000); and the salary of the general treasurer shall be eighty thousand dollars ($80,000); and they shall thereafter be adjusted as set forth in § 36-6-1.

(b) The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this section; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum, or so much thereof as may be required from time to time, upon receipt by him or her of properly authenticated vouchers.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-19 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-19
§ 36-6-19. Hospital care, hospital surgical-medical, and dental services benefits for general assembly members.
Status: in_force

All members of the general assembly shall be eligible to receive hospital services, surgical-medical services, and dental services, rights and benefits including, but not limited to, the equivalent of the semi-private benefit plan of blue cross of Rhode Island, a surgical-medical plan equivalent to the plan 100 of blue shield of Rhode Island, a major medical plan equivalent to the major medical plan of blue cross of Rhode Island and blue shield of Rhode Island, a prescription drug plan equivalent to the prescription drug plan of blue shield of Rhode Island, and a dental plan equivalent to delta dental of Rhode Island, both in form as presently and from time to time hereafter in effect for state employees and on file with and approved by the state department of business regulation, or hospital services, surgical-medical services, and other services, rights, and benefits provided by other nonprofit hospital service corporations, medical service corporations, dental service corporations, or other insurance corporations, which benefits shall be the equivalent of the benefits and services of the above described plans.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-3-12 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-3 / Section 36-3-12
§ 36-3-12. Services to cities and towns.
Status: in_force

The services and facilities of the personnel division and its staff shall be available upon request, subject to personnel rules prescribed therefor, to the cities and towns of the state. In making its services and facilities available, it shall be understood that requirements for the enforcement and administration of the provisions of this chapter and chapter 4 of this title shall be given precedence and that the local governmental subdivisions shall reimburse the state for the reasonable cost of the service and facilities.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-8 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-8
§ 36-4-8. Rules  Amendments.
Status: in_force

(a) The personnel administrator shall recommend such rules as he or she may consider necessary, appropriate, or desirable to carry out the provisions of this chapter and chapter 3 of this title and may from time to time recommend amendments thereto. When the rules or amendments are recommended by the personnel administrator, the director shall hold a public hearing thereon, and shall have power to approve or reject the recommendations of the personnel administrator wholly or in part or to modify them and approve them as so modified. The director shall give notice of the hearing at least fourteen (14) calendar days prior to the date of the hearing. Rules or amendments thereto which are approved by the director, shall be submitted to the governor, who shall have power to approve them, with or without modification or to reject them. The rules or amendments thereto shall become effective when approved by the governor. Rules adopted under this section shall have the force and effect of law.

(b) Rules promulgated pursuant to this section shall not change conditions of employment in a unit covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-53 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-53
§ 36-4-53. Solicitation of political contributions.
Status: in_force

No classified employee or member of the personnel appeal board shall solicit contributions for nor shall he or she be solicited to contribute to any political party or campaign. Every officer, agent, clerk, or employee under the government of the state who may have charge or control in any building, office, or room occupied for any purpose of the state government is hereby authorized to prohibit the entry of any person, and he or she shall not permit any person to enter the building, office, or room, for the purpose of therein making, collecting, receiving, or giving notice of any political assessment, subscription, or contribution, and no person shall enter or remain in that building, office, or room, or send or direct any letter or other notice thereto, for the purpose of giving notice of, demanding, or collecting a political assessment, subscription, or contribution, nor shall any person therein give notice of, demand, collect, receive, or pay the assessment, subscription, or contribution contrary to the provisions of this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-9.7 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-9.7
§ 36-10-9.7. Electronic funds transfer.
Status: in_force

All members of the employees retirement system retiring under the provisions of titles 42, 8, 36 or 16 of the Rhode Island general laws on or after July 1, 1998, shall be required to participate in electronic funds transfer and to supply the employees retirement system with a bank routing number to effectuate a monthly transfer of benefits.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-12-2 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-12 / Section 36-12-2
§ 36-12-2. Hospital care and surgical-medical service benefits.
Status: in_force

(a) Employees of the state of Rhode Island shall receive, in addition to wages, salaries, and any other remuneration or benefits, hospital care and surgical-medical services, rights, and benefits purchased by the director of administration pursuant to § 36-12-6, with the specific condition that the benefits and services provided by the carrier(s) will be substantially equivalent to those set forth in any collective bargaining agreement(s) executed between the state of Rhode Island and authorized representatives of the unions representing state employees or the health care coverage presently being provided.

(b) The state will work diligently with leadership of organized labor in order to ensure competitive, cost effective health care services for all employees of the state who may be eligible for those benefits.

(c) Any new plan must accept pre-existing conditions for those individuals who will be covered by the new policy.

(d) Part-time employees whose work week is less than twenty (20) hours a week may purchase the benefits set forth above. The employees shall pay the same rate for the benefits as the group rate paid by the state for the benefits. Payments for the benefits may be deducted in accordance with the provisions of § 36-12-3.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-31 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-31
§ 36-7-31. Appropriations.
Status: in_force

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sums as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of §§ 36-7-27  36-7-30 and § 36-7-35 and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of such sums, or so much of the sums, as may be required from time to time, upon the receipt by him or her of properly authenticated vouchers.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-63 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-63
§ 36-4-63. Sick leave and other leave  Effect of discharging upon overtime work and overtime compensation.
Status: in_force

(a) For each discharge with pay of three (3) consecutive days of sick leave, an employees appointing authority shall require a physicians certificate or other evidence satisfactory to the appointing authority. Sick leave is hereby defined to mean a necessary absence or absences from duty due to an employees illness, injury, or exposure to contagious disease. In the event that the required evidence satisfactory to the appointing authority is not presented by the employee prior to or upon the conclusion of that leave, no payment of any compensation to which the employee would otherwise be entitled shall be made and the employee shall be considered for all purposes as having been absent without leave.

(b) In any given pay period in the event that an employee discharges any sick leave or leave of a type referred to in subsection (a) of this section, either with pay or without pay, he or she shall be permitted to work overtime only after he or she has worked his or her full thirty-five (35) or forty (40) hours, whichever is appropriated for the job classification. This subsection shall also apply to leave without pay which is taken by an employee for purposes other than those purposes referred to in subsection (a) of this section excluding, specifically, planned vacation days, personal days, and leave for death in employees immediate family.

(c) Overtime, for purposes of this section, shall mean the performance of hours of work in any work week which are in excess of an employees established work week schedule, or when requested by the employer. Hours which are paid for but not actually worked except planned vacation days, personal days, jury duty, and leave for death in the employees immediate family shall not be counted as hours worked nor shall they otherwise be used in computing overtime compensation.

(d) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall not be applicable to employees in the nonstandard category.

(e) Notwithstanding other subsections of this section, an employee who is granted leave with or without pay for the purpose of fulfilling a military obligation shall be eligible to perform overtime work.

(f) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, it shall be unlawful for any state agency or any person or persons acting on behalf of the agency, to agree to, or enter into any agreement including a collective bargaining agreement or any amendment, modification, extension, or replacement thereof, whether verbal or written, which contains provisions that are inconsistent with the provisions of this section and the inconsistent provisions shall be null and void, whether the provisions result from agreement or the award of an arbitrator or arbitration panel under the provisions of chapter 11 of this title.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-51 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-51
§ 36-4-51. Running for elective office by classified employee.
Status: in_force

(a) No member of the personnel appeal board shall seek the nomination of or be a candidate for any elective state office.

(b) A classified employee, whose position is not fully funded through federal loans and/or grants, may seek the nomination of or be a candidate for elective state office in the state of Rhode Island. Provided, however, if the classified employee is elected to state office, the employee must resign or terminate his or her classified employee position prior to assuming or holding any state elective office in the state of Rhode Island.

(c) A state elective officer may be appointed a classified employee or a member of the personnel appeal board, but only after resigning the officers elective office.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-11-7.1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-11 / Section 36-11-7.1
§ 36-11-7.1. Unresolved issues submitted to mediation.
Status: in_force

(a) In the event that the bargaining agent and the chief executive or his or her designee are unable, within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting, to reach an agreement on a contract, either of them may request mediation and conciliation upon any and all unresolved issues by the director of labor and training or from any other source. If mediation and conciliation fail or are not requested, at any time after the thirty (30) days either party may request that any and all unresolved issues shall be submitted to arbitration by sending such request by certified mail, postage prepaid to the other party, setting forth the issues to be arbitrated.

(b) In the event that the negotiating or bargaining agent and the employer are unable to reach an agreement on a contract ninety (90) days before the last day on which money can be appropriated by the state to cover the first year of the contract period, then any and all unresolved issues shall be submitted to the director of labor and training for compulsory mediation until the date upon which the money is scheduled to be appropriated. The director of labor and training or his or her designee may waive this requirement upon the mutual agreement of the parties.

(c) In the event that the negotiating or bargaining agent and the employer are unable, within ten (10) days of the expiration of the contract, to reach an agreement on a contract, any and all unresolved issues shall be submitted to the director of labor and training for compulsory mediation.

(d) If the parties cannot mutually agree upon a mediator within twenty-four (24) hours, the director of labor and training shall select a mediator from a panel previously established by the director comprised of persons knowledgeable in the field of labor management relations to mediate the dispute. The department of labor and training is hereby empowered to compel the attendance of all parties to any and all meetings it deems necessary until the dispute is resolved.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-35 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-35
§ 36-7-35. Exclusion of sick pay from wages.
Status: in_force

(a) The state of Rhode Island is hereby authorized to exclude from wages, payments made under a written plan or system of sick leave. The written plan shall be established pursuant to this authority by the department of administration and must contain at least the following:

(1) A method of determining sick pay eligibility;

(2) A method of determining the duration of sick pay payment;

(3) A method of determining the minimum amount of sick pay payment.

(b) This plan shall be established by July 1, 1982.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-8 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-8
§ 36-10-8. Refund of contributions  Repayment and restoration of credits.
Status: in_force

A member who withdraws from service or ceases to be a member for any reason other than death or retirement shall be paid on demand a refund consisting of the accumulated contributions standing to his or her credit in his or her individual account, without interest. Any member receiving a refund shall thereby forfeit and relinquish all accrued rights as a member of the system together with credits for total service previously granted to the member; provided, however, that if any member who has received a refund shall subsequently reenter the service and again become a member of the system, he or she shall have the privilege of restoring all money previously received or disbursed to his or her credit as a refund of contributions, plus regular interest for the period from the date of refund to the date of the restoration. Upon the repayment of such refund including accrued interest as herein provided, the member shall again receive credit for the amount of total service which he or she had previously forfeited by the acceptance of the refund. The restoration of that credit shall be permitted only after the member shall have rendered at least one year of continuous service following his or her latest reentry into service for which he or she shall have made contributions to this system.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-3-14 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-3 / Section 36-3-14
§ 36-3-14. Facilities for division.
Status: in_force

The division shall be provided by the director with the necessary funds and employees to enable the division to examine temporary employees within the time prescribed by law and with suitable offices, examination rooms, and accommodations for itself and staff in the city of Providence, and in localities throughout the state as may be required to suit the public convenience and carry on the work of the division. It shall be the duty of the officers of the state, or any political subdivisions thereof, at any place where examinations or hearings are directed to be held by the personnel administrator to allow the reasonable use of public buildings and rooms and to furnish the buildings and rooms with heat and light for holding hearings and examinations and in all proper ways to facilitate the work of the division in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and chapter 4 of this title.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-2-3 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-2 / Section 36-2-3
§ 36-2-3. Power in connection with duties of office.
Status: in_force

The following persons may administer oath in relation to all matters connected with, or in administering the duties of, their respective offices: the director of each state department, forepersons of grand juries, members of committees of either house of the general assembly or of joint committees thereof, chairpersons of committees of either board of a city council or of joint committees thereof, members of town councils, auditors, referees, masters in chancery, commissioners on insolvent estates, the bank commissioner, the insurance commissioner, the securities commissioner, the tax administrator, the public utilities administrator, assessors of taxes, and other officers as may be authorized by the acts creating their respective offices to administer oaths.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-32 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-32
§ 36-4-32. Emergency appointments.
Status: in_force

In case of emergency, an appointing authority may request an emergency appointment of any person to any position without regard to provisions of this chapter to carry on work that must be continued in the public interest, but no such emergency appointment shall continue for more than thirty (30) working days in a twelve (12) month period nor shall successive emergency appointments be made. Approvals for these appointments shall be requested in writing in advance to the personnel administrator. The appointments must be approved by the personnel administrator and the state budget officer.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-35 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-35
§ 36-4-35. Demotions.
Status: in_force

An appointing authority may demote a classified employee under his or her jurisdiction from a position in a class to a position in a lower class, subject to the personnel rules therefor prescribed. In every case the appointing authority shall give the personnel administrator and the employee written notice of his or her intention to effect the demotion not less than fifteen (15) days before the date it is intended to become effective.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-4 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-4
§ 36-10-4. Credits and charges to contingent reserve account.
Status: in_force

The amounts credited by the system to the annuity reserve fund and pension accumulation fund prior to July 1, 1947, shall be transferred on that date to a contingent reserve account. All appropriations by the state and all other income of the system except member contributions shall be credited to the contingent reserve account. The annuity savings account of any member of the system who shall be granted an annuity, benefit, or retirement allowance under the provisions of this chapter shall be transferred to the contingent reserve account, and all payments on account of any annuity, benefit, or retirement allowance shall be charged thereto. Any excess remaining in the contingent reserve account at the end of any fiscal year after payments for the year shall have been charged to the account shall be considered as a contingent reserve to meet the future liabilities of the system.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-1-7 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-1 / Section 36-1-7
§ 36-1-7. Removal of officers appointed with advice and consent of senate.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law in relation to the tenure of their office, any officer appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate may be removed either by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, or as otherwise specifically provided by law.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-2-1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-2 / Section 36-2-1
§ 36-2-1. Officers with statewide power.
Status: in_force

The following persons may administer oaths anywhere within the state: the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, assistant attorneys general, general treasurer, active magistrates and active and retired justices of the supreme, superior, family, district, and workers compensation courts, each member of the general assembly after the member has filed their signature with the secretary of state, commissioners appointed by other states to take acknowledgments of deeds and depositions within this state, and notaries public.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-22 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-22
§ 36-4-22. Promotion examinations and lists.
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Promotional examinations shall be conducted in the same manner as open competitive examinations subject to the following conditions:

(i) A person is eligible for promotional examination provided the employee is currently employed in the classified, unclassified, or nonclassified service as of the official closing date of the examination announcement or twenty one (21) calendar days prior to the administration of the first phase of the examination, whichever is later, and meets one or more of the following requirements:

(A) Any employee who holds or within three (3) years has held permanent status in the classified service;

(B) Any employee who is serving in a probationary period as of the official closing date of the examination announcement;

(C) A minority (as currently defined in federal employment law as Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians including Alaska Natives, and Asians including Pacific Islanders) who is a qualified exam applicant seeking entry to a classification where there is a manifest imbalance in the job category; or

(D) Any employee who has served twelve (12) months service in the classified, unclassified, or nonclassified service and, in addition, meets the minimum requirements established in the class specification.

(ii) Promotion lists shall remain in effect for a period of three (3) years or until exhausted or until combined with or replaced by a more recently prepared list.

(b) This section shall not apply to the Rhode Island state police or the legislative branch of state government.

(c) An employee who is not on the promotional list shall be eligible to take the promotional examination for the position the employee occupies.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-15 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-15
§ 36-6-15. Medical deductions by cities and towns.
Status: in_force

Any city or town in the state through its legislative body may enact ordinances providing for the deduction from the compensation of city or town officers and employees for payments under the hospitalization or medical service plan of the nonprofit hospital service corporation or other charitable organization providing that service.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-13 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-13
§ 36-7-13. Commission to conduct referendum.
Status: in_force

(a) When request shall be made of the governor by the retirement board or by the legislative body of any city, town, or agency that a referendum be held pursuant to §§ 36-7-10  36-7-21, the governor shall immediately appoint a commission consisting of seven (7) members who shall conduct the referendum pursuant to the provisions of §§ 36-7-10  36-7-21 and of § 218(d) of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 418(d), as amended, and the commission is hereby empowered to adopt such rules and regulations for conducting the election including the notice and manner thereof as shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter and of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.

(b) It shall be the duty of the commission to study, evaluate, and recommend a plan for the inclusion of those members under the federal Social Security Act, to formulate the question to be voted upon in the referendum, and to carry out the purposes of §§ 36-7-10  36-7-21.

(c) The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services but are authorized to contract for secretarial and actuarial services and to incur travel and other necessary expenses.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-16 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-16
§ 36-8-16. Disposition of investment earnings.
Status: in_force

The retirement board shall credit all earned investment income from interest and dividends on investments and bank deposits during any fiscal year to the contingency reserve account.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-6 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-6
§ 36-6-6. Salaries in lieu of fees.
Status: in_force

The salary received from the state by any deputy sheriff, clerk of any court, or other officer by whom fees are received as a part of his or her official duties shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by him or her personally to the state. That salary shall be in lieu of all fees which he or she or his or her deputies, assistants, or subordinates are now or were formerly authorized to receive for those services.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-11-2 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-11 / Section 36-11-2
§ 36-11-2. Discrimination because of membership in employee organization prohibited.
Status: in_force

(a) There shall be no discrimination against any state employee because the employee has formed, joined, or chosen to be represented by any labor or employee organization.

(b) Supervisory employees shall not endorse any particular labor or employee organization or by reason of membership in any organization, show prejudice or discriminate against any individual employee.

(c) Membership in any labor or employee organization may be determined by each individual employee and each individual member. Membership dues or fees are established in amounts as determined by the organization.

(d) The state controller shall hereby be directed, upon certification of the exclusive bargaining organization, to deduct biweekly membership dues from the employees salary and remit the amount to the treasurer of the exclusive bargaining organization.

(e) Any employees in the bargaining unit, who are not members of the exclusive bargaining representative organization, may be required by the labor or employee organization to pay a reasonable charge for grievances and/or arbitrations brought at the nonmembers request.

(f) The employer shall notify the exclusive bargaining unit representative organization of the hiring of any employee in the bargaining unit. The notice shall be given promptly after the hiring decision is made but in no event later than the fifth business day following the employees start date.

(g) Bargaining unit lists.

(1) Once every one hundred twenty (120) days, or on a more frequent basis if mutually agreed to by the employer and the employee organization, the employer shall provide the employee organization that is the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit, and any statewide employee organization, of which the local employee organization is an affiliate, with a list of all employees in that bargaining unit.

(2) The list shall include, as appropriate, each employees employee ID number, first name, last name, work location/department, job title/classification, date of hire, date of birth, demographic information, contact information, and whether the employee has, to the employers records, authorized dues deduction. As used in this section, demographic information includes the employees sex and race/ethnicity, to the extent the employer is in possession of such information. As used in this section, contact information includes an employees home address, mailing address, work email address, personal email address, and home and personal cellular telephone numbers, to the extent that the employer is in possession of such information.

(3) To the extent possible, the employee list shall be in alphabetical order by last name and provided as an electronic spreadsheet with one column for each of the data listed in subsection (g)(2) of this section.

(4) The list shall be kept confidential by the employer and the employee organization and shall be exempt from copying and inspection under chapter 2 of title 38 (access to public records).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-2-4 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-2 / Section 36-2-4
§ 36-2-4. Fees for acknowledgments and engagements.
Status: in_force

To all officers empowered to take acknowledgments of deeds and administer oaths of engagement to office, there shall be allowed:
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-14 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-14
§ 36-8-14. Annual valuation of assets and liabilities.
Status: in_force

On the basis of such tables as the retirement board shall adopt, the actuary shall make an annual valuation of the assets and liabilities of the funds of the system created by this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-9-21 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-9 / Section 36-9-21
§ 36-9-21. Service information submitted by department heads.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the head of each department and agency to furnish at the times and in the manner that the retirement board and/or the retirement system may direct, information concerning the name, title, compensation, duties, date of birth, and length of service of each member employed, and any other information which the retirement board or retirement system considers necessary for the proper execution of this chapter, and to give prompt notice of all appointments, removals, deaths, resignations, leaves of absence and changes in pay of members.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-14-18 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-14 / Section 36-14-18
§ 36-14-18. Disclosure of regulated business interests.
Status: in_force

(a) Every person who is required to file a financial statement pursuant to this chapter and who has, acquires, or divests him or herself of ten percent (10%) or greater equity interest or five thousand dollars ($5,000) or greater cash value interest in a business entity which is subject to direct regulation, greater than of a de minimus nature, by a state or municipal agency, or which does any business with a state or municipal agency, shall file with the commission at the times specified by this chapter, an affidavit:

(1) Identifying him or herself and stating the capacity in which he or she serves or is about to serve which occasions the filing of the affidavit;

(2) Identifying the business entity (or each business entity);

(3) Identifying the regulatory agency or agencies;

(4) Stating the nature of his or her interest in the business entity;

(5) Describing the manner in which the business entity is subject to regulation; and

(6) Stating whether the interest is held, or was acquired or divested, and if acquired or divested, when.

(b) The nature of an interest in a business entity shall be described in specific language.

(c) Every state or municipal official to which this section applies who holds office on January 1, 1988, and who has any interest required to be reported pursuant to this section, shall file the affidavit within ninety (90) days after January 1, 1988.

(d) If a state or municipal official to which this section applies, acquires or divests him or herself of an interest, required to be reported pursuant to this section, he or she shall file the affidavit within thirty (30) days after the date the interest was acquired or divested.

(e) In the case of appointments made after January 1, 1988, a state or municipal official who has any interest required to be reported pursuant to this section shall file the affidavit within thirty (30) days after the date of his or her appointment or the date he or she qualifies for the office.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-26 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-26
§ 36-7-26. Revolving fund  Payments to federal government.
Status: in_force

(a) All payments made by any city, town, or agency of the state shall be credited by the general treasurer to a revolving fund which shall be established with the approval of the governor and the director of administration and a sum sufficient for the purpose is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

(b) Any payments by the general treasurer to the secretary of the treasury as hereinabove authorized and as provided in § 36-7-3(2), shall be charged to that fund.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-11-11 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-11 / Section 36-11-11
§ 36-11-11. Fees and expenses of arbitrator.
Status: in_force

Fees and necessary expenses of arbitration shall be borne equally by the bargaining agent and the chief executive except that the transcript of proceedings required to be kept of the arbitration hearing shall be borne solely by the state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-1
§ 36-10-1. Member contributions  Deduction from compensation.
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Prior to July 1, 2012, each member of the retirement system shall contribute an amount equal to eight and three-quarters percent (8.75%) of his or her compensation as his or her share of the cost of annuities, benefits, and allowances. Effective July 1, 2012, each member of the retirement system shall contribute an amount equal to three and three quarters percent (3.75%) of the members compensation, except for correctional officers as defined in § 36-10-9.2 who shall contribute an amount equal to eight and three quarters percent (8.75%) of their compensation. Effective July 1, 2015, each member of the retirement system, except for correctional officers as defined in § 36-10-9.2, with twenty (20) or more years of total service as of June 30, 2012, shall contribute an amount equal to eleven percent (11%) of compensation. The contributions shall be made in the form of deductions from compensation.

(2) Effective January 1, 2025, those members of the retirement system who are state employees employed as deputy sheriffs, capitol police officers, environmental police officers, juvenile program workers, shift coordinators, firefighters, crew chiefs, assistant chiefs, fire investigators, fire safety inspectors, fire safety training officers, explosives and flammable liquids technicians, and campus police officers employed by the state of Rhode Island shall contribute an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of compensation.

(3) The contributions shall be made in the form of deductions from compensation.

(b) The deductions provided for herein shall be made notwithstanding that the minimum compensation provided by law for any member shall be reduced thereby. Every member shall be deemed to consent and agree to the deductions made and provided for herein and receipt of the members full compensation and payment of compensation, less the deductions, shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by the person during the period covered by the payment except as to the benefit provided under this chapter.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-33 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-33
§ 36-10-33. Penalty for fraudulent claim or statement.
Status: in_force

Every person who knowingly or willfully makes, presents, or in anyway procures the making or presentation of any false or fraudulent affidavit or affirmation concerning any claim for pension or payment thereof, shall, in every case, forfeit a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), in addition to the repayment of any and all money received from the retirement system because of a false or fraudulent claim or statement, with interest, at the rate of twelve percent (12%) per annum, to be sued and recovered by and in the name of the retirement board of the retirement system, and when recovered, paid over to and thereupon become a part of the funds of the retirement system.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-22 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-22
§ 36-7-22. Contributions imposed on city, town, and agency employees.
Status: in_force

Each city, town, or agency of the state participating under the federal state agreement is authorized to impose upon each of its employees, as to services which are covered by the federal state agreement, or by any supplement thereto or modification thereof, a contribution with respect to his or her salary or wages as herein defined, equal to the amount of tax which would be imposed by § 3101 of the federal Insurance Contributions Act, 26 U.S.C. § 3101, if their services constituted employment within the meaning of that act. The obligation to make those contributions shall constitute a condition of employment by the city, town, or agency of the state with respect to the employee.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-14-4 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-14 / Section 36-14-4
§ 36-14-4. Persons subject to the code of ethics.
Status: in_force

The following persons shall be subject to the provisions of the Rhode Island code of ethics in government:

(1) State and municipal elected officials;

(2) State and municipal appointed officials; and

(3) Employees of state and local government, boards, commissions, and agencies.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-8 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-8
§ 36-6-8. Arraignment fees in district court.
Status: in_force

No judge of the district court shall charge or receive any fee for the arraignment before him or her of any person in any criminal case, except such as may legally be taxed as a part of the costs in the case, and all of which shall be paid over to the general treasurer as hereinbefore provided.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-19 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-19
§ 36-10-19. Persons eligible for optional benefits  Time of election  Modification or revocation  Effective date.
Status: in_force

The optional provisions of § 36-10-18 shall be applicable only to a member applying for a service retirement allowance, an accidental disability retirement allowance, and an ordinary disability retirement allowance or any inactive member applying for retirement under vested rights. The election under option 1 or 2 of § 36-10-18(a) shall be made at the time of retirement of the member as part of his or her application for a retirement allowance. The election shall be based upon the amount of retirement allowances that may accrue at the date of death of the member and may be revoked or modified by the member at any time after retirement on a form prescribed by the retirement board, provided that, during this time, the named beneficiary has not been divorced from the member. The option, in the case of death of a retired member, shall become effective on the next day following the death of the member and payment of benefits thereunder shall be made in accordance with the provisions hereof, subject to the limitations prescribed in § 36-10-18. This section shall not apply to any one who elects the social security supplemental option as provided by § 36-10-10.3.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-31 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-31
§ 36-4-31. Temporary appointment when no list available.
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Whenever it is not possible to certify the required number of eligible persons for appointment to a vacancy in the classified service because no appropriate list exists, the appointing authority may nominate a person to the personnel administrator and if the nominee is found by the personnel administrator to have had experience and education that appear to qualify him or her for the position and meets such other requirements as are established by this chapter and the personnel rules, he or she may be temporarily appointed to fill the vacancy. All persons with temporary status who have been or who shall be temporarily appointed to those vacancies shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority or until removed in accordance with other provisions of this chapter. The personnel administrator shall within one year of the appointment of the temporary appointee establish an appropriate list. In the event the personnel administrator has failed or fails to establish an appropriate list within one year of a temporary appointment, the temporary employee shall become a provisional employee until a suitable list is established, at which time the appropriate merit system laws, rules, and regulations shall apply.

(2) Whenever any provisional employee who is serving in a competitive branch position within the classified service completes five (5) consecutive years of satisfactory service, and the personnel administrator has failed to establish a timely appropriate list as required by subsection (a)(1) during that time, that provisional employee shall be deemed to have qualified for his or her position and shall be awarded permanent status, without the need of examination.

(3) When an appropriate list is established for a position held by a temporary or provisional appointee, the position shall be deemed to be vacant for the purposes of certification and appointment, and no salary or other compensation shall be paid to any temporary or provisional appointee for services in the position for more than fifteen (15) days after certification of at least three (3) available eligibles from the appropriate list.

(b) Any employee who holds temporary or provisional status for at least twelve (12) consecutive months in the class in which he or she is serving and who takes the appropriate examination for the position shall receive in addition to his or her test score five (5) additional points for each year of state service, which shall be added to his or her test score; provided, however, that in no case shall an employee receive credit for more than four (4) years of service. An employee who holds temporary provisional status for at least twelve (12) consecutive months in the class in which he or she is serving and is found to be reachable for certification to the position he or she holds shall be appointed to the position unless the appointing authority certifies to the personnel administrator that the individuals service has been unsatisfactory.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-11-3 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-11 / Section 36-11-3
§ 36-11-3. Action on grievances.
Status: in_force

It shall be the responsibility of supervisors at all levels to consider, and commensurate with authority delegated by the head of the state department or agency, to take appropriate action promptly and fairly upon the grievances of their subordinates. To this end, appropriate authority shall be delegated to supervisors by the heads of all state departments or agencies. It shall be the duty of the chief executive or his or her designee (appointed, elected, or possessing classified status) to exert every reasonable effort to settle disputes involving hours, wages, and working conditions, by collective negotiations with designated employee organizations, and to reduce any and all agreements to writing in the form of signed collective bargaining agreements. The agreements shall be deemed lawful documents.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-21 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-21
§ 36-6-21. Mass transportation and fringe benefit program deductions.
Status: in_force

The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to make appropriate salary deductions, effective January 1, 2008, and to adopt appropriate provisions to allow state officers and employees the option to exclude employee commuting costs incurred from the purchase of RIPTA commuting passes from taxable wages and compensation, consistent with section 132 of title 26, United States Code, not to exceed the maximum level allowed by law (26 U.S.C. § 132(f)(2). RIPTA is hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the state controller in developing provisions to implement this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-1-9 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-1 / Section 36-1-9
§ 36-1-9. Vacancies in general state offices.
Status: in_force

In case of a vacancy in the office of secretary of state, attorney general, or general treasurer occurring when the general assembly is not in session, the governor shall appoint some person to fill the vacancy until a successor elected by the general assembly is qualified to act; and in that case, as also whenever a vacancy shall occur in either of those offices during a session of the general assembly, the vacancy shall be filled by the general assembly in grand committee.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-28 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-28
§ 36-7-28. Forwarding of contributions and reports by cities, towns, and agencies.
Status: in_force

Each city, town, or agency of the state participating under this agreement shall forward to the general treasurer at such time or times and in the manner that he or she may specify the amounts of contribution payable by the participating employees and by the city, town, or agency of the state as an employer together with appropriate reports respecting such payments as may be required.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-3 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-3
§ 36-6-3. Salaries of directors of state departments.
Status: in_force

The general officers of the state shall receive such annual salaries as the general assembly may by law determine. Directors shall receive such annual salaries as may be from time to time established by the unclassified pay plan board which shall consist of seven (7) members as provided in § 36-4-16. The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of such sums, or so much thereof, as may be required from time to time, upon receipt by him or her of properly authenticated vouchers.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-3-10 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-3 / Section 36-3-10
§ 36-3-10. Appeals to appeal board.
Status: in_force

(a) The personnel appeal board shall hear appeals:

(1) By any person with provisional, probationary, or permanent status in a position in the classified service aggrieved by an action of the administrator of adjudication for the department of administration on matters of personnel administration.

(2) By any person with provisional, probationary, or permanent status in a position in the classified service who has been discharged, demoted, suspended, or laid off by any appointing authority.

(3) By any person who holds the belief that he or she has been discriminated against because of his or her race, sex, age, disability, or his or her political or religious beliefs in any personnel action.

(4) By any person who by the personnel policy of the state of Rhode Island or by contractual agreement with the state of Rhode Island is vested with the right of appeal to the board.

(b) Appeals shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and chapter 4 of this title of the personnel rules provided, however, that the personnel appeal board may dismiss the appeal of a person who has already appealed or seeks to appeal the same matter under provisions of a contractual agreement or other law or regulation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-11 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-11
§ 36-10-11. Service allowance to member withdrawing from service before retirement age.
Status: in_force

The right of a service retirement allowance under the provisions of this chapter shall vest in a member who shall withdraw from service prior to his or her attainment of the minimum age of retirement specified in §§ 36-10-9  36-10-9.3 who shall not have received a refund, provided the member shall have completed at least ten (10) years of contributory service on or before June 30, 2012, for members terminating service or retiring on or before June 30, 2012, or at least five (5) years of contributory service for members terminating service or retiring on or after July 1, 2012. The member shall become entitled to a service retirement allowance upon his or her attainment of the age established in § 36-10-9 or at his or her option at any date subsequent thereto. The rate of service retirement allowance payable in the case of any member shall be that provided in § 36-10-10, for the period of total service earned and accrued at the date of withdrawal from service of the member.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-1.1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-1.1
§ 36-10-1.1. Department payment of member contributions.
Status: in_force

(a) Each department, pursuant to the provisions of § 414(h)(2) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 414(h)(2), shall pick up and pay the contributions that would be payable by the employees as members under §§ 36-10-1, 8-3-16, 8-8-10.1, 8-8.2-7, 28-30-18.1, and 42-28-22.1. The contributions so picked up shall be treated as employer contributions in determining tax treatment under the United States Internal Revenue Code; and shall not be included as gross income of the employee until such time as they are distributed. Employee contributions that are picked up pursuant to this section shall be treated and identified as member contributions for all purposes of the retirement system except as specifically provided to the contrary in this section.

(b) Member contributions picked up by a department shall be paid from the same source of funds used for the payment of compensation to a member. A deduction shall be made from a members compensation equal to the amount of his or her contributions picked up by his or her departmental employer. This deduction, however, shall not reduce his or her compensation for purposes of computing benefits under the applicable retirement system. Picked up contributions shall be transmitted to the retirement system in accordance with the provisions of § 36-10-1, on the date contributions are withheld but no later than three (3) business days following the pay period ending in which contributions were withheld.

(c) The state is required to deduct and withhold member contributions and to transmit same to the retirement system and is hereby made liable for the contribution. In addition, any amount of employee contributions actually deducted and withheld shall be deemed to be a special fund in trust for the benefit of the member and shall be transmitted to the retirement system as set forth herein.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-20 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-20
§ 36-6-20. Hospital care and hospital surgical-medical service benefits for retired general assembly members.
Status: in_force

All retired members of the general assembly who meet all eligibility requirements for retirement and all former members of the general assembly who meet all eligibility requirements for retirement except for age shall be eligible to purchase at their own cost and expense the same benefits provided for active general assembly members under § 36-6-19. The cost for participation shall be deducted directly from the retired general assembly members monthly retirement proceeds. Retired or former members of the general assembly who are not receiving monthly retirement proceeds shall pay for those benefits through the joint committee on legislative services.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-11-13 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-11 / Section 36-11-13
§ 36-11-13. Affirmative action provisions.
Status: in_force

(a) The director of the department of administration shall direct the associate director of human resources to include proposals for affirmative action provisions as a subject for all collective bargaining negotiations. The proposals shall include, at a minimum but not limited to, the following personnel actions: recruitment; new hires; promotions; transfers; terminations; training and education; layoffs and return from layoff.

(b) The proposals shall also include a provision that all new and vacant positions shall be filled with due consideration to equal opportunity and affirmative action interests, especially when a manifest imbalance exists within a specific job category. Manifest imbalance, as used herein, shall mean the statistical under representation of minorities (as currently defined in federal employment law as Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, including Alaskan Natives, and Asians, including Pacific Islanders) in specific job categories.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-11-1.1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-11 / Section 36-11-1.1
§ 36-11-1.1. Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following terms as used in this chapter shall have the following meaning:

(1) Casual employees shall mean those persons hired for an occasional period to perform special jobs or functions not necessarily related to the work performed by the regular employees in the collective bargaining unit.

(2) Seasonal employees shall mean those persons employed in positions which are part of an annual job employment program.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-9.2 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-9.2
§ 36-10-9.2. Retirement on service allowance  Correctional officers.
Status: in_force

(a) This section shall apply to the retirement of members employed as assistant director (adult services), assistant deputy director, chief of inspection, and associate directors, correctional officer, chief of security, work rehabilitation program supervisor, supervisor of custodial records and reports, and classification counselor within the department of corrections.

(b)(1) Any member who has attained the age of fifty (50) years may be retired subsequent to the proper execution and filing of a written application; provided, however, that the member shall have completed twenty (20) years of total service within the department of corrections and who retires before October 1, 2009, or is eligible to retire as of September 30, 2009.

(2) For members who become eligible to retire on or after October 1, 2009, benefits are available to members who have attained the age of fifty-five (55) and have completed at least twenty-five (25) years of total contributory service within the department of corrections. For members in service as of October 1, 2009, who were not eligible to retire as of September 30, 2009, but who are eligible to retire on or prior to June 30, 2012, the minimum retirement age of fifty-five (55) will be adjusted downward in proportion to the amount of service the member has earned as of September 30, 2009. The proportional formula shall work as follows:

(i) The formula shall determine the first age of retirement eligibility under the laws in effect on September 30, 2009, which shall then be subtracted from the minimum retirement age of fifty-five (55).

(ii) The formula shall then take the members total service credit as of September 30, 2009, as the numerator and the years of service credit determined under (b)(2)(i) as the denominator.

(iii) The fraction determined in (b)(2)(ii) shall then be multiplied by the age difference determined in (b)(2)(i) to apply a reduction in years from age fifty-five (55).

(c) Any member with contributory service on or after July 1, 2012, who has completed at least five (5) years of contributory service but who has not completed twenty-five (25) years of contributory service, shall be eligible to retire upon the attainment of the members Social Security retirement age or, notwithstanding any other provisions, effective July 1, 2015, members in active service shall be eligible to retire upon the earlier of:

(1) The attainment of at least age sixty-five (65) and the completion of at least thirty (30) years of total service, or the attainment of at least age sixty-four (64) and the completion of at least thirty-one (31) years of total service, or the attainment of at least age sixty-three (63) and the completion of at least thirty-two (32) years of total service, or the attainment of at least age sixty-two (62) and the completion of at least thirty-three (33) years of total service; or

(2) The members retirement eligibility date under § 36-10-9(1)(c)(ii).

(d) Any member who shall have rendered service both as a state employee under § 36-10-9 and/or as a teacher under § 16-16-12, and service under subsection (a) of this section, shall be eligible to elect to combine the members service under subsection (a) of this section and service under § 36-10-9 and/or § 16-16-12 to determine the members retirement eligibility date under § 36-10-9 or § 16-16-12. For any member making this election, the member will receive a single benefit equal to the accrued benefit computed under § 36-10-10.2, plus the accrued benefit computed under § 36-10-10 and/or § 16-16-13.

(e) The provisions of subsection (d) shall also apply to members who have retired on a service retirement allowance on or after July 1, 2012. Any such request for adjustment shall be in writing to the retirement board and shall apply prospectively from the date the request is received by the retirement board.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-36 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-36
§ 36-4-36. Disciplinary suspensions.
Status: in_force

An appointing authority may, for disciplinary purposes, suspend a classified employee without pay for a period or periods not exceeding a total of thirty (30) days in any twelve (12) month period. In every case the appointing authority shall on or before the effective date of the suspension, give written notice of his or her action to the employee and shall notify the personnel administrator not later than three (3) days after the effective date.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-4 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-4
§ 36-8-4. Composition of retirement board.
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby authorized, created and established in the office of the general treasurer an independent retirement board which shall hold and administer, in trust, the funds of the retirement system in accordance with the provisions of chapters 8  10 of this title and shall perform such functions as authorized by law. The membership of the retirement board shall consist of: the general treasurer or his or her designee who shall be a subordinate within the general treasurers office; the director of administration or his or her designee who shall be a subordinate within the department of administration; a representative of the budget office or his or her designee from within the budget office, who shall be appointed by the director of administration; the president of the league of cities and towns or his or her designee; two (2) active state employee members of the retirement system or officials from state employee unions to be elected by active state employees; two (2) active teacher members of the retirement system or officials from a teachers union to be elected by active teachers; one active municipal employee member of the retirement system or an official from a municipal employees union to be elected by active municipal employees; two (2) retired members of the retirement system to be elected by retired members of the system; and four (4) public members, all of whom shall be competent by training or experience in the field of finance, accounting or pensions; two (2) of the public members shall be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall serve an initial term of three (3) years and one of whom shall serve an initial term of four (4) years and until his or her successor is appointed and qualified; and two (2) of the public members shall be appointed by the general treasurer, one of whom shall serve an initial term of three (3) years and one of whom shall serve an initial term of four (4) years and until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. Thereafter, the term of these four (4) public members shall be for four (4) years or until their successors are appointed and qualified. Meetings shall be open to the public in accordance with the provisions of chapter 42-46 of the general laws. Any member of the general public who was appointed by the governor prior to July 4, 2006 shall continue to serve until such time as a successor is appointed and qualified. Any member who was elected prior to July 4, 2006 shall serve for the remainder of his or her elected term.

(b) Meetings shall be held at such place as may be designated in the call of the meeting, provided at no cost to the state, at least monthly at the call of the chair.

(c) The elected members of the retirement board shall be seated by the following procedure:

(1) Each candidate for a position on the board must have one hundred (100) signatures of members of their respective group.

(2) The term of office for elected members shall be for four (4) years, and election of their successors shall be given by the board prior to the expiration of the terms of the incumbent elected members.

(3) By petition for recall of twenty percent (20%) of the respective membership of the various groups a new election shall be ordered by the retirement board.

(d) All gubernatorial and general treasurer appointments made under this section after July 4, 2006 shall be subject to the advice and consent of the senate. No one shall be eligible for appointment unless he or she is a resident of this state.

(e) Public members of the board shall be removable by the chair for cause only, and removal solely for partisan or personal reasons unrelated to capacity or fitness for the office shall be unlawful.

(f) Newly appointed and qualified public members shall, within six (6) months of their appointment, attend a training course that shall be developed and provided by the office of the general treasurer and shall include instruction in the following areas: the provisions of chapters 42-46, 36-14 and 38-2 of the Rhode Island general laws, the retirement statutes; and the boards rules and regulations. The director of the department of administration shall, within ninety (90) days of July 4, 2006 prepare and disseminate training materials relating to the provisions of chapters 42-46, 36-14 and 38-2.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-13-7 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-13 / Section 36-13-7
§ 36-13-7. Financial liability limitations.
Status: in_force

The financial liability of the state, city, town, or other political subdivision under a deferred compensation program shall be limited in each instance to the value of the particular fixed or variable life insurance or annuity contract or contracts purchased on behalf of any employee.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-3 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-3
§ 36-7-3. Agreement with federal government.
Status: in_force

The general treasurer of the state is hereby authorized to enter, on behalf of the state, into an agreement with the secretary, consistent with the terms and provisions of this chapter, for the purpose of extending the benefits of the old age and survivors insurance provisions of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq., to employees of any city or town or agency of the state with respect to services specified in the agreement which constitute employment as defined in § 36-7-2. The agreement may contain provisions relating to coverage, benefits, contributions, effective date, modification, and termination of the agreement, administration, and other appropriate provisions as the general treasurer and the secretary shall agree upon, but, except as may otherwise be required by or under the federal Social Security Act as to the services to be covered, the agreement shall provide in effect that:

(1) Benefits will be provided for employees included in the coverage groups to which the agreement is made applicable on the same basis as though the services constituted employment within the meaning of title II of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 401 et seq.

(2) The state will pay the secretary of the treasury at such time or times as may be prescribed under the federal Social Security Act, contributions with respect to wages (as herein defined) equal to the sum of the taxes which would be imposed by §§ 3101 and 3111 of the federal Insurance Contributions Act, 26 U.S.C. §§ 3101 and 3111, or as that act may be amended from time to time, on all participants under this agreement, including cities, towns, and agencies of the state and all participating employees thereof, if the services covered by the agreement constituted employment within the meaning of that act.

(3) The agreement or any modification of the agreement shall be effective with respect to services in employment covered by the agreement or any modification of the agreement after a date specified therein.

(4) All services which constitute employment as herein defined, which are performed in the employ of any city, town, or agency of the state and are included under a method of coverage which conforms to the terms and conditions of the agreement are covered thereunder.

(5) As modified, the agreement shall include all services described in subdivision (4) of this section and performed by individuals to whom § 218(c)(3)(B) of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 418(c)(3)(B), is applicable and shall provide that the service of the individual shall continue to be covered by the agreement in case he or she thereafter becomes eligible to be a member of a retirement system; and as modified, the agreement shall include all services described in subdivision (4) of this section and performed by individuals in positions covered by a retirement system with respect to which the governor has issued a certificate to the secretary pursuant to § 36-7-19.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-13-2 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-13 / Section 36-13-2
§ 36-13-2. Entering into agreements.
Status: in_force

The chief administrative officer of any city or town or director of administration of the state of Rhode Island is hereby authorized to enter into contractual agreements with employees of that particular state agency, department, board, commission, or institution on behalf of the state to defer any portion of that employees compensation.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-5-2.1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-5 / Section 36-5-2.1
§ 36-5-2.1. Rights of employees entering service to maintain health care benefits.
Status: in_force

Every employee holding a position in the classified or unclassified service, who has left or shall leave the position by reason of entering the armed forces of the United States (whether through membership in the reserve of the United States Military or Naval Forces or in the Rhode Island National Guard or Naval Reserves, when any of the foregoing units are called to active federal or state duty, or by reason of enlistment, induction commission or otherwise), and who has held a position in the classified or unclassified service for one hundred eighty (180) or more calendar days within the twelve (12) months next preceding entrance into the armed services, and who at the time of entrance into the armed services had family medical benefits, shall continue to be eligible to receive family medical benefits, in the same manner as available prior to entering service, for designated family members, excluding the employee, during the duration of his or her absences required by the continuance of service in the armed services and his or her return to classified or unclassified service. Nothing in this section, however, shall require the employee to continue family medical benefits provided by the state of Rhode Island or prevent the employee from enrolling in or receiving medical benefits from another source of health insurance coverage including the federal medical benefits program for deployed members of the armed services.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-10-22 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-10 / Section 36-10-22
§ 36-10-22. Retention of death benefit coverage by general assembly member not reelected.
Status: in_force

If any present or former member of the general assembly who is a member of the system, who is not reelected, desires to retain his or her ordinary death benefit insurance coverage, he or she shall be allowed to do so providing that he or she pays an annual contribution of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per year for each year the insurance is carried by the member or former member of the general assembly.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-5-5 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-5 / Section 36-5-5
§ 36-5-5. Examinations for veterans employment representatives.
Status: in_force

Whenever examinations are held in the state civil service for the classified position of veterans employment representative, these examinations shall be open only to honorably discharged veterans of all wars.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-65 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-65
§ 36-4-65. Longevity benefits  Department of elementary and secondary education  Legislature.
Status: in_force

Any person employed by the department of elementary and secondary education below pay grade 19 in other than faculty positions, on or before February 1, 1974, in the classified, unclassified, or nonclassified service, or who was a member of the body as constituted by § 22-1-1 or 22-2-1, shall be eligible for longevity benefits, as defined in the personnel rules adopted in accordance with § 36-4-8, upon employment in the nonclassified service within the department of elementary and secondary education.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-12-4.1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-12 / Section 36-12-4.1
§ 36-12-4.1. Coverage of Medicare-eligible retired employees.
Status: in_force

(a) The director of the department of administration shall ensure retired employees access to Medicare-eligible retiree healthcare insurance. Under this program, the state will establish a health reimbursement account (HRA) funded by state contributions for each Medicare-eligible state retiree who elects to receive healthcare insurance through the state-sponsored program.

(b) The funds contained in the HRA may be utilized for any eligible medical care expenses as defined in § 213(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, which includes reimbursements for healthcare insurance premiums.

(c) The director of the department of administration shall procure services to maximize consumer choice and options with respect to the individual policies available to Medicare-eligible retirees.

(d) The maximum state contribution to each Medicare-eligible state retirees HRA account will be equal to the lowest-cost Medicare supplemental plan that is filed with the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner of Rhode Island, that is available through the state-sponsored program, and that meets the provisions of the Medicare-eligible retiree healthcare insurance benefit defined in § 36-12-1(9). The maximum state contribution will vary by age as specified by the rates set forth in the Medicare supplemental plan filing.

(e) For Medicare-eligible state retirees who retired before September 30, 2008, effective January 1, 2014, the state of Rhode Island will credit an amount to each retirees HRA account on a monthly basis. The amount of such credit shall be calculated based on the retirees years of service, as a percentage of the maximum state contribution set forth in (d) above, and in accordance with the following formula:

(f) For Medicare-eligible state retirees who retire on or after October 1, 2008, effective January 1, 2014, the state of Rhode Island will credit monthly an amount to each retirees HRA account equal to 80% of the maximum state contribution set forth in (d) above, provided the retiree has a minimum of twenty (20) years of service and is at least fifty-nine (59) years of age.

(g) Medicare-eligible teacher retirees may purchase the individual policies available to Medicare-eligible state retirees under the state-sponsored program.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-1
§ 36-4-1. Divisions of state service.
Status: in_force

The state service shall be divided into a classified service and an unclassified service.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-1-5 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-1 / Section 36-1-5
§ 36-1-5. Certificate of election of United States senators.
Status: in_force

The governor shall give a certificate of the election of senators from this state, under the seal of the state, to the president of the senate of the United States, which certificate shall be countersigned by the secretary of state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-9-6 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-9 / Section 36-9-6
§ 36-9-6. Election by elected officers or legislative employees to become members.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the fact that their business time may not be devoted exclusively to the services of the state, any member of the general assembly or any of the general officers of the state, may elect to participate in the benefits provided by chapters 8  10 of this title by filing an application with the board on or before December 31, 1948, or within six (6) months from the date upon which that person first qualifies for that office, whichever is later. Notwithstanding any other provision of chapters 8  10 of this title, upon becoming a member of the system that person shall be entitled to prior service credit covering service rendered prior to the date of becoming a member of the system for service rendered to the state as a state employee, a member of the general assembly, or as a general officer.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-3 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-3
§ 36-8-3. Responsibility for administration  Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

The general administration and the responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of chapters 8  10 of this title are hereby vested in a retirement board. The retirement board shall, from time to time, establish rules and regulations for the administration and transaction of the business of the retirement system. Rules and regulations which have been or may be established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be compiled, codified, and published so that they shall be generally available to the members of the system. The retirement board shall also perform such other functions as are required for the execution of chapters 8  10 of this title. The board shall also establish rules and regulations to govern the provisions of §§ 8-3-16, 8-3-17, 8-8-10.1, 8-8-10.2, 8-8.2-7, 8-8.2-8, 28-30-18.1, 28-30-18.2, 42-28-22.1, and 42-28-22.2.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-7 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-7
§ 36-4-7. Probationary period in noncompetitive branch  Acquisition of full status.
Status: in_force

Persons appointed to positions in the noncompetitive branch shall serve a probationary period of six (6) months during which time the appointing authority shall report to the personnel administrator every sixty (60) days concerning the work of the employee and at the end of the probationary period no further salary or other compensation shall be paid to the employee unless the appointing authority has filed with the personnel administrator a statement, in writing, that the services of the employee have been satisfactory and that it is desired that his or her services be continued. The probationary period is further defined to be one hundred-thirty (130) days worked in the non-competitive position to which the person has been appointed. Upon completion of the probationary period and receipt of the statement of satisfactory service by the personnel administrator and having fulfilled the requirements for character and physical condition, the employee shall be deemed to have acquired full status and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of that status. Whenever a class of positions shall be assigned to the noncompetitive branch, every employee holding a position in that class at the time of assignment who is a temporary employee and has served in that class for six (6) months or more shall be considered to have completed the required probationary period and upon receipt of a statement from his or her appointing authority that his or her services have been satisfactory shall be deemed to have acquired full status and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of that status. A temporary employee who has served at least four (4) months but has not completed six (6) months shall be deemed to have served four (4) months of the required probationary period and his or her appointing authority shall submit a report concerning the work of the employee to the personnel administrator and shall at the end of sixty (60) days submit a final probationary report for the employee. An employee who has served at least two (2) months but has not completed four (4) months shall be deemed to have served two (2) months of the required probationary period and his or her appointing authority shall submit a report concerning the work of the employee to the personnel administrator and shall subsequently submit a probationary report at the end of the next sixty (60) days and a final probationary report at the end of six (6) months of service.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-3-11 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-3 / Section 36-3-11
§ 36-3-11. Statutory references to previous agencies and officials.
Status: in_force

(a) Wherever in any general or public law the words civil service commission appear or are implied, there shall be substituted therefor the words director of administration, except that wherever the words civil service commission appear in relation to the rights of any person to appeal against an action of an appointing authority resulting in a dismissal, demotion, discrimination because of race, sex, age, disability, or political or religious beliefs, suspension or layoff, the words personnel appeal board shall be substituted.

(b) Wherever in any general or public law the words director of civil service appear or are implied there shall be substituted therefor the words, personnel administrator.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-11-8 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-11 / Section 36-11-8
§ 36-11-8. Unresolved issues  Conciliation or fact finding.
Status: in_force

In the event that the bargaining agent and the chief executive or his or her designee are unable, within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting, to reach an agreement on a contract, any and all unresolved issues shall, within three (3) days, be submitted to the state labor relations board for conciliation or fact finding. The board shall immediately appoint one of its conciliators to meet with the parties and assist in a voluntary resolution of impasses. If within ten (10) days of the conciliators appointment all impasses are not resolved, the conciliator shall make written findings of fact and recommendations with a view toward the voluntary settlement of unresolved issues, and the findings and recommendations shall be sent to the board and the parties. The parties shall have five (5) days in which to consider the recommendations of the conciliator and settle the unresolved issues, and any issues remaining unresolved shall be referred to binding arbitration in accordance with § 36-11-9.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-11-1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-11 / Section 36-11-1
§ 36-11-1. Right to organize  Bargaining representatives.
Status: in_force

(a) State employees, except for casual employees or seasonal employees, shall have the right to organize and designate representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of collective bargaining with respect to wages, hours, and other conditions of employment. State employees, as used in this chapter, shall include employees and members of the department of state police below the rank of lieutenant.

(b) The representatives of state employees are hereby granted the right to negotiate with the chief executive or his or her designee (appointed, elected, or possessing classified status) on matters pertaining to wages, hours, and working conditions.

(c) The chief executive or his or her designee (appointed, elected, or possessing classified status) is hereby authorized and required to recognize an organization designated by state employees for the purpose of collective bargaining as the collective bargaining agency for its members.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-13-3 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-13 / Section 36-13-3
§ 36-13-3. Administration of program.
Status: in_force

The administration of the deferred compensation program within each state agency, department, board, commission, or institution shall be under the direction of the director or principal officer of that particular agency, department, board, commission, or institution. Each city, town, or other political subdivision shall designate an officer to administer the deferred compensation program, including deferred compensation plans offered to municipal employees pursuant to § 36-13-1(c). Reductions in payroll shall be made, in each instance, by the appropriate payroll officer. The administrator of the deferred compensation program may contract with a private corporation or institution for providing consolidated billing and other administrative services.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-7-21 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-7 / Section 36-7-21
§ 36-7-21. Intent to preserve retirement system protection.
Status: in_force

It is the intention of the general assembly by the adoption of §§ 36-7-10  36-7-21 that the protection afforded employees in positions covered by a retirement system, as herein defined, on the date an agreement is made applicable to service performed in those positions, or employees receiving regular payments under the retirement system at the date of the agreement, will not be impaired as a result of making the agreement so applicable or as a result of legislative enactment in anticipation of the adoption of the referendum.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-1-12 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-1 / Section 36-1-12
§ 36-1-12. Time allowed for senate action on nominations  Disapproval  Withdrawal.
Status: in_force

Whenever the senate shall have been in session for sixty (60) legislative days after notice of the making of appointments by the governor and shall not have disapproved the appointments or shall have failed to act thereon, the appointment by the governor shall stand as confirmed. If the senate shall within the sixty (60) legislative days vote to disapprove the appointment, it forthwith shall notify the governor who, within seven (7) legislative days after notice, shall again make the appointments as desired and notify the senate thereof and so on in like manner until the senate shall approve or fail to act upon or to disapprove in sixty (60) legislative days, as aforesaid, of the governors appointments. The governor may withdraw any appointment of which he or she has given notice to the senate at any time within sixty (60) legislative days thereafter and before action has been taken thereon by the senate.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-44 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-44
§ 36-4-44. Training programs.
Status: in_force

The personnel administrator shall cooperate with appointing authorities and other supervising officials in the conduct of employee training programs to the end that the quality of service rendered by persons in the classified service may be continually improved.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-47 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-47
§ 36-4-47. Personnel roster and records  Tabulation and analysis of data.
Status: in_force

The personnel administrator shall maintain a perpetual roster of all officers and employees in the unclassified and classified services and all persons from other departments or agencies of the state which receive funds from the state showing for each person the title of the position held, the position number, his or her departmental or other agency assignment, his or her salary rate, date of appointment, complete employment history, and other such data as the personnel administrator deems pertinent. The personnel administrator shall also maintain other such personnel records as he or she considers desirable, and shall make available to the governor, the legislature, the director, department and institution executives, and other persons having a proper interest therein, tabulations and analyses of such personnel data as he or she has available. A similar perpetual roster shall also be maintained showing for each person named the title of the position held, the position number, his or her departmental or other agency assignment, his or her salary rate and date of employment which shall be made available for public inspection at the request of any person.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-9 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-6 / Section 36-6-9
§ 36-6-9. Travel expenses of superior court and family court justices, clerks, and attorney general and assistants.
Status: in_force

The justices of the superior court, the chief judge and associate justices of the family court, and the stenographic clerks of those courts, when sitting or in attendance at any session of those courts held in any county other than Providence County shall be allowed and paid, in addition to their salaries, their actual traveling expenses for travel within the state of Rhode Island in connection with their attendance at those courts. The attorney general and the assistant attorneys general shall also be allowed and paid their actual traveling expenses for travel within the state of Rhode Island when performing official duties outside of Providence County. The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sum sufficient for the payment of those expenses and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum, or so much thereof as may from time to time be required, upon receipt by him or her of proper vouchers duly authenticated.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-52 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-52
§ 36-4-52. Restrictions on political activities of classified employees.
Status: in_force

No classified employee shall during working hours engage to any extent in any form of partisan politics except that he or she may attend and vote at any party caucus, primary, or election held during working hours. Outside of working hours a classified employee may attend any partisan political rally, club, or gathering and privately express his or her partisan political views but any further partisan political activity on his or her part shall be engaged in only in accordance with the personnel rules. A classified employee violating the provisions of §§ 36-4-50  36-4-54, or of the personnel rules shall for a first offense be either demoted or dismissed and for a second offense dismissed. All charges of these violations shall be publicly heard by the personnel appeal board.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-4-60 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-4 / Section 36-4-60
§ 36-4-60. Delegation by appointing authority.
Status: in_force

Whenever under the provisions of this chapter any action is permitted or required to be done by an appointing authority, the appointing authority may delegate the responsibility for the performance of that action to such subordinate officers or employees as he or she may see fit; provided, however, that no authority to discharge or otherwise terminate or suspend an employee shall be delegated to a subordinate officer or employee unless the subordinate officer or employee has previously been delegated the authority to hire or appoint employees of category similar to that employee.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-16-1 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-16 / Section 36-16-1
§ 36-16-1. State employment contracts  Prohibitions.
Status: in_force

(a) No state agency, department of government, commission, board, authority, public corporation, governmental or quasi-governmental body, autonomous or otherwise, which is created by authority of the general assembly, executive order, or state law, shall enter into any contract or agreement with any individual, firm, or partnership which provides for any of the following upon termination of employment:

(1) Termination damages or benefits, including continuation of salary or other compensation for more than six (6) months from the date of termination;

(2) Severance pay, excepting accrued vacation pay, sick leave benefits, or health care benefits, for more than one year from the date of termination;

(3) Mandatory hiring, payment, or compensation for work performed or services rendered as a consultant or in any other capacity following termination; or

(4) Which provides for a contract term in excess of three (3) years.

(b) This section shall not apply to collective bargaining agreements entered into between an employer and a labor organization as defined in § 28-7-3.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-8-11 — RI Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36-8 / Section 36-8-11
§ 36-8-11. Collection of actuarial and experience data.
Status: in_force

The retirement board shall collect and keep in convenient form such data as shall be necessary for the preparation of the mortality and service tables and for the compilation of such other information as shall be required for the actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the retirement system.