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RI Gen L § 46-15.1-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-17 - Refunding bonds.

§ 46-15.1-17. Refunding bonds.(a) The board may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying any of its bonds issued hereunder at maturity or upon acceleration or redemption. The refunding bonds may be issued in sufficient amounts to pay or provide the principal of the bonds being refunded, together with any redemption premium thereon, any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of payment of the bonds, the expenses of issue of the refunding bonds, the expenses of redeeming the bonds being refunded, and such reserves for debt service or other capital or current expenses from the proceeds of the refunding bonds as may be required by a trust agreement or resolution securing bonds or notes. The refunding bonds may be issued at such time or times simultaneous with or prior to the maturity, acceleration, or redemption date of the bonds being refunded as the board may determine to be in the public interest.(b) The proceeds of bonds or notes issued for the purpose of refunding outstanding bonds or notes may be applied, in the discretion of the board, to the purchase, retirement at maturity, or redemption of those outstanding bonds or notes either on their earliest or a subsequent redemption date, and may, pending that application, be placed in escrow. Any escrowed proceeds may be invested and reinvested in obligations of or guaranteed by the United States, or in certificates of deposit, time deposits, or repurchase agreements fully secured or guaranteed by the state or the United States, or an instrumentality of either, maturing at such time or times as shall be appropriate to assure the prompt payment, as to principal, interest and redemption premium, if any, of the outstanding bonds and notes to be so refunded. The interest, income, and profits, if any, earned or realized on any investment may also be applied to the payment of the outstanding bonds or notes to be so refunded. After the terms of the escrow have been fully satisfied and carried out, any balance of the proceeds and interest, income, and profits, if any, earned or realized on the investments thereof may be returned to the board for use by it in furtherance of its purposes.(c) The issue of refunding bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the security therefor, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties, and obligations of the board in respect of the same shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter relating to the issue of bonds, other than refunding bonds, insofar as the provisions may be applicable, but no bonds shall be refunded to a date more than forty (40) years from the date of their original issue.History of Section.P.L. 1970, ch. 304, § 1; P.L. 1987, ch. 417, § 5; P.L. 2007, ch. 340, § 49.
RI Gen L § 46-15.1-17.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-17.1 - Dissolution.

§ 46-15.1-17.1. Dissolution.If the board shall be dissolved all funds of the board not required for the payment of bonds shall be paid to the general treasurer for the use of the state, and all property belonging to the board shall be vested in the state and delivered to it.History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 56, § 5.
RI Gen L § 46-15.1-17.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-17.2 - Inconsistent provisions.

§ 46-15.1-17.2. Inconsistent provisions.Insofar as the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law or ordinance, general, special or local, or of any municipal charter or of any rule or regulation of the state or any municipality, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling.History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 56, § 7.
RI Gen L § 46-15.1-17.3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-17.3 - Limitation of powers.

§ 46-15.1-17.3. Limitation of powers.The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any bonds issued by the board pursuant to this chapter that the state will not alter or limit the rights hereby vested in the board to fulfill the terms of any agreement made with or for the benefit of the holders of bonds, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of bondholders, until the bonds, together with the interest thereon, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of the holders are fully met and discharged. The board is authorized to include this pledge and agreement of the state in any agreement with bondholders.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 417, § 6.
RI Gen L § 46-15.1-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-18 - Severability - Constructions.

§ 46-15.1-18. Severability — Constructions.(a) If any provision of this chapter shall be held invalid in any circumstance, the invalidity shall not affect any other provisions or circumstances.(b) This chapter shall be construed in all respects so as to meet all constitutional requirements. In carrying out the purposes and provisions of this chapter, all steps shall be taken which are necessary to meet constitutional requirements whether or not those steps are required by statute.(c) This chapter shall be construed liberally in aid of its declared purposes. The powers granted hereby shall be in addition to, independent of, and not in substitution for any other powers granted by law.History of Section.P.L. 1970, ch. 304, § 1.
RI Gen L § 46-15.1-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-19 - Surface reservoirs.

§ 46-15.1-19. Surface reservoirs.Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this chapter, nor any language contained therein, shall allow or permit any funds, proceeds, revenues, or other sums of money derived by, through, or from the issuance of revenue bonds as authorized under this chapter, to be used for the design or construction of any surface reservoirs, without the approval of the general assembly, or to be used in connection with the acquisition of sites for the development of surface reservoirs through the exercise by the water resources board of the power of eminent domain as provided under § 46-15.1-5(15) and in accordance with the provisions of chapter 6 of title 37.History of Section.P.L. 1970, ch. 304, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 461, § 2.
RI Gen L § 46-15.1-19.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-19.1 - Big River Reservoir - Administration.

§ 46-15.1-19.1. Big River Reservoir — Administration.The Rhode Island water resources board, established pursuant to this chapter and chapter 15 of this title, shall be the only designated agency which will administer those lands acquired for the Big River Reservoir as established under section 23 of chapter 133 of the Public Laws of 1964. The director of the department of environmental management and the director's authorized agents, employees, and designees shall, together with the water resources board in accordance with the Big River management area land use plan for the lands, protect the natural resources of the Big River Reservoir lands. The lands of the Big River Reservoir are subject to enforcement authority of the department of environmental management, as provided for in chapter 17.1 of title 42, and as provided for in title 20 of the General Laws.History of Section.P.L. 2000, ch. 284, § 1.
RI Gen L § 46-15.1-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-20 - Water development account fund.

§ 46-15.1-20. Water development account fund.There is created a special fund called "water development fund", a general revenue fund within the general fund, which shall record any net proceeds which may be paid to the state as a result of the lease of any reservoir sites or other facilities as may be acquired or constructed by the state in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, or as otherwise authorized or permitted, or as a result of the sale of surplus property or any interest therein, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the sale of excess gravel, timber, or other materials located on the reservoir sites or other facilities. Monies are to be deposited as general revenues. The amounts appropriated shall be made available for the purposes authorized by this chapter, and also hereby made available for borrowing from the board, in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of this chapter exclusive of acquisition of reservoir sites, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment or loan of such sums or such portions thereof as may be required, from time to time, upon receipt by him or her of properly authenticated vouchers.History of Section.P.L. 1990, ch. 461, § 6; P.L. 1991, ch. 44, art. 76, § 9; P.L. 1995, ch. 370, art. 40, § 159; P.L. 1999, ch. 461, § 2.
RI Gen L § 46-15.1-21 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-21 - Annual report of water provider.

§ 46-15.1-21. Annual report of water provider.Each water providing and water supply company both public and private doing business in this state shall forward an annual report to the water resources board setting forth the status of any water supply within the company's jurisdiction and control, and progress made towards achieving the goals of the entity's water supply management plan as prescribed in §§ 46-15.3-5.1 and 46-15.3-7.History of Section.P.L. 1991, ch. 20, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 104, § 2; P.L. 2006, ch. 126, § 2; P.L. 2009, ch. 288, § 7; P.L. 2009, ch. 341, § 7.
RI Gen L § 46-15.1-22 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.1 - Water Supply Facilities|Section 46-15.1-22 - Discontinuation of borrowing authority and abolishment of water resources board (corporate).

§ 46-15.1-22. Discontinuation of borrowing authority and abolishment of water resources board (corporate).(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, including, but not limited to, § 46-15.1-10, upon the effective date of this section, the water resources board (corporate), established as a body politic and corporate and public instrumentality pursuant to this chapter, shall be prohibited from borrowing money or issuing bonds for any purpose.(b) The water resources board (corporate) shall continue to repay existing debt until all such debt is fully repaid. Upon the repayment by the water resources board (corporate) of all such existing obligations, the water resources board (corporate) shall be dissolved and all existing functions and duties of the water resources board (corporate) shall be transferred to the Rhode Island infrastructure bank, a body politic and corporate and public instrumentality of the state established pursuant to chapter 12.2 of this title.History of Section.P.L. 2009, ch. 68, art. 5, § 6; P.L. 2015, ch. 141, art. 14, § 20.
RI Gen L § 46-15.2-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.2 - Water Facilities Assistance Program|Section 46-15.2-1 - Short title.

§ 46-15.2-1. Short title.This chapter shall be known as the "Rhode Island Water Facilities Assistance Program".History of Section.P.L. 1983 (S.S.), ch. 332, art. II, § 1.
RI Gen L § 46-15.2-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.2 - Water Facilities Assistance Program|Section 46-15.2-2 - Legislative findings.

§ 46-15.2-2. Legislative findings.The general assembly finds and declares that:(1) A number of Rhode Island municipalities periodically suffer water shortages severe enough to require usage curtailments as a result of droughts.(2) The limited water supply systems and sources of these municipalities, burdened by rising water usage caused by growth and development, will encounter increasing difficulties coping with short-term climatologically caused shortages.(3) The quality of water supplies of a number of municipalities are threatened by development and by contamination.(4) Population growth, commercial and industrial development, and patterns of higher water consumption have forced some communities to abandon or supplement their inadequate or contaminated original sources of water, and to develop new supplies of water often located beyond their borders and outside their original service areas.(5) It has become evident that individual water systems serving the public often no longer have the financial resources to find and develop adequate new water supplies. The costs of constructing aqueducts, major transmission lines, and pumping stations to deliver water to communities from remote sources, and the difficulties in acquiring rights-of-way, overwhelm most communities and indicate the need for state involvement.(6) Water of high quality is a sufficiently abundant resource in Rhode Island that enough water can be made available to meet all the needs of each Rhode Islander through the foreseeable future provided that water can be conveyed to the communities and water systems in need from remote sources.(7) The water resources board was established in 1967 and charged with the responsibility of acquiring and developing new major water supplies for the people of Rhode Island. The Rhode Island water facilities assistance program enables the water resources board to assist public water systems in obtaining and delivering potable water to meet present and future needs throughout the state of Rhode Island.(8) The water resources board and other existing agencies of state government have adequate capability and authority to carry out this program without the creation of new agencies.History of Section.P.L. 1983 (S.S.), ch. 332, art. II, § 1.
RI Gen L § 46-15.2-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.2 - Water Facilities Assistance Program|Section 46-15.2-3 - Definitions.

§ 46-15.2-3. Definitions.As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning:(1)"Distribution facilities" means the pipes and appurtenant facilities employed specifically to deliver, to dispense, to render, or to circulate potable water directly for the benefit of a consumer or a community of consumers.(2)"Intersystem facilities" means transmission facilities designed and constructed by the owner of any public water system having the capacity to serve two (2) or more water systems.(3)"Transmission facilities" means the pipes, pumping stations, and storage facilities required to carry potable water, or raw water to a treatment facility or storage facility for later treatment, from a water source to or throughout an area served or to be served by a public water system for the specific purpose of supplying water to support a general population. Transmission facilities shall not include the distribution system. Determinations concerning eligible transmission facilities for purposes of this program shall be made by the water resources board.History of Section.P.L. 1983 (S.S.), ch. 332, art. II, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 129, art. 28, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 461, § 7; P.L. 1992, ch. 292, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 461, § 3.
RI Gen L § 46-15.2-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.2 - Water Facilities Assistance Program|Section 46-15.2-7 - Project execution.

§ 46-15.2-7. Project execution.The water resources board shall determine the priority and scheduling of all projects assisted by this program, and shall ensure that all construction is properly managed and successfully completed.History of Section.P.L. 1983 (S.S.), ch. 332, art. II, § 1.
RI Gen L § 46-15.2-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.2 - Water Facilities Assistance Program|Section 46-15.2-8 - Liberal construction.

§ 46-15.2-8. Liberal construction.The provisions of this chapter shall be construed liberally in order to accomplish the purposes hereof, and where any specific power is given to any agency by the provisions hereof, the statement thereof shall not be deemed to exclude or impair any power otherwise in this chapter conferred upon that agency.History of Section.P.L. 1983 (S.S.), ch. 332, art. II, § 1.
RI Gen L § 46-15.2-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.2 - Water Facilities Assistance Program|Section 46-15.2-9 - Severability.

§ 46-15.2-9. Severability.If any provisions of this chapter or of any rule, regulation, or order made thereunder, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this chapter, rule, regulation, or order, and the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. The invalidity of any section or sections or parts of any section or sections of this chapter shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this chapter, and it is hereby declared to be the legislative intent that this chapter would have been enacted if the invalid parts had not been included therein.History of Section.P.L. 1983 (S.S.), ch. 332, art. II, § 1.
RI Gen L § 46-15.3-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.3 - Public Drinking Water Supply System Protection|Section 46-15.3-1 - Short title.

§ 46-15.3-1. Short title.This chapter shall be referred to as the "Public Drinking Water Supply System Protection Act of 1997".History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 417, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 360, § 2.
RI Gen L § 46-15.3-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.3 - Public Drinking Water Supply System Protection|Section 46-15.3-2 - Designation of water resources board - Selection of treasurer.

§ 46-15.3-2. Designation of water resources board — Selection of treasurer.(a) Except as specified in § 46-15.3-9, the water resources board is designated to carry out the provisions of this chapter in its capacity as designated in § 46-15.1-2. In exercising its powers under this chapter, the board shall constitute a body politic and corporate and a public instrumentality of the state having a distinct legal existence from the state and not constituting a department of the state government, but this shall not affect the status of the board when exercising other powers. The board may take action under this chapter at any meeting of the board. A member of the board who is affiliated with a public water system in Rhode Island as provided in § 46-15-2 shall not thereby be disqualified from acting as a member of the board on a transaction under this chapter with the public water system.(b) The treasurer, chosen pursuant to § 46-15.1-2, shall act as such under this chapter. If a treasurer has not been chosen by the board pursuant to § 46-15.1-2, the board shall at any time, and annually in the month of March thereafter, choose a treasurer to act as such under this chapter. The treasurer need not be a member of the board or of its staff and shall serve until his or her successor is chosen and taken office, unless sooner removed by the board with or without cause. In the event of a vacancy in the office of treasurer, the board shall fill the vacancy for the unexpired term.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 417, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 340, § 51.
RI Gen L § 46-15.3-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.3 - Public Drinking Water Supply System Protection|Section 46-15.3-3 - Purposes and powers.

§ 46-15.3-3. Purposes and powers.The purposes of the board and the suppliers under this chapter shall be to protect the quality and safety of the public drinking water supply. In carrying out the foregoing purposes the board shall have, in addition to the powers granted in this chapter, all of the powers enumerated in chapter 15.1 of this title, and shall have the power to acquire interests in land in the manner provided in § 46-15.1-5, but in exercising these powers, the board shall not be subject to any limitation on the use of funds contained in § 46-15.1-19.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 417, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 461, § 8.
RI Gen L § 46-15.3-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.3 - Public Drinking Water Supply System Protection|Section 46-15.3-6 - Repealed.

§ 46-15.3-6. Repealed.
RI Gen L § 46-15.3-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.3 - Public Drinking Water Supply System Protection|Section 46-15.3-7 - Water quality protection component.

§ 46-15.3-7. Water quality protection component.(a) Every supplier of public water eligible for trust fund proceeds under this chapter shall, by July 1, 1988, complete a water quality protection component which shall at a minimum include:(1) Determination of the boundaries of the watersheds of reservoirs serving the supplier or of the aquifers serving public wells.(2) Identification of sources of contamination of each reservoir or well field.(3) Identification of measures needed to protect each reservoir or well field from sources of contamination, including acquisition of buffer zones, diversion of storm water or spills, and desirable land use control regulations.(4) A priority list of actions for implementing these protection measures.(b) This component shall be adopted by the governing board of each water supplier following a public hearing. Notice of the public hearing shall be published once by the supplier at least twenty (20) days before the date set thereof, in a newspaper of general circulation in the State of Rhode Island. The notice shall set forth the date, time, and place of the hearing and shall include a brief description of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The component shall be updated at least once every five (5) years. Proceeds from the watershed protection fund shall be usable for reimbursement of suppliers for preparation of water quality protection plans.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 417, § 1; P.L. 1992, ch. 468, § 2; P.L. 1997, ch. 360, § 2.
RI Gen L § 46-15.3-7.3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.3 - Public Drinking Water Supply System Protection|Section 46-15.3-7.3 - Rules governing content of programs, components, review, evaluation, funding, and implementation.

§ 46-15.3-7.3. Rules governing content of programs, components, review, evaluation, funding, and implementation.The water resources board with the concurrence of the department of environmental management, the department of health, the department of administration's division of planning, and the Rhode Island public utilities commission, as to water suppliers within its jurisdiction, shall forthwith promulgate rules and regulations for the review of components as described in this chapter. The water resources board with the concurrence of the department of environmental management, the department of health, the department of administration's statewide planning program, and the Rhode Island public utilities commission, as to water suppliers within its jurisdiction, shall promulgate the criteria or standards which it will use to evaluate the implementation of approved components, programs and funding mechanisms.History of Section.P.L. 1997, ch. 360, § 3.
RI Gen L § 46-15.3-7.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 46 - Waters and Navigation|Chapter 46-15.3 - Public Drinking Water Supply System Protection|Section 46-15.3-7.4 - Excluding requirement of state mandated cost.

§ 46-15.3-7.4. Excluding requirement of state mandated cost.The provisions of §§ 45-13-7 through 45-13-10 inclusive, shall not apply to this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1997, ch. 360, § 3.