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RI Gen L § 8-8.2-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-3 - Collection authority - Contempt.

§ 8-8.2-3. Collection authority — Contempt.(a) A judge or magistrate shall have the authority to enforce the judgments of the tribunal as authorized by law. The procedure for the collection of costs and fines shall generally follow the course of the collection of civil judgments pursuant to chapters 17 and 28 of title 9 to the extent applicable. A judge or magistrate shall not issue a body attachment for any judgment entered prior to the effective date of this section. All peace officers authorized by the law shall exercise the powers of a constable for purposes of making service of any writ or notice issued by the traffic tribunal pursuant to this collection procedure, including the execution of a body attachment. In the event that a body attachment is executed, the detainee must be brought before a judge or magistrate, or if the traffic tribunal is not in session before a justice of the peace authorized pursuant to § 12-10-2 immediately upon detention or as soon thereafter as is reasonably practicable. The amount of fees and fines due to the traffic tribunal shall be noted on a body attachment issued pursuant to this procedure, and a justice of the peace shall accept said monies and order the release of the detainee if the amount due is tendered. If the detainee claims an inability to pay the full amount due, the justice of the peace shall order the release of the detainee pursuant to reasonable bail. The chief magistrate of the traffic tribunal shall issue rules and regulations for the collection process consistent with this section.(b) A judge or magistrate of the traffic tribunal may adjudicate a person in willful contempt and order him or her fined up to a maximum of five hundred dollars ($500) for each separate offense. Provided further that, if the judge or magistrate determines that the person is unable to pay the fine or judgment, he or she may order partial payments or establish a payment schedule for the payment of the fine or judgment.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 3, § 8.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-4 - Subpoena.

§ 8-8.2-4. Subpoena.(a) The traffic tribunal through its judges, magistrates and clerks is hereby authorized and empowered to summon defendants and issue subpoenas to the same extent as they may be issued by the district court in civil cases in such forms as may be prescribed by rules promulgated by the chief magistrate of the traffic tribunal pursuant to § 8-6-2.(b) Notaries public and justices of the peace may issue subpoenas returnable before the traffic tribunal to the same extent that they are authorized to do so in civil cases pending before the district court.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 3, § 8.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-5 - Security officers - Powers.

§ 8-8.2-5. Security officers — Powers.(a) All full time security officers employed by the traffic tribunal shall have the same immunities and may exercise all powers of sheriffs, city and town police officers, and constables when the security officers are enforcing the laws of this state, and all rules and regulations of the traffic tribunal upon the lands and buildings owned or occupied by the traffic tribunal upon streets and highways immediately adjacent to those lands or when in attendance with a judge or magistrate.(b) All security officers shall be required to attend the Rhode Island municipal police academy for a period of forty (40) hours for the purpose of training in law enforcement.(c) When any person is suspected of having committed a felony the superintendent of state police shall be notified following the suspected felon's arrest.(d) When acting as a constable with the authorization of the Chief Magistrate, he or she may exercise all powers under Rhode Island §§ 8-8-12(10) and 8-8-23.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 187, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 405, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 3, § 8.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-6 - Retirement of judges on reduced pay.

§ 8-8.2-6. Retirement of judges on reduced pay.(a) Whenever any person engaged as a judge on or before July 2, 1997, has served as a judge of the administrative adjudication court or as a judge of the administrative adjudication court who is reassigned by this chapter to the traffic tribunal for twenty (20) years, or has so served for ten (10) years and has reached the age of sixty five (65) years, the judge may retire from active service and, thereafter, the judge shall receive annually during life a sum equal to three fourths (¾) of the annual salary that the judge was receiving at the time of retirement; provided, however, any person who has served for twenty (20) years and has reached the age of sixty five (65) years, or has so served for fifteen (15) years and reached the age of seventy (70) years, may retired from active service and, thereafter, the judge shall receive annually during his or her life a sum equal to the annual salary he or she was receiving at the time of his or her retirement. In determining eligibility under this section, any judge who has served within the judiciary or as a hearing officer or administrative law judge, may include such service as if the service had been on the administrative adjudication court and shall be included under the provisions of § 36-9-5. Whenever a judge or magistrate shall be granted a leave of absence without pay, such absence shall not be credited towards active service time for the purposes of retirement.(b) Any judge who shall retire in accordance with the provisions of this section may at his or her request, and at the direction of the chief justice of the supreme court subject to the retiree's physical and mental competence, be assigned to perform such services as a judge or magistrate in the traffic tribunal as the chief magistrate of the traffic tribunal or the chief justice shall prescribe. When so assigned and performing that service, he or she shall have all the powers and authority of a judge or magistrate. A retired judge shall not be counted in the number of magistrates provided by law for the traffic tribunal nor shall he or she receive any further emolument other than his or her retirement pay for the performance of the aforesaid services.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 3, § 8; P.L. 2007, ch. 126, § 2; P.L. 2007, ch. 179, § 2.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-8 - State contributions.

§ 8-8.2-8. State contributions.The state of Rhode Island shall make its contribution for maintaining the system established by § 8-8.2-7 and providing the annuities, benefits, and retirement allowances in accordance with the provisions of this chapter by annually appropriating an amount that will pay a rate percent of the compensation paid after December 31, 1989, to judges of the administrative adjudication court engaged after December 31, 1989, who are reassigned by this chapter to the traffic tribunal. The rate percent shall be computed and certified in accordance with the procedures set forth in § 36-8-13 and § 36-10-2 under rules and regulations promulgated by the retirement board pursuant to § 36-8-3 and shall be transmitted on the date contributions are withheld but no later than three (3) business days following the pay period ending in which contributions were withheld.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; P.L. 2019, ch. 205, § 3; P.L. 2019, ch. 271, § 3.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-9 - Retirement of judges on reduced pay.

§ 8-8.2-9. Retirement of judges on reduced pay.(a) Whenever any person first engaged as a judge subsequent to July 2, 1997, has served as a judge of the administrative adjudication court or as a judge of the administrative adjudication court who is reassigned by this chapter to the traffic tribunal for twenty (20) years, or has so served for ten (10) years and has reached the age of sixty five (65) years, the judge may retire from active service and, thereafter, the judge shall receive annually during life a sum equal to three fourths (¾) of his or her average highest three (3) consecutive years of compensation; provided, however any such person who has served twenty (20) years and has reached the age sixty five (65) or has served fifteen (15) years and has reached the age of seventy (70) years, may retire from active service and, thereafter, the judge shall receive annually during life a sum equal to his or her average highest three (3) consecutive years of compensation. In determining eligibility under this section, any judge who has served within the judiciary or as a hearing officer or administrative law judge, may include such service as if the service had been on the administrative adjudication court and shall be included under the provision of § 36-9-5. Whenever a justice or magistrate shall be granted a leave of absence without pay, such absence shall not be credited towards active service time for the purposes of retirement.(b) Any judge who shall retire in accordance with the provisions of this section may at his or her own request, and at the direction of the chief justice of the supreme court subject to the retiree's physical and mental competence, be assigned to perform such services as a magistrate in the traffic tribunal as the chief magistrate or chief justice shall prescribe. When so assigned and performing that service, he or she shall have all the powers and authority of a magistrate. A retired judge shall not be counted in the number of magistrates provided by law for the division of traffic adjudication nor shall he or she receive any further emolument other than his or her retirement pay for the performance of the aforesaid services.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 3, § 8; P.L. 2007, ch. 126, § 2; P.L. 2007, ch. 179, § 2.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-10 - No incremental retirement benefit for temporary service as chief justice, presiding justice or chief judge or chief magistrate.

§ 8-8.2-10. No incremental retirement benefit for temporary service as chief justice, presiding justice or chief judge or chief magistrate.No increment in salary resulting from any rule or regulation providing for an increment in salary for temporary service as chief justice, presiding justice or chief magistrate shall be construed to add to the annual salary of a judicial officer for purposes of retirement under § 8-8.2-6 or § 8-8.2-9.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 3, § 8; P.L. 2011, ch. 63, § 2; P.L. 2011, ch. 95, § 2.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-11 - Allowance to surviving spouses or domestic partners of deceased judges.

§ 8-8.2-11. Allowance to surviving spouses or domestic partners of deceased judges.(a) Whenever any judge of the administrative adjudication court or any judge of the administrative adjudication court who is reassigned by this chapter to the traffic tribunal dies after retirement or during active service while eligible for retirement, the judge's surviving spouse or domestic partner shall receive annually thereafter during his or her lifetime and so long as he or she remains unmarried or not in a domestic partnership, an amount equal to one third (⅓) of the annual payment that the administrative judge was receiving by way of salary or retirement pay at the time of his or her death. Whenever a judge of the administrative adjudication court or any judge of the administrative adjudication court who is reassigned by this act to the traffic tribunal shall die without having become eligible to retire under § 8-8.2-6 and has served ten (10) years or more in office, his or her surviving spouse or domestic partner shall receive annually thereafter during the spouse's or domestic partner's lifetime and so long as he or she remains unmarried or not in a domestic partnership, one fourth (¼) of the annual salary that the judge was receiving at the time of his or her death.(b) Any judge who retires under the provisions of § 8-8.2-6 may at his or her option elect to receive three fourths (¾) of his or her retirement pay, and where the option is exercised by giving the general treasurer notice in writing thereof within two (2) years after the date of his or her retirement, his or her surviving spouse or domestic partner shall receive annually one half (½) of his or her retirement pay during the spouse's or domestic partner's lifetime so long as he or she remains unmarried or not in a domestic partnership.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 510, § 3; P.L. 2012, ch. 415, § 13.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-13 - Calculation of retirement benefits.

§ 8-8.2-13. Calculation of retirement benefits.For the purposes of the calculation of retirement benefits, in the event that any judge of the administrative adjudication court or any judge of the administrative adjudication court who has been reassigned to the traffic tribunal by this chapter participates or acquiesces in a state shutdown or in a reduced salary or salary deferral plan consistent with any plan imposed upon or agreed to by other state employees, his or her annual salary shall be calculated as if she or he had not participated or acquiesced in any shutdown or plan.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-14 - Transfer of records and other property.

§ 8-8.2-14. Transfer of records and other property.All books, papers, records, current appropriations and relevant property necessary for the functioning of the traffic tribunal shall be transferred thereto from the administrative adjudication court.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-15 - Transfer of employees.

§ 8-8.2-15. Transfer of employees.All employees of the administrative adjudication court deemed by the chief judge of the district court, with the approval of the chief justice of the supreme court, and subject to the labor laws of this state and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, to be essential to the operation of the traffic tribunal are hereby transferred to the said traffic tribunal. The chief judge of the district court shall, subject to the approval of the chief justice of the supreme court, and subject to any applicable collective bargaining agreement, assign appropriate titles and duties to said employees and shall promulgate a listing of said titles and duties within six (6) months from July 1, 1999.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 415, § 13.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-16 - Interpretation.

§ 8-8.2-16. Interpretation.Whenever, in the general laws, the words administrative adjudication court shall appear, said words shall be construed and interpreted as, and to mean, the traffic tribunal. Whenever, in the general laws, the words administrator/clerk of the administrative adjudication court shall appear, said words shall be interpreted and construed as, and to mean, clerk of the traffic tribunal. Except as provided in §§ 8-8.2-6, 8-8.2-7, 8-8.2-8, 8-8.2-9, 8-8.2-11, and 8-8.2-12, whenever, in the general laws, the words judge of the administrative adjudication court shall appear, said words shall be construed and interpreted as, and to mean, judge or magistrate of the traffic tribunal.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-17 - Repealed.

§ 8-8.2-17. Repealed.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 3, § 8, effective August 1, 2007.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-18 - Custody of records.

§ 8-8.2-18. Custody of records.The traffic tribunal established by this chapter shall have custody of all records, books, and papers of the administrative adjudication court heretofore existing. All proceedings and processes pending in the administrative adjudication court heretofore existing and shall continue with the same force and effect in the traffic tribunal herein established; and all rights and liabilities of the parties to such actions and proceedings and processes commenced prior to July 1, 1999, including costs of appeal, shall continue in full force and effect.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-19 - Severability.

§ 8-8.2-19. Severability.If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof shall for any reason be judged invalid, such a judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of the law, but shall be confined in its effect to the provisions or application directly involved in the controversy giving rise to the judgment.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-20 - Domestic partner - Definition.

§ 8-8.2-20. Domestic partner — Definition.For purposes of this chapter, "domestic partner" shall be defined as a person who, prior to the decedent's death, was in an exclusive, intimate and committed relationship with the decedent, and who certifies by affidavit that their relationship met the following qualifications:(1) Both partners were at least eighteen (18) years of age and were mentally competent to contract;(2) Neither partner was married to anyone else;(3) Partners were not related by blood to a degree which would prohibit marriage in the state of Rhode Island;(4) Partners resided together and had resided together for at least one year at the time of death; and(5) Partners were financially interdependent as evidenced by at least two (2) of the following:(i) Domestic partnership agreement or relationship contract;(ii) Joint mortgage or joint ownership of primary residence;(iii) Two (2) of: (A) joint ownership of motor vehicle; (B) joint checking account; (C) joint credit account; (D) joint lease; and/or(iv) The domestic partner had been designated as a beneficiary for the decedent's will, retirement contract or life insurance.History of Section.P.L. 2007, ch. 510, § 4.
RI Gen L § 8-8.2-21 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.2 - Traffic tribunal|Section 8-8.2-21 - Abstracts of court records - Traffic tribunal.

§ 8-8.2-21. Abstracts of court records — Traffic tribunal.A full record shall be kept by the Rhode Island traffic tribunal in this state of every case in which a person is charged with violating subparagraphs 21-28-4.01(c)(2)(iii) and 21-28-4.01(c)(2)(iv). An abstract of the record shall be retained by the court. The abstract shall be made upon forms prepared by the chief magistrate of the Rhode Island traffic tribunal and shall include all necessary information as to the parties to the cause, the nature of the offense, the date of the hearing, the plea, the decision, the judgment, and the result, and every abstract shall be certified by the clerk of the court. The Rhode Island traffic tribunal shall keep the records and they shall not be open to public inspection. The chief magistrate of the traffic tribunal shall make the records available to Rhode Island state and local police departments for their inspection of the details of cases which have been heard before the tribunal.History of Section.P.L. 2012, ch. 221, § 5; P.L. 2012, ch. 233, § 5.
RI Gen L § 8-8.3-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts|Chapter 8-8.3 - Extreme Risk Protection Orders|Section 8-8.3-1 - Definitions.

§ 8-8.3-1. Definitions.When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:(1) "Court" means the superior court in the county in which the respondent resides.(2) "Extreme risk protection order" means either a temporary order or a one-year order granted under this chapter.(3) "Family or household member" means present and former family members (as defined in § 15-15-1), parents (as defined in § 15-15-1), stepparents, legal guardians, persons who are or have been in a substantive dating or engagement relationship within the past one year (as defined in § 15-15-1), and cohabitants (as defined in § 8-8.1-1).(4) "Firearm" means and includes any machine gun, pistol, rifle, air rifle, air pistol, "blank gun," "BB gun," or other instrument from which steel or metal projectiles are propelled, or that may readily be converted to expel a projectile, except crossbows, recurve, compound, or longbows, and except instruments propelling projectiles that are designed or normally used for a primary purpose other than as a weapon. The frame or receiver of the weapon shall be construed as a firearm pursuant to the provisions of this section.(5) "Law enforcement agency" means the police department of any city or town, and the division of the Rhode Island state police established pursuant to chapter 28 of title 42.(6) "Law enforcement officer" means a sworn member of a law enforcement agency as defined herein.(7) "One-year extreme risk protection order" means an extreme risk protection order granted pursuant to the provisions of § 8-8.3-5 or renewed pursuant to the provisions of § 8-8.3-7.(8) "Petitioner" means a law enforcement agency that petitions for an order pursuant to this chapter.(9) "Respondent" means the person who is identified as the respondent in a petition filed pursuant to this chapter.(10) "Social media" means any cell phone- or internet-based tools and applications that are used to share and distribute information.(11) "Temporary extreme risk protection order" means an extreme risk protection order issued pursuant to the provisions of § 8-8.3-4.History of Section.P.L. 2018, ch. 6, § 1; P.L. 2018, ch. 7, § 1.