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RI Gen L § 45-25-10.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-10.4 - City of East Providence housing authority.

§ 45-25-10.4. City of East Providence housing authority.Notwithstanding the provisions of § 45-25-10, commencing September 1, 2000, the housing authority of the city of East Providence is expanded in size from five (5) members to seven (7) members. The two (2) additional members shall be residents of public housing facilities in the city of East Providence. Each shall be appointed for a three (3) year term by the mayor who shall make the appointments from a list of persons submitted to the mayor by the executive director of the housing authority. The list shall contain no fewer than eight (8) nominees, with no fewer than two (2) nominees to be from any one public housing authority site. If fewer than eight (8) nominees wish to be considered for appointment, the mayor may select only one from residents of public housing facilities. The list shall be submitted to the mayor for appointment every three (3) years, and the residents appointed as housing authority commissioners shall serve a term of three (3) years, provided that no commissioner shall serve more than three (3) consecutive three (3) year terms. The method of selection of the residents to the list shall be determined by the mayor. If any resident commissioner no longer lives in public housing, his or her office shall be deemed vacated.History of Section.P.L. 2000, ch. 308, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 401, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-10.5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-10.5 - City of Woonsocket housing authority.

§ 45-25-10.5. City of Woonsocket housing authority.Notwithstanding the provisions of § 45-25-10, commencing January 1, 2002 the housing authority of the city of Woonsocket is expanded in size from five (5) members to seven (7) members. The two (2) additional members shall be residents of public housing facilities and/or recipients of the authority's Section 8 tenant based program in the city of Woonsocket. Each shall be appointed for a four (4) year term by the mayor, who shall make the appointments from a list of interested residents of the public housing facilities and/or recipients of the authority's Section 8 tenant based program in the city of Woonsocket as submitted by the executive director. The method of selection of the residents to the list shall be determined by the mayor. If any resident commissioner no longer lives in public housing and/or is no longer a recipient of the authority's Section 8 tenant based program in the city of Woonsocket, his or her office shall be deemed vacated.History of Section.P.L. 2002, ch. 99, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-10.6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-10.6 - City of Pawtucket housing authority.

§ 45-25-10.6. City of Pawtucket housing authority.Notwithstanding the provisions of § 45-25-10, commencing March 1, 2012, the housing authority of the city of Pawtucket is expanded in size from five (5) members to seven (7) members. Said additional members shall be appointed by the mayor to serve for terms of four (4) and five (5) years, respectively from the date of their appointment. Two (2) of the seven (7) members shall be residents under an existing lease of a public housing facility or resident under an existing lease who is being assisted under the Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) tenant based program in the city of Pawtucket and be at least eighteen (18) years of age. Said residents shall be appointed for a five (5) year term by the mayor who shall make the appointment from a list of persons submitted to the mayor by the executive director of the housing authority. The list shall contain no fewer than four (4) nominees. If fewer than four (4) nominees wish to be considered for appointment, the mayor may select one resident from the number of nominees who wish to be considered. The method of selection of the residents to the list shall be determined by the mayor. If said resident member no longer lives in public housing, his or her office shall be deemed vacated.History of Section.P.L. 2012, ch. 30, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 36, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-11 - Validation of prior proceedings.

§ 45-25-11. Validation of prior proceedings.All procedures by governing bodies of cities of this state and by housing authorities dealing with the creation and establishment of housing authorities undertaken before April 15, 1940, pursuant to this chapter, are hereby validated, ratified, confirmed, approved, and declared legal in all respects, notwithstanding any legal defect in those procedures.History of Section.P.L. 1940, ch. 918, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 45-25-11.
RI Gen L § 45-25-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-12 - Compliance with laws and contractual obligations.

§ 45-25-12. Compliance with laws and contractual obligations.The authority and its commissioners are under a statutory duty to comply or to cause compliance strictly with all provisions of chapters 25 — 27 of this title and the laws of the state, and in addition, with each and every term, provision, and covenant in any contract of the authority on its part to be kept or performed.History of Section.P.L. 1935, ch. 2255, § 6; G.L. 1938, ch. 344, § 6; G.L. 1956, § 45-25-12.
RI Gen L § 45-25-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-13 - Interest of commissioners or employees in property.

§ 45-25-13. Interest of commissioners or employees in property.No commissioner or employee of an authority shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any housing project or in any property, included or planned to be included, in any project, nor shall he or she have any interest direct or indirect in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used in connection with any housing project. If any commissioner or employee of an authority owns or controls an interest direct or indirect in any property, included or planned to be included, in any housing project, that person shall immediately disclose the interest, in writing, to the authority and the disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the authority. Failure to disclose the interest constitutes misconduct in office.History of Section.P.L. 1935, ch. 2255, § 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 344, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 45-25-13.
RI Gen L § 45-25-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-14 - Removal of commissioners from office.

§ 45-25-14. Removal of commissioners from office.(a) The mayor and/or town council may remove a commissioner for inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, but only after the commissioner has been given a copy of the charges against him or her (which may be made by the mayor) at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing and has an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel. Any obligee of the authority may file with the mayor and/or town council written charges that the authority is willfully violating any law of the state or any term, provision or covenant in any contract to which the authority is a party. The mayor and/or town council shall give each of the commissioners a copy of the charges at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing and an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel, and shall, within fifteen (15) days after receipt of the charges, remove any commissioners of the authority who is found to have acquiesced in any willful violation; provided, that nothing in this section prevents the mayor of any city or the town council of any town from suspending a commissioner from his or her office and duties pending the removal hearing.(b) A commissioner is deemed to have acquiesced in a willful violation by the authority of a law of this state or of any term, provision, or covenant contained in a contract to which the authority is a party, if, before a hearing is held on the charges against him or her, he or she has not have filed a written statement with the authority of his or her objections to, or lack of participation in the violation.(c) In the event of the removal of any commissioner, the mayor and/or town council shall file in the office of the city clerk a record of the proceedings together with the charges made against the commissioners and the findings.History of Section.P.L. 1935, ch. 2255, § 8; G.L. 1938, c. 344, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 45-25-14; P.L. 1971, ch. 127, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-15.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-15.1 - Section 8 tenant based certificate and Section 8 rental voucher programs.

§ 45-25-15.1. Section 8 tenant based certificate and Section 8 rental voucher programs.The authority has exclusive jurisdiction to administer and manage Section 8 tenant based certificate programs and Section 8 voucher programs within its geographical area of operation inclusive of any certificate or voucher issued by the Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation which results in a tenant moving into the authority's geographical area of operation.History of Section.P.L. 1998, ch. 31, art. 29, § 5.
RI Gen L § 45-25-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-16 - Compliance with federal wage requirements.

§ 45-25-16. Compliance with federal wage requirements.Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this chapter or in any other provision of law, the authority may agree to any conditions attached to federal financial assistance relating to the determination of prevailing salaries or wages or payment of not less than prevailing salaries or wages or compliance with labor standards, in the development or administration of projects, and may include in any contract awarded or entered into in connection with a project, stipulations requiring that the contractor and all subcontractors comply with requirements as to minimum salaries or wages and maximum hours of labor, and comply with any conditions which the federal government may have attached to its financial aid of the project.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 344, § 9A; P.L. 1939, ch. 726, § 4; P.L. 1950, ch. 2619, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 45-25-16.
RI Gen L § 45-25-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-17 - Low rent policy.

§ 45-25-17. Low rent policy.It is declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations, and that no housing authority constructs or operates any project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the city. To this end the authority shall fix the rentals for dwellings in its projects at no higher rates than it finds to be necessary in order to produce revenues (together with all other available moneys, revenues, income, and receipts of the authority from whatever sources derived) sufficient to:(1) Pay, as it becomes due, the principal and interest on the bonds of the authority;(2) Meet the cost of, and provide for, maintaining and operating the projects (including the cost of any insurance) and the administrative expenses of the authority; and(3) Create (during not less than the six (6) years immediately succeeding its issuance of any bonds) a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments which will be due on the bonds in any one year following and to maintain the reserve.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 344, § 9B; P.L. 1939, ch. 726, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 45-25-17.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18 - Tenant selection.

§ 45-25-18. Tenant selection.In the operation or management of housing projects, the authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant selections: (1) it may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations of housing projects only to persons who lack the amount of income necessary (as determined by the housing authority undertaking the project) to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, without overcrowding; and (2) it may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations only at rentals within the financial reach of that person; provided, that an authority may agree to conditions as to tenant eligibility or preference required by the federal government pursuant to federal law in any contract for financial assistance with the authority.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 344, § 9C; P.L. 1939, ch. 726, § 4; P.L. 1950, ch. 2619, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 45-25-18; P.L. 1960, ch. 133, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.1 - Adoption of rules and regulations.

§ 45-25-18.1. Adoption of rules and regulations.(a) To the extent not inconsistent with law, each housing authority shall adopt and promulgate reasonable rules which establish:(1) Eligibility requirements for admission to housing.(2) Obligations of tenants, including regulations for the use and occupation of housing units and common areas.(3) Just cause for the termination of the right of use and occupation, so that a tenant may be clearly apprised of the precise reasons for a termination. Just cause for the termination includes, but is not limited to, a serious or repeated failure to comply with the obligations of the lease or the lawful rules and regulations of the housing authority, such as a failure to pay successive installments of rent; the continued use of a unit for any unlawful purpose; the maintenance of any unsafe, unsanitary, or unhealthful condition in any dwelling unit or in any of the common areas; and ineligibility for continued occupancy by reason of over income.(4) Conditions for continued occupancy, taking account of such factors as family size and changes in the family, fluctuations in income, availability of standard accommodations elsewhere, and other relevant matters; provided, that no increase in the annual income of the tenant or in the aggregate annual income of the tenant and the tenant's family is cause for any increase in the tenant's rent or for termination of the lease for a period of one year after the increase in the tenant's income or in the aggregate income of the tenant and the tenant's family has occurred.(b) The authority may adopt other rules that are necessary to the just and effective administration of local housing projects constructed and operated as provided by this chapter.(c) For all rules to be valid, they shall be published in a conspicuous place in each housing project operated by the authority.History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 54, § 1; P.L. 1970, ch. 255, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.2 - Board of tenants' affairs.

§ 45-25-18.2. Board of tenants' affairs.There is created a board of tenants' affairs for each city or town having a housing authority and operating one or more housing projects as provided by this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 54, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.3 - Membership of board.

§ 45-25-18.3. Membership of board.(a) The board shall consist of no fewer than eight (8) persons. One-half (½) of the members shall be elected from among the tenants occupying housing projects. Each housing project, if there is more than one, shall elect at least two (2) representatives. The remaining members of the board shall be appointed by the mayor in the case of a city or the council in the case of a town, from residents of the neighborhoods in which the projects are located. The member or members of the city or town council and the senator and representative representing the housing project shall be notified of and may attend all board meetings.(b) The terms of all members shall be for two (2) years and no person shall serve more than two (2) consecutive terms. All those members first appointed shall serve terms of one year, and all those members first elected shall serve terms of two (2) years. Thereafter, the term of office for all members, whether appointed or elected, shall be two (2) years.History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 54, § 1; P.L. 1970, ch. 254, § 1; P.L. 1975, ch. 133, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.4 - Appointment of membership - Meetings - Rules - Quorum.

§ 45-25-18.4. Appointment of membership — Meetings — Rules — Quorum.The board shall be organized initially by the members appointed by the mayor or council. Elections of tenant members shall be completed and the first organizational meeting held within ninety (90) days after April 12, 1968. The board shall meet thereafter not less than once each month and at other times as the demands of business require. The board shall adopt its own rules of procedure and keep a record of its proceedings. A majority of the members constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. Clerical and secretarial staff are supplied by the local housing authority.History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 54, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 147, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 263, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.5 - Compensation.

§ 45-25-18.5. Compensation.The city or town shall pay compensation for the members of the board which shall be a reasonable per diem allowance for each day that the board is in session. Sums paid the representatives from the housing projects are not counted as income for purposes of determining continuing eligibility for occupancy.History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 54, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.6 - Power of board.

§ 45-25-18.6. Power of board.(a) The board shall:(1) Advise the housing authority on matters concerning the general welfare of the tenants of housing projects and facilities.(2) Review and veto rules of the housing authority promulgated in accord with § 45-25-18.1 prior to publication.(3) Meet on a regular basis with available federal, state, and local government officials or their representatives to propose and develop specific legislation designed to alleviate the problems of those tenants living on fixed or limited incomes, and to transmit all proposals to the appropriate government representatives for consideration.(b) Final determinations reached on matters heard by way of review are binding on the housing authority.(c) The power of review and veto is exercised by a two-thirds (⅔) majority of those present and voting.History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 54, § 1; P.L. 1975, ch. 132, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.7 - Hearings.

§ 45-25-18.7. Hearings.(a) The tenant or applicant affected has a right to a hearing and review by the board where a determination is made by the project management or by the housing authority:(1) That an applicant is denied admission to public housing;(2) That a tenant's right of use and occupation is terminated; or(3) That any obligation of a tenant is increased or otherwise altered;(b) The tenant or applicant shall be given written notice of any determination affecting his or her status, and the reasons therefor, and notice of his or her right to a hearing, and within seven (7) days of delivery of the notice, the tenant or occupant may petition the board, in writing, for a hearing and review. Upon receiving that petition, the board shall set a date for the hearing and inform the tenant or applicant of the date, time, and place of the hearing.(c) If the tenant or applicant fails to petition for a hearing within seven (7) days, he or she will be held to have waived his or her right to the hearing, but he or she will not be held to have waived his or her right to contest the propriety of the authority's action in any later court proceeding.(d) The tenant or applicant is entitled to a fair hearing before the board and has the right to be represented by counsel.History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 54, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.8 - Termination.

§ 45-25-18.8. Termination.If a decision to terminate a right of use and occupation is upheld by the board upon review, an action to regain possession of the premises shall not be brought until the right of use and occupation has been terminated by lawful notice. If an action to regain possession of the premises is brought by the authority, the tenant has a right to a trial de novo on the issue of whether there was just cause to terminate the tenant's right of use and occupancy.History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 54, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.9 - Severability.

§ 45-25-18.9. Severability.If any section, subsection, clause, sentence, paragraph, or any part thereof, is for any reason adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of any section or any part of a section shall not be affected by the judgment.History of Section.P.L. 1968, ch. 54, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.10 - Housing for people who are elderly - Disabled veterans.

§ 45-25-18.10. Housing for people who are elderly — Disabled veterans.Every person, regardless of sex, who was disabled while serving in the military or naval service of the United States in the Spanish American war, the insurrection in the Philippines, the China relief expedition, World War I, World War II, or in any conflict or war, whether declared or undeclared, and who was honorably discharged, or who was discharged under conditions other than dishonorable, or who, if not discharged, served honorably, may, if that person meets all other qualifications in his or her application for placement in a public housing for people who are elderly project, be the first to be provided any available accommodations in the project regardless of any other prior applications.History of Section.P.L. 1970, ch. 283, § 1.
RI Gen L § 45-25-18.11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 45 - Towns and Cities|Chapter 45-25 - City Housing Authorities|Section 45-25-18.11 - Housing for people who are elderly - Posting of disabilities - Enforcement by local fire authorities.

§ 45-25-18.11. Housing for people who are elderly — Posting of disabilities — Enforcement by local fire authorities.(a) Upon request of any tenant in a public housing for people who are elderly project, the managing authority shall post, on or near the exterior door of the apartment of the tenant, an indication of any disability of the tenant in a form and size that is immediately understood in the event of emergency or evacuation.(b) The local fire authorities have the duty of accomplishing the purpose of this section, and of enforcing that purpose.History of Section.P.L. 1978, ch. 181, § 1.