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RI Gen L § 42-34-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-5 - Manager.

§ 42-34-5. Manager.(a) The manager shall be appointed by the authority and his or her tenure of office shall be at the pleasure of the authority. He or she shall be in the unclassified service.(b) The manager shall be the chief administrative officer for the authority and as such shall direct and supervise the administrative affairs and technical activities of the authority in accordance with rules, regulations, and policies set forth by the authority. It shall be the duty of the manager among other things:(1) To attend all meetings of the authority, and to act as its secretary and keep minutes of all its proceedings.(2) To approve all accounts for salaries, per diems, allowable expenses of the authority or of any employee or consultant thereof, and expenses incidental to the operation of the authority.(3) To maintain a close liaison with the department of economic development and provide assistance to the various divisions of the department to facilitate the planning and financing of industrial and/or recreational projects.(4) To make recommendations and reports in cooperation with the department of economic development to the authority on the merits of any proposed industrial and/or recreational project, on the status of local industrial and/or recreational development corporations, and on meritorious industrial and/or recreational locations.(5) To perform such other duties as may be directed by the authority in the carrying out of the purposes of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 6; P.L. 1977, ch. 78, § 5; P.L. 1987, ch. 537, § 3.
RI Gen L § 42-34-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-8 - Permission to lease or rent property after default.

§ 42-34-8. Permission to lease or rent property after default.When a local development corporation or project owner does not meet mortgage payments insured by the authority by reason of vacancy of its industrial and/or recreational project, the authority, for the purpose of maintaining income from industrial and/or recreational projects on which mortgage payments have been insured by the authority and for the purpose of safeguarding the mortgage insurance fund, may grant the local development corporation or project owner permission to lease or rent the property to a tenant for a use other than that specified in § 42-34-6(3), such lease or rental to be subject to such conditions as the authority may prescribe. The foregoing provisions shall be in addition to any other provisions contained in this chapter empowering the authority to act in the event of a default.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 9; P.L. 1975, ch. 170, § 7; P.L. 1977, ch. 78, § 7; P.L. 1986, ch. 245, § 2; P.L. 1987, ch. 537, § 3.
RI Gen L § 42-34-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-9 - Mortgage insurance fund: Subrogation.

§ 42-34-9. Mortgage insurance fund: Subrogation.(a) There is hereby created an industrial building mortgage insurance fund, hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the "fund" which shall be used by the authority as a nonlapsing, revolving fund for carrying out the provisions of this chapter. To this fund shall be charged any and all expenses of the authority, including mortgage payments required by loan defaults, and to the fund shall be credited all receipts of the authority, including mortgage insurance premiums and proceeds from the sale, disposal, lease, or rental of personal property which the authority may receive under the provisions of this chapter.(b) Moneys in the fund not needed currently to meet the expenses and obligations of the authority shall be deposited with the general treasurer to the credit of the fund, or may be invested in such manner as is provided for by statute.(c) The authority shall become subrogated to the extent that mortgage payments have been paid by the authority to the mortgagee of an insured mortgage notwithstanding that the authority has not paid all of the mortgage payments under the mortgage, and the authority shall have the right to bring a separate cause of action by way of subrogation with respect to each mortgage payment which it has paid to the mortgagee. All recoveries by way of subrogation shall be credited to the fund as provided in subsection (a).History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 10; P.L. 1975, ch. 170, § 8; 1977, ch. 78, § 8.
RI Gen L § 42-34-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-10 - Insurance of mortgages.

§ 42-34-10. Insurance of mortgages.(a) The authority is authorized, upon application of the proposed mortgagee, to insure mortgage payments required by a mortgage on any industrial and/or recreational project, upon such terms and conditions as the authority may prescribe, provided the aggregate amount of the unpaid principal balance of all obligations of all mortgages so insured outstanding at any one time shall not exceed eighty million dollars ($80,000,000).(b) To be eligible for insurance under the provisions of this chapter a mortgage shall:(1) Be one which is made to and held by a mortgagee approved by the authority;(2) Involve a principal obligation, including initial service charges and appraisal, inspection and other fees approved by the authority, not to exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000) for any one project and not to exceed ninety percent (90%) of the cost of any project described in § 42-34-6(3)(a) and not to exceed eighty percent (80%) of the cost of any project described in § 42-34-6(3)(b), and not to exceed seventy-five percent (75%) of the cost of any project described in § 42-34-6(4);(3) Have a maturity date satisfactory to the authority but in no case later than twenty-five (25) years from the date of the mortgage for any project described in § 42-34-6(3)(a) and (4) and twenty (20) years from the date of the mortgage for any project described in § 42-34-6(3)(b);(4) Contain complete amortization provisions satisfactory to the authority requiring periodic payments, costs of local property taxes and assessments, land lease rentals, if any, and hazard insurance on the property and such mortgage insurance premiums as are required under § 42-34-11, all as the authority shall from time to time prescribe or approve;(5) Be in such form and contain such terms and provisions, with respect to property, insurance, repairs, alterations, payment of taxes and assessments, restrictions as to location of machinery and equipment, default reserves, delinquency charges, default remedies, anticipation of maturity, additional and secondary liens, and other matters as the authority may prescribe. No mortgage for any project described in § 42-34-6(4) shall be insured under the provisions of this chapter unless the authority shall have made affirmative determinations in accordance with subdivisions (15) and (16) of § 42-34-7.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 191, § 11; P.L. 1960, ch. 21, § 4; P.L. 1964, ch. 70, § 5; P.L. 1966, ch. 234, § 6; P.L. 1973, ch. 99, § 6; P.L. 1986, ch. 245, § 2; P.L. 1987, ch. 537, § 3; P.L. 2007, ch. 340, § 34.
RI Gen L § 42-34-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-11 - Mortgage insurance premiums.

§ 42-34-11. Mortgage insurance premiums.The authority is authorized to fix mortgage insurance premiums for the insurance of mortgage payments under the provisions of this chapter, such premiums to be computed as a percentage, which shall not exceed three percent (3%) per annum, of the principal obligation of the mortgage in such manner in each case as the authority shall determine on the basis of all pertinent available data. The premiums shall be payable by the mortgagors or the mortgagees in such manner as shall be prescribed by the authority. The amount of premium need not be uniform among the various loans insured.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 12; P.L. 1960, ch. 21, § 5.
RI Gen L § 42-34-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-12 - Authority's expenses.

§ 42-34-12. Authority's expenses.The authority may in its discretion expend out of the fund such moneys as may be necessary for any expenses of the authority, including administrative, legal, actuarial, and other services.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 13.
RI Gen L § 42-34-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-13 - Mortgages eligible for investment.

§ 42-34-13. Mortgages eligible for investment.Mortgages insured by the authority under this chapter and participations therein are hereby made legal investments for all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations, including savings and loan associations, building and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all credit unions, all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees, conservators, and other fiduciaries, pension, profit-sharing and retirement funds and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds, including capital, in their control or belonging to them.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 14; P.L. 1977, ch. 78, § 9.
RI Gen L § 42-34-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-14 - Record of accounts.

§ 42-34-14. Record of accounts.The authority shall keep proper records of accounts and shall make an annual report of its condition to the state banking commissioner.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 15.
RI Gen L § 42-34-15.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-15.1 - Agreement of state.

§ 42-34-15.1. Agreement of state.The state of Rhode Island does hereby pledge to and agree with the mortgagees holding mortgage insurance issued by the authority under this chapter that the state of Rhode Island will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the authority to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the mortgagees relating to that mortgage insurance until the agreements have been performed in full.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 42-34-15.1; P.L. 1975, ch. 170, § 9.
RI Gen L § 42-34-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-16 - Interest of members of authority.

§ 42-34-16. Interest of members of authority.No member of the authority shall participate in any decision on any contract of insurance in which he or she has any interests, direct or indirect, in any firm, partnership, corporation, or association which would be the mortgagee, whose loan to a local development corporation is insured by the authority, or if he or she has any interest, direct or indirect, in any firm, partnership, corporation, or association which would rent, lease, or otherwise occupy the premises constructed by the local development corporation where the corporation's mortgage is insured by the authority, or if he or she is a director or officer or otherwise associated with the local development corporation whose mortgage is insured by the authority.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 17.
RI Gen L § 42-34-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-17 - Severability.

§ 42-34-17. Severability.The provisions of this chapter are severable, and if any of its provisions shall be held unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decision of that court shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 19.
RI Gen L § 42-34-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-34 - Industrial-Recreational Building Authority|Section 42-34-18 - Appropriations.

§ 42-34-18. Appropriations.For the purpose of establishing the mortgage insurance fund and carrying out the intent of this chapter and the provisions thereof, the general assembly annually shall appropriate out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as it may deem necessary not to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) each year. Any unexpended balance of any or all such appropriations shall be carried forward to succeeding fiscal years for the purposes aforesaid. The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of the sums or so much thereof as shall be required from time to time upon receipt by him or her of vouchers approved by the authority.History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 91, § 18; P.L. 1960, ch. 21, § 6.
RI Gen L § 42-35-1.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-35 - Administrative Procedures|Section 42-35-1.1 - Applicability.

§ 42-35-1.1. Applicability.(a) This chapter applies to an agency unless the agency is exempted by Rhode Island general laws.(b) This chapter applies to all agency proceedings and all proceedings for judicial review or civil enforcement of agency action commenced after the effective date of this chapter [June 29, 2016]. This chapter does not apply to any contested case for which notice was given before that date and rulemaking for which notice was given or a petition was filed before that date, for which all prior laws in effect at the time shall apply.History of Section.P.L. 1994, ch. 70, art. 2, § 8; P.L. 2016, ch. 203, § 2; P.L. 2016, ch. 206, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-35-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-35 - Administrative Procedures|Section 42-35-2 - Required agency publication and recordkeeping.

§ 42-35-2. Required agency publication and recordkeeping.(a) An agency shall:(1) Publish and make available for public inspection a description of its organization, stating the general course and method of its operations and the methods by which the public may obtain information or make submissions or requests;(2) Publish and make available for public inspection a description of all procedures, including a description of all forms and instructions used by the agency;(3) Publish and make available for public inspection a description of the process for application for a license, available benefits, or other matters for which an application is appropriate on its agency website, unless the process is prescribed by law other than this chapter;(4) Publish rules for the conduct of public hearings, and make available these rules for public inspection;(5) Maintain and make available for public inspection the agency's current rulemaking agenda required by § 42-35-5.1; and(6) Maintain and publish a separate, current, and dated index and compilation of all final rules filed with the secretary of state, make the index and compilation available for public inspection and, for a reasonable charge, copying at the principal office of the agency; update the index and compilation at least monthly; and file the index and the compilation and all changes to both with the secretary of state.(b) All documents required by this section must be published on the agency's website by December 31, 2018, and maintained on the website thereafter.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 42-35-2; P.L. 1962, ch. 112, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 203, § 2; P.L. 2016, ch. 206, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-35-2.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-35 - Administrative Procedures|Section 42-35-2.1 - Rules coordinator.

§ 42-35-2.1. Rules coordinator.Each agency shall, by January 2, 2002, designate a rules coordinator, who shall have knowledge of the subjects of rules being proposed, maintain the records of any rules action including the rulemaking file required by § 42-35-2.3, and respond to public inquiries about proposed rules and the identity of agency personnel working, reviewing, or commenting on them. The office and mailing address of the rules coordinator shall be published in the state register at the time of designation and in the first issue of each calendar year thereafter for the duration of the designation. The rules coordinator may be an employee of another agency. Nothing in this section shall be construed to explicitly or implicitly permit the hiring of any additional personnel to perform the duties and responsibilities of the rules coordinator designated in this section.History of Section.P.L. 2001, ch. 61, § 2; P.L. 2016, ch. 203, § 2; P.L. 2016, ch. 206, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-35-2.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-35 - Administrative Procedures|Section 42-35-2.2 - Publication - Agency duties.

§ 42-35-2.2. Publication — Agency duties.(a) Unless the record is exempt from disclosure under law of this state other than this chapter, an agency shall publish and make available for public inspection, and on request and for a reasonable charge, make available through regular or electronic mail:(1) Each notice of a proposed rulemaking under § 42-35-2.7;(2) Each rule filed under this chapter;(3) Each summary of regulatory analysis required by § 42-35-2.9;(4) Each declaratory order issued under § 42-35-8;(5) The index of declaratory orders prepared under § 42-35-8;(6) Each guidance document issued under § 42-35-2.12;(7) The index of currently effective guidance documents prepared under § 42-35-2.12;(8) Each final order in a contested case issued under § 42-35-12.(b) All documents in this section must be published on the agency website by December 31, 2018, and maintained on the website thereafter.(c) An agency shall file with the secretary of state, in a format acceptable to the secretary of state:(1) Notice of a proposed rulemaking;(2) A summary of the regulatory analysis required by § 42-35-2.9 for each proposed rule;(3) Each final rule;(4) An index of currently effective guidance documents under § 42-35-2.12; and(5) Any other notice or matter that an agency is required to publish under this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 2001, ch. 61, § 2; P.L. 2016, ch. 203, § 2; P.L. 2016, ch. 206, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-35-2.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-35 - Administrative Procedures|Section 42-35-2.4 - Electronic filing.

§ 42-35-2.4. Electronic filing.In addition to all other requirements imposed by law, all agencies and authorities (as defined in this chapter) shall be required to electronically submit their annual reports to the general assembly for posting on the general assembly website in lieu of a printed copy. However, an agency or authority shall produce a printed copy on demand.History of Section.P.L. 2005, ch. 222, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 233, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-35-2.5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-35 - Administrative Procedures|Section 42-35-2.5 - Advance notice of proposed rulemaking.

§ 42-35-2.5. Advance notice of proposed rulemaking.(a) An agency may gather information relevant to the subject matter of a potential rulemaking proceeding and may solicit comments and recommendations from the public by publishing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in the state register and on its agency website, and indicating where, when, and how persons may comment before the rulemaking process begins.(b) An agency may create a committee or workshop to comment or make recommendations on the subject matter of a proposed rulemaking under active consideration within the agency. In making appointments to the committee, the agency shall make reasonable efforts to establish a balance in representation among members of the public known to have an interest in the subject matter of the proposed rulemaking. At least annually, the agency shall publish in the state register a list of all committees with their membership. Notice of a meeting of the committee must be published in the state register and on its agency website at least fifteen (15) calendar days before the meeting. Any meeting, as defined in § 42-46-2, held under this subsection is open to the public and subject to the open meetings chapter pursuant to chapter 46 of title 42.(c) If a committee is appointed under subsection (b), it shall attempt to reach a consensus on the terms or substance of a proposed rule in consultation with one or more agency representatives. The committee shall present the consensus recommendation, if any, to the agency. The agency shall consider whether to use it as the basis for a proposed rule under this chapter, but the agency is not required to use the recommendation.(d) This section does not prohibit an agency from obtaining information and opinions from members of the public on the subject of a proposed rule by any other method or procedure.History of Section.P.L. 2009, ch. 359, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 203, § 2; P.L. 2016, ch. 206, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-35-2.6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-35 - Administrative Procedures|Section 42-35-2.6 - Concise explanatory statement.

§ 42-35-2.6. Concise explanatory statement.At the time an agency files the final rule with the secretary of state, the agency shall issue a concise, explanatory statement, in a form prescribed by the secretary of state, which contains:(1) The agency's reasons for creation of the rule, including the agency's reasons for not accepting arguments made in testimony and comments;(2) Subject to § 42-35-6.1, the reasons for any change between the text of the proposed rule contained in the notice of proposed rulemaking and the text of the final rule; and(3) Any regulatory analysis prepared under § 42-35-2.9.History of Section.P.L. 2016, ch. 203, § 3; P.L. 2016, ch. 206, § 3.