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Rhode Island General Laws Title 42. State Affairs and Government

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  • Chapter 1. Sovereignty and Jurisdiction of State
  • Chapter 2. Federal Lands
  • Chapter 3. Counties
  • Chapter 4. State Emblems
  • Chapter 4.1. Rhode Island State Yacht “Courageous”
  • Chapter 4.2. Category One Memorial Items
  • Chapter 5. Standard and Daylight Saving Time
  • Chapter 5.1. Rhode Island Policy and Its Diverse Cultures
  • Chapter 6. Departments of State Government
  • Chapter 6.1. Governor’s Commerce and Workforce Coordination Cabinet
  • Chapter 6.2. 2021 Act on Climate
  • Chapter 7. Executive Department
  • Chapter 7.2. Office of Health and Human Services
  • Chapter 7.3. Department of Public Safety
  • Chapter 7.4. The Healthcare Services Funding Plan Act
  • Chapter 8. Department of State
  • Chapter 8.1. State Archives
  • Chapter 8.2. State Register
  • Chapter 9. Department of Attorney General
  • Chapter 9.1. Office of Health Care Advocate
  • Chapter 9.2. Office of Elder Justice Prosecution Unit
  • Chapter 9.3. Office of Civil Rights Advocate
  • Chapter 10. Treasury Department
  • Chapter 10.1. Public Finance Management Board
  • Chapter 11. Department of Administration
  • Chapter 11.1. Prompt Payment by Department of Administration
  • Chapter 11.2. Affordable Housing Opportunity
  • Chapter 11.3. Motor Vehicles Owned by A Governmental Body
  • Chapter 11.4. The Rhode Island Municipal Infrastructure Grant Program
  • Chapter 12. Department of Human Services
  • Chapter 12.1. Department of Mental Health, Retardation, and Hospitals
  • Chapter 12.2. Independent Living Services and Centers
  • Chapter 12.3. Health Care for Children and Pregnant Women
  • Chapter 12.4. The Rhode Island Medicaid Reform Act of 2008
  • Chapter 12.5. Licensing and Monitoring of Child Day Care Providers
  • Chapter 13. Department of Transportation
  • Chapter 13.1. The Rhode Island Bridge Replacement, Reconstruction, and Maintenance Fund
  • Chapter 14. Department of Business Regulation
  • Chapter 14.1. Department of Business Regulation--Medical Malpractice Insurance
  • Chapter 14.2. Department of Business Regulation--Automobile Wrecking and Salvage Yards
  • Chapter 14.3. Public Utilities Commission
  • Chapter 14.4. Department of Business Regulation--Apartment Listing Services
  • Chapter 14.5. The Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act of 2004--Health Insurance Oversight
  • Chapter 14.6. Rhode Island All-Payer Patient-Centered Medical Home Act
  • Chapter 16.1. Department of Labor and Training
  • Chapter 17.1. Department of Environmental Management
  • Chapter 17.2. Ski Tramways
  • Chapter 17.4. Wastewater Treatment Plants
  • Chapter 17.5. Natural Heritage Preservation Program
  • Chapter 17.6. Administrative Penalties for Environmental Violations
  • Chapter 17.7. Administrative Adjudication for Environmental Matters
  • Chapter 17.8. The Rhode Island Environmental Compliance Incentive Act
  • Chapter 17.9. Preservation of State Open Space
  • Chapter 17.10. Enforcement of Certain Natural Resource Violations
  • Chapter 18. Department of Health
  • Chapter 20. Administration of State Departments
  • Chapter 21. Effect of Transfer of Functions Between Departments
  • Chapter 23. Commission on Interstate Cooperation
  • Chapter 24. Commission on Uniform State Laws
  • Chapter 26. Public Safety Grant Administration Office
  • Chapter 26.1. Foreign Trade Zones
  • Chapter 26.2. Safeguarding Federalism in Trade Act
  • Chapter 27. Atomic Energy Commission
  • Chapter 28. State Police
  • Chapter 28.1. Municipal Police--Incentive Pay
  • Chapter 28.2. Police Officers--Commission on Standards and Training
  • Chapter 28.3. Aptitude and Psychological Tests for Law Enforcement Candidates
  • Chapter 28.4. Municipal Firefighters--Incentive Pay
  • Chapter 28.6. Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights
  • Chapter 28.7. Fingerprinting of Minors
  • Chapter 28.8. Protection of Children
  • Chapter 28.9. Mounted Video/Audio Surveillance Cameras
  • Chapter 28.10. Public Safety Records Management
  • Chapter 29. Sheriffs
  • Chapter 30. Justices of the Peace
  • Chapter 30.1. Uniform Law on Notarial Acts
  • Chapter 31. Commissioners
  • Chapter 32. Science and Research Council
  • Chapter 34. Industrial-Recreational Building Authority
  • Chapter 35. Administrative Procedures
  • Chapter 35.1. Small Business Regulatory Fairness in Administrative Procedures
  • Chapter 36. Annual Reports
  • Chapter 37. New England State Police Compact
  • Chapter 39. New England Interstate Planning Compact
  • Chapter 40. Interchange of Government Employees
  • Chapter 41. Budgeting, Appropriation and Receipt of Federal Monies
  • Chapter 44.1. Sewage and Water Supply Failure Fund
  • Chapter 45. Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission
  • Chapter 45.1. Antiquities Act of Rhode Island
  • Chapter 46. Open Meetings
  • Chapter 47.1. State Government Internship Program
  • Chapter 49. Little State Houses
  • Chapter 51. Governor's Commission on Disabilities
  • Chapter 55. Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation
  • Chapter 55.1. Housing Trust Fund
  • Chapter 56. Corrections Department
  • Chapter 56.1. Correctional Officers' Incentive Pay Plan
  • Chapter 56.2. Federal Surplus Property--Acquisition
  • Chapter 56.3. The Healthy Pregnancies for Incarcerated Women Act
  • Chapter 57. Fort Adams Foundation
  • Chapter 58. American and Canadian French Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 60. Energy Crisis Management
  • Chapter 60.1. Fluorescent Lamp Ballast Standards
  • Chapter 61. State Lottery
  • Chapter 61.1. Prizes and Gift Act
  • Chapter 61.2. Video-Lottery Games, Table Games and Sports Wagering
  • Chapter 61.3. Casino Gaming
  • Chapter 62. Catastrophic Health Insurance Plan Act
  • Chapter 63.1. Tourism and Development
  • Chapter 63.2. Child Day Care Facilities in Industrial Parks
  • Chapter 63.4. New Shoreham Tourism Council, Inc.
  • Chapter 63.5. Providence Place Project
  • Chapter 64. Rhode Island Commerce Corporation
  • Chapter 64.1. Economic Development Assistance
  • Chapter 64.2. Rhode Island Public RAIL Corporation Act
  • Chapter 64.3. Distressed Areas Economic Revitalization Act
  • Chapter 64.4. Economic Development Reporting
  • Chapter 64.5. Jobs Development Act
  • Chapter 64.6. Jobs Training Tax Credit Act
  • Chapter 64.8. Urban Infrastructure Commission
  • Chapter 64.9. Mill Building and Economic Revitalization Act
  • Chapter 64.10. Quonset Development Corporation
  • Chapter 64.11. Jobs Growth Act
  • Chapter 64.12. Eminent Domain
  • Chapter 64.13. Rhode Island Regulatory Reform Act
  • Chapter 64.14. The I-195 Redevelopment Act of 2011
  • Chapter 64.15. Made in Rhode Island Manufacturing Collaborative of 2013
  • Chapter 64.16. The Innovate Rhode Island Small Business Program
  • Chapter 64.17. Long-Term Economic Development
  • Chapter 64.18. Council of Economic Advisors
  • Chapter 64.19. Executive Office of Commerce
  • Chapter 64.20. Rebuild Rhode Island Tax Credit
  • Chapter 64.21. Rhode Island Tax Increment Financing
  • Chapter 64.22. Tax Stabilization Incentive
  • Chapter 64.23. First Wave Closing Fund
  • Chapter 64.24. I-195 Redevelopment Project Fund
  • Chapter 64.25. Small Business Assistance Program
  • Chapter 64.26. Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowship
  • Chapter 64.27. Main Street Rhode Island Streetscape Improvement Fund
  • Chapter 64.28. Innovation Initiative
  • Chapter 64.29. Industry Cluster Grants
  • Chapter 64.30. Anchor Institution Tax Credit
  • Chapter 64.31. High School, College, and Employer Partnerships
  • Chapter 64.32. Air Service Development Fund
  • Chapter 64.33. The Rhode Island Small Business Development Fund
  • Chapter 65. American and Irish Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 66. Office of Healthy Aging
  • Chapter 66.1. Security for Housing for the Elderly Act
  • Chapter 66.2. Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Elderly Act
  • Chapter 66.2.1. Rhode Island Best Rx Prescription Drug Discount Program for the Uninsured
  • Chapter 66.3. Home and Community Care Services to the Elderly
  • Chapter 66.4. Long-Term Health Care--Removal from A Skilled Nursing and/or Intermediate Care Facility
  • Chapter 66.6. Long-Term Care Assessment and Care Management Services
  • Chapter 66.7. Long-Term Care Ombudsperson Act of 1995
  • Chapter 66.8. Rhode Island Assisted Housing Living Waiver
  • Chapter 66.9. Housing for the Elderly--Emergency Generators Required
  • Chapter 66.10. Elder Health Insurance Consumer Assistance Program
  • Chapter 66.11 . The Aging in Community Act of 2014
  • Chapter 66.12. The Rhode Island Aging and Disability Resource Center
  • Chapter 66.13. Supported Decision-Making Act
  • Chapter 69. Schooner Ernestina/Morrissey Commission
  • Chapter 70. The Oliver H. Stedman Government Center
  • Chapter 71. American and Italian Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 72. Department of Children, Youth and Families
  • Chapter 72.1. Licensing and Monitoring of Child Placing Agencies, Child Caring Agencies, Foster and Adoptive Homes, and Children's Behavioral Health Programs
  • Chapter 72.2. Family Support Program
  • Chapter 72.3. Project Early Start
  • Chapter 72.4. Compulsory School Attendance--Children Under State Care
  • Chapter 72.5. Children's Cabinet
  • Chapter 72.6. The Rhode Island Training School for Youth Comprehensive Educational Programming Act
  • Chapter 72.7. Coordination of Children's Community Social Services, Education, and Mental Health Services--Pilot Program
  • Chapter 72.8. Department of Children, Youth and Families' Higher Education Opportunity Incentive Grant
  • Chapter 72.9. Children's Right to Freedom from Restraint Act
  • Chapter 72.10. Department of Children, Youth and Families -- Foster Parents’ Bill of Rights
  • Chapter 72.11. Administrative Penalties for Childcare Licensing Violations
  • Chapter 72.12. Preservation of Families with Disabled Parent Act
  • Chapter 73. Child Advocate Office
  • Chapter 74. Children's Code Commission
  • Chapter 75. Council on the Arts
  • Chapter 75.1. Voluntary Support of Arts and Tourism
  • Chapter 75.2. Allocation for Art for Public Facilities Act
  • Chapter 76. The J. Joseph Garrahy Judicial Complex
  • Chapter 77. Minority Groups Advisory Commission
  • Chapter 77.1. Black Achievers Commission
  • Chapter 78. Cultural Coordinating Council
  • Chapter 80. Prejudice and Bias Commission Act
  • Chapter 80.1. Religious Freedom Restoration Act
  • Chapter 81. Petroleum Allocation Act
  • Chapter 82. Farmland Preservation Act
  • Chapter 83. American and Polish Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 84. Forms Management Center Act
  • Chapter 87. Civil Rights of People with Disabilities
  • Chapter 88. The J. Howard Mcgrath Judicial Complex
  • Chapter 89. The Frank Licht Judicial Complex
  • Chapter 90. Disclosure of Names of State Government Consultants
  • Chapter 91. Small Business Advocacy Council
  • Chapter 92. Equal Access to Justice for Small Businesses and Individuals
  • Chapter 95. Providence River Relocation--Memorial Boulevard Extension Project
  • Chapter 96. Neighborhood Crime Prevention Act
  • Chapter 98. Energy Facility Siting Act
  • Chapter 99. Convention Center Authority Act
  • Chapter 100. State Poet
  • Chapter 100.1. Historian Laureate of Rhode Island
  • Chapter 101. The James W. Leighton Judicial Complex
  • Chapter 102. Governor’s Workforce Board Rhode Island
  • Chapter 103. Waste Facilities Siting
  • Chapter 104. The William P. Robinson, Jr., Building
  • Chapter 105. Newport and Bristol County Convention and Visitors' Bureau
  • Chapter 106. Rhode Island Aqua Fund
  • Chapter 107. American and Portuguese Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 109. Omnibus Substance Abuse Prevention Act
  • Chapter 111. Bay State-Ocean State Compact
  • Chapter 112. The Civil Rights Act of 1990
  • Chapter 113. Rhode Island Housing and Conservation Trust Fund Act
  • Chapter 114. Audio/Video Programming Advisory Committee
  • Chapter 115. Community Resource Assistance Commission
  • Chapter 116. Rhode Island Depositors Economic Protection Corporation
  • Chapter 117. Expedited Permit Process
  • Chapter 119. Rhode Island Commission on Women and Girls
  • Chapter 120. American and Cape Verdean Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 122. Natural Areas Protection Act of 1993
  • Chapter 123. The Zygmunt J. Friedmann Telecommunications Building
  • Chapter 124. Special Legislative Commission on Equal Pay and Comparable Worth in Public and Private Employment
  • Chapter 125. Rhode Island Greenways Act of 1995
  • Chapter 127.1. Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
  • Chapter 128. Rhode Island Housing Resources Act of 1998
  • Chapter 128.1. Lead Hazard Mitigation
  • Chapter 128.2. Expedited Permitting for Affordable Housing
  • Chapter 128.3. Housing Incentives for Municipalities
  • Chapter 129. Persian Gulf War Information Relief Commission
  • Chapter 131. Intergovernmental Relations Council
  • Chapter 132. Business Fast-Start Office
  • Chapter 133. Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation Act
  • Chapter 135. State Pharmaceutical Purchasing and Dispensing Coordinating Council
  • Chapter 136. Outdoor Lighting Control
  • Chapter 137. The Select Commission on Race and Police-Community Relations Act
  • Chapter 139.1. The Rhode Island Lobbying Reform Act
  • Chapter 140. Rhode Island Energy Resources Act
  • Chapter 140.1. The Rhode Island Energy Efficiency and Resource Management Council
  • Chapter 140.2. Distributed Generation
  • Chapter 140.4. The Rhode Island Petroleum Savings and Independence Advisory Commission
  • Chapter 142. Department of Revenue
  • Chapter 143. The Science and Technology Advisory Council
  • Chapter 144. The University of Rhode Island Commission for Research Innovation
  • Chapter 145. The American and Haitian Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 146. The American and Panamanian Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 147. The American and Jamaican Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 148. Privatization of State Services
  • Chapter 149. State Expenditures for Non-State Employee Services
  • Chapter 151. The Liberian Cultural Exchange Commission
  • Chapter 153. Restricting Radio Frequency Identification Devices
  • Chapter 154. Division of Elderly Affairs
  • Chapter 155. Quasi-Public Corporations Accountability and Transparency Act
  • Chapter 156. Underground Economy and Employee Misclassification Act
  • Chapter 157. Rhode Island Health Benefit Exchange
  • Chapter 157.1. Rhode Island Market Stability and Reinsurance Act
  • Chapter 158. Freedom from Prone Restraint Act
  • Chapter 159. Rhode Island Sailing Events Commission
  • Chapter 160. Rhode Island Pay for Success Act
  • Chapter 161. Statewide Body-Worn Camera Program

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