Rhode Island General Laws Title 46. Waters and Navigation § 46-25-21.1. Petition in superior court for relief from assessment

(a) Any person aggrieved on any ground whatsoever by any sewer use fee, charge, or assessment against him or her may within three (3) years after the first day designated for the payment of the sewer use fee, charge, or assessment, or the first installment thereof, if payable in installments, file an appeal with the Narragansett Bay water quality management district commission, and within sixty (60) days after a final decision of the commission appeal, where the person has timely appealed the assessment, file a petition in the superior court for the county in which the property lies for relief from the sewer use fee, charge, or assessment, to which petition the commission shall be made a party respondent; provided, however, that all such appeals must be made no later than six (6) months after the person assessed the fee has transferred the property to a third party.

(b) For the purpose of this section, an “aggrieved person” shall be the person who has been assessed the sewer use fee, charge or assessment that is being contested. The right to contest an assessment shall be personal to the person assessed and shall not be assignable or transferable.

(c) This remedy shall be exclusive. Any person alleging an illegal, erroneous, incorrect, or void fee, charge, or assessment against him or her shall be confined to the remedies stated herein. No petition shall, before judgment, stay any proceedings for collecting the sewer use fee, charge, or assessment. The Narragansett Bay water quality management district commission may promulgate regulations to effectuate this provision and to eliminate frivolous appeals. No appeal shall be heard if the appeal is based on the rates set by the public utilities commission.