Title 16, Title 16 Title 16

Any loans made to societies of students at the university under the terms and provisions of §§ 16-32-12 and 16-32-15 shall be eligible for investment for the state investment commission of this state.

The amount or amounts guaranteed and the amount or amounts guaranteed under the provisions of § 16-32-12 shall not at any one time exceed in the aggregate the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000).

Whenever default is made on the part of a society in the payment of loans guaranteed under the provisions of § 16-32-12, or any part of them, the board of trustees is authorized to assume the obligation and to make required payments on principal and interest from any of the appro…

The University of Rhode Island is authorized and empowered to establish in connection with the university a department of marine biology. The department shall establish a marine biological laboratory with suitable facilities for research on problems involving animal life in Rhode…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum as it may deem necessary for maintaining the department of marine biology and the marine biological laboratory; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the…

(a) There is hereby created a board of trustees for the university of Rhode Island, sometimes referred to as the “board” or “board of trustees,” which shall be and is constituted a public corporation, empowered to sue and be sued in its own name; to borrow money; to compromise an…

In addition to any powers granted to the president of the university of Rhode Island by law or regulation, and consistent with shared governance practices, in conformity with § 16-32-10, the president shall have the following additional powers and duties: (a) To create and consol…

(a) There is hereby established a board of trustees for the university of Rhode Island consisting of seventeen (17) members. The governor shall appoint the initial members, with the advice and consent of the senate, to serve on the board of trustees, until the expiration of their…

All money received pursuant to the provisions of chapter 3644 of the Public Laws of 1956 shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held by the general treasurer or by the university of Rhode Island foundation, as provided in § 16-32-26, in a special fund the income of which shall b…

(a) The general treasurer shall have the care and management of the fund with full power to regulate the custody and safekeeping of all money and evidences of property belonging to the fund. The treasurer shall deposit, subject to his or her order, to the use of this fund, all di…

All money received pursuant to the provisions of § 16-52-2(b) shall be deemed to be trust funds for the benefit of the University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, and the Community College of Rhode Island to be held by the general treasurer in a separate rotary fund for eac…

The general treasurer shall have the care and management of each fund established pursuant to 16-32-27 with full power to regulate the custody and safekeeping of all money and evidences of property belonging to it. The general treasurer shall deposit, subject to his or her order,…

The applied engineering laboratory building at the Kingston campus of the University of Rhode Island shall be officially named and known as the Chester H. Kirk Applied Engineering Laboratory.

The board, as now constituted, and their successors, for the terms for which they have been or for which they hereafter may be appointed regents, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate for the purpose of continuing and maintaining the University of Rhode Island as a un…

The University of Rhode Island is authorized and empowered to establish in connection with the university and within the department of natural resource sciences a geographic information system laboratory with suitable facilities for developing and maintaining a level of scientifi…

The general assembly may annually appropriate any sum as it may deem necessary for maintaining the geographic information system laboratory within the department of natural resources sciences; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the …

The provisions of the administrative procedures act, chapter 35 of title 42, shall not apply to this chapter.

(a) Notwithstanding any general laws to the contrary, all receipts from all sources other than state appropriations shall not be deposited into the general fund of the state, but shall be deposited by the general treasurer of the state into a restricted account for the benefit of…

(a) The treasurer of the university of Rhode Island, as appointed by the board of trustees, shall: (1) Keep an accurate account of his or her receipts and expenditures, which shall be audited by the state controller; and (2) Turn over to the general treasurer at monthly intervals…

The pre-audit of all expenditures under authority of the board by the state controller provided for in § 35-6-1 shall be purely ministerial, concerned only with the legality of the expenditure and the availability of the funds, and in no event shall the state controller interpose…

In order that the board of trustees may control the personnel and equipment of the university in the interest of educational efficiency, the board and the university are exempt from the provisions of § 35-3-1(a)(5) relating to the employment of personnel, and from any provision o…

(a) The appointment, promotion, salaries, tenure, and dismissal of administrative, instructional, and research employees, and secretarial employees not exceeding ten (10) in number, and armed university police officers shall not be subject in any manner or degree to control by th…

All non-classified employees of the board of trustees who shall have twenty (20) years, not necessarily consecutive, of service credit, these credits having been earned in either the classified, non-classified, or unclassified service or any combination of these, shall be deemed …

(a) The non-classified employees of the board of trustees, except for faculty employees and except for non-classified employees already receiving longevity increases, shall be entitled to a longevity payment in the amount of five percent (5%) of base salary after ten (10) years o…

The university and experiment station shall, until ordered, continue to be located in the town of South Kingstown upon the estate now occupied by them, and all money received after this under the act of congress, approved March 2, 1887, and under the act of congress approved Augu…

(a) The board of trustees may appoint one or more persons who may act as police officers upon the property and highways of the university subject to the control of the board and upon the streets and highways immediately adjacent to those lands. The campus police officers shall pr…

No member of the board of trustees shall be employed in any position under the jurisdiction of the board, nor contract in any manner for any purpose with the board; nor shall the board purchase, sell, or lease any land, property, or supplies from or to any firm or business associ…

The board of trustees is authorized to take all actions, and execute and deliver all agreements or instruments, necessary or convenient for the board to assume all of the obligations on behalf of, and in replacement of, or jointly with the council on postsecondary education under…

The board of trustees shall have authority over the experiment station of the university located in the town of South Kingstown.

The experiment station at the University of Rhode Island shall continue to expend sums of money received from the United States government for experimental work and agricultural extension service, and shall also continue to promote and encourage the work of farm bureaus and expen…

The trustees and officers of the university shall perform all the duties and make, publish, distribute, and render all bulletins and reports required by the acts of congress or by any act in amendment of these or supplementary to these; and shall also report to the general assemb…

(a) The general assembly declares that it views with favor and approves as a matter of public policy the establishment of a college of pharmacy within the University of Rhode Island to assume the educational functions of the Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences. (…

(a) The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum as it may deem sufficient for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the university, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the trustees and officers of the university. The state controller is authoriz…