Title 42, Title 42 Affairs and Government

(a) The Rhode Island commerce corporation is authorized and empowered to acquire and construct water supply facilities; to maintain, repair, and operate those facilities; and to issue revenue bonds of the corporation payable solely from revenues derived from the leasing of those …

In addition to any of its other powers and responsibilities, the Rhode Island commerce corporation is authorized and empowered to accept any grants made available by the United States government or any agency of the United States government, and the corporation, with the approval…

(a) All functions formerly administered by the governor’s office of intergovernmental relations in the executive department relating to community development block grants are hereby transferred to the department of administration, division of planning. (b) In addition to any of i…

The Rhode Island commerce corporation is granted all of the powers necessary and convenient to perform the functions transferred to the Rhode Island commerce corporation pursuant to §§ 42-64-7.5 and 42-64-7.6.

(a) The Rhode Island commerce corporation shall have full and complete authority to limit, deny, or cause appropriate direct or indirect connections to be made between any building or property located in the Quonset Point/Davisville Industrial Park, or from any location outside t…

(a) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the authority vested in the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall include the authority to limit, reject, or prohibit any direct or indirect discharge of pollutants or combination of pollutants as defined by applicable feder…

(a) The powers of the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall be vested in a board of directors consisting of thirteen (13) members. (1) The governor shall serve as a member of the board and as chairperson, ex-officio, who shall vote only in the event of a tie. (2) In addition to…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sums that it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum, or so much as may…

(a) Board members of the corporation shall: (1) Execute direct oversight of the corporation in the effective and ethical management of the corporation; (2) Understand, review, and monitor the implementation of fundamental financial and management controls and operational decision…

The following records deemed public under chapter 2 of title 38 shall be available to the public upon request and posted directly on the website of the corporation: (1) Job descriptions of the executive director and management; (2) Employment contracts of the executive director a…

(a) If, for any of the purposes of this chapter, the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall find it necessary to acquire any real property, whether for immediate or future use, the corporation may find and determine that the property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser in…

(a) The Rhode Island commerce corporation is authorized to carry out all inspection, surveillance, and monitoring procedures necessary to determine, independent of information supplied by any discharger or permit holder, compliance or noncompliance by the person with pretreatment…

The Rhode Island commerce corporation may adopt rules and regulations or any amendments to rules and regulations according to the provisions of chapter 35 of this title. The corporation shall also give notice of these rules and regulations or any amendments, prior to their effect…

(a) Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter or of any permit, rule, regulation, or order issued pursuant thereto, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for each day during which the violation occurs. (b) The Rho…

(a) No person shall knowingly make any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, record, report, plan, or other document filed or required to be maintained under this chapter or by any permit, rule, regulation, or order issued under those sections, and…

(a) The Rhode Island commerce corporation shall have authority to seek legal or equitable relief in the federal court or in the superior court of Providence county to enforce the requirements of sections 307(b) and (c); 402(b)(8), and other applicable sections of the Federal Wate…

At all hearings held under the provisions of this chapter, the Rhode Island commerce corporation and its members shall have the right to administer oaths. All persons testifying at the hearings shall do so under oath and under penalty of perjury. The corporation shall have the ri…

Within a reasonable time following the conclusion of the hearing, the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall render its decision and findings and shall give notice by publication in some newspaper of general circulation published in Rhode Island and distributed in Washington and…

Before adopting or entering any order applicable to any one or more specific persons, the Rhode Island commerce corporation shall give to each of the persons, by registered or certified mail, twenty (20) days’ notice of the time and place of the hearing to be afforded to each of …

The provisions of §§ 42-64-9.5—42-64-9.7 relative to hearings and judicial review shall be applicable to all hearings and decisions held pursuant to this chapter.

Any permit, permit application, or effluent data shall be available to the public for inspection and copying in accordance with chapter 2 of title 38 (“Access to Public Records”). Confidential or privileged materials may be disclosed or transmitted to other officers, employees, o…