Title 42, Title 42 Affairs and Government

The office of regulatory reform is authorized and empowered to ensure all regulations use appropriate disability language, as required by § 43-3-7.1.

The general assembly finds and declares that: (1) Rhode Island is facing an economic and fiscal crisis and is suffering high unemployment and other ill effects from the national recession that persists at the time of the passage of this act; (2) Rhode Island maintains regulatory …

The purposes of this chapter are to create within the office of management and budget, the office of regulatory reform that will facilitate the regular review of Rhode Island’s regulatory processes and permitting procedures; report thereon in an effort to improve them; and assist…

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all departments, agencies, authorities, corporations, instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the state, to all other entities that have been delegated regulatory and permitting authority under state law, and all municipalitie…

The office of management and budget shall create an office of regulatory reform that shall be adequately staffed and supervised in order to fulfill its functions as set forth in this chapter.

The office of regulatory reform shall be managed by a director of office of regulatory reform who shall report to the director of the office of management and budget.

The office of regulatory reform shall have the following powers: (1) The director of the office of regulatory reform is authorized to intervene or otherwise participate in any regulatory or permitting matter pending before any executive branch agency or department or before any m…

The office of regulatory reform shall have the following regulatory analysis and reporting responsibilities: (1) The office of regulatory reform shall, upon the conclusion of each fiscal year, prepare and publish a report on the regulatory processes of state and municipal agencie…

Each city or town in Rhode Island may at its option designate in writing submitted to the office of regulatory reform a regulatory liaison who shall be charged with the responsibility of coordinating regulatory and permitting matters within that city or town with the office of re…