Title 42, Title 42 Affairs and Government

(a) The attorney general shall annually, on or before March 31, make a report in writing to the general assembly showing the transactions of the attorney general’s office in relation to the enforcement of law with respect to crimes involving a gun during the prior year ending on …

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 23-17.14-13, the department of attorney general, may in effectuating the purpose of: (1) The Hospital Conversion Act pursuant to chapter 17.14 of title 23; or (2) Any nonprofit hospital service corporation conversion; or (3) Nonprofit medic…

(a) The attorney general is hereby authorized and empowered to accept in the name of the state any settlement resulting from a multi-state initiative. The attorney general is additionally authorized and empowered to recover attorney’s fees and costs that shall be considered settl…

(a) There is hereby established a restricted receipt account within the department of attorney general entitled “attorney general non-multi-state initiative restricted-receipt account.” Funds consisting of attorneys’ fees previously recovered pursuant to the Distributors — Rhode …

(a) The attorney general, the assistant attorneys general, and those special assistant attorneys general who have been designated by the attorney general, shall exercise the powers and duties prescribed in and shall enforce the provisions of this chapter and of §§ 12-1-4 — 12-1-1…

The attorney general shall give his or her attendance at the general assembly, and at the supreme and superior courts, for the service thereof; and shall give unto those courts due advice and information concerning any criminal matters, breaches of the peace, or wrong done to the…

(a) The attorney general shall draw and present all informations and indictments, or other legal or equitable process, against any offenders, as by law required, and diligently, by a due course of law or equity, prosecute them to final judgment and execution. (b) The duty of the …

The attorney general shall commence and prosecute to final judgment and execution those other legal or equitable processes, and shall perform those other duties that are or may be required of the attorney general by law; except insofar as the attorney general may have been requir…

Except as otherwise in the general laws provided, the attorney general, whenever requested, shall act as the legal adviser of the individual legislators of the general assembly, of all state boards, divisions, departments, and commissions and the officers thereof, of all commissi…

(a) The attorney general shall annually on or before the thirty-first (31st) day of January of each year submit a report to the general assembly showing the transactions of the attorney general’s office and that of any special counsel appointed by or through the attorney general’…

Whenever an appropriation is available for the purpose of purchasing or acquiring land, the officer, board, division, department, or commission authorized to make the purchase or to acquire the land shall not accept any deed nor shall the state controller draw his or her orders u…

(1) Establishment. There is hereby established within the department of attorney general an office of investigation. (2) Scope and purpose. The scope and purpose of the office of investigation shall be: (a) To assist special assistant and assistant attorneys general in carrying o…

Local police officers assigned to the attorney general for the purposes of a specific investigation shall exercise the same powers of arrest exercised by an investigator if the power is exercised in that investigation. If a local police officer is assigned to the department of at…

The several assistant attorneys general shall take the engagement prescribed by § 36-1-2 before a justice of the supreme court and shall hold office during the pleasure of the attorney general.