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R.I. Gen. Laws § 43-2-1. Numbering of public laws
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All acts of a public nature shall be numbered as chapters, continuously in the order of their passage commencing with the first act passed in the January session of each year and continuing to the end of the year.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 43-2-2. References to public laws amended or repealed
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Every act amending or repealing a public law shall, immediately preceding the public law to be amended or repealed, refer to the law by the number and name of the chapter containing the law amended or repealed, and to the year of its passage; provided, that any failure to include…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 43-2-2.1. Assignment of official section number of general laws
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When an act of a general and permanent nature passed by the general assembly becomes a law and is filed with the secretary of state, the law revision director of the joint committee on legislative services shall examine the act and, if as enacted it has not been assigned to secti…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 43-2-3. Deposit and safekeeping of original acts, resolutions, and proceedings
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The original acts, resolutions, and other proceedings of the general assembly shall be deposited and safely kept in the office of the department of state and shall not be removed from that office except upon the order of the general assembly or upon process issued by the supreme …