Title 45, Title 45 and Cities

The district may issue refunding bonds and notes for the purpose of paying any of its bonds or notes at maturity or upon acceleration or redemption. Refunding bonds and notes may be issued at a time prior to the maturity or redemption of the refunded bonds or notes as the distric…

The district may at any time deposit with a trustee, a sum sufficient, with amounts then on deposit, including the debt service reserve fund, to purchase direct or guaranteed obligations of the United States of America which are adequate to pay the entire principal amount of the …

Bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness issued or entered into under the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to be a debt or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state or of any city or town, but shall be payable solely from the revenues of the district. Al…

All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, whether as proceeds from the issue of bonds or notes or as revenues or otherwise, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this chapter.

The bonds and notes issued under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies in their commercial departments, savings banks, co-opera…

Bonds and notes may be issued under this chapter without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau or agency of the state or the town, including the public utilities commission and the division of public utilities pursuant to chapters 1 — 5 of t…

Except as may be required by chapter 15.3 of title 46, the district and all its revenues, income and real and personal property shall be exempt from taxation and from betterments and special assessments and the district shall not be required to pay any tax, excise or assessment t…

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the powers of the district shall be exercised by a board of three (3) members, each of whom shall be a resident of the district. These members shall be appointed by the town administrator of the town, subject to approval by the town c…

If any person maliciously or wantonly destroys or damages any hydrant, pipe, aqueduct, conduit, machinery, equipment, appliance, or other property of the district used for the purposes provided for in this chapter, that person, whether principal or accessory, forfeits to the dist…

The district shall at all times keep full and accurate accounts of its receipts, expenditures, disbursements, assets and liabilities, which shall be open to inspection by any officer or duly appointed agent of the state or the town.

Upon termination or dissolution of the district, the title to all funds and other properties owned by it which remain after payment of all bonds and notes and other obligations of the district shall vest in the town.

Except as otherwise provided herein, any provisions of any special law and part of any special law and all ordinances and parts of ordinances pertaining to the water works system which are inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter shall be inoperative and cease to be effec…

The provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to provide an exclusive, additional, alternative and complete method for the doing of the things authorized hereby and shall be deemed and construed to be supplemental and additional to, and not in derogation of, powers conferred upo…

The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of the bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness of the district that the state will not limit or alter rights hereby vested in the district until the bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, together wit…

This chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the district and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof.

This chapter shall be construed in all respects to meet all constitutional requirements. In carrying out the purposes and provisions of this chapter, all steps shall be taken which are necessary to meet constitutional or other legal requirements whether or not these steps are exp…

(a) The chairperson of the board shall be selected by the majority vote of the members of the board. The board shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer who may or may not be members of the board. (b) The board may from time to time hire, transfer or otherwise appoint or employ l…

The members of the board shall receive no compensation for the performance of their duties under this chapter. Each member may be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of official duties as approved by the board.

The board shall have all the rights and powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate this chapter, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the rights and powers: (1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its bu…

In addition to the powers of the district otherwise provided herein, the district shall have the following powers and shall be subject to the following limitations: (1) The district is authorized and empowered to fix, revise, charge, collect and abate fees, rates, rents, assessme…

(a) The district is authorized to obtain and maintain for the district a supply of water for the extinguishing of fire and for distribution to the inhabitants of the district, for domestic use and for other purposes, and may obtain that water by the establishment of its own works…

(a) If for any of the purposes of this act, the district shall find it necessary to acquire any real property, whether for immediate or future use, the district may find and determine that the property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, is required for the acqui…

The district may within and without the district, and within the limits of the town of West Greenwich, and without the consent of the town, drive, lay, make, construct, and maintain pipes, aqueducts, conduits, machinery, or other equipment or appliances, or authorize the construc…