Title 45, Title 45 and Cities

(a) All money of the utility district, from whatever source derived, shall be paid to the treasurer of the utility district. The money on receipt shall be deposited forthwith in a separate bank account or accounts. The money in the accounts shall be paid out with a check of the t…

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this chapter is reserved to the state, but no such alteration, amendment, or repeal shall operate to retroactively impair the obligation of any contract made or assumed by the utility district under any power conferred by this chapter. If any …

Upon dissolution or termination of the utility district, the assets of the utility district that remain after payment, or making provision for payment, of all bonds, notes, and other obligations of the utility district shall be distributed to the town of New Shoreham or as ordere…

Terms used in this chapter shall be construed as follows, unless another meaning is expressed or is clearly apparent from the language or context: (1) “BIPCo” means the Block Island Power Company. (2) “BIPCo assets” means that real property, personal property, rights in any real …

This chapter is intended to establish the Block Island utility district and to authorize and enable the utility district to provide utility products and services as may be authorized, from time to time, by the utility district’s board of utility commissioners.

(a) There is hereby created a quasi-municipal corporation, having a distinct legal existence from the state, to be known as the Block Island utility district, the boundaries of which shall be coterminous with the boundaries of New Shoreham, Rhode Island. The utility district shal…

There is hereby created a board to be known as the board of utility commissioners of the Block Island utility district. The powers of the utility district as set forth in this chapter shall be vested in and exercised by a majority of the members of the board of utility commission…

(a) The board of utility commissioners shall consist of five (5) members, no less than three (3) of whom shall be residents of the town of New Shoreham as defined by the Revised Ordinances of the town of New Shoreham, Chapter 2, Article I, Section 2-2. A majority of the board sha…

(a) Members of the board of utility commissioners shall not be entitled to receive compensation for attendance at scheduled and special meetings of the board of utility commissioners, but shall be entitled to reimbursement of the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the perf…

The utility district shall have the power: (1) To acquire the BIPCo assets and to assume the BIPCo debt obligations. The sale by voluntary purchase of such property and the assumption of such obligations shall be negotiated between BIPCo and the utility district; provided, howeve…

All services provided by the utility district that constitute public utility services within the meaning of § 39-1-2 shall be subject to the applicable jurisdictions of the public utilities commission and the division of public utilities and carriers.