Title 46, Title 46 and Navigation

(a) The board shall meet at least once a month at a place within the participating communities, and all meetings shall be open to the public, and all decisions shall be made public; provided, however, nothing contained herein shall prohibit the board from closing a meeting to the…

The majority of the members of the committee shall be required to transact any business.

Upon organization, the authority shall proceed to lease, rent, or buy facilities that are necessary to establish a permanent office which shall be open at reasonable business hours to the public.

The authority is authorized to establish by resolution a personnel merit system for its employees.

All money of the authority from whatever source derived, shall be paid to the treasurer of the authority. The money on receipt shall be deposited forthwith in a separate bank account or accounts. The money in the account shall be paid out on a check of the treasurer on requisitio…

The cost of the operation of the authority shall be borne equally by the member towns and cities, and they shall each annually appropriate a sum sufficient to pay its proportionate share of the operation of the authority.

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this chapter is hereby expressly reserved, but no such alteration, amendment, or repeal shall operate to impair the obligation of any contract made by the authority under any power conferred by this chapter.

A board to be known as the Pawtuxet River authority is hereby created. The board shall be a body corporate and politic, constituting a public benefit corporation, and shall serve as the governing body of the authority for the purposes of this chapter. The powers of the corporatio…

If any section, clause, provision, or term of this chapter shall be declared unconstitutional and ineffective in whole or in part then, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional and effective, it shall be valid and effective, and no other section, clause, provision, or term s…

(a) The board shall consist of fifteen (15) members, three (3) members to be appointed by the presidents of the town councils of Coventry, West Warwick, and Scituate, respectively, and three (3) members each to be appointed by the mayors of the cities of Warwick and Cranston. Eac…

Each member of the board shall receive an annual salary not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per year and shall be entitled to reimbursement of his or her actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his or her official duties. The salaries, compensation, and…

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 treasurer who may, or may not, be members of the board and such other employees as may be necessary in its judgment and fix their compensation.

No member of the Pawtuxet River authority shall directly or indirectly engage in any contract or agreement for labor, supply of materials for construction, or reconstruction of the physical assets of the district or replacements or additions thereto. No person holding elective of…

The fiscal year of the authority shall be from July 1 to June 30.

The board, during May of each year, shall submit to the councils of the participating cities and towns a report showing actual expenditures for the preceding ten (10) months, and the projected expenditures for the final two (2) months of its fiscal year, as well as a proposed bud…

The authority shall the have power: (1) To negotiate payments within one or more of the participating communities for the conduct of services or the erection of projects necessary for the purposes of the authority, subject to a majority vote of each of the city and town councils …