Title 36, Title 36 Officers and Employees

(a) For each discharge with pay of three (3) consecutive days of sick leave, an employee’s appointing authority shall require a physician’s certificate or other evidence satisfactory to the appointing authority. Sick leave is hereby defined to mean a necessary absence or absences…

(a) Whenever an employee shall be absent from his or her duties and is awaiting workers’ compensation benefits, he or she shall be granted sick leave in an amount not to exceed his or her regular compensation. (b) Whenever an employee shall be absent from his or her duties and is…

Any person employed by the department of elementary and secondary education below pay grade 19 in other than faculty positions, on or before February 1, 1974, in the classified, unclassified, or nonclassified service, or who was a member of the body as constituted by § 22-1-1 or …

Persons appointed to positions in the noncompetitive branch shall serve a probationary period of six (6) months during which time the appointing authority shall report to the personnel administrator every sixty (60) days concerning the work of the employee and at the end of the p…

(a) The personnel administrator shall recommend such rules as he or she may consider necessary, appropriate, or desirable to carry out the provisions of this chapter and chapter 3 of this title and may from time to time recommend amendments thereto. When the rules or amendments a…

The personnel administrator shall, after consultation with appointing authorities and principal supervising officials, classify all of the positions in the classified service according to the duties and responsibilities of each position. The plan of classification shall designate…

Every employee holding a position in the unclassified service of the state, on or after August 8, 1940, who has left or shall leave that position by reason of entering the armed forces of the United States (whether through membership in the reserve of the United States military, …

Every employee holding a position in the classified service of the state, on or after August 8, 1940, who has left or shall leave that position by reason of entering the armed forces of the United States (whether through membership in the reserve of the United States military, ai…

Every employee holding a position in the classified or unclassified service, who has left or shall leave the position by reason of entering the armed forces of the United States (whether through membership in the reserve of the United States Military or Naval Forces or in the Rho…

Whenever any employee of the state, or of any city, town, or political subdivision thereof, has been, is now, or shall be on a leave of absence from that employment because of service in the armed forces of the United States of America during any war in which the United States ha…

Section 36-5-3 shall be deemed to prevail as being in addition to chapters 8 to 10, of this title and any other existing retirement law for any city, town or political subdivision thereof.

Whenever examinations are held in the state civil service for the classified position of veterans’ employment representative, these examinations shall be open only to honorably discharged veterans of all wars.

(a) While the examinations shall be limited to honorably discharged veterans of all wars, regulations of the director of administration, as applied to disabled veterans, shall be applicable to this position, that is, disabled veterans will receive ten (10) point credits and nondi…

(a) Any person who is an honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces of the United States and who has completed fifteen (15) or more years, not necessarily consecutive of service credit, those credits having been earned in either the classified, nonclassified, or unclassifie…

(a) Any person who is an honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces of the United States of America and is also receiving a disability pension from the United States government for a service connected disability and has completed ten (10) years or more not necessarily conse…

Until December 31, 1998, the salary of the governor shall be sixty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars ($69,900) per annum. After December 31, 1998, the salary of the governor shall be ninety-five thousand dollars ($95,000) per annum and shall thereafter be adjusted at the beginni…

All salaries of state employees and officials shall be payable biweekly and the biweekly rate shall be one twenty-sixth (1/26) of the annual rate. The biweekly rate shall be considered to be complete payment of the annual rate.

The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to make appropriate salary deductions from the salary or wages of each employee of the state, or of any agency thereof, in compliance with the withholding provisions of the internal revenue code of the United States of Americ…

The general treasurer and the director of administration shall adopt procedures for and apply the provisions of state payroll deduction for state officers and employees for payments to any nonprofit hospital service corporation organized pursuant to chapter 19 of title 27, or to …

Medical deductions shall be made from payrolls only at the written request of the state officer or employee and the continuing deduction may be terminated at any time upon the written request of the state officer or employee.

Any city or town in the state through its legislative body may enact ordinances providing for the deduction from the compensation of city or town officers and employees for payments under the hospitalization or medical service plan of the nonprofit hospital service corporation or…

The controller shall adopt a procedure for and apply the provisions of state payroll deduction for state officers and employees for payments to the Rhode Island state employees’ credit union, (a corporation founded under the banking laws of the state of Rhode Island on August 16,…

(a) Upon written authorization of any state employee who is a member of any bona fide labor union or who voluntarily elects to pay dues or fees to a union, the state controller shall deduct from the employee’s salary his or her dues as a member or fees and shall remit, together w…

(a) State employees, classified, nonclassified, or unclassified, who have been in the service of the state for at least twenty (20) years shall be credited annually with five (5) days additional vacation time. (b) All state employees may have prior service time with a state of Rh…

All members of the general assembly shall be eligible to receive hospital services, surgical-medical services, and dental services, rights and benefits including, but not limited to, the equivalent of the semi-private benefit plan of blue cross of Rhode Island, a surgical-medical…

(a) Until December 31, 1998, the salary of the lieutenant governor shall be fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum; the salary of the secretary of state shall be fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum; and the salary of the attorney general shall be fifty-five tho…

All retired members of the general assembly who meet all eligibility requirements for retirement and all former members of the general assembly who meet all eligibility requirements for retirement except for age shall be eligible to purchase at their own cost and expense the same…

The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to make appropriate salary deductions, effective January 1, 2008, and to adopt appropriate provisions to allow state officers and employees the option to exclude employee commuting costs incurred from the purchase of RIPTA co…

(a) Findings: Rhode Island is dedicated to environmental protection, efficient use of resources, sound fiscal policy, and sustainable development. Reducing vehicle miles traveled for commuting to work can lead to reductions in air pollution emissions, greenhouse gases, energy con…

Beginning on July 1, 2011, notwithstanding any rule, regulation, or provision of the public laws or general laws to the contrary, there shall be no further longevity increases for officers, secretaries, and employees of the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the office of t…

The general officers of the state shall receive such annual salaries as the general assembly may by law determine. Directors shall receive such annual salaries as may be from time to time established by the unclassified pay plan board which shall consist of seven (7) members as p…

The director of a department or the head of any other agency of the state shall appoint such assistants and other subordinates as he or she may deem necessary within the amounts appropriated therefor and shall fix their respective salaries.

All officials and employees shall be compensated in the manner provided by the annual appropriation act or as may hereafter otherwise be prescribed by law. This section shall not apply to the directors of the several departments of the state of Rhode Island or to the general offi…

The salary received from the state by any deputy sheriff, clerk of any court, or other officer by whom fees are received as a part of his or her official duties shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by him or her personally to the state. That salary shall be in …

It shall be the duty of any deputy sheriff to turn over to the general treasurer at least once each month all fees received by him or her in his or her official capacity as deputy sheriff. It shall be the duty of the clerks of all district courts and the clerks of all superior co…

No judge of the district court shall charge or receive any fee for the arraignment before him or her of any person in any criminal case, except such as may legally be taxed as a part of the costs in the case, and all of which shall be paid over to the general treasurer as hereinb…

The justices of the superior court, the chief judge and associate justices of the family court, and the stenographic clerks of those courts, when sitting or in attendance at any session of those courts held in any county other than Providence County shall be allowed and paid, in …

It is the intention of the legislature by the passage of §§ 36-7-1 — 36-7-31 to extend to the officers and employees of the several cities and towns of the state, including any department, division, agency, or instrumentality thereof, and to the officers and employees of the stat…

(a) A retirement system for the purposes hereof shall mean any annuity, pension, or retirement fund or system established by state law or by action of a city, town, or agency of the state. Pursuant to § 218(d)(6) of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 418, the employees …

With respect to employees of the state as defined in § 36-7-2(1)(i) and (1)(ii), the retirement board, as defined in § 36-7-2(9), may request the governor to authorize a referendum to be conducted pursuant to § 218(d)(3) of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 418(d)(3), …

With respect to the employees of any city or town or agency of the state included in § 36-7-2(1)(iii) which has elected to participate in accordance with and pursuant to §§ 36-7-6 and 36-7-7, which employees are members of a retirement system, the legislative body of the city or …

(a) When request shall be made of the governor by the retirement board or by the legislative body of any city, town, or agency that a referendum be held pursuant to §§ 36-7-10 — 36-7-21, the governor shall immediately appoint a commission consisting of seven (7) members who shall…

The referendum shall be authorized as of the date fixed by the governor. The governor shall designate the commission, provided for in § 36-7-13, to supervise the conduct of the referendum in accordance with the requirements of said § 218(d)(3) of the federal Social Security Act, …

The notice of the referendum and the ballot to be used thereon shall contain a statement setting forth the changes or revisions to be made in the plan of benefit and contributions governing the retirement system, and the obligations which would be imposed on the members of the sy…

Only eligible employees as defined in § 218(d)(3) of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 418(d)(3), as amended, shall be eligible to vote in the referendum. Persons who have retired and who are in receipt of payment from the retirement system shall be ineligible to vote.

The affirmative approval of at least a majority of the members of the retirement system eligible to vote in the referendum shall determine the inclusion of the members of the retirement system under an agreement under this chapter.