Title 30, Title 30 Affairs and Defense

(a) A private employer may adopt an employment policy that provides a preference in hiring or promotion, or both, to a veteran. (b) A policy adopted under this section shall: (1) Be in writing; and (2) Be uniformly applied to employment decisions regarding hiring and promotion. (…

Any member of the armed forces of the United States or any citizen of the United States who served in the armed forces of the united nations during World War II shall, upon his or her reemployment by a prior employer within one year after his or her honorable discharge from the a…

Any veteran employee described in § 30-21-2 may waive any or all of the rights granted him or her by §§ 30-21-2 — 30-21-7. The form of the waiver shall be prescribed by the director of labor and training.

The provisions of §§ 30-21-2 — 30-21-7 shall not apply so as to give any veteran of World War II any preference over any honorably discharged veteran of any other war in which the United States has participated.

Nothing in §§ 30-21-2 — 30-21-7 shall require any employer to hire any person who, in the judgment of the employer, is not qualified for the position.

Anyone knowingly violating any provision of §§ 30-21-2 — 30-21-6 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).

In every public department and upon all public works of this state, any honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine who served in the army or navy of the United States during the Spanish-American war, Philippine insurrection, China relief expedition, or world war I, and who, …

(a) All vacancies that may occur in the employment of janitors, elevator operators, caretakers, or any positions in the custodian service in any building owned or maintained by this state or any department of this state shall be filled in the following order of preference: (1) By…

The provisions of all of the statutes of this state granting benefits or privileges to veterans of any war in which the United States of America has heretofore been engaged, or to the widow or widower or domestic partner or other surviving kin of deceased veterans of that war, sh…

(a) All credits, benefits, and privileges, excepting bonuses, granted and bestowed as of December 7, 1941 by the state upon men and women in the armed forces of the United States of America and then enjoyed by those armed forces, shall be extended to include members of the Americ…

The provisions of all of the statutes of this state granting benefits, privileges, or bonuses to veterans of any war in which the United States of America has heretofore been engaged, or to the widow or widower or domestic partner or other surviving kin of deceased veterans of th…

“Active conduct of and/or fighting in the Korean Campaign” shall mean service by any man or woman of the armed forces of the United States between June 27, 1950, and January 31, 1955, inclusive. Provided, however, that the extension of the date from July 27, 1953, to January 31, …

“Active conduct of and/or fighting in the Vietnam Conflict” shall mean service by any man or woman of the armed forces of the United States between February 28, 1961, and May 7, 1975, inclusive. Provided, however, that the extension of the date from August 5, 1964, to February 28…

For purposes of this chapter, “domestic partner” shall be defined as a person who, prior to the decedent’s death, was in an exclusive, intimate, and committed relationship with the decedent, and who certifies, by affidavit, that their relationship met the following qualifications…

By order of the President of the United States on February 24, 1944, there was established in the Office of War Mobilization a retraining and reemployment administration to have general supervision and direction of activities relating to the retraining and reemployment of persons…

Each city and town may, by ordinance, provide for the creation of a veterans’ retraining and reemployment committee with authority to establish and maintain a veterans’ information service center in that municipality and each city and town is hereby authorized to make appropriati…

Each local veterans’ retraining and reemployment committee, hereinafter referred to as the “local committee”, shall be fully representative of all federal, state, and local agencies serving veterans in the community, and of all community groups and institutions therein that are i…

The local committee shall elect a chairperson and such other officers as it may determine and may appoint an executive committee and subcommittees and define the duties of its officers and committees. The local committee may employ an executive secretary and clerical and other as…

It shall be the duty of each local veterans’ retraining and reemployment committee to mobilize and promote all existing community resources for the aid of the veteran in one place, through the establishment and maintenance of a veterans’ information service center, wherein all ve…

The major function of the veterans’ information service center shall be to provide information, aid, and counsel to all veterans in the community and their families and to maintain liaison with all existing federal, state, and local agencies. Actual determination of eligibility f…

The actions before April 23, 1945, of cities and towns in establishing veterans’ information service centers, and the appointment by the committees of executive secretaries and the hiring of clerical and other assistance, and the actions theretofore of cities and towns in allocat…

The management and control of the Rhode Island veterans’ home, established in this state for those who served in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Merchant Marines, Space Force, or Air Force of the United States in any war or conflict and were honorably discharged theref…

(a) Any person who has served in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Space Force, or Air Force of the United States for a period of ninety (90) days or more and that period began or ended during any foreign war in which the United States shall have been engaged or in any e…

The director of the department of human services is hereby authorized and empowered to establish and maintain a domiciliary care program for homeless veterans (veterans transitional supportive program, V.T.S.P.) at the Rhode Island veterans’ home. Any veteran admitted to the Rhod…

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this chapter is adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, that judgment will not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but will be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragr…

(a) The director of human services, or his or her designee, shall have the general supervision over, and shall prescribe rules for, the government and management of the Rhode Island veterans’ home. He or she shall make all needful bylaws and regulations governing the admission, m…

(a) The director of veterans services shall appoint an administrator for the Rhode Island veterans’ home who shall be the most qualified applicant who has been issued a nursing home administrator license pursuant to chapter 45 of title 5. In reviewing the applicants, the director…

Annually, on or before July 1, the governor shall appoint a successor of each member of the advisory council whose term expires, these appointments to be for a term of three (3) years. In case of any vacancy or additional members on the council, the governor shall appoint a new m…

The advisory council for veterans’ affairs shall exercise and perform all the duties and functions formerly exercised and performed by the advisory council for the Rhode Island veterans’ home. The advisory council for the Rhode Island veterans’ home is hereby abolished. The advis…

(a) The director of human services is hereby authorized and empowered to take and receive in the name of the state any grant, devise, gift, or bequest of real or personal property that may be made for the use and benefit of the Rhode Island veterans’ home or the residents or purp…

The unexpended balance of such sum or sums of money as are received and appropriated as provided in § 30-24-6 for the veterans’ home restricted account remaining in the treasury at the close of each fiscal year, shall be continued to, and is hereby annually appropriated for, the …

All goods, chattels, property, money, and effects of a deceased resident of the Rhode Island veterans’ home that have not been disposed of by him or her by a completed inter vivos conveyance or gift, or by a valid will, after payment therefrom of the funeral expenses, which shall…

Whenever requested by the family of any honorably discharged, deceased soldier, sailor, airperson, or marine of any of the wars in which the United States has been engaged, or by a veterans’ organization duly authorized to conduct the funeral of the deceased soldier, sailor, airp…

The director of human services is authorized and empowered to undertake the care of any grave of any soldier or sailor who fought in the war of the revolution, or who at any time served the United States in any war, when the grave appears to have been neglected or abandoned. For …

When any cemetery or burial place containing a neglected grave is found by the director of human services, or the agents or employees of the division, to be under the custody or control of some private owner or public authority, then the director shall obtain permission, in writi…

The general assembly shall, from time to time, appropriate such sums as it may deem necessary to be expended by the director of human services in carrying out the purposes of §§ 30-25-10 and 30-25-11, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed, upon the receipt of…

The director of human services may accept in the name of the state, and may administer, any devise, bequest, or gift that is to be expended for the general purposes of this chapter. All sums received by devise, bequest, or gift from any person or corporation shall be deposited wi…

(a) The Rhode Island veterans’ memorial cemetery, located on the grounds of the Joseph H. Ladd school in the town of Exeter, shall be under the management and control of the director of the department of human services. The director of the department of human services shall appoi…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of § 30-25-1; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw orders…

Whenever any person who served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force, or Marine Corps of the United States during any period of war, and was honorably discharged therefrom, shall die within this state without leaving means sufficient to defray necessary funeral e…

The town council of any town, and the city council of any city, shall annually designate some proper person, other than those designated by law for the care of paupers or the custody of criminals, who shall cause to be interred the body of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor…

Any interment provided for by the provisions of this chapter shall not be made in any cemetery or plot used exclusively for the pauper dead; and if any deceased honorably discharged soldier, sailor, airperson, or marine may have already died and been buried in any place used excl…

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to require the city treasurer of the city of Cranston to pay any money to meet the funeral expenses of, or the erection of any headstone for, any person who shall have died at any of the state institutions in Cranston, unless a…

The director of human services shall be custodian of the Rhode Island soldiers’ burial lots, and the monument and grave markers thereon, located in the north cemetery in the town of Bristol. He or she shall, from time to time, cause such work to be done as may be necessary in kee…

The director of human services is authorized to make such expenditures as may be necessary in carrying out the purposes of § 30-25-8, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed upon receipt of proper vouchers approved by the state director of human services, to dr…

The Italian American war veterans of the United States, incorporated, as federally chartered, whose membership and officers consist solely of honorably discharged American war veterans who served in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Space Force, or Air Forc…