Title 45, Title 45 and Cities

(a) If an active member of the fire force of a city or town or crash rescue crew persons of the state of Rhode Island is killed or dies or becomes totally and permanently disabled from injuries received while in the performance of his or her duty as a member, or dies of a perform…

(a) If an active member of a volunteer or auxiliary fire force or volunteer crash rescue or ambulance corps is killed or dies from injuries received while in the performance of his or her duty there, shall be paid out of the fire fighter’s relief fund of Rhode Island to the follo…

(a) If an active member of the fire force of a city or town or crash rescue crew persons of the state of Rhode Island becomes totally and permanently disabled from injuries received while in the performance of his or her duty as a member, or if any member of the fire force of a c…

Wherever in §§ 45-19-3 — 45-19-14 reference is made to the police officer’s relief fund or to the fire fighter’s relief fund, in either instance, the word “fund” is construed to mean the appropriations made by the general assembly in accordance with §§ 45-19-3 and 45-19-7.

The several cities and towns are authorized and empowered to make a special appropriation to surviving widows or widowers or domestic partners, or other surviving dependents, of a deceased fire fighter or police officer who has been in the service of a city or town for a period o…

The legislative body of any city or town may, by ordinance, provide that the provisions of §§ 45-19-4 and 45-19-12 apply in the case of any unremarried widow or widower or domestic partner, of any police officer or fire fighter which police officer or fire fighter died while in s…

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law or to any state or municipal retirement system, any city or town may, by ordinance, provide that every condition of impairment of health caused by smoke inhalation of the lungs or respiratory tract, resulting in total d…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any firefighter or police officer, as defined in § 45-19-1, who is unable to perform the duties required thereof because of an impairment of health caused by heart disease, stroke, or hypertension i…

Whenever the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle, as defined in § 31-1-3, or the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle for a nonprofit volunteer organization who is operating the vehicle in compliance with § 31-12-1 et seq., is involved in an accident while respondi…

Every police officer and fire fighter of any city or town who served the city or town for at least twenty-five (25) years, or is now or hereafter receiving a retirement allowance from a city or town retirement system after at least twenty-five (25) years’ membership in a system p…

The city or town councils of the various cities and towns may provide, by ordinance or through collective bargaining, for the retirement of the personnel of their police and fire departments who have been on leave of absence from their employment due to sickness contracted or inj…

Within the department of labor and training there is a board of police officer’s relief consisting of seven (7) members which administers the fund for the relief of police officers as provided by law. Five (5) members of the board appointed by the director of labor and training; …

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum that it deems necessary for the payments of annuities to the dependents of any member of the police force killed or dying as the result of injuries received while in the performance of his or her duty; and the controller, up…

(a) If an active or retired member of the police force of a city or town is killed or dies from injuries received while in the performance of his or her duty as a member, or dies of a heart condition or any condition derived from hypertension while still a member, there shall be …

(a) If an active member of the police force of a city or town is killed, dies, or becomes totally and permanently disabled from injuries received while in the performance of his or her duty as a member, or dies of a heart condition or any condition derived from hypertension while…

(a) If an active member of the police force of a city or town becomes totally and permanently disabled from injuries received while in the performance of his or her duty as a member, or if any member of the police force of a city or town becomes totally and permanently disabled f…

(a) If an active or retired police officer, capitol police officer, correctional officer, firefighter, crash rescue crew person, fire marshal, or deputy fire marshal of any city, town, fire district, or the state of Rhode Island or deputy sheriff or a correctional officer or memb…

(a) Within the department of labor and training there is a board of fire fighter’s relief, consisting of three (3) members, which administer the fund for the relief of fire fighters, as provided in this chapter. One member of the board is appointed by the director of labor and tr…

Members of the board shall not be compensated for their service on the board.

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum that it deems necessary for the relief of any fire fighter and for the relief of the widow or widower or domestic partner and children of any fire fighter killed in the performance of his or her duty. The controller, upon th…

The fund shall be used for the relief of fire fighters, injured in the performance of their duty at a fire or in going to or returning from the fire, and for the relief of the widows, widowers, or domestic partners and children of fire fighters killed in the performance of their …

Officers and members in active service in all incorporated protective departments cooperating with fire departments, and any person performing the duties of a fire fighter in a town or city having no organized or permanent fire department, are entitled to the benefits of that ser…

(a) Any firefighter or firefighters, jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the bureau of police and fire or any similar department, board or bureau of a city or town having control of the fire department of the city or town, which decision orders the removal of the pe…

(a) Any police officer or police officers, jointly or severally, aggrieved by any decision of the bureau of police and fire, or any similar department, board, or bureau of a city or town having control of the police department, or any other duly constituted authority within the p…

(a) The department, board, or bureau are not required to return the original papers acted upon by it, but it is sufficient to return verified or sworn copies of the papers or of the portions called for by the writ. (b) The writs shall concisely state any other facts that may be p…

The remedy for review provided in this chapter is not exclusive of any other remedy or procedure otherwise available.

It is the express intention of the legislature by the passage of this chapter to provide an actuarially financed retirement system for municipal employees, properly integrated with the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq., to the end that adequate benefits may be …

It is the duty of each participating municipality to submit to the retirement board a statement showing the name, title, compensation, duties, date of birth, and length of service of each member, and any other information that the retirement board requires. The retirement board s…

Should the service of any member in any period of six (6) consecutive years after last becoming a member amount to a total of less than three (3) years, or should the member withdraw his or her deposited contributions, or should the member become a beneficiary or die, he or she s…

Under the rules and regulations that the retirement board adopts, each member who was an employee on or prior to the effective date of participation of the municipality by which the member is employed, and who became a member within the first year following that date, shall file …

Any member who has rendered service as a teacher, as defined under the provisions of chapters 16 and 17 of title 16, or as a state employee, as defined by the provisions of chapters 8 to 10 of title 36, is entitled to credit for that service for the various purposes of this syste…

Subject to the previously stated restrictions, and to any other rules and regulations that the retirement board adopts, the retirement board shall verify as soon as practicable after the establishment of the system the statement of service submitted.

(a) The retirement board fixes and determines, by appropriate rules and regulations, how much service in any year is equivalent to a year of service, but in computing the service or in computing the compensation it shall credit no period of more than a month’s duration during whi…

(a) Members with at least one year of membership credits who have been granted an official leave of absence without pay for illness, injury, educational or, any other reason, may receive credit for the leave by making contributions to the retirement system, in a lump sum, in an a…

(a) Upon verification of the statement of service submitted, the retirement board shall issue to the member a prior service certificate certifying to the aggregate length of prior service as an employee. So long as membership continues, a prior service certificate is final and co…

Retirement of a member on a service retirement allowance shall be made by the retirement board as follows: (1)(i) Any member who is eligible to retire on or before June 30, 2012, may retire upon the member’s written application to the retirement board as of the first day of the c…

All members of the municipal employees retirement system retiring under the provisions of this title on or after July 1, 1998, or joining the system pursuant to § 45-21.4-2 or § 45-21.4-3, are required to participate in electronic funds transfer and to supply the municipal employ…

(a) Upon retirement from service after January 1, 1969, a member shall receive a retirement allowance which is a life annuity terminable upon death of the annuitant and is an amount equal to two percent (2%) of final compensation multiplied by the number of years of total service…

(a) Every city or town may by ordinance provide that every person who has served as a member of the legislative body of the city or town for a period of ten (10) years and has attained the age of sixty (60), or who has served for a period of twenty (20) years, is entitled to rece…

(a) In lieu of the retirement on service allowance, a vested member who retires in accordance with § 45-21-16 may choose an optional form of retirement benefit known as the social security supplemental option. (b) This option provides for the payment of a larger benefit before th…

The right to a service retirement allowance under the provisions of this chapter is vested in a member who withdraws from service prior to the attainment of the applicable minimum age of retirement as prescribed in this section, who has not received a refund; provided, that the m…

(a) Any member who has had five (5) or more years of total service, may, upon the member’s own application or upon application of the employer, or some person acting in the member’s behalf, while in active service or on leave of absence for illness, apply for ordinary disability …

The following words and phrases as used in this chapter have the following meanings unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context: (1) “Accumulated contributions” means the sum of all amounts deducted from the compensation of a member and credited to the member’s …

Upon retirement for ordinary disability, a member receives a retirement allowance equal to the rate prescribed for service retirement subject to the provisions of § 45-21-31; provided that no member retiring with less than ten (10) years of total service receives a benefit less t…

(a) Any member in active service, regardless of length of service, is entitled to an accidental disability retirement allowance. Application for the allowance shall be made by the member or on the member’s behalf, stating that the member is physically or mentally incapacitated fo…

Upon retirement for accidental disability, a member receives a retirement allowance equal to sixty-six and two-thirds percent (662/3%) of the rate of the member’s compensation at the date of the member’s retirement subject to the provisions of § 45-21-31.