Title 16, Title 16 Title 16

The board, as now constituted, and their successors, for the terms for which they have been or for which they hereafter may be appointed regents, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate for the purpose of continuing and maintaining the University of Rhode Island as a un…

The University of Rhode Island is authorized and empowered to establish in connection with the university and within the department of natural resource sciences a geographic information system laboratory with suitable facilities for developing and maintaining a level of scientifi…

The general assembly may annually appropriate any sum as it may deem necessary for maintaining the geographic information system laboratory within the department of natural resources sciences; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the …

The provisions of the administrative procedures act, chapter 35 of title 42, shall not apply to this chapter.

(a) Notwithstanding any general laws to the contrary, all receipts from all sources other than state appropriations shall not be deposited into the general fund of the state, but shall be deposited by the general treasurer of the state into a restricted account for the benefit of…

(a) The treasurer of the university of Rhode Island, as appointed by the board of trustees, shall: (1) Keep an accurate account of his or her receipts and expenditures, which shall be audited by the state controller; and (2) Turn over to the general treasurer at monthly intervals…

The pre-audit of all expenditures under authority of the board by the state controller provided for in § 35-6-1 shall be purely ministerial, concerned only with the legality of the expenditure and the availability of the funds, and in no event shall the state controller interpose…

In order that the board of trustees may control the personnel and equipment of the university in the interest of educational efficiency, the board and the university are exempt from the provisions of § 35-3-1(a)(5) relating to the employment of personnel, and from any provision o…

(a) The appointment, promotion, salaries, tenure, and dismissal of administrative, instructional, and research employees, and secretarial employees not exceeding ten (10) in number, and armed university police officers shall not be subject in any manner or degree to control by th…

All non-classified employees of the board of trustees who shall have twenty (20) years, not necessarily consecutive, of service credit, these credits having been earned in either the classified, non-classified, or unclassified service or any combination of these, shall be deemed …

(a) The non-classified employees of the board of trustees, except for faculty employees and except for non-classified employees already receiving longevity increases, shall be entitled to a longevity payment in the amount of five percent (5%) of base salary after ten (10) years o…

The university and experiment station shall, until ordered, continue to be located in the town of South Kingstown upon the estate now occupied by them, and all money received after this under the act of congress, approved March 2, 1887, and under the act of congress approved Augu…

(a) The board of trustees may appoint one or more persons who may act as police officers upon the property and highways of the university subject to the control of the board and upon the streets and highways immediately adjacent to those lands. The campus police officers shall pr…

No member of the board of trustees shall be employed in any position under the jurisdiction of the board, nor contract in any manner for any purpose with the board; nor shall the board purchase, sell, or lease any land, property, or supplies from or to any firm or business associ…

The board of trustees is authorized to take all actions, and execute and deliver all agreements or instruments, necessary or convenient for the board to assume all of the obligations on behalf of, and in replacement of, or jointly with the council on postsecondary education under…

The board of trustees shall have authority over the experiment station of the university located in the town of South Kingstown.

The experiment station at the University of Rhode Island shall continue to expend sums of money received from the United States government for experimental work and agricultural extension service, and shall also continue to promote and encourage the work of farm bureaus and expen…

The trustees and officers of the university shall perform all the duties and make, publish, distribute, and render all bulletins and reports required by the acts of congress or by any act in amendment of these or supplementary to these; and shall also report to the general assemb…

(a) The general assembly declares that it views with favor and approves as a matter of public policy the establishment of a college of pharmacy within the University of Rhode Island to assume the educational functions of the Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences. (…

(a) The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum as it may deem sufficient for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the university, the appropriation to be expended under the direction of the trustees and officers of the university. The state controller is authoriz…

The Rhode Island College shall be under the management of the board of governors for higher education as provided by chapter 59 of this title.

Where in any existing law reference is made to Rhode Island College of Education, and where in existing law the term “college” or “said college,” as variously used, refers to Rhode Island College of Education, the reference and the term shall be deemed to refer to Rhode Island Co…

The board of governors for higher education shall be responsible for the control, management, and operation of Rhode Island College in the same manner as prior to July 1, 1960, the board of trustees for state colleges had been responsible for the control, management, and operatio…

In addition to any powers granted to the president of Rhode Island College by law or regulation, and consistent with shared governance practices, in conformity with § 16-33-6, the president shall have the following additional powers and duties: (a) To create and consolidate depar…

The board of governors for higher education may admit to the classes of the college persons not intending to teach in the public schools of the state upon the payment by them of any tuition fees as may be determined by the board. The board shall make, each term, a return to the g…

The board of governors for higher education, with the approval of the president and a committee of the faculty of Rhode Island College, shall award academic degrees and diplomas and confer honors in the same manner as is customary in American colleges. It shall also be the duty o…

Persons who shall have passed the regular course of studies at Rhode Island College shall, on the written recommendation of the president, receive a diploma issued by the board of governors for higher education.

(a) The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum as it may deem necessary for the maintenance and support of the Rhode Island College. (b) The state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of the sum up…

All proceeds of the loan or loans received by the board of governors for higher education for the construction of housing facilities for the Rhode Island College shall be paid to the general treasurer of the state and deposited by the treasurer in a separate fund to be known as t…

Any sums that shall be from time to time appropriated by the general assembly to the Rhode Island School of Design shall be paid by the general treasurer upon the orders of the office of higher education, which is empowered and authorized to visit and examine the school at its pl…

The directors of the school of design shall make an annual report to the office of higher education in manner and form prescribed by the office of higher education.

The commissioner of higher education shall, by virtue of his or her office, be a member of the board of directors of the school of design.

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum as it may deem necessary, to be paid by the general treasurer to the Rhode Island School of Design upon the order of the state controller, upon the presentation of proper vouchers approved by the office of higher education, …

(a) No person shall be excluded from any public school on account of race or color, or for being over fifteen (15) years of age, nor except by force of some general regulation applicable to all persons under the same circumstances. (b) Discrimination on the basis of race is prohi…

(a)(1) Discrimination on the basis of sex is prohibited in all public elementary and secondary schools in the state and in all schools operated by the board of regents for elementary and secondary education. This prohibition shall apply to employment practices, admissions, curric…

Any school receiving aid from the state, either by direct grant or by exemption from taxation, may be visited and examined by the school committee of the city or town in which the school is situated, and by the board of elementary and secondary education or its duly authorized ag…

Whenever a school shall refuse to permit visitation, when requested, or shall refuse or neglect to keep the school register and to make returns as required by law, its exemption from taxation shall thereafter cease and be determined; and the board of regents for elementary and se…

Every person violating any provision of this chapter shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty (30) days unless provided in this section; provided, that the penalty shall not apply to §§ 16-38-4 to 16-38-6.

The board of regents for elementary and secondary education may remit all fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred by any city or town or person under any of the provisions of this title, except the forfeiture incurred by any city or town for not raising its proportion of money…

(a) Each school district shall adopt a policy governing the use of any listserv to distribute information to the parents or guardians of the students enrolled in the school district. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person or institution, educational or otherwise, to knowingly ci…

(a) Every person upon entering any public or private school including any college or university in this state as a pupil shall furnish to the administrative head of the school evidence that the person has been immunized against any diseases that may from time to time be prescribe…

No person shall keep any swine in any pen or other enclosure, or shall keep or suffer to be kept any other nuisance, within one hundred (100) feet of any schoolhouse or within one hundred (100) feet of any fence enclosing the yard of any schoolhouse.

No society, secret or otherwise, no fraternity or sorority, and no club to membership in which less than the entire student body shall be eligible shall be formed in any public school or among the pupils of the public schools; provided, that this section shall not apply to class …

It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, or institution, educational or otherwise, to circulate or permit to be circulated in any school in this state any questionnaire intentionally or unintentionally framed as to ask the pupils of any school intimate questions about themse…

(a) Effective July 1, 2007, no public educational institution, including, but not limited to, the department of elementary and secondary education and the office of higher education, shall assign an individual identification number to a student which is identical to or incorporat…

(a) No public school official or public school employee shall, for any purpose, solicit or exact from any pupil in any public school any contribution or gift of money or any article of value, or any pledge to contribute any money or article of value. No public school teacher shal…