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(a) The department shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. The rules and regulations shall include but need not be limited to: (1) Specific procedural safeguards to assure that every person and entity u…

(a) As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) “Assistance required action” means any prepayment of a mortgage obligation secured by a development or an owner’s failure to renew a § 8 assistance contract to the full extent of owner’s renewa…

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

(a) The general assembly recognizes, finds and declares that: (1) There exists a serious shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary rental units that are available at rents affordable to low and moderate income families in Rhode Island. Many families are denied access to decent housi…

It is the purpose of this chapter to provide a mechanism which will, to the fullest extent possible: (1) preserve the availability and affordability to low and moderate income persons and families of currently available federally insured and assisted housing in the state, and (2)…

Terms used in this chapter shall be defined as follows, unless another meaning is expressed or clearly apparent from the language or context: (1) “Appurtenant land” means only the land and related facilities which are currently dedicated to the federally insured or assisted renta…

(a) Not less than two (2) years prior to terminating any contract under which rental assistance payments are received under § 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437f, an owner shall provide written notice to the corporation, specifying the reasons for the te…

(a) Not less than two (2) years prior to: (1) Selling, leasing, or disposing of prepaying obligations secured by a federally insured or assisted development in a manner which would result in either: (i) A discontinuance of the use of the development as a federally insured or assi…

No owner shall: (1) Sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, or prepay any obligation secured by, a federally insured or assisted development in a manner which would result in either: (i) A discontinuance of the use of the development as a federally insured or assisted housing devel…

(a) At or before the time an owner of an existing federally insured or assisted development or an owner of a development that was federally insured or assisted within the preceding two (2) years (1) offers to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of a development to any person or ent…

(a) Any party to whom notice is required to be given may waive their rights at any time pursuant to a written waiver signed by a duly authorized representative, which waiver shall terminate all of their rights under this chapter. (b) For the purposes of the chapter, termination o…

This chapter shall be known as the “Rhode Island Dry Dock Facilities Act”.

As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) “Default” means the failure to pay obligations incurred by the storage of a vessel and associated charges. (2) “Dry dock” means any space and/or real…

(a) Lien created. A facility operator has a lien on a vessel stored at that facility for storage charges, labor, or other charges and for expenses reasonably incurred in the sale of that vessel under the provisions of this chapter. (b) Exclusion. This chapter does not create a li…

(a) A vessel owner must be notified of the lien created by this chapter before enforcement of the lien by a facility operator. Notification of the lien created by this chapter is satisfied by: (1) Written storage agreement. A written storage agreement signed by the vessel owner t…

A facility operator may enforce a lien created by this chapter only if the notice requirement set forth in § 34-46-4 is satisfied. (1) Sale — Use of proceeds. (i) If a vessel owner is in default for a period of more than ninety (90) days, a facility operator may enforce a lien by…

A facility operator shall cease enforcement actions immediately upon any of the following: (1) Payment by owner. The vessel owner pays the facility operator the full amount necessary to satisfy the lien on the date payment is tendered. At any time before the conclusion of a sale …

Persons, including, but not limited to, the state government and any of its departments, commissions, divisions, agencies or branches thereof, maintaining public landing, parking, storage, and tie-down facilities for the landing, parking, storage, and tie-down of aircraft brought…

Any person who lawfully repairs an aircraft within this state has a lien upon the aircraft for proper charges due to him, made with the consent of the owners of the aircraft.

Any person entitled to a lien under this section shall, within sixty (60) days after last furnishing of labor, money, material, or supplies for the production of, altering, or repairing of the personal property, file in the office of the federal aviation administration aircraft r…

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 34-47-3, whoever has a lien for money due him or her pursuant to the provisions of this chapter is entitled to enforce the lien pursuant to the provisions of chapter 35 of this title. The lien created by this chapter is in addition to any lien …

(a) When an agreement has been made between the owner of any animals, including, but not limited to, horses, birds and fish, and any person who keeps and feeds the animals, regarding the price of keeping, the animals shall be subject to a lien for the price of the keeping, in fav…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Commercial Real Estate Broker Lien Act.”

As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) “Commercial real estate” means any real estate other than: (i) Real estate containing one to four (4) residential units; (ii) Real estate on which: (A) No buildings or structures are located; and …

(a) Any real estate broker shall have a lien upon commercial real estate or any interest in that commercial real estate which is the subject of a purchase, lease or other conveyance to a buyer or tenant (which transferee includes without limitation subtenant and assignee) of an i…

Prior recorded liens, mortgages, and other encumbrances shall have priority over a real estate broker’s lien. Such prior recorded liens, mortgages, and encumbrances shall include, without limitation, a mechanic’s lien claim that is recorded prior to the real estate broker’s notic…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whenever a claim for lien has been filed with the appropriate land evidence records, and an escrow account is established either from the proceeds from the transaction, conveyance, or any other source of funds in an amount compute…

(a) If any person of interest, including, but not limited to the owner, claims that: (1) The notice of lien filed by a real estate broker in the land evidence records that the commercial real estate broker lien has not been filed or recorded in accordance with the applicable prov…

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter, which can be given effect without the invalid provision or applications, and to this end t…

For the purposes of this chapter: (1) “Person” means a natural person, partnership, association, cooperative, corporation, trust, or other legal entity. (2) “Recording” means presenting a document to a city or town clerk in the recorder of deeds office for official placement in t…

(a) A service agreement is unfair under this chapter if any part of the service subject to the agreement is not to be performed within one year after the time it is entered into and has any of the following characteristics: (1) The service agreement purports to run with the land …

If a service agreement is unfair under this chapter it is unenforceable.

If a person enters into an unfair service agreement with a consumer, as defined in this chapter, that agreement shall per se be deemed a deceptive act under chapter 13.1 of title 6 (“deceptive trade practices”).

(a) No person shall record or cause to be recorded an unfair service agreement or notice or memorandum thereof in this state. (b) Any person who records or causes to be recorded an unfair service agreement or notice or memorandum thereof in this state shall be guilty of a misdeme…

If an unfair service agreement or a notice or memorandum thereof is recorded in this state, any person with an interest in the real property that is the subject of that agreement may apply to the superior court in the county where the recording exists to record a court order decl…

If an unfair service agreement or a notice or memorandum thereof is recorded in this state, any person with an interest in the real property that is the subject of that agreement may recover such actual damages, costs and attorneys’ fees as may be proven against the service provi…

As used in this chapter: (1) “Benefited property” or “property that benefits” means and includes residential real property enjoying the use of an easement or right-of-way; (2) “Burdened property” means and includes residential real property over which the easement runs; (3) “Ease…

(a) In the absence of an enforceable, written agreement to the contrary, the owner of any residential real property that benefits from an easement or right-of-way, the purpose of which is to provide access to the residential real property, shall be responsible for the cost of mai…

As used in this chapter: (a) “Marketable record title” means a title of record which operates to extinguish such interest and claims, existing prior to the effective date of the root of title as are stated in § 34-13.1-4. (b) “Person dealing with land” includes a purchaser of any…

This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying and facilitating land title transactions by allowing persons to rely on a record chain of title as described in § 34-13.1-2 subject only to such limitations as appear in § 34-13.1-3.

If the forty (40) year period specified in this chapter has expired, or would expire, prior to two (2) years after the effective date of this statute, such period shall be extended two (2) years after the effective date of this statute to allow for the recording of notice pursuan…

Any person having legal capacity to own land in this state, who has an unbroken chain of title to any interest in land for forty (40) years or more, shall be deemed to have a marketable record title to that interest, subject only to the matters stated in § 34-13.1-3. A person has…

Such marketable record title is subject to: (1) All interest and defects which are created by or arise out of the muniments of which the chain of record title is formed; provided a general reference in the muniments, or any of them, to easements, use restriction, encumbrances or …

Subject to the matters stated in § 34-13.1-3 such marketable record title shall be held by its owner and such shall be taken by any person dealing with the land free and clear of all interests, claims or charges whatsoever, the existence of which depends upon any act, transaction…

(a) Any person claiming an interest of any kind in land may preserve and keep effective that interest by recording, during the forty (40) year period immediately following the effective date of the root title of the person whose record title would otherwise be marketable, a notic…

(a) To be effective and to be entitled to recordation, the notice referred to in § 34-13.1-5 shall contain an accurate and full description of all land affected by the notice, which description shall be set forth in particular terms and not by general inclusions; but, if the clai…