Enabling Legislation

General Laws of Rhode island, Chapter 24-12

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§ 24-12-1     Definitions.

§ 24-12-2     Authority created – Composition.

§ 24-12-3     Appointment of authority members – Oath of office.

§ 24-12-4     Officers of authority – Quorum – Reimbursement of expenses of members.

§ 24-12-5     Power to construct, reconstruct, renovate, acquire, maintain, repair, operate or manage projects or additional facilities and to issue bonds.

§ 24-12-6     Grants or leases of state or municipal lands.

§ 24-12-7     Revenue bonds not a debt of the state.

§ 24-12-8     Expenses limited to funds provided.

§ 24-12-9     Powers of authority.

§ 24-12-10     Eminent domain power.

§ 24-12-11     Filing of eminent domain resolution, plat, and statement of amount offered.

§ 24-12-12     Taking of possession of lands.

§ 24-12-13     Deposits in court on eminent domain – Notice to owners – Agreement as to price.

§ 24-12-14     Jury trial on price of land.

§ 24-12-15     Representation of incompetent landowners.

§ 24-12-16     Repayment of excess deposits.

§ 24-12-17     Expediting proceedings – Land devoted to public use – Outstanding interests.

§ 24-12-18     Bonds.

§ 24-12-19     Use of bond proceeds – Supplementary issues – Surplus proceeds.

§ 24-12-20     Interim receipts or temporary bonds – Replacement of lost or mutilated bonds – Proceedings required by chapter exclusive.

§ 24-12-21     Retirement of outstanding bridge revenue refunding bonds of Jamestown Bridge commission.

§ 24-12-22     Purchase of Jamestown-Newport ferry franchise.

§ 24-12-23     Maintenance of Jamestown-Newport ferry service.

§ 24-12-24     Pension fund for ferry company employees.

§ 24-12-25     Trust agreement.

§ 24-12-26     Power to collect tolls and charges – Gasoline and service concessions.

§ 24-12-27     Amount of tolls.

§ 24-12-28     Revenues pledged to sinking fund.

§ 24-12-29     Trust funds – Trustee.

§ 24-12-30     Remedies of bondholders.

§ 24-12-31     Tax exemption.

§ 24-12-32     Eligibility of bonds for investment.

§ 24-12-33     Negotiability of bonds.

§ 24-12-34     Refunding bonds.

§ 24-12-35     Resolutions of authority.

§ 24-12-36     Annual report and audit.

§ 24-12-37     Penalty for nonpayment of toll.

§ 24-12-38     Covenant against competition.

§ 24-12-39     Transfer of projects to state – Dissolution of authority.

§ 24-12-40     Dissolution of Jamestown Bridge commission – Bridge to become toll free portion of state highway system – Covenants with bondholders.

§ 24-12-40.A     Title to Mount Hope Bridge vested in Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority – Continuation of tolls.

§ 24-12-40.B     Certain bonds guaranteed by state.

§ 24-12-40.C     Additional state guaranteed and revenue bonds for Newport Bridge.

§ 24-12-40.D     Additional state guaranteed bonds for Newport Bridge.

§ 24-12-40.E     State guaranteed bonds – General provision.

§ 24-12-41     Severability.

§ 24-12-42     Narragansett Bay Bridge authority obligations.

§ 24-12-43     [Repealed.].

§ 24-12-44     Construction of connecting highways.

§ 24-12-44.A     24-12-44B. [Repealed.].

§ 24-12-45     Liberal construction.

§ 24-12-46     Severability.

§ 24-12-47     Inconsistent laws inapplicable.

§ 24-12-48     Provision for severance benefits.

§ 24-12-49     Declaration of policy – Preventing economic harm to the town of Jamestown.

§ 24-12-50     Relationship to department of transportation.

§ 24-12-51     The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge.

§ 24-12-51.1     Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge – Fishing area and park.

§ 24-12-52     Succotash Road Bridge.

§ 24-12-53     William E. Powers Memorial Bridge.

§ 24-12-54     Alfred U. Menard Memorial Bridge.

§ 24-12-55     The Claiborne Pell Bridge.

§ 24-12-56     Honorable John F. Conley Bridge.

§ 24-12-57     General George S. Greene Memorial Bridge.

§ 24-12-58     Robert E. Rowan, P.E. Bridge.