§ 24-12-1. Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning: (1) “Additional facility” means any bridge, approach or feeder road, highway, road, freeway, tunnel, overpass, underpass, parking facility or toll facility, in the state, equipment or signal and […]
§ 24-12-10. Eminent domain power. The authority shall have the right to acquire any land, or any interest therein, by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, whenever it shall be determined by the authority that the acquisition of the land, or interest, is necessary for the construction or the operation of any project. […]
§ 24-12-11. Filing of eminent domain resolution, plat, and statement of amount offered. The necessity for acquisition shall be conclusively presumed upon the adoption by the authority of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the land, or interest therein, described in the resolution is necessary for the construction or operation. Within six (6) months […]
§ 24-12-12. Taking of possession of lands. Upon the filing of the copy of the resolution, plat, and statement in the land evidence records of the city or town, the filing in the superior court, of the statement, and the depositing in the superior court, to the use of the persons entitled thereto, of such […]
§ 24-12-13. Deposits in court on eminent domain — Notice to owners — Agreement as to price. No sum paid into the court as provided in § 24-12-12 shall be charged with clerk’s fees of any nature. After the filing of the copy, plat, and statement, notice of the taking of the land, or interest […]
§ 24-12-14. Jury trial on price of land. Any owner of or persons entitled to any estate in or interested in any part of the land, or interest therein, so taken, who cannot agree with the authority for the price of the land, or interest therein, so taken in which he or she is interested […]
§ 24-12-15. Representation of incompetent landowners. If any lands, or interests therein, in which any infant or other person not capable in law to act in his or her own behalf is interested, are taken by the authority under the provisions of this chapter, the superior court, upon the filing therein of any petition by […]
§ 24-12-16. Repayment of excess deposits. Whenever from time to time the authority has satisfied the court that the amount deposited with the court is greater than is amply sufficient to satisfy the claims of all persons interested in the land, the court may order that the amount of any excess including any interest or […]
§ 24-12-17. Expediting proceedings — Land devoted to public use — Outstanding interests. In any proceedings for the assessment of compensation and damages for land or interest therein taken or to be taken by eminent domain by the authority the following provisions shall be applicable: (1) At any time during the pendency of an action […]
§ 24-12-18. Bonds. (a) Issuance and sale of revenue bonds. The authority is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance, at one time or in series from time to time, of revenue bonds of the authority for the purpose of paying all or a part of the cost of any one or more […]
§ 24-12-19. Use of bond proceeds — Supplementary issues — Surplus proceeds. The proceeds of the bonds of each issue shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of the project or projects for which the bonds shall have been issued, and shall be disbursed in the manner and under the restrictions, if […]
§ 24-12-2. Authority created — Composition. There is hereby created a body corporate and politic to be known as the “Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority.” The authority shall consist of five (5) members, including the director of transportation, who shall be a member ex officio, and four (4) members appointed by the governor. History […]
§ 24-12-20. Interim receipts or temporary bonds — Replacement of lost or mutilated bonds — Proceedings required by chapter exclusive. Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the authority may, under like restrictions, issue interim receipts or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds when the bonds shall have been executed and […]
§ 24-12-21. Retirement of outstanding bridge revenue refunding bonds of Jamestown Bridge commission. Within three (3) months prior to the estimated date of opening for traffic of the Newport Bridge, but not earlier than December 31, 1965, and in case provision shall not theretofore have been made for the redemption of the outstanding bridge revenue […]
§ 24-12-22. Purchase of Jamestown-Newport ferry franchise. In the event revenue bonds shall be issued in an amount estimated to be sufficient with any other available funds to pay the cost of constructing the Newport Bridge and opening the bridge for traffic, there shall be deposited with a bank or banks in the city of […]
§ 24-12-23. Maintenance of Jamestown-Newport ferry service. Until the Newport Bridge shall be opened for traffic, ferry service between the town of Jamestown and the city of Newport shall be maintained by the director of transportation and upon the opening of the Newport Bridge for traffic the ferry service shall be discontinued except that the […]
§ 24-12-24. Pension fund for ferry company employees. The town of Jamestown, by vote of the qualified electors of the town at any special or annual financial town meeting, is hereby authorized and empowered to use all or any part of any balance of the two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) paid to the town […]
§ 24-12-25. Trust agreement. In the discretion of the authority any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the authority and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. […]
§ 24-12-26. Power to collect tolls and charges — Gasoline and service concessions. (a) The authority is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of this chapter, to fix, revise, charge and collect tolls for the use of the Newport Bridge, the Mount Hope Bridge, the turnpike and the different parts or sections thereof, and for […]
§ 24-12-27. Amount of tolls. Tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted in respect of the aggregate of tolls from the project or projects or the portion or portions thereof in connection with which bonds shall have been issued under the provisions of this chapter as to provide a fund sufficient with other revenues, if […]
