§ 36-1-1. Inauguration of state officers and general assembly. The adjutant general is hereby authorized and empowered, with the advice and approval of the governor elect, to make all proper and suitable arrangements for the inauguration of the governor and other state officers and the general assembly on the first Tuesday of January in each […]
§ 36-1-10. Vacancies in offices filled by governor or grand committee. Whenever any officer elected by the grand committee or appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall die or shall resign his or her office during a session of the general assembly to take effect immediately or at some […]
§ 36-1-11. Power of senate to act on nominations. Whenever at the January session of the general assembly, or otherwise, the governor is required by law to fill vacancies in or make any appointments to office, and which appointments by law require the advice and consent of the senate, the senate may give its advice […]
§ 36-1-12. Time allowed for senate action on nominations — Disapproval — Withdrawal. Whenever the senate shall have been in session for sixty (60) legislative days after notice of the making of appointments by the governor and shall not have disapproved the appointments or shall have failed to act thereon, the appointment by the governor […]
§ 36-1-13. Member of general assembly elected or appointed to office — Time for qualification. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 36-1-4, or of any other statute thereunto appertaining, a person who, while a member of the general assembly, is elected to office by the general assembly, or by either house thereof, or appointed to office […]
§ 36-1-2. Engagement of office. Every person, except the justices of the supreme and superior courts, elected to office by the general assembly, or by either house thereof, or under the provisions of the law in relation to public schools, or appointed to office, civil or military, by the governor, or by any other appointing […]
§ 36-1-2.1. Transition of general officers. All newly elected general officers of the state, prior to their engagement of office, shall be entitled to the following in regard to their assumption of state duties: (1) Space being made available for the use of a transition staff; (2) Adequate funds shall be provided by the outgoing […]
§ 36-1-3. Issuance of commissions. A commission shall issue to every person elected to office by the general assembly, to every justice of the peace elected by any town council, to the clerk and each deputy clerk of the Rhode Island district court, and to every person appointed to office by the governor and to […]
§ 36-1-4. Delivery of certificate of engagement to secretary of state. Every person so elected or appointed to office shall, within thirty (30) days after the date of his or her commission, deliver to the secretary of state a certificate that he or she has been duly engaged thereon, signed by the person before whom […]
§ 36-1-5. Certificate of election of United States senators. The governor shall give a certificate of the election of senators from this state, under the seal of the state, to the president of the senate of the United States, which certificate shall be countersigned by the secretary of state. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 24, […]
§ 36-1-6. Tenure of officers appointed by governor. (a) All persons appointed by the governor, or appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, shall severally continue in and hold their respective offices for and during the term for which they were severally appointed and until their respective successors are qualified […]
§ 36-1-7. Removal of officers appointed with advice and consent of senate. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law in relation to the tenure of their office, any officer appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate may be removed either by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, […]
§ 36-1-8. Tenure of officers elected by general assembly. All persons who have been or may hereafter be legally elected to any office by the general assembly shall severally continue in and hold their respective offices for and during the term for which they were severally elected and until their respective successors are elected and […]
§ 36-1-9. Vacancies in general state offices. In case of a vacancy in the office of secretary of state, attorney general, or general treasurer occurring when the general assembly is not in session, the governor shall appoint some person to fill the vacancy until a successor elected by the general assembly is qualified to act; […]
