§ 42-106-1. Rhode Island aqua fund legislative findings. The general assembly finds and declares that a multiple-purpose, comprehensive and concentrated approach is required to focus state and federal resources on the enormous environmental problems associated with cleansing Rhode Island’s greatest natural resource, Narragansett Bay. It further finds that such an approach will include efforts at […]
§ 42-106-2. Creation of fund and advisory council. There is created and established the Rhode Island aqua fund and advisory council. History of Section.P.L. 1988, ch. 443, § 1.
§ 42-106-3. Membership of council. (a) The advisory council shall consist of twenty-one (21) members; one of whom shall be a representative of an industry that has an environmental impact on Narragansett Bay (hereinafter referred to as “the bay”) who has been actively involved in bay issues, to be appointed by the governor; one of […]
§ 42-106-4. Purpose and duties. (a) The purpose of the fund shall be to remedy existing pollution of the bay and to prevent future pollution of the bay, through sewer pollution control projects and contaminated sediment remedy and/or prevention programs. The state shall finance projects and programs with the proceeds of the aqua fund bonds […]
