§ 45-13-1. Apportionment of annual appropriation for state aid. (a) As used in this chapter, the following words and terms have the following meanings: (1) “Income” means the most recent estimate of per-capita income for a city, town or county as reported by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (2) “Population” […]
§ 45-13-1.1. Aid reduced by amounts owed state entities. If any city or town fails to pay any assessment, bill, or charge levied, presented, or imposed by any public or quasi-public board, commission, corporation, council, authority, agency, department, committee or other similar body organized under the laws of this state, within one hundred eighty (180) […]
§ 45-13-1.2. Aid withheld for failure to comply with state statutes. If any city or town fails to furnish information as defined in chapter 21 of title 39 within seventy-five (75) days of June 22, 1987, then there shall be withheld from any state aid, determined to be due under the provisions of this chapter, […]
§ 45-13-10. Exemptions from reimbursement. (a) State mandates not subject to reimbursement includes: (1) The holding of elections; (2) The assurance of due process; (3) The notification and conduct of public meetings; (4) The procedures for administrative and judicial review of actions taken by cities and towns; (5) The protection of the public from malfeasance, […]
§ 45-13-11. Severability. The invalidity of any section or sections or parts of any section or sections shall not affect the validity of the remainder of §§ 45-13-6 — 45-13-11. History of Section.P.L. 1979, ch. 298, § 6.
§ 45-13-11.1. Excuse, avoidance or suspension of reimbursement requirements. The provisions of §§ 45-13-6 — 45-13-10 of this chapter may be excused, avoided or suspended only by law enacted by the affirmative vote of three-fifths (⅗) of the full membership of each house of the general assembly. History of Section.P.L. 2006, ch. 253, § 7.
§ 45-13-12. Distressed communities relief fund. (a) There is established a fund to provide state assistance to those Rhode Island cities and towns that have the highest property tax burdens relative to the wealth of taxpayers. (b) Establishment of indices. Four (4) indices of distress shall be established to determine eligibility for the program. Each […]
§ 45-13-13. Repealed.
§ 45-13-14. Adjustments to tax levy, assessed value, and full value when computing state aid. (a) Whenever the director of revenue computes the relative wealth of municipalities for the purpose of distributing state aid in accordance with title 16 and the provisions of § 45-13-12, he or she shall base it on the full value […]
§ 45-13-2. “Tax levy” defined. For the purposes of this chapter, “tax levy” means the total amount of taxes annually certified by the assessors of taxes of the cities and towns, as shown on the annual reports certified by the assessors to the director of revenue; provided, that whenever a city or town, incidental to […]
§ 45-13-3. Apportionment based on levy for preceding year. The annual apportionment and payment of any sums during the state’s fiscal year shall be based on the annual tax levy of the respective cities and towns as of December 31st of the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the current state fiscal year […]
§ 45-13-4, 45-13-5. Repealed.
§ 45-13-5.1. General assembly appropriations in lieu of property tax from certain exempt private and state properties. (a) In lieu of the amount of local real property tax on real property owned by any private nonprofit institution of higher education, or any nonprofit hospital facility, or any state owned and operated hospital, veterans’ residential facility, […]
§ 45-13-5.2. Valuation of tax exempt property for purposes of computing state grants. Not later than August first in any year, any town or municipality to which a grant may be payable under the provisions of § 45-13-5.1, shall provide the director of revenue with the assessed valuation of the tax exempt real property which […]
§ 45-13-6. Purpose. It is the purpose of §§ 45-13-7 — 45-13-10, to control state mandates on towns and cities, to identify and report on all state mandates, and to establish a system for the reimbursement to towns and cities for the cost of state mandates. History of Section.P.L. 1979, ch. 298, § 3.
§ 45-13-7. State mandated costs defined. “State mandate” means any state initiated statutory or executive action or rule, regulation or policy adopted by a state department or agency or a quasi-public department or agency that requires a local government to establish, expand, or modify its activities in a way as to necessitate additional expenditures from […]
§ 45-13-8. Reports. (a) The department of revenue in consultation and cooperation with towns and cities shall maintain: (1) An identification of state mandates created by statute since January 1, 1970; (2) Specific identification of all state mandates established since July 1, 1979 which are subject to reimbursement in accordance with § 45-13-9, and the […]
§ 45-13-9. Reimbursement to cities and towns and school districts for the costs of state mandates. (a)(1) The department of revenue shall submit to the budget office by October 1 of each year, a report by each city and town, of the cost of state mandates established after January 1, 1979, to be reimbursed for […]
§ 45-13-9.1. Future mandates. No mandate shall be enacted or promulgated after July 1, 2006, unless the body enacting or promulgating the same shall first, after public hearing, determine the cost of the proposed mandate to the city, town or school districts of the state. Any rule, regulation or policy adopted by state departments, agencies […]
§ 45-13-9.2. Postponement of effective date. Whenever it shall be determined by the governor that the postponement of the effective date of rules, regulations or policies of state departments, agencies or quasi-state departments or agencies, shall cause an emergency situation which imperils the public’s safety or public’s health, the governor may by executive order suspend […]
