§ 45-19-1. Salary payment during line of duty illness or injury. (a) Whenever any police officer of the Rhode Island airport corporation or whenever any police officer, firefighter, crash rescue crewperson, fire marshal, chief deputy fire marshal, or deputy fire marshal of any city, town, fire district, or the state of Rhode Island is wholly […]
§ 45-19-1.1. Liability of third person for damages. Where the injury or sickness for which compensation is payable under § 45-19-1, was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer to pay damages in respect of the injury or sickness, the employee may take proceedings, against that person to […]
§ 45-19-1.2. Lien of state or municipality. Any employer paying compensation under the provisions of § 45-19-1 shall, if the employee recovers damages from a third person on account of the injuries or sickness for which compensation is payable, have a lien upon that part going to the employee, of any recovery or sum had […]
§ 45-19-1.3. Notice of lien. No lien is effective, unless a written notice containing the name and address of the employee, the date that the employee became wholly or partially incapacitated, the name and location of the employer, and the name of the person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations, alleged to be […]
§ 45-19-1.4. Liability for payments to an employee without honoring employer’s lien. Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations, making any payment to the employee or to the employee’s attorneys or heirs or legal representatives as compensation for the injury sustained, or sickness contracted after the filing and mailing of the notice, […]
§ 45-19-1.5. Examination of records. Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations, legally liable for a lien or against whom a claim is asserted for compensation for injuries, is permitted to examine the records of any employer paying compensation pursuant to the provisions of § 45-19-1. History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 196, […]
§ 45-19-1.6. Lien docket. Every city or town clerk, and the director of administration of the state of Rhode Island, shall provide a suitable well-bound book to be called the “lien docket” in which, upon the filing of any lien claim under the provisions of §§ 45-19-1.2 — 45-19-1.5 he or she shall enter the […]
§ 45-19-10. Rate and duration of disability benefits. (a) All call fire fighters, volunteers, and all others eligible for the benefits of the fund who are injured in the line of fire duty or who suffer illness directly attributed to fire duty, are entitled to benefits as follows: At the rate of fifty dollars ($50.00) […]
§ 45-19-11. Filing of lists of fire fighters. The secretary of all incorporated protective departments cooperating with fire departments, incorporated volunteer fire companies, and all fire fighters in a town having no organized fire department entitled to the benefits under this chapter, shall file, on the first Monday in July of each year with the […]
§ 45-19-12. Annuities to dependents of deceased fire fighters and appropriations to nondependent parents of deceased fire fighters. (a) If an active or retired member, of the fire force of a city or town or fire fighter for the town of North Smithfield is killed or dies from injuries received while in the performance of […]
§ 45-19-12.1. Tuition to children of deceased or disabled fire fighters. (a) If an active member of the fire force of a city or town or crash rescue crew persons of the state of Rhode Island is killed or dies or becomes totally and permanently disabled from injuries received while in the performance of his […]
§ 45-19-12.2. Annuities to dependents of deceased auxiliary and volunteer fire fighters and appropriations to nondependent parents of deceased auxiliary and volunteer fire fighters. (a) If an active member of a volunteer or auxiliary fire force or volunteer crash rescue or ambulance corps is killed or dies from injuries received while in the performance of […]
§ 45-19-12.3. Tuition to disabled fire fighters. (a) If an active member of the fire force of a city or town or crash rescue crew persons of the state of Rhode Island becomes totally and permanently disabled from injuries received while in the performance of his or her duty as a member, or if any […]
§ 45-19-13. Appropriations taking place of funds. Wherever in §§ 45-19-3 — 45-19-14 reference is made to the police officer’s relief fund or to the fire fighter’s relief fund, in either instance, the word “fund” is construed to mean the appropriations made by the general assembly in accordance with §§ 45-19-3 and 45-19-7. History of […]
§ 45-19-14. Appropriations by towns to dependents of deceased police officers and fire fighters. The several cities and towns are authorized and empowered to make a special appropriation to surviving widows or widowers or domestic partners, or other surviving dependents, of a deceased fire fighter or police officer who has been in the service of […]
§ 45-19-15. Extension of provisions to widows or widowers or domestic partners of other deceased police officers and fire fighters. The legislative body of any city or town may, by ordinance, provide that the provisions of §§ 45-19-4 and 45-19-12 apply in the case of any unremarried widow or widower or domestic partner, of any […]
§ 45-19-16. Presumption of disability in the line of fire fighting duty. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law or to any state or municipal retirement system, any city or town may, by ordinance, provide that every condition of impairment of health caused by smoke inhalation of the lungs or respiratory tract, resulting […]
§ 45-19-17. Operation of emergency vehicles — Accidents. Whenever the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle, as defined in § 31-1-3, or the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle for a nonprofit volunteer organization who is operating the vehicle in compliance with § 31-12-1 et seq., is involved in an accident while responding to an […]
§ 45-19-18. Pensions for certain police officers and fire fighters. Every police officer and fire fighter of any city or town who served the city or town for at least twenty-five (25) years, or is now or hereafter receiving a retirement allowance from a city or town retirement system after at least twenty-five (25) years’ […]
§ 45-19-19. City and town ordinances providing for retirement of sick or injured police officers or fire fighters. The city or town councils of the various cities and towns may provide, by ordinance or through collective bargaining, for the retirement of the personnel of their police and fire departments who have been on leave of […]
