§ 8-3-1. Engagement of office — Restriction on practice of law. (a) Every justice of the supreme court and of the superior court and of the family court shall, before exercising any of the duties of his or her office, subscribe in duplicate and take the following engagement: “I _______________________________________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) […]
§ 8-3-10. Service after retirement. Any justice or judge of the supreme court, superior court, family court, or district court who shall retire in accordance with the provisions of § 8-3-7, 8-3-8, or 8-3-12 and who shall subsequently be assigned to perform service in accordance with § 8-3-7 or 8-3-8, when so assigned and performing […]
§ 8-3-11. Allowances to surviving spouses, domestic partners or minor children of deceased justices. (a) Whenever any justice of the supreme court, the superior court, the family court, or the district court who was engaged as a judge prior to January 1, 2009, dies after retirement or during active service while eligible for retirement, or […]
§ 8-3-12. Retirement of judges with general assembly or office service. Any person, who has served as a member of the general assembly, as a general officer, and as a justice of the supreme court, the superior court, the family court, or the district court, whose combined service as a member of the general assembly, […]
§ 8-3-13. Pension for surviving spouses or domestic partners of judges dying prior to May 10, 1974. Whenever any justice of the superior court, having served as a justice for at least seven (7) years who died prior to May 10, 1974 during active service, his or her surviving spouse or domestic partner shall receive […]
§ 8-3-14. Applicability of §§ 8-3-12 — 8-3-14. Sections 8-3-12 — 8-3-14 shall be applicable to all justices of the supreme court whose retirement, resignation, or death occurred subsequent to January 1, 1963, and prior to May 10, 1974, and the surviving spouses of such justices so long as they remain unmarried. Any surviving spouses […]
§ 8-3-15. Cost-of-living allowance. (a) All justices of the supreme court, superior court, family court, or district court, or their surviving spouses or domestic partners, who retire after January 1, 1970, and who receive a retirement allowance pursuant to the provisions of this title shall, on the first day of January next following the third […]
§ 8-3-16. Retirement contribution. (a) Judges engaged after December 31, 1989, shall have deducted from total salary beginning December 31, 1989, and ending June 30, 2012, an amount equal to a rate percent of compensation as specified in § 36-10-1 relating to member contributions to the state retirement system. Effective July 1, 2012, all active […]
§ 8-3-17. State contributions. The state of Rhode Island shall make its contribution for the maintaining of the system established by § 8-3-16 and providing the annuities, benefits, and retirement allowances in accordance with the provisions of this chapter by annually appropriating an amount that will pay a rate percent of the compensation paid after […]
§ 8-3-18. Calculation of retirement benefits. For purposes of the calculation of retirement benefits, in the event that any justice or judge of the supreme court, the superior court, the family court, or the district court participates or acquiesces in a state shutdown or in a reduced salary or a salary deferral plan consistent with […]
§ 8-3-19. Domestic partner — Definition. For purposes of this chapter, “domestic partner” shall be defined as a person who, prior to the decedent’s death, was in an exclusive, intimate and committed relationship with the decedent, and who certifies by affidavit that their relationship met the following qualifications: (1) Both partners were at least eighteen […]
§ 8-3-2. Precedence of associate justices. The associate justices shall have precedence in their respective courts according to the dates of their commissions, or when the commission of two or more of them bear the same date, according to their ages. History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 31; G.L. 1909, ch. 274, § 4; G.L. 1923, […]
§ 8-3-20. Severability. The holding of any section or sections or parts of this chapter to be void, ineffective, or unconstitutional for any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other section or part hereof. History of Section.P.L. 2011, ch. 408, § 15; P.L. 2011, ch. 409, § 15.
§ 8-3-3. Vacancy in office or inability of chief justice of supreme court. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of chief justice of the supreme court, or whenever the chief justice shall be unable, by reason of illness or absence, to perform the duties of his or her office, the associate justice of […]
§ 8-3-4. Vacancy in office, inability, or absence of presiding justice of superior court. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of presiding justice of the superior court, or whenever the presiding justice shall be unable by reason of illness to perform the duties of his office, the associate justice of the superior court […]
§ 8-3-5. Repealed. History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 30; G.L. 1909, ch. 274, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 324, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 497, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 8-3-5; Repealed by P.L. 1987, ch. 381, § 2. Section 7 of P.L. 1987, ch. 381 provides that the repeal of this section by that […]
§ 8-3-6. Justices as conservators of peace — Powers in criminal cases. The justices of the supreme and superior court shall, by virtue of their office, be severally conservators of the peace throughout the state, and shall severally have the same power in criminal cases throughout the state that district courts have in their respective […]
§ 8-3-7. Retirement of justices on reduced pay — Assignment as associate justices. (a) Whenever any person engaged as a judge: (1) On or before July 2, 1997 has served as a justice of the supreme court, the superior court, the family court, the district court, or any combination thereof for twenty (20) years, or […]
§ 8-3-7.1. Repealed. History of Section.P.L. 1997, ch. 93, § 2; P.L. 2005, ch. 165, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 126, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 179, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 2008, ch. 100, art. 35, § 2, effective June 26, 2008.
§ 8-3-7.2. No incremental retirement benefit for temporary service as chief justice, presiding justice or chief judge. No increment in salary resulting from any rule or regulation providing for an increment in salary for temporary service as chief justice, presiding justice or chief judge shall be construed to add to the annual salary of a […]
