§ 8-8.2-1. Establishment — Rulemaking authority — Adjudication of violations. [Effective until January 1, 2023.] (a) There is hereby established a traffic tribunal which shall be charged with the administration and adjudication of traffic violations within its jurisdiction. The traffic tribunal shall be under the supervision of the chief magistrate of the traffic tribunal, who […]
§ 8-8.2-10. No incremental retirement benefit for temporary service as chief justice, presiding justice or chief judge or chief magistrate. 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 magistrate shall be construed to add to the annual […]
§ 8-8.2-11. Allowance to surviving spouses or domestic partners of deceased judges. (a) Whenever any judge of the administrative adjudication court or any judge of the administrative adjudication court who is reassigned by this chapter to the traffic tribunal dies after retirement or during active service while eligible for retirement, the judge’s surviving spouse or […]
§ 8-8.2-12. Additional benefits payable to retired judges and their surviving spouses or domestic partners. (a) All judges of the administrative adjudication court and all judges of the administrative adjudication court who have been reassigned to the traffic tribunal, or their surviving spouses or domestic partners, who retire after January 1, 1970 and who receive […]
§ 8-8.2-13. Calculation of retirement benefits. For the purposes of the calculation of retirement benefits, in the event that any judge of the administrative adjudication court or any judge of the administrative adjudication court who has been reassigned to the traffic tribunal by this chapter participates or acquiesces in a state shutdown or in a […]
§ 8-8.2-14. Transfer of records and other property. All books, papers, records, current appropriations and relevant property necessary for the functioning of the traffic tribunal shall be transferred thereto from the administrative adjudication court. History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1.
§ 8-8.2-15. Transfer of employees. All employees of the administrative adjudication court deemed by the chief judge of the district court, with the approval of the chief justice of the supreme court, and subject to the labor laws of this state and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, to be essential to the operation of the […]
§ 8-8.2-16. Interpretation. Whenever, in the general laws, the words administrative adjudication court shall appear, said words shall be construed and interpreted as, and to mean, the traffic tribunal. Whenever, in the general laws, the words administrator/clerk of the administrative adjudication court shall appear, said words shall be interpreted and construed as, and to mean, […]
§ 8-8.2-17. Repealed. History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 4, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 3, § 8, effective August 1, 2007.
§ 8-8.2-18. Custody of records. The traffic tribunal established by this chapter shall have custody of all records, books, and papers of the administrative adjudication court heretofore existing. All proceedings and processes pending in the administrative adjudication court heretofore existing and shall continue with the same force and effect in the traffic tribunal herein established; […]
§ 8-8.2-19. Severability. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof shall for any reason be judged invalid, such a judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of the law, but shall be confined in its effect to the provisions or application directly involved in the controversy giving rise to the […]
§ 8-8.2-2. Jurisdiction. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, all probationary license hearings as provided in § 31-10-26, all violations of the department of transportation, department of environmental management or council on postsecondary education regulations regarding parking, standing, or stopping in areas under the jurisdiction of these agencies, all violations of state statutes relating […]
§ 8-8.2-20. 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 […]
§ 8-8.2-21. Abstracts of court records — Traffic tribunal. A full record shall be kept by the Rhode Island traffic tribunal in this state of every case in which a person is charged with violating subparagraphs 21-28-4.01(c)(2)(iii) and 21-28-4.01(c)(2)(iv). An abstract of the record shall be retained by the court. The abstract shall be made […]
§ 8-8.2-3. Collection authority — Contempt. (a) A judge or magistrate shall have the authority to enforce the judgments of the tribunal as authorized by law. The procedure for the collection of costs and fines shall generally follow the course of the collection of civil judgments pursuant to chapters 17 and 28 of title 9 […]
§ 8-8.2-4. Subpoena. (a) The traffic tribunal through its judges, magistrates and clerks is hereby authorized and empowered to summon defendants and issue subpoenas to the same extent as they may be issued by the district court in civil cases in such forms as may be prescribed by rules promulgated by the chief magistrate of […]
§ 8-8.2-5. Security officers — Powers. (a) All full time security officers employed by the traffic tribunal shall have the same immunities and may exercise all powers of sheriffs, city and town police officers, and constables when the security officers are enforcing the laws of this state, and all rules and regulations of the traffic […]
§ 8-8.2-6. Retirement of judges on reduced pay. (a) Whenever any person engaged as a judge on or before July 2, 1997, has served as a judge of the administrative adjudication court or as a judge of the administrative adjudication court who is reassigned by this chapter to the traffic tribunal for twenty (20) years, […]
§ 8-8.2-7. Retirement contribution. (a) Judges of the administrative adjudication court engaged after December 31, 1989, who are reassigned by this chapter to the traffic tribunal shall have deducted from their total salary beginning December 31, 1989, and ending June 30, 2012, an amount equal to a rate percent of compensation as specified in § […]
§ 8-8.2-8. State contributions. The state of Rhode Island shall make its contribution for maintaining the system established by § 8-8.2-7 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 December 31, […]
