§ 24-3-1. Power to mark out, widen or relocate municipal roads. Town councils may mark out, relay, widen, straighten, or change the location of the whole of or any part of any municipal road, whether laid out by the state or otherwise, except the highways on both sides of the Woonasquatucket River directed to be […]
§ 24-3-10. Taking of possession by town — Removal of crops and improvements. The town or city, after electing by the town or city council to make the improvements as provided in § 24-3-9, shall become seized of all the land in the report mentioned that shall be required for making the improvements, in trust […]
§ 24-3-11. Confirmation of reports. The town council or city council, after the election to make improvements, as provided in § 24-3-9, shall confirm the report of the commissioners to all persons who have not given notice of their intention to claim a jury trial as provided in § 24-3-8, and shall finally confirm the […]
§ 24-3-12. Termination of leases and contracts on land taken. Whenever the whole of any lot or parcel of land, or any building under lease or other contract, shall be taken as provided in § 24-3-10, for any of the purposes as provided in this chapter, upon the election of the town or city council, […]
§ 24-3-13. Payment of damages awarded — Action against town. The town or city shall, within four (4) months after the confirmation of the report of the commissioners, pay to the person entitled thereto the amount of damage finally awarded upon the report. In the case of a default of the payment, the person entitled […]
§ 24-3-14. Collection of assessments for benefits — Lien. The amount of benefit apportioned and assessed to the owners of real estate by the commissioners in their report, confirmed as aforesaid, and required by the report to be paid by the respective owners, shall be added to the taxes assessed against the real estate and […]
§ 24-3-15. Compensation and expenses of commissioners. The commissioners shall be entitled to receive for their services a reasonable compensation, to be allowed by the town council or city council; and all sums reasonably expended for maps, plats, and clerk hire and other necessary expenses, shall be paid by the town. History of Section.G.L. 1896, […]
§ 24-3-16. Declaration of opening of highway. Whenever all buildings and impediments have been removed, by order of the town council or city council, from the street or portion thereof taken, and the street shall be open for public use, the town council or city council shall declare the opening, and it shall be a […]
§ 24-3-17. Cities and towns affected. Sections 24-3-3 — 24-3-16 shall apply only to the cities of Newport, Pawtucket, Woonsocket, Central Falls, Cranston, Warwick, and the towns of Lincoln, Johnston, Warren, Bristol, Middletown, East Greenwich, East Providence, New Shoreham, Little Compton, West Warwick, Cumberland, Barrington, Jamestown, North Providence, Westerly, South Kingstown, Narragansett, and Glocester. History […]
§ 24-3-18. Commissioners to define grade. Whenever in any town any person or persons owning land abutting on any platted street or way, which is not a public highway, the plat of which is recorded in the office of the clerk of the town in which the land is situated, shall petition the town council […]
§ 24-3-19. Notice of report on definition of grade. The town council thereupon shall cause such notice as the council may deem best to be given to all the owners of land abutting on the street or way, to appear before the council at the time named in the notice, if they shall see fit, […]
§ 24-3-2. Repealed. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 71, § 29; G.L. 1909, ch. 82, § 29; G.L. 1923, ch. 95, § 29; G.L. 1938, ch. 72, § 29; G.L. 1956, § 24-3-2; Repealed by P.L. 1988, ch. 633, § 2, effective July 1, 1988.
§ 24-3-20. Council action on commissioners’ report — Recording. The town council shall, after hearing the persons appearing to be heard, proceed to reject, confirm, or recommit the report of the commissioners in whole or in part, to the same or new commissioners, to be appointed by the town council for that purpose, who shall […]
§ 24-3-21. Effect of definition of grade. Whenever any street or way shall be received and established as a public highway, the defined grade shall be the established grade of the street or highway; but no action relating to the grade of any street or highway shall be so construed as to be a receiving […]
§ 24-3-22. Compensation and expenses of commissioners — Collection from petitioners. The commissioners shall be entitled to a reasonable compensation for their services, and for all sums of money expended for the plat and other necessary disbursements, to be allowed by the town council, whether the report is rejected, confirmed, or recommitted, to be paid […]
§ 24-3-23. Grading or change of grade — Notice and hearing. Town councils may order highways or parts of highways to be graded within their respective towns, and whenever a grade for any highway shall be established the grade shall not be changed without the consent of the town council of the town in which […]
§ 24-3-24. Establishment and curbing of sidewalks. Whenever any highway is graded, or the grade thereof is changed, the town council may order sidewalks therein to be established, and the sidewalks to be curbed, upon like notice to the abutting proprietors of lands as provided in § 24-3-23. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 72, § […]
§ 24-3-25. Liability for cost of curbs. Whenever any highway shall be graded, and sidewalks established therein, and the sidewalks shall be ordered to be curbed as provided in § 24-3-24, the owners of land abutting on the sidewalks shall pay the cost of the curbstones to be set against their respective lands. History of […]
§ 24-3-26. Collection of curb costs. The costs of the curbstones shall be ascertained by the surveyor of highways, and be by the surveyor submitted to and be approved by the town council, and then the surveyor of highways shall demand the costs of the abutting owner, and if the owner shall neglect or refuse […]
§ 24-3-27. Settlement or appraisal of damages from change of grade. Whenever any abutting owner shall deem himself or herself to be injured by any change in the grade of a highway, and the owner shall make a claim for compensation for the injury to the town council within forty (40) days after the change […]
