§ 30-25-1. Firing squad for funerals. Whenever requested by the family of any honorably discharged, deceased soldier, sailor, airperson, or marine of any of the wars in which the United States has been engaged, or by a veterans’ organization duly authorized to conduct the funeral of the deceased soldier, sailor, airperson, or marine, the adjutant […]
§ 30-25-10. Care of neglected graves. The director of human services is authorized and empowered to undertake the care of any grave of any soldier or sailor who fought in the war of the revolution, or who at any time served the United States in any war, when the grave appears to have been neglected […]
§ 30-25-11. Consent of custodian of neglected grave. When any cemetery or burial place containing a neglected grave is found by the director of human services, or the agents or employees of the division, to be under the custody or control of some private owner or public authority, then the director shall obtain permission, in […]
§ 30-25-12. Appropriations for care of graves. The general assembly shall, from time to time, appropriate such sums as it may deem necessary to be expended by the director of human services in carrying out the purposes of §§ 30-25-10 and 30-25-11, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed, upon the receipt of […]
§ 30-25-13. Acceptance and administration of gifts. The director of human services may accept in the name of the state, and may administer, any devise, bequest, or gift that is to be expended for the general purposes of this chapter. All sums received by devise, bequest, or gift from any person or corporation shall be […]
§ 30-25-14. Rhode Island veterans’ memorial cemetery. (a) The Rhode Island veterans’ memorial cemetery, located on the grounds of the Joseph H. Ladd school in the town of Exeter, shall be under the management and control of the director of the department of human services. The director of the department of human services shall appoint […]
§ 30-25-2. Appropriations for firing squads. The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of § 30-25-1; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw orders upon the […]
§ 30-25-3. Burial at public expense. Whenever any person who served in the army, navy, air force, or marine corps of the United States during any period of war, and was honorably discharged therefrom, shall die within this state without leaving means sufficient to defray necessary funeral expenses, he or she shall be buried and […]
§ 30-25-4. Designation of person to conduct burial — Burial by relatives or friends — Maximum allowance. The town council of any town, and the city council of any city, shall annually designate some proper person, other than those designated by law for the care of paupers or the custody of criminals, who shall cause […]
§ 30-25-5. Place of burial — Disinterment from pauper cemetery. Any interment provided for by the provisions of this chapter shall not be made in any cemetery or plot used exclusively for the pauper dead; and if any deceased honorably discharged soldier, sailor, airperson, or marine may have already died and been buried in any […]
§ 30-25-6. Repealed. History of Section.P.L. 1904, ch. 1154, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 105, § 4; G.L. 1923, ch. 117, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 655, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 30-25-6; Repealed by P.L. 1986, ch. 76, § 1, effective July 1, 1986.
§ 30-25-7. Veterans dying in state institutions. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to require the city treasurer of the city of Cranston to pay any money to meet the funeral expenses of, or the erection of any headstone for, any person who shall have died at any of the state institutions in […]
§ 30-25-8. Maintenance of north cemetery. The director of human services shall be custodian of the Rhode Island soldiers’ burial lots, and the monument and grave markers thereon, located in the north cemetery in the town of Bristol. He or she shall, from time to time, cause such work to be done as may be […]
§ 30-25-9. Expenses of north cemetery. The director of human services is authorized to make such expenditures as may be necessary in carrying out the purposes of § 30-25-8, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed upon receipt of proper vouchers approved by the state director of human services, to draw orders upon […]
