§ 37-5-1. Roads subject to supervision of department. The department and director of transportation shall enforce the provisions of chapters 8 and 10 of title 24, all other provisions of the general laws and public laws relating to the care and maintenance of highways, roads, freeways, and bridges by the state, including the construction, reconstruction, […]
§ 37-5-2. Maintenance and construction of roads — Regulation of use — Cooperation with other agencies. (a) The department shall maintain and construct highways, roads, freeways, bridges, and incidental structures, and shall make rules and regulations regarding the use of highways, roads, freeways, bridges, and structures. The department shall cooperate with the several cities and […]
§ 37-5-3. Airports and aeronautics. The department and director shall have supervision over the state airport at Hillsgrove, such other airports and landing fields as may be constructed or operated by the state, and all other aeronautics within the state, and shall enforce the provisions of chapters 2 and 4 of title 1. History of […]
§ 37-5-4. State piers — Cooperation in river and harbor development. The department and director shall have jurisdiction over state pier no. 1 at Providence, state pier no. 2 at Pawtucket, and state piers no. 3 and no. 4 in the town of Narragansett. The department shall also cooperate with federal authorities in connection with […]
§ 37-5-5. Repealed. History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 108; G.L. 1956, § 37-5-5; Repealed by P.L. 2015, ch. 141, art. 15, § 4, effective June 30, 2015.
§ 37-5-6. Emergency public works powers. The department and director shall exercise and perform all the powers, duties, and functions now or formerly exercised or performed by the emergency public works commission, with the exception of the award of contracts for new buildings, which contracts shall be awarded by the department of administration, and the […]
§ 37-5-7. Commuter parking facilities. The department and director are authorized to plan, construct, and maintain, or to enter into agreements with federal, state, or local governmental agencies in connection with commuter parking facilities at locations which would encourage the use of mass transportation and reduce peak traffic demands on highway systems. The provisions of […]
§ 37-5-7.1. Parking cash-out programs. (a) Each employer of fifty (50) persons or more, located within one-quarter (¼) of a mile of Rhode Island public transit service who provides a parking subsidy to employees, shall offer a parking cash-out program. “Parking cash-out program” means an employer-funded program under which an employer offers to provide a […]
§ 37-5-8. Transfer of certain interstate route 195 property. (a) Findings. The State of Rhode Island, in accordance with that certain United States Federal Highway Administration Record of Decision entitled “Record of Decision, Improvements to Interstate Route 195, Providence, Rhode Island, FHWA-RI-EIS-93-01-F, January 14, 1997” is relocating and improving certain portions of interstate route 195 […]
