§ 42-9-1. Head of department — Assistants. (a) There shall be a department of the attorney general. The head of the department shall be the attorney general who shall have supervision over the department and shall appoint thirty (30) assistant attorneys general. (b) The assistant attorneys general shall have powers and duties similar to those […]
§ 42-9-10. Salaries as full payment. The salaries of the attorney general and of the assistant attorneys general shall be in full payment for all services appertaining to the offices of attorney general and assistant attorneys general, respectively. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 17, § 7; G.L. 1909, ch. 23, § 7; G.L. 1923, ch. […]
§ 42-9-11. Employees of office — Payment of expenses. The attorney general is hereby authorized and empowered to employ in his or her office such clerical assistance as he or she may require in the discharge of his or her duties as attorney general, and the general assembly shall annually appropriate such sums, and make […]
§ 42-9-12. Annual law enforcement report. (a) The attorney general shall annually on or before the thirtieth (30th) day of June make a report in writing to the governor showing the transactions of his or her office in relation to the enforcement of law during the prior year ending on the thirty-first (31st) day of […]
§ 42-9-12.1. Annual gun crimes law enforcement report. (a) The attorney general shall annually, on or before March 31, make a report in writing to the general assembly showing the transactions of the attorney general’s office in relation to the enforcement of law with respect to crimes involving a gun during the prior year ending […]
§ 42-9-13. Repealed.
§ 42-9-14 — 42-9-16. Repealed.
§ 42-9-17. Repealed.
§ 42-9-18. Reports, use of experts, and costs. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 23-17.14-13, the department of attorney general, may in effectuating the purpose of: (1) The Hospital Conversion Act pursuant to chapter 17.14 of title 23; or (2) Any non-profit hospital service corporation conversion; or (3) Non-profit medical service corporation conversion; or (4) […]
§ 42-9-19. Acceptance of settlements — Attorney General settlement restricted account. (a) The attorney general is hereby authorized and empowered to accept in the name of the state any settlement resulting from a multi-state initiative. The attorney general is additionally authorized and empowered to recover attorney’s fees and costs that shall be considered settlement proceeds […]
§ 42-9-2. Powers and duties of department — Division of juvenile prosecution established. (a) The attorney general, the assistant attorneys general, and those special assistant attorneys general who have been designated by the attorney general, shall exercise the powers and duties prescribed in and shall enforce the provisions of this chapter and of §§ 12-1-4 […]
§ 42-9-3. Attendance at general assembly and courts — Information on criminal matters. The attorney general shall give his or her attendance at the general assembly, and at the supreme and superior courts, for the service thereof; and shall give unto those courts due advice and information concerning any criminal matters, breaches of the peace, […]
§ 42-9-4. Prosecution of offenses. (a) The attorney general shall draw and present all informations and indictments, or other legal or equitable process, against any offenders, as by law required, and diligently, by a due course of law or equity, prosecute them to final judgment and execution. (b) The duty of the attorney general under […]
§ 42-9-5. Prosecution of other process. The attorney general shall commence and prosecute to final judgment and execution those other legal or equitable processes, and shall perform those other duties which are or may be required of him or her by law; except insofar as he or she may have been required to act as […]
§ 42-9-6. Legal adviser — Representation of state officers and agencies. Except as otherwise in the general laws provided, the attorney general, whenever requested, shall act as the legal adviser of the individual legislators of the general assembly, of all state boards, divisions, departments, and commissions and the officers thereof, of all commissioners appointed by […]
§ 42-9-6.1. Annual report of defense of challenged legislation. (a) The attorney general shall annually on or before the thirty-first (31st) day of January of each year submit a report to the general assembly showing the transactions of his or her office and that of any special counsel appointed by or through his or her […]
§ 42-9-7. Approval of land titles and conveyances. Whenever an appropriation is available for the purpose of purchasing or acquiring land, the officer, board, division, department, or commission authorized to make the purchase or to acquire the land shall not accept any deed nor shall the state controller draw his or her orders upon the […]
§ 42-9-8. Repealed.
§ 42-9-8.1. Office of investigation — Powers and duties of investigators. (1) Establishment. There is hereby established within the department of attorney general an office of investigation. (2) Scope and purpose. The scope and purpose of the office of investigation shall be: (a) To assist special assistant and assistant attorneys general in carrying out investigations […]
§ 42-9-8.2. Local police officers assigned to attorney general. Local police officers assigned to the attorney general for the purposes of a specific investigation shall exercise the same powers of arrest exercised by an investigator if the power is exercised in that investigation. If a local police officer is assigned to the department of attorney […]
