Rhode Island § 29-4-1 § 29-4-1. Founding by town or city.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 29-4-1 — § 29-4-1. Founding by town or city.

Rhode Island·Title 29 Libraries·Ch. 29-4 Free Public Libraries

§ 29-4-1. Founding by town or city.
The electors in any town, qualified to vote upon any proposition to impose a tax or
            for the expenditure of money in the town, voting at any financial town meeting, or
            in the case of any city, the city council, may appropriate such sum or sums as they
            shall deem proper for the foundation therein of a free public library, with or without
            branches, for all the inhabitants thereof, and to provide suitable rooms, land, buildings,
            and capital improvements for the library.
         

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§ 29-4-1. Founding by town or city.

The electors in any town, qualified to vote upon any proposition to impose a tax or for the expenditure of money in the town, voting at any financial town meeting, or in the case of any city, the city council, may appropriate such sum or sums as they shall deem proper for the foundation therein of a free public library, with or without branches, for all the inhabitants thereof, and to provide suitable rooms, land, buildings, and capital improvements for the library.

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Legislative History

G.L. 1896, ch. 36, § 5; G.L. 1909, ch. 46, § 5; P.L. 1914, ch. 1036, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 47, § 5; G.L. 1938, ch. 329, § 5; G.L. 1956, § 29-4-1; P.L. 1964, ch. 233, § 2.