Rhode Island § 42-20-6 § 42-20-6. Construction of laws fixing salaries and providing for expenses.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 42-20-6 — § 42-20-6. Construction of laws fixing salaries and providing for expenses.

Rhode Island § 42-20-6

Title 42State Affairs and Government

Ch. 42-20Administration of State Departments

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-20-6 (2026).

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§ 42-20-6. Construction of laws fixing salaries and providing for expenses.
Whenever in any general law or public law or resolution of the general assembly prior
            to February 7, 1939, there shall have been stated a fixed amount for a salary, wage,
            compensation, or for personal services, or for clerical assistance, or a fixed amount
            for office expense, printing and binding, advertising, traveling expense, repairs
            and replacements, or other specified charges, it shall be hereafter construed that
            the designation of a specified amount is eliminated from that law and the phrase "The
            general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem neces

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§ 42-20-6. Construction of laws fixing salaries and providing for expenses.

Whenever in any general law or public law or resolution of the general assembly prior to February 7, 1939, there shall have been stated a fixed amount for a salary, wage, compensation, or for personal services, or for clerical assistance, or a fixed amount for office expense, printing and binding, advertising, traveling expense, repairs and replacements, or other specified charges, it shall be hereafter construed that the designation of a specified amount is eliminated from that law and the phrase "The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary for such purposeâ€� shall be substituted therefor.