Chapter
255
2003 --
H 6246
Enacted 07/17/03
AN ACT
RELATING
TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- TOWN HOUSING AUTHORITY
Introduced
By: Representative Joseph L. Faria
Date
Introduced: March 27, 2003
It
is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION
1. Section 45-26-4 of the General Laws in Chapter 45-26 entitled "Town
Housing
Authorities" is hereby amended to read as follows:
45-26-4.
Appointment, terms, and compensation of commissioner. -- (a) (1) When
the
town
council adopts a resolution creating a town authority, the town council shall
appoint five (5)
persons
as commissioners of the town authority; provided, however, that the town of
Lincoln
shall
appoint seven (7) persons as commissioners of the town authority. The commissioners
who
are
first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms of one, two (2), three
(3), four (4), and
five
(5) years, respectively, from the date of their appointment, but, subsequently,
commissioners
shall
be appointed for a term of office of five (5) years, except that all vacancies
shall be filled for
the
unexpired term, those appointments to be made by the town council.
(2) Provided, however, that the commission members of the town authority of the
town
of
Lincoln must be residents of the town of Lincoln during the term of their
appointment.
Provided,
further, that at least one of the commission members of a town authority must
be a
resident
as well as a resident of a public housing facility during the term of their
appointment. A
public
housing resident commissioner shall be appointed by the appointing authority
from a list of
nominees
chosen in open election by the occupants of public housing. Upon the failure of
the
election
process, there shall be a provision for an application process. Nothing in this
subsection
shall
be construed as preventing the appointing authority from appointing more than
one resident
of
public housing to the commission.
(3)
Provided, however that the commission members of the city housing authority of
the
city
of Central Falls must be approved by a majority of the members of the Central
Falls city
council
and must also be residents of the city of Central Falls during the term of
their
appointment
to the housing authority.
(b) A commissioner of the town of North Providence shall receive twenty-five
dollars
($25.00)
per meeting but not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) per year as
compensation
for
his or her services; provided, that a commissioner of the town of Coventry
shall only receive
twenty-five
dollars ($25.00) per attended meeting but not in excess of six hundred dollars
($600)
per
year as compensation for his or her services, provided, further, that the
chairperson of the
Coventry
housing authority shall receive thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per attended
meeting but not
in
excess of eight hundred forty dollars ($840) per year as compensation for his
or her services.
SECTION 2. This act
shall take effect upon passage.
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LC02917
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