It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 17-18-3 of the General Laws in Chapter 17-18 entitled "Elective Meetings" is hereby amended to read as follows:

{ADD 17-18-3. Warning and organization of senatorial district, representative district, and voting district meetings. -- ADD} Senatorial district meetings, representative district meetings, and voting district meetings for the purposes of election shall be warned and organized as is or may be by law provided, and notice of all these meetings shall be given by the city or town clerk issuing his or her warrant, directed to the town sergeant or one of the constables of that city or town, {ADD or in the event that the town sergeant or a constable is not available, to any member of the town or city clerk's office or member of the board of canvassers, ADD} directing him or her to post, at least seven (7) days before the day appointed for these meetings, written notifications in one or more public places in each voting district, and in each senatorial and representative district not divided into voting districts, of the time when, and place where, each meeting is to be held, and of the business required by law to be transacted therein, and stating in the warrant the time of the opening and closing of the polls at each elective meeting to be held in that city or town; provided that in the cities of Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Newport, Cranston, Warwick, and Woonsocket the notice shall be given and posted by the local board.

SECTION 2. Sections 45-3-8 and 45-3-12 of the General Laws in Chapter 45-3 entitled "Town Meetings" are hereby amended to read as follows:

{ADD 45-3-8. Clerk's warrant giving notice. -- ADD} The notice to the electors to meet in a town meeting prescribed, by law, shall be given by the town clerk issuing his or her warrant, directed to the town sergeant or one of the constables of the town, {ADD or in the event that the town sergeant or a constable is not available, to any elector of that city or town designated by the town or city clerk, ADD} requiring him or her to post, at least seven (7) days before the day appointed for the meeting, written notifications in three (3) or more public places in the town, of the time when and place where the meeting is to be held and of the business required by law to be transacted therein.

{ADD 45-3-12. Notice of meeting to dispose of land or make tax. -- ADD} No vote shall be passed in any town meeting concerning the disposing of the town's land or making a tax, unless special mention be made, and notice thereof given, in the warrant issued for the warning of the meeting; and the town clerk of every town shall grant such warrant, except in cases where the law otherwise directs, which warrant shall be directed to the town sergeant, or to one of the constables of the town {ADD , or in the event that the town sergeant or a constable is not available, to any elector of that city or town designated by the town or city clerk ADD} . The notice for the making of a tax as herein provided shall be in substantially the following form:

"WARNING FOR TOWN MEETING STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. COUNTY OF SC. GREETING:

By the town clerk of the town of , R.I. (seal) to , town sergeant of the town of , or any of the constables of the town. Pursuant to chapter 3 of title 45, you are hereby required to post, at least seven (7) days before the day of , A.D. 19 , written notifications in three (3) or more public places in the town of , Rhode Island, notifying and warning the electors of the town of , qualified to vote upon any proposition to impose a tax or for the expenditure of money, to assemble in town meeting at the town hall (or other place designated) in the town of , on the day of , A.D. 19 , at o'clock in the noon for the purpose of ordering a tax to be levied and assessed on the ratable property of the town and the inhabitants thereof for the payment of the town debts and interest, for the payment of the town's proportion of the state tax, for the support of schools, for the support and maintenance of the poor, for the building, repairing, and amending of highways, for the building, repairing, and amending of bridges, for the improvement in any manner deemed fit of any property belonging to the town, for all necessary charges and expenses whatsoever arising within the town, whether incidental or not to the above (here designate any further purpose, if any, for which the town may legally appropriate money), and for any or all other purposes authorized by law, and to transact such other business as may legally come before the meeting.

Given under my hand this day of A.D. 19 , at the town of , Rhode Island. ______________ Town Clerk"

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 1994.