R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-6-9

Current through 2024 Public Law 457

Section 36-6-9 - Travel expenses of superior court and family court justices, clerks, and attorney general and assistants

The justices of the superior court, the chief judge and associate justices of the family court, and the stenographic clerks of those courts, when sitting or in attendance at any session of those courts held in any county other than Providence County shall be allowed and paid, in addition to their salaries, their actual traveling expenses for travel within the state of Rhode Island in connection with their attendance at those courts. The attorney general and the assistant attorneys general shall also be allowed and paid their actual traveling expenses for travel within the state of Rhode Island when performing official duties outside of Providence County. The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sum sufficient for the payment of those expenses and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum, or so much thereof as may from time to time be required, upon receipt by him or her of proper vouchers duly authenticated.

G.L. 1896, ch. 294, § 13; P.L. 1898, ch. 524, § 1; C.P.A. 1905, § 1197; G.L. 1909, ch. 363, § 14; P.L. 1922, ch. 2159, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 416, § 11; G.L. 1938, ch. 632, § 3; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 65; P.L. 1939, ch. 703, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 36-6-9; P.L. 1961, ch. 73, §12; P.L. 1994 , ch. 222, § 1.