Section 42-75.2-4 - Allocation for art(a) A state building or state facility constructed, remodeled, or renovated after January 1, 1988 shall include works of art for public display.(b) All state agencies or departments shall expend, as a nondeductible item, out of any monies appropriated for construction, remodeling, or renovation of any state facility an amount of at least one percent (1%) for the purpose of including works of art in the facility.(c) Where construction, remodeling or renovation of a state facility is budgeted at under two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000), funds appropriated under this chapter for art for that public facility may be transferred to the art for public facilities fund for expenditure by the Rhode Island state council on the arts for art in other state facilities.(d) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit additional expenditures for art beyond the amounts provided by specific appropriation.R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-75.2-4