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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2020

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RELATING TO THE TOWN OF WESTERLY -- PUBLIC PARKING COMMISSION

     Introduced By: Senator Dennis L. Algiere

     Date Introduced: February 13, 2020

     Referred To: Senate Housing & Municipal Government

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Rhode Island public law, 1962, chapter 249, article IV, entitled "PUBLIC

PARKING COMMISSION" is hereby repealed in its entirety.

ARTICLE IV. PUBLIC PARKING COMMISSION

     Section 1. The town council is hereby authorized to appoint a commission consisting of

five members to be known as the 'Westerly public parking commission'.

     Sec. 2. Forthwith upon the passage of this act, the Westerly town council shall appoint

one member to serve until the first day of May, 1963, one member to serve until the first day of

May, 1964, one member to serve until the first day of May, 1965, one member to serve until the

first day of May, 1966, and one member to serve until the first day of May, 1967, and until their

respective successors shall be duly appointed and qualified.

     In the month of April, 1963, and in the month of April annually thereafter, the Westerly

town council shall appoint one member of said commission to serve for a term of five years to

succeed the member whose term will then next expire. In the event of a vacancy occurring in said

membership, the Westerly town council shall appoint a member for the unexpired term. Any

member of the commission shall be eligible for reappointment.

     At all times at least one member of said commission shall be a representative of retail

merchants and professions, at least one member shall be a representative of owners of

commercial real estate, and at least one member shall represent the consuming public. The

president of the town council shall be an additional member ex officio, of said commission.

     Each appointed member of the commission before entering upon his duties shall take an

oath to administer the duties of his office faithfully and impartially.

     The commission shall elect one of its members as chairman and another as vice chairman

and shall also elect a secretary who may or may not be a member of the commission. Three

members of the commission shall constitute a quorum and the vote of throe members shall be

necessary for any action taken by the commission. No vacancy in the membership of the

commission shall impair the right of a quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties

of the commission. The members of the commission shall not be entitled to compensation for

their services.

     Sec. 3. Said commission, in collaboration with the department of public works and such

other departments and officials of the town as it may deem necessary, shall formulate as

recommendations for presentation to the town council, plans as guides for the present and future,

provision of automobile parking facilities, properly integrated with present and proposed traffic

facilities, subject to alteration as necessary. The plans of automobile parking facilities shall

include recommended design and location of proposed parking facilities which may include

improved or unimproved lots, single or multi-storied garages, or other structures and accessories;

and shall further include estimates of costs of the various projects therein included, a construction

program, and recommended methods of financing. Where the inclusion in any proposed structure

of rental space for other than parking purposes is incidental and reasonably related to the public

use of the parking facilities and will materially reduce net public expenditures for such parking

facilities, such rental space may be included in the plan.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO THE TOWN OF WESTERLY -- PUBLIC PARKING COMMISSION

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     This act would repeal the public law establishing a public parking commission in the

town of Westerly.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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