2023 -- H 5598 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND | |
PRIVILEGES | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Morales, and DeSimone | |
Date Introduced: February 15, 2023 | |
Referred To: House Municipal Government & Housing | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 31-28-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 31-28 entitled "Parking |
2 | Facilities and Privileges" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 31-28-2. Ordinances authorizing parking meters and meter zones. |
4 | (a) Any town or city council may enact ordinances authorizing the installation, operation, |
5 | maintenance, policing, and supervision of parking meters on the public highways, and fix and |
6 | provide for the payment of a fee for the purpose of parking by requiring the operator of any vehicle |
7 | parking in the zone to deposit in the meter in the zone or adjacent to it, a coin of the United States |
8 | as the council shall determine to be necessary for the purpose of regulating parking. Any fee |
9 | established for parking shall bear a reasonable relation to the actual cost incurred by the town or |
10 | city in the installation, operation, maintenance, policing, and supervision of the parking meter |
11 | system and the parking of motor vehicles on the public highways. |
12 | (b) The commissioner of public safety for the city of Providence and the council of any |
13 | other city or town may establish parking meter zones for the purpose of regulating the parking of |
14 | motor vehicles on the public highways. |
15 | (c) Any city or town may establish fees for overnight parking permits within that city or |
16 | town but in no event shall the fees exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) annually for residents of the city or |
17 | town nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for non-residents. |
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1 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
OF | |
A N A C T | |
RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND | |
PRIVILEGES | |
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1 | This act would limit the annual fees which may be established by any city or town for |
2 | overnight parking permits to fifty dollars ($50.00) for residents and one hundred dollars ($100) for |
3 | non-residents. |
4 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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