Title 19
Financial Institutions

Chapter 5
Credit Unions

R.I. Gen. Laws § 19-5-11

§ 19-5-11. Duplication of office prohibited — Oaths of office — Record of qualification.

(a) No member of the board of directors, credit committee, supervisory committee, or committees appointed by the board of directors shall serve at the same time as an official in any position of another unaffiliated credit union that is under the supervision of the director. No member of the board of directors shall be a member of either the supervisory committee or the credit committee, nor shall one person be a member of more than one of those committees; all members of those committees, as well as all officers whom they may elect, shall be sworn and shall hold their offices until others are elected and qualified in their place; and a record of every qualification shall be filed and preserved with the records of the credit union.

(b) Every director, credit committee member, and supervisory committee member, when appointed or elected, shall take an oath that he or she will, so far as the duty devolves on him or her, diligently and honestly administer the affairs of the credit union, and will not knowingly violate, or willingly permit to be violated, any of the provisions of this title. This oath shall be immediately transmitted to the director, or the director’s designee, and shall be filed and preserved in the director’s office.

History of Section.
P.L. 1995, ch. 82, § 43.