Title 22
General Assembly

Chapter 5
The Grand Committee

R.I. Gen. Laws § 22-5-3

§ 22-5-3. Business limited by invitation — Subcommittee to count ballots.

No act or business of any kind shall be done in grand committee other than that which is distinctly specified in the invitation by virtue of which the grand committee is assembled, except to take a recess or to dissolve; provided, that the grand committee may appoint a subcommittee of its own members to count any ballots delivered to it and report the result of the count.

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 20, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 26, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 25, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 302, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 22-5-3.