Chapter 12
Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority

Index of Sections

§ 24-12-1. Definitions.

§ 24-12-2. Authority created — Composition.

§ 24-12-3. Appointment of authority members — Oath of office.

§ 24-12-4. Officers of authority — Quorum — Reimbursement of expenses of members.

§ 24-12-5. Power to construct, reconstruct, renovate, acquire, maintain, repair, operate or manage projects or additional facilities and to issue bonds.

§ 24-12-6. Grants or leases of state or municipal lands.

§ 24-12-7. Revenue bonds not a debt of the state.

§ 24-12-8. Expenses limited to funds provided.

§ 24-12-9. Powers of authority.

§ 24-12-10. Eminent domain power.

§ 24-12-11. Filing of eminent domain resolution, plat, and statement of amount offered.

§ 24-12-12. Taking of possession of lands.

§ 24-12-13. Deposits in court on eminent domain — Notice to owners — Agreement as to price.

§ 24-12-14. Jury trial on price of land.

§ 24-12-15. Representation of incompetent landowners.

§ 24-12-16. Repayment of excess deposits.

§ 24-12-17. Expediting proceedings — Land devoted to public use — Outstanding interests.

§ 24-12-18. Bonds.

§ 24-12-19. Use of bond proceeds — Supplementary issues — Surplus proceeds.

§ 24-12-20. Interim receipts or temporary bonds — Replacement of lost or mutilated bonds — Proceedings required by chapter exclusive.

§ 24-12-21. Retirement of outstanding bridge revenue refunding bonds of Jamestown Bridge commission.

§ 24-12-22. Purchase of Jamestown-Newport ferry franchise.

§ 24-12-23. Maintenance of Jamestown-Newport ferry service.

§ 24-12-24. Pension fund for ferry company employees.

§ 24-12-25. Trust agreement.

§ 24-12-26. Power to collect tolls and charges — Gasoline and service concessions.

§ 24-12-27. Amount of tolls.

§ 24-12-28. Revenues pledged to sinking fund.

§ 24-12-29. Trust funds — Trustee.

§ 24-12-30. Remedies of bondholders.

§ 24-12-31. Tax exemption.

§ 24-12-32. Eligibility of bonds for investment.

§ 24-12-33. Negotiability of bonds.

§ 24-12-34. Refunding bonds.

§ 24-12-35. Resolutions of authority.

§ 24-12-36. Annual report and audit.

§ 24-12-37. Penalty for nonpayment of toll — Toll violators and toll evaders.

§ 24-12-37.1. [Repealed.]

§ 24-12-37.2. Driver/registered owner liability.

§ 24-12-38. Covenant against competition.

§ 24-12-39. Transfer of projects to state — Dissolution of authority.

§ 24-12-40. Dissolution of Jamestown Bridge commission — Bridge to become toll free portion of state highway system — Covenants with bondholders.

§ 24-12-40A. Title to Mount Hope Bridge vested in Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority — Continuation of tolls.

§ 24-12-40B. Certain bonds guaranteed by state.

§ 24-12-40C. Additional state guaranteed and revenue bonds for Newport Bridge.

§ 24-12-40D. Additional state guaranteed bonds for Newport Bridge.

§ 24-12-40E. State guaranteed bonds — General provision.

§ 24-12-40F. Title to Sakonnet River Bridge vested in Rhode Island turnpike and Bridge authority — Institution of tolls.

§ 24-12-40G. Title to Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge vested in Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority.

§ 24-12-41. Severability.

§ 24-12-42. Narragansett Bay Bridge authority obligations.

§ 24-12-43. Repealed.

§ 24-12-44. Construction of connecting highways.

§§ 24-12-44A, 24-12-44B. Repealed.

§ 24-12-45. Liberal construction.

§ 24-12-46. Severability.

§ 24-12-47. Inconsistent laws inapplicable.

§ 24-12-48. Provision for severance benefits.

§ 24-12-49. Declaration of policy — Preventing economic harm to the town of Jamestown.

§ 24-12-50. Relationship to department of transportation.

§ 24-12-51. The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge.

§ 24-12-51.1. Former Jamestown Verrazano Bridge — Public fishing area.

§ 24-12-52. Succotash Road Bridge.

§ 24-12-53. William E. Powers Memorial Bridge.

§ 24-12-54. Alfred U. Menard Memorial Bridge.

§ 24-12-55. The Claiborne Pell Bridge.

§ 24-12-56. Honorable John F. Conley Bridge.

§ 24-12-57. General George S. Greene Memorial Bridge.

§ 24-12-58. Robert E. Rowan, P.E. Bridge.

§ 24-12-59. Bondholders’ rights not to be affected by the state.