Title 43
Statutes and Statutory Construction

Chapter 3
Construction and Effect of Statutes

R.I. Gen. Laws § 43-3-3.2

§ 43-3-3.2. Use of appropriate gender language.

When the secretary of state produces a document to instruct the public on the tenets or purpose of a statute, he or she is authorized and empowered to change the language to make the unofficial reproduction of the statute gender-neutral; provided, that the reproduction shall clearly indicate that it is a revised reproduction of a statute by printing the word “unofficial” on its face in bold-letter type.

History of Section.
P.L. 1988, ch. 378, § 1.