City of Pawtucket, RI
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2023-12-20
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The Charter
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Chapter C Charter
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ARTICLE IV. POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS, ETC., IN EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH
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CHAPTER 3. LAW DEPARTMENT
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Ch C Art IV. Ch 3 LAW DEPARTMENT
- § C-4-3.-300 Duties generally.
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Bills and Claims
- Ch 11 Boards and Commissions
- Ch 22 Committees
- Ch 26 Courts
- Ch 30 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 35 Expenditures
- Ch 40 Funds
- Ch 50 Officers and Employees
- Ch 59 Pensions
- Ch 63 Personnel Policies
- Ch 76 Real Property Transactions
- Ch 80 Records
- Ch 84 Referenda Questions
- Ch 88 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 90 Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Ch 92 Training Schools
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Air Pollution
- Ch 104 Alarm Systems
- Ch 108 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 112 Amusements
- Ch 116 Animals
- Ch 124 Bicycles
- Ch 128 Bingo
- Ch 130 Body Works Services
- Ch 132 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 136 Building Construction
- Ch 147 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 151 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 156 Business Deliveries
- Ch 158 Business Registration
- Ch 162 Cemeteries
- Ch 167 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 173 Curfew
- Ch 176 Deeds, Recording of
- Ch 182 Drugs
- Ch 186 Electrical Standards
- Ch 193 Entertainment
- Ch 198 Excavations
- Ch 200 Exterior Lighting
- Ch 202 Fees
- Ch 206 Firearms
- Ch 208 Fire Lanes
- Ch 210 Fire Prevention
- Ch 218 Food Establishments
- Ch 222 Fortune Telling
- Ch 231 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 235 Heating Equipment
- Ch 243 HIV Testing
- Ch 247 Housing Standards
- Ch 251 Secondhand Shops, Junkyards, Junk Dealers and Metal Recyclers
- Ch 260 Licensing
- Ch 263 Littering
- Ch 266 Loitering
- Ch 274 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 282 Newspapers and Magazines
- Ch 286 Noise
- Ch 288 Nonresidential Structures
- Ch 290 Nuisances
- Ch 293 P.T.E. Program
- Ch 294 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 298 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 302 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 306 Plumbing
- Ch 313 Poles and Wires
- Ch 317 Private Detectives
- Ch 319 Property Classification
- Ch 321 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 325 Rental Property
- Ch 329 Sales, Special
- Ch 335 Sewers
- Ch 341 (Reserved)
- Ch 345 Smoking
- Ch 347 Solid Waste
- Ch 351 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 355 Subsidized Housing
- Ch 360 Tattoo Parlors
- Ch 363 Taxation
- Ch 364 Telecommunications
- Ch 365 Tobacco and Snuff
- Ch 367 Towing
- Ch 371 Trees
- Ch 375 Utility Rights-Of-Way
- Ch 379 Vehicle Repair Shops
- Ch 383 Vehicles, Abandoned and Nonoperational
- Ch 388 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 392 Vehicles, Removal of
- Ch 396 Vending Machine Services
- Ch 401 Water
- Ch 410 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
It shall be the duty of the law department to:
(1)
Furnish legal advice to the mayor, to the council (subject to
section 2-106 of this Charter) and to all officers, department, boards
and commissions concerning any matter or thing arising in connection
with the exercise of their official duties and, except as otherwise
expressly provided, shall supervise, direct and control all of the
law work of this city.
[Amended Ref. of 11-8-2016, Sec. 18]
(2)
Collect by suit or otherwise all debts, taxes and accounts due
the city which shall be placed with it for collection by any officer,
department, board or commission, and it shall represent the city and
the city's interests in all litigation by or against the city and
every officer, department, board or commission.
(3)
Prepare or approve all contracts, bonds and other instruments
in writing in which the city is concerned, and shall approve all surety
bonds required to be given for the protection of the city.
(4)
Prosecute any violation or alleged violation within the city
of the statutes of the state or the ordinances of the city at the
instance and request of the division of police.
(5)
Prepare or assist in preparing any ordinance for introduction
into the council upon request of the council or of any councilman,
or the mayor, and it shall prepare for the consideration of the council
comprehensive revisions and codifications of all general ordinances
of the city which are then in effect as required by this Charter or
by the council.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See also Sec. 2-306 of this Charter.
