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 I. POWERS OF CITY
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Ch C Art I POWERS OF CITY
- § C-1-I.-100 Powers generally; power to enact ordinances and impose penalties.
- § C-1-I.-101 Legislative power.
- § C-1-I.-102 Executive and administrative power.
- 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
[Amended Ref. of 11-4-1997]
Pursuant to Article XXVIII of the Constitution of the State
of Rhode Island (hereinafter in this Charter called "the state"),
and every other power it thereunto enabling, the City of Pawtucket
(hereinafter in this Charter called "the city") shall have and may
exercise all powers and authority of local self-government and shall
have complete powers of legislation and administration in relation
to its municipal functions, including any additional powers and authority
which may hereafter be granted to it. The city shall have the power
to enact ordinances and to make rules and regulations necessary and
proper for carrying into execution its powers; and such ordinances,
rules and regulations may be made enforceable by the imposition of
fines, forfeitures and penalties not exceeding such limits as may
be set therefor in state law.
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Annotation -- City cannot impose maximum penalty specified
by this section when state legislature has established lower penalties
for violations of municipal ordinances. State v. Krzak, 196 A.2d 417.
The legislative power of the city, including any such power
which may hereafter be conferred on the city by amendment of the Constitution
or by the laws of the state, shall be exclusively vested in and exercised
by a council, except only as limited by the provisions of this Charter.
The council shall be elected, shall organize and shall function as
provided in this Charter.
The executive and administrative power of the city shall be
exclusively vested in and exercised by a mayor and such other officers,
departments, boards and commissions as are designated and authorized
in this Charter. The mayor and other executive or administrative officers
shall be elected or appointed as provided in this Charter.
