City of Pawtucket, RI
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2023-12-20
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 11 Boards and Commissions
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Article I Bipartisan Board of Canvassers and Registration
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Bills and Claims
- Ch 11 Boards and Commissions
- Ch 11 Art I Bipartisan Board of Canvassers and Registration
- § 11-1 Election; composition; qualifications of members; clerk.
- § 11-2 Election and terms of members and clerk.
- § 11-3 Vacancies.
- § 11-4 Presiding officer.
- § 11-5 Office in City Hall; hours.
- § 11-6 Statutory authority; duties of Board.
- 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
[Approved 10-17-1967 by Ch. No. 1135 as Secs. 2-48 through
2-53 of the 1966 Code]
[1]
Editor's Note: See also Secs. 3-704 and 4-1400
of the Charter.
The City Council shall elect a Bipartisan Board
of Canvassers and Registration for the city consisting of three qualified
electors of the city, not more than two of whom shall belong to the
same political party. At the same time, the City Council shall elect
a clerk for the Bipartisan Board of Canvassers and Registration.
A.
At the time of holding the first election of members
of the Board of Canvassers and Registration, one member shall be elected
to hold office until the first Monday in January, 1955, or until his
or her successor is chosen and qualified, one member to hold office
until the first Monday in January, 1957, or until his or her successor
is chosen and qualified, and one member to hold office until the first
Monday in January, 1959, or until his or her successor is chosen and
qualified. The clerk of the Board shall be elected at the first election
for the term of two years or until the first Monday in January, 1955,
and until his or her successor is chosen and qualified, and biennially
thereafter.
B.
Biennially after the first election, beginning on
the first Monday in January, 1955, one member shall be elected for
the term of six years from the first Monday in January, or until his
or her successor is chosen and qualified to succeed the member of
the Board whose term will run out.
In case any person elected as a member of the
Board of Canvassers and Registration, or the clerk of the Board, shall
decline to serve or neglect to qualify, or a vacancy shall occur in
the Board for any cause, such office or vacancy shall be filled by
the City Council for the unexpired term of the member or the clerk.
One member of the Board of Canvassers and Registration
shall be elected by the City Council as presiding officer of the Board.
The Board of Canvassers and Registration shall
have an office in the City Hall, which shall be open at all times
as required by law.
The provisions of this article are adopted pursuant
to the authority of Chapter 8 of Title 17 of the General Laws of the
state. The Board of Canvassers and Registration shall carry out all
the provisions that are set forth in such chapter and all other provisions
of law pertaining to Boards of Canvassers and Registration.
