R.I. Gen. Laws § 45-58-3: Statement of purpose.

This chapter is intended to: (1) Establish the Pascoag utility district as the successor to the utility functions fulfilled prior to April 4, 2001, by the Pascoag fire district; (2) Provide for the orderly separation and transfer of those utility functions and related utility assets and utility bond obligations (without impairment thereof) from the Pascoag fire district to the utility district; (3) Provide for the retention and fulfillment of the fire protection functions and fire protection assets of the Pascoag fire district by the fire district; and (4) Authorize and enable the utility district to provide such other utility products and services as may be authorized, from time to time, by the utility district’s board of utility commissioners.