{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-42-20-6","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-20-6","heading":"Construction of laws fixing salaries and providing for expenses.","body":"Whenever in any general law or public law or resolution of the general assembly prior to February 7, 1939, there shall have been stated a fixed amount for a salary, wage, compensation, or for personal services, or for clerical assistance, or a fixed amount for office expense, printing and binding, advertising, traveling expense, repairs and replacements, or other specified charges, it shall be hereafter construed that the designation of a specified amount is eliminated from that law and the phrase “The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary for such purpose” shall be substituted therefor.","path":["Title 42 State Affairs and Government","Chapter 20 Administration of State Departments"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE42/42-20/42-20-6.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T19:59:46Z","sha256":"b265058a4f95b3227ef0e2f487c1e0d1d60b9e689e77c721d2fe49285b6118a1","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-42-20-5","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-42-20-7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}