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2005 Rhode Island Code - § 39-18-3 — Purpose of the authority.
It shall be the purpose of the authority to own and operate a mass motor bus,
water, or rail passenger transportation system. Whenever any operator of a mass
motor bus, water, or rail passenger transportation system files with the public
utilities administrator a petition to discontinue any service, it is the
purpose and function of the authority to determine if it is in the public
interest to discontinue that service, and if it is determined that it is not in
the public interest to discontinue that service, the authority is authorized
and empowered to acquire all or any part of the transit property, or any
interest therein, of the system.
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