2010 Rhode Island Code
Title 16 Education
CHAPTER 16-61 Rhode Island Public Telecommunications Authority
§ 16-61-2 Authority established.

§ 16-61-2 Authority established. – (a) There is created a public telecommunications authority, sometimes referred to as the "authority", which shall be and is constituted a public corporation, empowered to sue and be sued in its own name, to have a corporate seal, and to exercise all the powers, in addition to those specifically enumerated in this chapter, usually appertaining to public corporations entrusted with control of public telecommunications property and functions. The authority shall exercise the authority previously vested in the board of regents for education with relation to educational television. The authority shall be protected from sudden changes in membership and reversal of policy by having staggered terms for its public members. Upon its organization the authority shall be invested with the legal title (in trust for the state) to all licenses and property, real and personal, now owned by and/or under the control or in custody of the board of regents for education for the use of publicly owned educational television.

(b) The authority is empowered to hold and operate that property in trust for the state, and to acquire, hold, and dispose of that property and other like property as deemed necessary for the execution of its corporate purposes. The authority is made successor to all powers, rights, duties, and privileges formerly belonging to the board of regents for education pertaining to publicly owned educational television.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1981, ch. 32, § 4.)