Rhode Island § 28-1-1 - Department of Labor and Training

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§ 28-1-1. Department of Labor and Training

R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-1-1

§ 28-1-1. Annual report of director to general assembly.

The director of labor and training shall collect, arrange, tabulate, and publish, in a report by him or her to be made to the general assembly annually in January, the facts and statistical details in relation to the condition of labor and business in all mechanical, manufacturing, commercial, and other industrial business of the state, and especially in relation to the social, educational, and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, with any suggestions that he or she deems to be proper for the improvement of their condition and the bettering of their advantages for intellectual and moral instruction, together with any other information that he or she deems to be useful to the general assembly in the proper performance of its legislative duties regarding the subjects that he or she is required to report.

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 70, § 1; P.L. 1901, ch. 809, § 13; G.L. 1909, ch. 80, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 87, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 281, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-1-1.

Source: official Rhode Island text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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