Rhode Island § 1-2-17 - Airports and Landing Fields
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§ 1-2-17. Airports and Landing Fields
R.I. Gen. Laws § 1-2-17
§ 1-2-17. Payment for compensation for municipal services to the city of Warwick.
The Rhode Island airport corporation, from a parking surcharge at the Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport as defined by a 1988 agreement between the state acting by and through the director of transportation and the city of Warwick, shall pay to the city of Warwick out of the parking revenue received at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport as compensation for municipal services provided at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport a sum of not less than two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) for fiscal year 1994 payable quarterly; for each fiscal year after 1994, this sum may be reviewed or renegotiated, or both, by the mayor of the city of Warwick and the airport corporation, but in no event will the sum be less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) in any fiscal year beginning after 1993 and before 2005, or less than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) in any fiscal year beginning after 2004, provided any payments provided or any portion of these payments is not disapproved by the FAA. In the event that the FAA disapproves this payment from the airport corporation, the state shall pay to the city of Warwick the sums of money required to insure that the city of Warwick receives five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).
History of Section.
P.L. 1987, ch. 468, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 273, § 1; P.L. 1998, ch. 31, art. 34, § 1;
P.L. 2002, ch. 65, art. 40, § 3; P.L. 2021, ch. 32, § 2, effective June 1, 2021; P.L.
2021, ch. 36, § 2, effective June 1, 2021.
Source: official Rhode Island text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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