Rhode Island § 16-32-4 - University of Rhode Island [See Title 16 Chapter 97 — The Rhode Island Board of Education Act]

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§ 16-32-4. University of Rhode Island [See Title 16 Chapter 97 — The Rhode Island Board of Education Act]

R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-32-4

§ 16-32-4. Location — Application of federal funds.

The university and experiment station shall, until ordered, continue to be located in the town of South Kingstown upon the estate now occupied by them, and all money received after this under the act of congress, approved March 2, 1887, and under the act of congress approved August 30, 1890, entitled “An Act to Apply a Portion of the Proceeds of the Public Lands to the More Complete Endowment and Support of the Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, Established Under the Provisions of an Act of Congress Approved July Second, Eighteen Hundred Sixty-two,” and all other money which shall be received by the state for the promotion of agriculture or the mechanic arts at land grant colleges under or by virtue of an act of congress shall, as and when received, be paid over to the treasurer of the university, to be used and applied and accounted for by the trustees and officers of the university, with the approval of the state controller, as required by the respective acts of congress under which the money is received.

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 66, § 2; P.L. 1899, ch. 668, § 1; P.L. 1906, ch. 1353, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 76, § 2; P.L. 1913, ch. 960, § 1; P.L. 1915, ch. 1214, § 1; P.L. 1921, ch. 2056, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 83, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 188, § 3; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 65; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 688, § 3; impl. am. P.L. 1951, ch. 2686, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 16-32-4.

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

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