Rhode Island § 42-84-4 - Forms Management Center Act

§ 42-84-4. Powers and duties.

The director, through the forms management center, shall:

(1) Coordinate a forms management program for all state agencies and educational institutions and provide assistance in establishing internal and external forms management capabilities;

(2) Study, develop, coordinate, and initiate forms of interagency and common administrative usage, and establish basic state design and specification criteria to effect the standardization of state forms;

(3) Provide assistance to state agencies and educational institutions for economical forms design and forms art work composition and establish and supervise control procedures to prevent the undue creation and reproduction of state forms;

(4) Provide assistance, training, and instruction in forms management techniques to state agencies and educational institutions forms management representatives and departmental forms coordinators, and provide direct administrative and forms management assistance to new state organizations or institutions as they are created;

(5) Maintain a central cross index of state forms to facilitate the standardization of these forms, to eliminate redundant forms, and to provide a central source of forms usage and availability information;

(6) Utilize appropriate procurement techniques to take advantage of competitive bidding, consolidated orders, and contract procurement of forms, and work directly with the public printer toward more efficient, economical and timely procurement receipt, storage and distribution of state forms;

(7) Coordinate the forms management program with the existing state archives and records management program to insure timely disposition of outdated forms and related records;

(8) Conduct periodic evaluation of the effectiveness of the overall forms management program and the forms management practices of the individual state educational institutions and state agencies, and maintain records, which indicate net dollar savings which have been realized through centralized forms management;

(9) Enter into agreements which delegate implementing action to state agencies or educational institutions where the mutually developed arrangements will result in the most timely and economical method of accomplishing the responsibilities set forth in this section; and

(10) Develop and promulgate rules and standards to implement the overall purposes of this section.