(a)  Before any structure may be erected, constructed, altered, repaired, or demolished within a special economic development district, the person proposing the construction or other alteration shall file with the commission an application for permission to erect, construct, alter, repair, or demolish the structure, together with plans and specifications, all that may be required by regulations adopted by the commission. It is the duty of the commission to review the application, plans, and specifications, and no building permit shall be granted until the commission has acted on it. No construction or other alteration of a structure may be undertaken within a special development district without a permit. The commission may, by regulation, coordinate permit approvals with state building officials and fire marshals, city or town officials, or duly qualified independent staff or consultants.

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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 45-24.6-7

  • Commission: means a special economic development district commission or independent public instrumentality authorized by the general assembly and empowered by this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-24.6-3
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • District: means any developable or blighted state-owned tracts or parcels of land, which at its creation, aggregation and/or acquisition by a state agency or instrumentality consists of or consisted of twenty (20) or more contiguous acres in size. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-24.6-3
  • Permit: means a building permit issued by a duly licensed building inspector. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-24.6-3
  • Person: means a natural person or any other legal entity, including, but not limited to, a corporation, firm, partnership, or trust. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-24.6-3
  • plan: means a plan, including design and development criteria and regulations, for the development of a special economic development district adopted by a special economic development district commission pursuant to this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-24.6-3
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Regulations: means the rules regulating the construction, erection, alteration, demolition, or use of a structure or land within a special development district adopted by a special economic development commission pursuant to a plan of development. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-24.6-3
  • Special economic development district: means an area of a municipality or municipalities that has been or will be established, designated, laid out, or defined by the general assembly, including, but not limited to, independent public instrumentalities created by the general assembly. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-24.6-3
  • Structure: means a building or anything that is constructed or erected and that requires location on the ground or attachment to something located on the ground. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-24.6-3
  • town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9

(b)  Nothing in this chapter prevents, or is to be construed to prevent, ordinary maintenance or repair of any structure within the special economic development district; nor shall anything in this chapter prevent, or be construed to prevent, the continuance of the use of any building or improvement for any purpose to which the building or improvement was lawfully devoted at the time of the adoption of a plan of development, or to prevent or be construed to prevent the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or demolition of any structure under a permit issued by the inspector of buildings prior to the adoption of a plan of development pursuant to this chapter.

(c)  At all meetings of the commission, a majority of the commissioners is necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the act of a majority of the commissioners present at any meeting at which there is a quorum is the act of the commission, except as otherwise provided by law.

History of Section.
P.L. 2019, ch. 88, art. 12, § 8.