§ 22-13-1 Appointment – Qualifications – Oath – Bond – Office space – Rules and regulations
§ 22-13-2 Termination of appointment
§ 22-13-3 Salaries and expenses
§ 22-13-4 Definitions – Duties of auditor general – Investigations by committee
§ 22-13-5 Submission of audits, consultant reports to auditor general
§ 22-13-6 Requests for auditing and accounting services
§ 22-13-7 Disclosure of confidential health care information
§ 22-13-8 Submission by departments and agencies of monthly financial reports to auditor general
§ 22-13-9 Access to executive sessions of a public agency – Access to records – Disclosure by the auditor general
§ 22-13-10 Audit of information security systems
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 22-13 - Auditor General

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • 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