§ 28-9.6-1 Short title
§ 28-9.6-2 Statement of policy
§ 28-9.6-3 Definitions
§ 28-9.6-4 Right to organize and bargain collectively
§ 28-9.6-5 Recognition of bargaining agent
§ 28-9.6-6 Obligation to bargain
§ 28-9.6-7 Unresolved issues submitted to arbitration
§ 28-9.6-8 Arbitration board – Composition
§ 28-9.6-9 Hearings
§ 28-9.6-10 Factors to be considered by arbitration board
§ 28-9.6-11 Fees and expenses of arbitration
§ 28-9.6-12 Collective bargaining contract
§ 28-9.6-13 Request for collective bargaining
§ 28-9.6-14 Writ of certiorari to the supreme court
§ 28-9.6-15 Attorneys’ fees, costs, and interest
§ 28-9.6-16 Severability
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 28-9.6 - 911 Employees' Arbitration

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • 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
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • 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
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State authorities: means the proper officials of the state whose duty or duties it is to establish the wages, salaries, rates of pay, hours, working conditions, and other terms and conditions of employment of 911 employees. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-9.6-3
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.