§ 45-13-1 Apportionment of annual appropriation for state aid
§ 45-13-1.1 Aid reduced by amounts owed state entities
§ 45-13-1.2 Aid withheld for failure to comply with state statutes
§ 45-13-2 “Tax levy” defined
§ 45-13-3 Apportionment based on levy for preceding year
§ 45-13-5.1 General assembly appropriations in lieu of property tax from certain exempt private and state properties
§ 45-13-5.2 Valuation of tax exempt property for purposes of computing state grants
§ 45-13-6 Purpose
§ 45-13-7 State mandated costs defined
§ 45-13-8 Reports
§ 45-13-9 Reimbursement to cities and towns and school districts for the costs of state mandates
§ 45-13-9.1 Future mandates
§ 45-13-9.2 Postponement of effective date
§ 45-13-10 Exemptions from reimbursement
§ 45-13-11 Severability
§ 45-13-11.1 Excuse, avoidance or suspension of reimbursement requirements
§ 45-13-12 Distressed communities relief fund
§ 45-13-14 Adjustments to tax levy, assessed value, and full value when computing state aid
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 45-13 - State Aid

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • 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.
  • Income: means the most recent estimate of per-capita income for a city, town or county as reported by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-13-1
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Population: means the most recent estimates of population for each city and town as reported by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-13-1
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • real estate: may be construed to include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and rights thereto and interests therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-10
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Reference year: means the second fiscal year preceding the beginning of the fiscal year in which the distribution of state aid to cities and towns is made provided however that the reference year for distributions made in fiscal year 2007-2008 shall be the third fiscal year preceding the beginning of the fiscal year 2007-2008 and provided further that the reference year for distributions made in fiscal year 2008-2009 shall be the fourth fiscal year preceding the beginning of the fiscal year 2008-2009. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-13-1
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Tax effort: means the total taxes imposed by a city or town for public purposes or the totals of those taxes for the cities or towns within a county (except employee and employer assessments and contributions to finance retirement and social insurance systems and other special assessments for capital outlay) determined by the United States Secretary of Commerce for general statistical purposes and adjusted to exclude amounts properly allocated to education expenses. See Rhode Island General Laws 45-13-1
  • 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
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8