Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 46-31.1 - The Rhode Island Bays, Rivers and Watersheds Fund

• 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
• Bays: means the estuaries including Narragansett Bay, Mount Hope Bay, Greenwich Bay, Little Narragansett Bay, the coastal ponds, the Sakonnet River, and Rhode Island territorial waters that extend seaward three geographical miles from the shoreline including the area around Block Island. See Rhode Island General Laws 46-31.1-2
• Coordination: means to harmonize in a common action or effort and/or to function in a complementary manner. See Rhode Island General Laws 46-31.1-2
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• River: means a flowing body of water or estuary or a section, portion, or tributary thereof, including, but not limited to, streams, creeks, brooks, ponds, and small lakes. See Rhode Island General Laws 46-31.1-2
• Watershed: means a land area which because of its topography, soil type, and drainage patterns acts as a collector of raw waters which regorge or replenish rivers and existing or planned public water supplies. See Rhode Island General Laws 46-31.1-2