No member of the school committee of any town shall, so long as he or she continues in office as member of the school committee, be eligible or employed to teach as principal, supervisor, or assistant in any school supported entirely or in part by public money, or to serve as superintendent of schools, within the town in which the member of the school committee resides.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-12-2
Employment of school committee member as teacher
G.L. 1896, ch. 61, § 6; P.L. 1899, ch. 620, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 68, § 7; P.L. 1916, ch. 1377, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 71, § 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 180, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 16-12-2.
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