Persons subject to the code of ethics
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Senra v. Town of Smithfield (2013)
Most recently applied in Senra v. Town of Smithfield (May 2013)
P.L. 1987, ch. 195, § 3.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The following persons shall be subject to the provisions of the Rhode Island code of ethics in government:
(1) State and municipal elected officials;
(2) State and municipal appointed officials; and
(3) Employees of state and local government, boards, commissions, and agencies.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.