TITLE 24
Highways
CHAPTER 24-5
Maintenance of Town Highways
SECTION 24-5-3
§ 24-5-3 Annual town appropriation.
Each town, at some regularly called meeting of the electors thereof who are
entitled to vote upon any proposition to impose a tax, shall annually
appropriate such sum of money as the electors shall deem necessary for the
maintenance and repair of its highways and bridges, and the sum so appropriated
shall be included in the sum to be raised by the annual tax levied and assessed
by the town for town purposes. In case any town shall fail to make an
appropriation, the town council thereof shall make such expenditure upon the
highways and bridges of the town as may be necessary to comply with the
provisions of § 24-5-1.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 72, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 83, § 3; P.L. 1910, ch. 594,
§ 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 96, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 73, § 3; G.L. 1956,
§ 24-5-3.)
