520-RICR-00-00-1. Code of Ethics (version Periodic Refile, 01/28/2002 to 05/25/2018)

Regulation 36-14-2002 — Additional Definitions (see R.I. Gen. Laws 36-14-2). (1) “State or municipal elected official” means any person holding any elective public office pursuant to a general or special election; (2) “State or municipal appointed official” means any officer or member of a state or municipal agency as defined herein who is appointed to an office specified by the constitution or a statute of this state or a charter or ordinance of any city or town or who is appointed by, through or with the advice and consent of a governing body, or any court, in state or munici- pal government, or highest official of state or municipal government; (3) “Employees of state and local government, of boards, Commissions and agencies” means: (a) any individual receiving a salary from a state or municipal agency, whether elected or not, on a full-time or part-time basis; (b) any individual in the classified, non-classified and unclassified service of the judicial, executive and legislative branches of state government; (c) any individual in the classified, non-classified and unclassified service of any mu- nicipality within the state; (d) any individual receiving a salary from any public or quasi-public state or municipal board, commission, corporation, or other public or quasi-public agency however named; and, (e) any state or municipal appointed official who receives a salary or stipend for their appointed service. (4) (a) “State agency” means any department, division, agency, commission, board, office, bureau, authority, corporation or subsidiary, or quasi-public authority within the executive branch of the state government of Rhode Island, either branch of the Rhode Island General Assembly, or any agency or committee thereof, the judiciary, or any other department, division, agency, commission, board, office, bureau, author- ity, corporation or subsidiary, or quasi-public authority that is in any branch of the Rhode Island state government and which exercises governmental functions other than in a purely advisory nature; (b) “Municipal agency” means any department, division, agency, commission, board, office, bureau, authority, corporation or subsidiary, quasi-public authority, or school, fire or water district within Rhode Island, other than a state agency, and whether comprised of officials and employees from a single or multiple municipalities, and any other agency that is in any branch of municipal government and which exercises governmental functions other than in a purely advisory nature.