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Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 34-18. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act

Rhode Island General Laws > Title 34 > Chapter 34-18. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act

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§ 34-18-1	Short title
§ 34-18-2	Purposes -- Rules of construction
§ 34-18-3	Supplementary principles of law applicable
§ 34-18-4	Construction against implicit repeal
§ 34-18-5	Administration of remedies -- Enforcement
§ 34-18-6	Temporary restraining orders -- Ex parte proceedings
§ 34-18-7	Application
§ 34-18-8	Exclusions from application of chapter
§ 34-18-9	Jurisdiction
§ 34-18-10	Service of process for actions pursuant to chapter
§ 34-18-11	Definitions
§ 34-18-12	Obligation of good faith
§ 34-18-13	Unconscionability
§ 34-18-14	Notice
§ 34-18-15	Terms and conditions of rental agreement
§ 34-18-16	Effect of unsigned or undelivered rental agreement
§ 34-18-16.1	Rent increases -- Notice requirements
§ 34-18-17	Prohibited provisions in rental agreements
§ 34-18-18	Receipt of rent free of maintenance obligations forbidden
§ 34-18-19	Security deposits
§ 34-18-20	Disclosure
§ 34-18-21	Landlord to deliver possession of dwelling unit
§ 34-18-22	Landlord to maintain premises
§ 34-18-22.1	Landlord's duty to notify tenant of violation
§ 34-18-22.2	Landlord's duty regarding compliance with zoning and minimum housing laws
§ 34-18-22.3	Nonresident landlord to designate agent for service of process
§ 34-18-23	Limitation of liability upon sale or change of management
§ 34-18-24	Tenant to maintain dwelling unit
§ 34-18-25	Rules and regulations
§ 34-18-26	Access
§ 34-18-27	Tenant to use and occupy
§ 34-18-28	Noncompliance by the landlord in general
§ 34-18-29	Failure to deliver possession
§ 34-18-30	Self-help for limited repairs
§ 34-18-31	Wrongful failure to supply heat, water, hot water, or essential services
§ 34-18-32	Landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession or rent
§ 34-18-33	Fire or casualty damage
§ 34-18-34	Tenant's remedies for landlord's unlawful ouster, exclusion, or diminution of service
§ 34-18-35	Eviction for nonpayment of rent
§ 34-18-36	Eviction for noncompliance with rental agreement
§ 34-18-37	Termination of periodic tenancy
§ 34-18-38	Eviction for unlawfully holding over after termination or expiration of tenancy
§ 34-18-39	Failure to maintain
§ 34-18-40	Remedies for abandonment
§ 34-18-41	Waiver of landlord's right to terminate
§ 34-18-42	Landlord liens -- Distraint for rent abolished
§ 34-18-43	Remedy after termination
§ 34-18-44	Self-help recovery of possession prohibited
§ 34-18-45	Landlord and tenant remedies for abuse of access
§ 34-18-46	Retaliatory conduct prohibited
§ 34-18-47	Appeals
§ 34-18-48	Execution
§ 34-18-49	Payment of rent on stay of execution
§ 34-18-50	Payment of moving costs required
§ 34-18-51	Issuance of execution on nonpayment of rent
§ 34-18-52	Payment of rent during pendency of appeal
§ 34-18-53	Dismissal of appeal for nonpayment of rent during pendency of appeals
§ 34-18-54	Savings clause
§ 34-18-55	Severability
§ 34-18-56	Notices and complaint forms
§ 34-18-57	Providence and Warwick Absentee Landlord Enforcement Act

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Tennessee Code > Title 64 > Chapter 5 > Part 2 > § 64-5-206. Time and place of meetings — Compensation of board

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The board shall set a regular time and place for meetings and establish rules of order and particularly rules for calling a special meeting of the board.

The members of the board shall serve without compensation, except that they shall be reimbursed for actual traveling expenses and other necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.

[Acts 1986, ch. 789, § 6.]


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