(a)  The board shall have the power to issue and establish criteria to determine eligibility for issuance of the certificate of recovery & re-entry;

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 13-8.2-5

  • Board: means the parole board within the Rhode Island department of corrections, established pursuant to the provisions of § 13-8-1. See Rhode Island General Laws 13-8.2-2
  • Department: means the department of corrections. See Rhode Island General Laws 13-8.2-2
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6

(b)  By an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the board to issue a certificate of recovery & re-entry to any person previously convicted of a crime in any jurisdiction;

(c)  To create all applications, and certificates necessary for the purposes of this chapter upon forms prescribed by the board. Such forms relating to certificates of recovery & re-entry shall be distributed by the chairman of the board;

(d)  To promulgate all necessary rules and regulations to carry out the intent of this chapter; and

(e)  Any information contained within a certificate of recovery & re-entry as created in subsection (c) of this section shall be limited to:

(i)  The applicant’s name;

(ii)  Date of birth;

(iii)  Certificate number;

(iv)  Issue date;

(v)  A statement that “The board has determined that up to and including the issue date stated above, this individual has met the necessary standards of recovery & re-entry to hold the certificate”; and

(vi)  Authentication phone number for the department of corrections.

History of Section.
P.L. 2013, ch. 322, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 412, § 1.