Rhode Island General Laws 42-17.7-9. Uniform appeal period established
Regardless of any other provision of the general laws to the contrary, all requests for an adjudicatory hearing within the department of environmental management must be in writing and must be filed with the clerk of the administrative adjudication division for environmental matters within twenty (20) calendar days of receipt of the contested agency action for all enforcement actions. All license and permit appeals must be filed with the clerk of the administrative adjudication division for environmental matters within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt of the contested agency action. Every notice of contested agency action shall provide notice of the twenty (20) day or thirty (30) day appeal period and of the procedures for filing an appeal. The time and manner of filing established in this chapter are mandatory and jurisdictional.
History of Section.
P.L. 2000, ch. 281, § 1.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 42-17.7-9
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16