§ 16-32-37. Applicability of merit system — Teacher certification — List of positions transferable to classified service.
(a) The appointment, promotion, salaries, tenure, and dismissal of administrative, instructional, and research employees, and secretarial employees not exceeding ten (10) in number, and armed university police officers shall not be subject in any manner or degree to control by the state personnel administrator or by any officer or board other than the board of trustees. The certification of teachers at the university of Rhode Island is abolished, except for teachers who elect to come or remain under it.
(b) All positions that are exempt from the merit system law, chapter 4 of title 36, that become vacant or that are to be established, must be forwarded to the state personnel administrator, who shall determine whether the position(s) in question shall remain in the board of trustees non-classified service or be established in the classified service of the state.
(c) No position presently in the classified service of the state subject to the merit system law, chapter 4 of title 36, shall be changed or modified so as to establish the position in the board of trustees non-classified service.
(d) Faculty positions, presidents, vice presidents, deans, assistant deans, and student employees of the university shall not be covered by the preceding provisions and shall remain in the non-classified service of the board.
History of Section.P.L. 2019, ch. 88, art. 9, § 5.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Section 16-32-1. - Change of former name.
Section 16-32-2. - Board of Trustees established.
Section 16-32-2.1. - Additional powers of the President of the University.
Section 16-32-2.2. - Appointment and removal of the board of trustees.
Section 16-32-3. - Purposes of university.
Section 16-32-4. - Location — Application of federal funds.
Section 16-32-5. - Authority over experiment station.
Section 16-32-6. - Activities of experiment station.
Section 16-32-7. - Duties required by federal acts — Annual report to general assembly.
Section 16-32-9. - Annual appropriations.
Section 16-32-10. - Award of degrees — Curriculum and government.
Section 16-32-11. - Power to guarantee loans.
Section 16-32-12. - Acquisition of land — Guaranty of loans to societies of students.
Section 16-32-13. - Investment of state funds in student loans.
Section 16-32-14. - Maximum guarantees outstanding.
Section 16-32-15. - Assumption of defaulted obligations — Lien on property.
Section 16-32-16. - Marine biology department — Laboratory.
Section 16-32-17. - Appropriations for marine biology.
Section 16-32-19 - — 16-32-24. Repealed.
Section 16-32-25. - Establishment of college of pharmacy fund.
Section 16-32-26. - Management of college of pharmacy fund.
Section 16-32-27. - Establishment of landscaping fund.
Section 16-32-28. - Management of rotary fund.
Section 16-32-29. - Applied engineering laboratory.
Section 16-32-30. - Geographic information system — Laboratory.
Section 16-32-31. - Appropriations for geographic information system laboratory.
Section 16-32-32. - Exemption from provisions of administrative procedures act.
Section 16-32-33. - Receipts from sources other than appropriations.
Section 16-32-34. - Fiscal accounts — Receipts — Petty cash funds.
Section 16-32-35. - Audit of expenditures.
Section 16-32-36. - Freedom from budget and lease control by other agencies.
Section 16-32-38. - Permanent status for non-classified employees.
Section 16-32-39. - Longevity payments — Non-classified employees.
Section 16-32-40. - Appointment of campus police.