§ 8-9-7. Duties of probate clerk.
The probate clerk shall attend the meetings of the probate court and shall record its proceedings and also all wills, administrations, inventories, accounts, decrees, orders, determinations, and other writings, which shall be made, granted, or decreed upon by the probate court of the town or city, and shall have the custody and safekeeping of the seal of the court and of all the books and papers belonging to the probate office, and of any stenographic or electronic recording of any probate court proceedings made by the probate clerk, and shall not act as attorney before the court of which he or she is clerk. Provided, that the probate clerk shall be required to retain stenographic and electronic recordings of any probate court proceedings only for one year from the date of the hearing.
History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, ch. 35; G.L. 1909, ch. 306, § 5; G.L. 1923, ch. 357, § 5; G.L. 1938, ch. 568, § 5; G.L. 1956, § 8-9-7; P.L. 1996, ch. 110, § 3.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts
Section 8-9-1, 8-9-2. - Repealed.
Section 8-9-2.1. - Probate judges — Qualifications.
Section 8-9-2.2. - New Shoreham town council as probate court.
Section 8-9-2.3. - Probate judge in town where council sits as probate court.
Section 8-9-3. - Providence probate court.
Section 8-9-4. - Election and powers of probate judge.
Section 8-9-5. - Disqualification or inability of probate judge.
Section 8-9-6. - Town or city clerk as clerk of court.
Section 8-9-7. - Duties of probate clerk.
Section 8-9-8. - Clerk pro tempore in absence of probate clerk.
Section 8-9-9. - General probate jurisdiction.
Section 8-9-10. - Appointment and supervision of temporary custodians of decedents’ estates.
Section 8-9-11. - Power to take probate and grant administration of decedents’ estates.
Section 8-9-12. - Payment of legacies.
Section 8-9-13. - Revocation or modification of warrants and commissions.
Section 8-9-14. - Revocation or modification of orders or decrees.
Section 8-9-15. - Annulment of probate of will.
Section 8-9-16. - Confirmation of prior acts and proceedings.
Section 8-9-17. - Power to summon and receive evidence.
Section 8-9-17.1. - Subpoenas issued by other officials.
Section 8-9-18. - Judicial aid in taking possession of property of estates.
Section 8-9-19. - Expense of commitment for failure to deliver property of estate.
Section 8-9-20. - Right to counsel of person suspected of withholding property.
Section 8-9-21. - Contempt of court — Habeas corpus.