§ 9-9-7. Assistants and expenses of office.
(a) The jury commissioner may, with the consent in writing of the presiding justice, from time to time appoint and remove an associate jury commissioner, an assistant jury commissioner, and such clerks, stenographers, and investigators, and may incur such office and traveling expenses, as shall be necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of his or her office.
(b) The associate jury commissioner and the assistant jury commissioner may discharge all of the duties of the jury commissioner appointing them and an act done by them shall have the same force and effect as though done by the jury commissioner.
History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 4; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-9-7; P.L. 1962, ch. 234, § 1; P.L. 1976, ch. 281, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally
Section 9-9-1.1. - Qualifications of jurors.
Section 9-9-1.2. - Interpreters or readers for jury service.
Section 9-9-2. - Exclusion for race, color, or previous servitude, disability, or gender prohibited.
Section 9-9-3. - Persons exempt from service.
Section 9-9-5. - Jury commissioner — Term — Appointment and removal.
Section 9-9-6. - Vacancies in office of jury commissioner.
Section 9-9-7. - Assistants and expenses of office.
Section 9-9-8 - — 9-9-14. Repealed.
Section 9-9-14.1. - Selection of jurors by use of electronic data processing equipment.
Section 9-9-14.2. - Time of selections.
Section 9-9-15 - — 9-9-21. Repealed.
Section 9-9-22. - Period during which names drawn are liable to service as jurors.
Section 9-9-23. - Investigation of names drawn — Lists of persons well qualified to serve.
Section 9-9-24. - Appeals from jury commissioner.
Section 9-9-25. - Application to pending proceedings.
Section 9-9-26. - Appropriations — Expenses.
Section 9-9-27. - Retention of jury lists.
Section 9-9-28. - Prohibition against loss of employment or longevity benefits.