§ 24-8-1 - Annual report and recommendations – Roads on which expenditures made – Contracts. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 24-8-1

   § 24-8-1  Annual report and recommendations– Roads on which expenditures made – Contracts. – The director of transportation shall annually make a report to the generalassembly, during the month of January, setting forth in detail all itstransactions during the preceding year and making such recommendations forimproving the main highways of the state as the director shall deem necessaryfor the best interests of the entire state, having regard also to theconnection of the main highways with the main highways of the adjoining states.No work, other than preliminary surveys, shall be done upon any of the mainhighways previous to the time that the main highways are made a part of thestate highway system and money appropriated for their improvement. The directorshall direct and control, according to law, the expenditure of allappropriations and upon the director's request the department of administrationis hereby authorized to make all contracts necessary for that purpose.