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| 7 | 7 | | LC002400 |
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| 9 | 9 | | S TATE OF RHODE IS LAND |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ____________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | A N A C T |
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| 15 | 15 | | RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC |
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| 16 | 16 | | TRANSIT AUTHORITY |
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| 17 | 17 | | Introduced By: Senators Miller, and Ruggerio |
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| 18 | 18 | | Date Introduced: June 02, 2023 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Referred To: Senate Housing & Municipal Government |
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| 20 | 20 | | (RIPTA) |
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| 22 | 22 | | It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. Sections 39-18-1, 39-18-3 and 39-18-7 of the General Laws in Chapter 39-1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | 18 entitled "Rhode Island Public Transit Authority" are hereby amended to read as follows: 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | 39-18-1. Definitions. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning: 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (1) “Authority” means the Rhode Island public transit authority created by § 39-18-2, or, 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | if the authority shall be abolished, the board, body, or commission succeeding to the principal 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | functions thereof, or upon whom the powers of the authority given by this chapter shall be given 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | by law. 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) “Bonds” means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, including temporary 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | notes of the authority issued in anticipation of revenues to be received by the authority or in 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | anticipation of the receipt of federal, state, or local grants or other aid. 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (3) “Dorrance street transit center project” means a transit property proposed by the 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | authority to be developed on Dorrance street in the city of Providence that is expected to include 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | an enclosed intermodal transit center, indoor parking, and authority administrative space, adjacent 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | and/or integrated transit-oriented development, and related infrastructure. 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (3)(4) “Municipality” means any town, city, or subdivision thereof. 17 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (4)(5) “Transit property” means and includes any property, whether real or personal, and 18 |
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| 44 | 44 | | any apparatus and equipment used or useful in the operation of a motor bus, water, or rail passenger 1 |
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| 45 | 45 | | transportation line or system, and includes any rights or franchises to operate any passenger 2 |
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| 46 | 46 | | transportation line or system, but it does not include other property or assets. 3 |
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| 47 | 47 | | 39-18-3. Purposes of the authority. 4 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (a) It shall be the purposes of the authority to: 5 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (1) Provide public transit services that meet mobility needs of the people of the state, 6 |
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| 50 | 50 | | including the elderly and disabled; 7 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (2) Increase access to employment opportunities; 8 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (3) Connect different modes of public transportation, including rail, air, and water services; 9 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (4) Promote community design that features public transit services as defining elements of 10 |
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| 54 | 54 | | a community; 11 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (5) Facilitate energy conservation and efficient energy use in the transportation sector by 12 |
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| 56 | 56 | | providing public transit services; and 13 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (6) Mitigate traffic congestion and enhance air quality.; and 14 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (7) Facilitate transit-oriented development in support of the development of transit 15 |
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| 59 | 59 | | properties. 16 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (b) It shall further be the purpose of the authority to own and operate a mass motor bus, 17 |
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| 61 | 61 | | water, or rail passenger transportation system and to manage, to coordinate, and to perform vehicle 18 |
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| 62 | 62 | | maintenance for a state paratransit system. Whenever any operator of a mass motor bus, water, or 19 |
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| 63 | 63 | | rail passenger transportation system files with the public utilities administrator a petition to 20 |
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| 64 | 64 | | discontinue any service, it is the purpose and function of the authority to determine if it is in the 21 |
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| 65 | 65 | | public interest to discontinue that service. If it is determined that it is not in the public interest to 22 |
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| 66 | 66 | | discontinue that service, the authority is authorized and empowered to acquire all or any part of the 23 |
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| 67 | 67 | | transit property, or any interest therein, of the system. 24 |
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| 68 | 68 | | 39-18-7. Bonds. 25 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (a)(1) The authority is hereby authorized to provide, by resolution, for the issuance at one 26 |
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| 70 | 70 | | time, or from time to time, of bonds of the authority for any of its purposes. The bonds may be 27 |
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| 71 | 71 | | general obligations of the authority or special obligations payable only from particular funds. The 28 |
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| 72 | 72 | | bonds of each issue shall be dated, shall bear interest at such rate or rates as may be determined by 29 |
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| 73 | 73 | | the authority, and shall mature at such time or times not exceeding thirty (30) years from their date 30 |
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| 74 | 74 | | or dates as may be determined by the authority, and may be made redeemable before maturity, at 31 |
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| 75 | 75 | | the option of the authority, at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as may be 32 |
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| 76 | 76 | | fixed by the authority prior to the issuance of the bonds. Temporary notes of the authority may be 33 |
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| 77 | 77 | | issued and refunded from time to time in anticipation of revenues to be received by the authority 34 |
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| 81 | 81 | | or in anticipation of the receipt of federal, state, or local grants or other aid. Temporary notes shall 1 |
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| 82 | 82 | | mature no later than thirteen (13) months from their respective dates or six (6) months after the 2 |
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| 83 | 83 | | expected date of receipt of the grants or aid, whichever shall be later, and may be renewed from 3 |
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| 84 | 84 | | time to time in anticipation of the receipt of additional federal, state, or local grants or other aid. 4 |
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| 85 | 85 | | Temporary notes shall be in an amount not exceeding the limitations imposed by the last paragraph 5 |
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| 86 | 86 | | of this section. The authority shall determine the form of the bonds, including any interest coupons 6 |
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| 87 | 87 | | to be attached thereto, and shall fix the denomination or denominations of the bonds and the place 7 |
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| 88 | 88 | | or places of payment of the principal and interest which may be at any bank or trust company within 8 |
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| 89 | 89 | | or without the state. The bonds shall be signed by the chairperson of the authority or shall bear his 9 |
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| 90 | 90 | | or her facsimile signature, and the official seal of the authority, or a facsimile thereof, shall be 10 |
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| 91 | 91 | | impressed or imprinted thereupon and attested by the secretary of the authority, and any coupons 11 |
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| 92 | 92 | | attached to the bonds shall bear the facsimile signature of the chairperson of the authority. In case 12 |
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| 93 | 93 | | any officer whose signature or facsimile of whose signature shall appear on any bonds or coupons 13 |
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| 94 | 94 | | shall cease to be the officer before the delivery of the bonds, the signature or the facsimile shall, 14 |
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| 95 | 95 | | nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if he or she had remained in office 15 |
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| 96 | 96 | | until delivery. The bonds may be issued in coupon or in registered form, or both, as the authority 16 |
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| 97 | 97 | | may determine, and provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bonds as to principal 17 |
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| 98 | 98 | | alone, and also as to both principal and interest, for the reconversion into coupon bonds of any 18 |
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| 99 | 99 | | bonds registered as to both principal and interest, and for the interchange of registered and coupon 19 |
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| 100 | 100 | | bonds. The authority may sell such bonds in such manner either at public or private sale and for the 20 |
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| 101 | 101 | | price as it may determine will best effect the purposes of this chapter. 21 |
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| 102 | 102 | | (2) Bonds, temporary notes or other obligations of the authority issued for supported transit 22 |
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| 103 | 103 | | projects (including any bonds issued to refinance or refund such bonds) may be authorized pursuant 23 |
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| 104 | 104 | | to subsection (a)(1) of this section; provided, however, such bonds shall mature at such time or 24 |
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| 105 | 105 | | times not exceeding forty (40) years from their date or dates as may be determined by the authority; 25 |
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| 106 | 106 | | and provided further, temporary notes or other short term obligations of the authority issued for 26 |
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| 107 | 107 | | supported transit projects in anticipation of revenues to be received by the authority or in 27 |
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| 108 | 108 | | anticipation of the receipt of federal, state, or local grants, loans or other aid shall be entitled to a 28 |
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| 109 | 109 | | maturity extending to the maximum period of time within which federal or state grant or loan 29 |
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| 110 | 110 | | proceeds may be payable under such applicable federal or state programs, and shall not be subject 30 |
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| 111 | 111 | | to the limitations imposed by subsection (d) of this section In connection with the development and 31 |
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| 112 | 112 | | financing of a supported transit project, the authority’s powers and duties under this chapter, 32 |
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| 113 | 113 | | including, without limitation, under §§ 39-18-4 and 39-18-6, shall apply to transit-oriented 33 |
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| 114 | 114 | | development in the same manner as they apply to transit properties. No bonds, temporary notes or 34 |
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| 118 | 118 | | other short term obligations of the authority issued for supported transit projects shall be issued by 1 |
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| 119 | 119 | | the authority unless, at the time of the adoption by the authority of the resolution authorizing the 2 |
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| 120 | 120 | | issuance of the bonds, temporary notes or other short term obligations, the authority shall have 3 |
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| 121 | 121 | | received from the general manager or chief financial officer of the authority a certificate which 4 |
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| 122 | 122 | | shall describe with reasonable particularity the scope of the supported transit project, including the 5 |
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| 123 | 123 | | elements thereof, calculations of principal and interest payments and of anticipated revenues, 6 |
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| 124 | 124 | | including federal, state, or local grants or other aid and the terms thereof, and anticipated 7 |
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| 125 | 125 | | expenditures relating thereto. A copy of the certificate shall be furnished to the governor prior to 8 |
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| 126 | 126 | | the issuance of the bonds, temporary notes or other short term obligations described in the 9 |
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| 127 | 127 | | certificate. 10 |
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| 128 | 128 | | (b) The proceeds of the bonds of each issue shall be disbursed in the manner and under 11 |
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| 129 | 129 | | restrictions, if any, as the authority may provide in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the 12 |
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| 130 | 130 | | bonds or in the trust agreement described in § 39-18-8 securing the bonds. 13 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (c) Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the authority may, under like restrictions, 14 |
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| 132 | 132 | | issue interim receipts or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive 15 |
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| 133 | 133 | | bonds when the bonds shall have been executed and are available for delivery. The authority may 16 |
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| 134 | 134 | | also provide for the replacement of any bonds that shall become mutilated or shall be destroyed or 17 |
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| 135 | 135 | | lost. Except as provided in the following paragraph, bonds may be issued under the provisions of 18 |
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| 136 | 136 | | this chapter without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau, 19 |
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| 137 | 137 | | or agency of the state, and without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions 20 |
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| 138 | 138 | | or things than those proceedings, conditions, or things that are specifically required by this chapter. 21 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (d) No Except as provided in subsection (a)(2) of this section, no bonds shall be issued by 22 |
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| 140 | 140 | | the authority unless, at the time of the adoption by the authority of the resolution authorizing the 23 |
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| 141 | 141 | | issuance of the bonds, the authority shall have received from the general manager or chief financial 24 |
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| 142 | 142 | | officer of the authority a certificate indicating that the payments of principal (including any 25 |
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| 143 | 143 | | payments made to a reserve fund other than payments made from bond proceeds) and interest on 26 |
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| 144 | 144 | | the bonds, together with the payments of the principal and interest on all other then outstanding 27 |
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| 145 | 145 | | bonds of the authority, will not exceed during any fiscal year of the authority eighty percent (80%) 28 |
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| 146 | 146 | | of the revenues (including, without limitation, grants and other aid) of the authority during the fiscal 29 |
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| 147 | 147 | | year. In determining the amount of the principal and interest payments to be made during any fiscal 30 |
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| 148 | 148 | | year, there shall be deducted any payments to be made from a reserve fund previously established 31 |
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| 149 | 149 | | to provide for the payments. The certificate shall be based upon the reasonable expectations (both 32 |
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| 150 | 150 | | as to the amount of revenues to be received by the authority and as to the maximum amount of any 33 |
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| 151 | 151 | | variable payments to be made on the bonds) of the officer of the authority executing the certificate 34 |
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| 155 | 155 | | at the time the certificate is delivered. The certificate shall describe with reasonable particularity 1 |
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| 156 | 156 | | the calculations of principal and interest payments and of anticipated revenues upon which the 2 |
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| 157 | 157 | | certificate is based. A copy of the certificate shall be furnished to the governor prior to the issuance 3 |
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| 158 | 158 | | of the bonds described in the certificate and, in the case of any bonds whose issuance, according to 4 |
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| 159 | 159 | | the certificate, is expected to result in the aggregate amount of principal and interest payments 5 |
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| 160 | 160 | | (calculated as above) on the bonds and all then outstanding bonds of the authority exceeding in any 6 |
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| 161 | 161 | | fiscal year of the authority fifty percent (50%) of the revenues of the authority, the bonds shall not 7 |
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| 162 | 162 | | be issued unless the governor shall have approved the issuance or not disapproved the issuance 8 |
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| 163 | 163 | | within thirty (30) days of the receipt of the certificate. Approval or disapproval of any bond issue 9 |
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| 164 | 164 | | by the governor shall be evidenced by delivery to the authority of a certificate approving or 10 |
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| 165 | 165 | | disapproving the issue or any part thereof. 11 |
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| 166 | 166 | | SECTION 2. Chapter 39-18 of the General Laws entitled "Rhode Island Public Transit 12 |
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| 167 | 167 | | Authority" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sections: 13 |
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| 168 | 168 | | 39-18-25. Design build/P3 authorization. 14 |
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| 169 | 169 | | (a) Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates: 15 |
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| 170 | 170 | | (1) “Best value” means the highest overall value to the authority, considering quality and 16 |
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| 171 | 171 | | cost. 17 |
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| 172 | 172 | | (2) “Design-build contracting” means a method of project delivery where a single private 18 |
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| 173 | 173 | | entity is contractually responsible to perform design, construction, and related services. 19 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (3) “Major participant” means any entity that would have a major role in the design and 20 |
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| 175 | 175 | | construction of a project as specified by the authority in the request for proposals. 21 |
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| 176 | 176 | | (4) “Private entity” means any corporation, general partnership, limited liability company, 22 |
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| 177 | 177 | | limited partnership, joint venture, business trust, public benefit corporation, nonprofit entity or 23 |
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| 178 | 178 | | other business entity. 24 |
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| 179 | 179 | | (5) “Progressive design-build contracting” means a method of project delivery where a 25 |
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| 180 | 180 | | private entity performs design, construction and related services for the authority in a phased 26 |
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| 181 | 181 | | manner, based on a preliminary design that is developed with the authority on a collaborative basis. 27 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (6) “Project” means a supported transit project or any other capital project, and related 28 |
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| 183 | 183 | | services by a private entity, including, without limitation, design, financing, construction, 29 |
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| 184 | 184 | | development, operation, maintenance, management and/or leasing, or any combination of the 30 |
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| 185 | 185 | | foregoing, procured by the authority under this section (including without limitation the Dorrance 31 |
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| 186 | 186 | | street transit center project). 32 |
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| 187 | 187 | | (7) “Proposal” means a proposal by the proposer in connection with a project, in 33 |
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| 188 | 188 | | accordance with the requirements of a request-for-proposals that, after review, evaluation, 34 |
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| 192 | 192 | | negotiation and documentation may lead to an agreement with the authority. 1 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (8) “Proposer” means any private entity that submits a proposal in accordance with the 2 |
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| 194 | 194 | | requirements of a request-for-proposals. 3 |
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| 195 | 195 | | (9) “Public-private partnership” or “P3” means an alternative project delivery mechanism 4 |
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| 196 | 196 | | that may be used by the authority to facilitate a private entity’s participation in a project, including 5 |
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| 197 | 197 | | in its design, financing, construction, development, operation, maintenance, management, and/or 6 |
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| 198 | 198 | | leasing (or any combination of the foregoing). 7 |
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| 199 | 199 | | (10) “P3 agreement” means a contract or other agreement between the authority and a 8 |
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| 200 | 200 | | private entity to undertake a project as a public-private partnership and that sets forth rights and 9 |
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| 201 | 201 | | obligations of the authority and the private entity. 10 |
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| 202 | 202 | | (11) “Quality” means those features that the authority determines are most important to a 11 |
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| 203 | 203 | | project. Quality criteria may include quality of design, constructability, long-term maintenance 12 |
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| 204 | 204 | | costs, aesthetics, local impacts, traveler and other user costs, service life, time to construct, and 13 |
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| 205 | 205 | | other factors that the authority considers to be in the best interests of the authority. 14 |
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| 206 | 206 | | 39-18-26. Authorization. 15 |
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| 207 | 207 | | (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority may use design-build 16 |
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| 208 | 208 | | contracting, including progressive design-build contracting, and/or a public-private partnership to 17 |
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| 209 | 209 | | deliver a project. The authority may evaluate and select proposals on either a best-value or a low-18 |
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| 210 | 210 | | bid basis. If the scope of work requires substantial engineering judgment, the quality of which may 19 |
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| 211 | 211 | | vary significantly as determined by the authority, then the basis of award shall be best-value. 20 |
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| 212 | 212 | | (b) The authority shall identify those projects it believes are candidates for design-build 21 |
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| 213 | 213 | | contracting, including progressive design-build contracting, or a public-private partnership, 22 |
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| 214 | 214 | | including, without limitation, those involving extraordinary circumstances, such as emergency 23 |
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| 215 | 215 | | work, unscheduled projects, or funding shortfalls. 24 |
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| 216 | 216 | | (c) The authority retains the authority to terminate the procurement process at any time, to 25 |
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| 217 | 217 | | reject any proposal, to waive technicalities, or to advertise for new proposals if the authority 26 |
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| 218 | 218 | | determines that it is in the best interests of the state. 27 |
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| 219 | 219 | | 39-18-27. Prequalification. 28 |
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| 220 | 220 | | (a) The authority may require that entities be prequalified to submit proposals with respect 29 |
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| 221 | 221 | | to a project. If the authority requires prequalification, it shall; 30 |
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| 222 | 222 | | (1) Give public notice requesting qualifications from interested private entities 31 |
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| 223 | 223 | | electronically through the authority’s publicly accessible website or through advertisements in 32 |
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| 224 | 224 | | newspapers; and 33 |
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| 225 | 225 | | (2) Make available a request-for-qualifications package to all private entities requesting 34 |
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| 229 | 229 | | one in accordance with the notice. The authority may alternatively make any such request-for-1 |
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| 230 | 230 | | qualifications package available to all interested private entities electronically through the 2 |
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| 231 | 231 | | authority’s publicly accessible website. 3 |
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| 232 | 232 | | (b) Interested private entities shall supply for themselves, and for all major participants, all 4 |
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| 233 | 233 | | information required by the authority under any such request-for-qualifications. The authority may 5 |
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| 234 | 234 | | investigate and verify all information received. All financial information, trade secrets, or other 6 |
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| 235 | 235 | | information customarily regarded as confidential business information submitted to the authority 7 |
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| 236 | 236 | | shall be confidential. 8 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (c) The authority shall evaluate and rate all private entities submitting a conforming 9 |
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| 238 | 238 | | statement of qualifications in response to a request-for-qualifications and select the most qualified 10 |
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| 239 | 239 | | private entities to receive a request-for-proposals. The authority may select any number of private 11 |
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| 240 | 240 | | entities, except that if the authority fails to prequalify at least two (2) private entities, the authority 12 |
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| 241 | 241 | | shall readvertise, or cancel, the project procurement. 13 |
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| 242 | 242 | | 39-18-28. Request for proposals. 14 |
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| 243 | 243 | | The authority may issue a request-for-proposals with respect to a project, which shall set 15 |
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| 244 | 244 | | forth the scope of work, design parameters, construction requirements, time constraints, and all 16 |
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| 245 | 245 | | other requirements that have a substantial impact on the cost or quality of a project and the project 17 |
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| 246 | 246 | | development process, as determined by the authority. The authority need not issue a request-for-18 |
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| 247 | 247 | | qualifications prior to issuing a request-for-proposals. The request-for-proposals shall include the 19 |
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| 248 | 248 | | criteria for conforming proposals. For projects to be awarded on a best-value basis, the scoring 20 |
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| 249 | 249 | | process and quality criteria must also be contained in the request-for-proposals. In the authority’s 21 |
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| 250 | 250 | | discretion, the request-for-proposals may provide for a process, including the establishment of a 22 |
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| 251 | 251 | | committee to review proposals, for the authority to review conceptual technical elements of each 23 |
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| 252 | 252 | | proposal before full proposal submittal for the purposes of identifying defects that would cause 24 |
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| 253 | 253 | | rejection of the proposal as nonresponsive. All such conceptual submittals and responses shall be 25 |
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| 254 | 254 | | confidential until execution of the relevant contract, or the cancellation of the procurement. The 26 |
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| 255 | 255 | | request-for-proposals may also provide for a stipend upon specified terms to unsuccessful 27 |
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| 256 | 256 | | proposers that submit proposals conforming to all request-for-proposal requirements. 28 |
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| 257 | 257 | | 39-18-29. Low-bid award. 29 |
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| 258 | 258 | | If the basis of the award of responsive proposals is low-bid, then each proposal, including 30 |
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| 259 | 259 | | the price or prices, shall be sealed by the proposer and submitted to the authority as one complete 31 |
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| 260 | 260 | | package. The authority shall award the design-build contract to the proposer that submits a 32 |
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| 261 | 261 | | responsive proposal with the lowest cost, if the proposal meets all request-for-proposals 33 |
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| 262 | 262 | | requirements. 34 |
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| 266 | 266 | | 39-18-30. Best-value award. 1 |
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| 267 | 267 | | (a) If the basis of the award of responsive proposals is best-value, then each proposal shall 2 |
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| 268 | 268 | | be submitted by the proposer to the authority in two (2) separate components: a sealed technical 3 |
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| 269 | 269 | | proposal and a sealed price proposal. These two (2) components shall be submitted simultaneously. 4 |
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| 270 | 270 | | The authority shall first open, evaluate, and score each responsive technical proposal, based on the 5 |
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| 271 | 271 | | quality criteria contained in the request-for-proposals. The request-for-proposals may provide that 6 |
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| 272 | 272 | | the range between the highest and lowest quality scores of responsive technical proposals must be 7 |
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| 273 | 273 | | limited to an amount certain. During this evaluation process, the price proposals shall remain 8 |
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| 274 | 274 | | sealed, and all technical proposals shall be confidential. 9 |
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| 275 | 275 | | (b) After completion of the evaluation of the technical proposals, the authority shall open 10 |
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| 276 | 276 | | and review each price proposal. The authority shall develop a system for assessing the cost and 11 |
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| 277 | 277 | | quality criteria. The authority shall award the contract to the proposer with the proposal 12 |
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| 278 | 278 | | representing the best value to the authority. 13 |
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| 279 | 279 | | SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage, and shall apply with respect to any 14 |
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| 280 | 280 | | contract entered into by the authority after such effective date. 15 |
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| 287 | 287 | | EXPLANATION |
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| 288 | 288 | | BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |
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| 289 | 289 | | OF |
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| 290 | 290 | | A N A C T |
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| 291 | 291 | | RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC |
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| 292 | 292 | | TRANSIT AUTHORITY |
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| 293 | 293 | | *** |
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| 294 | 294 | | This act would authorize the Rhode Island public transit authority to enter into certain 1 |
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| 295 | 295 | | projects and procure related services including the Dorrance street transit center, using design build 2 |
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| 296 | 296 | | contracting and progressive design build contracting. 3 |
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| 297 | 297 | | This act would take effect upon passage, and would apply with respect to any contract 4 |
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| 298 | 298 | | entered into by the authority after such effective date. 5 |
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| 300 | 300 | | LC002400 |
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