Municipal Ordinance Library
This ordinance library helps empower local municipalities by providing the needed information to develop successful ordinances for their communities.
The ordinance topics listed below include focus areas such as Accessory Uses and Impact Fees, Floodplain Management, Historic Preservation, and other areas that impact municipalities in Rhode Island.
- Barrington: An example of regulations around accessory uses.
- Bristol: Standards for the installation of accessory use solar energy systems.
- Bristol: Chickens must be registered with the Town.
- Coventry: Details number allowed based on size of lot.
- Providence: Stipulates number of chickens and type of coop/enclosure.
- Barrington: Standards for the keeping of bees in populated areas.
- East Providence: Beekeeping requirements and definitions.
- East Greenwich: Use of fees for construction of public facilities.
- North Kingstown: For the acquisition/expansion/construction of parks, library facilities, and school facilities.
- Portsmouth: Fee is based on number of bedrooms for residential developments.
- South Kingstown: For floodplain management that reduces hazards and maintains the capability of floodplains.
- Tiverton: Includes notification of watercourse alteration
- Cranston: Details on historic and archaeological burial sites.
- Jamestown: Preserving historic and archaeological sites.
- North Smithfield: Preservation of stone walls.
- Burrillville: Detailed regulations.
- Westerly: General regulations and prohibited uses.
- Middletown: Detailed regulations for outdoor lighting restrictions.
- Charlestown: Definitions and general standards for Dark Sky lighting.
- Smithfield: Standards for waterfront properties, flagpoles, and architectural lighting.
- Barrington: General noise restriction ordinance.
- New Shoreham: Limits for motorized vehicles, motorboats, or other watercraft.
- Providence: Regulations for construction, vehicles, alarm systems.
- East Providence: Details parking standards in Main Street and Neighborhood Centers overlay districts.
- Lincoln: Typical suburban-style parking standards.
- Providence: No minimum parking in downtown and neighborhood required in retail districts. Parking reductions allowed if bicycle parking spaces are provided.
- North Kingstown: Limited Residential Parking District for residential areas near business districts.
- Burrillville: Standard sign regulations.
- Tiverton: General standards of sign usage.
- Westerly: More restrictive regulations that prohibit billboards and other signs.
- Bristol: Accessory use solar systems.
- New Shoreham: Includes ground- and roof-mounted systems, and solar pool heaters.
- Newport: Standards for residential solar in historic districts.
- North Smithfield: Standard solar ordinance.
- Cumberland: Standards, inspections, and monitoring.
- East Greenwich: More detailed ordinance than most municipalities.
- Jamestown: Post-construction stormwater control requirements.
- Jamestown: Standards, maintenance, and removal of trees.
- Pawtucket: City Forester, protection of trees, and the duty of property owners to prune trees.
- Providence: Extensive tree and landscaping requirements.
- RIDEM Guide for Developing Municipal Street Tree Ordinances