TITLE 35
Public Finance
CHAPTER 35-6
Accounts and Control
SECTION 35-6-25
§ 35-6-25 Advance of estimated costs of
witnesses before grand jury.
At or before the summoning in of any grand jury in any county, and from time to
time during any session thereof, the deputy sheriff may estimate the amount of
money requisite for the payment of the witnesses, for the officers' fees for
summoning the witnesses, and for service of other criminal process in behalf of
the state at any session, and until a grand jury shall again be summoned in,
and, on the approval of an estimate by the attorney general, the state
controller may, at any time not more than three (3) days before the summoning
in of the grand jury, draw his or her order on the general treasurer in favor
of the deputy sheriff for the amount of the estimated fees, and the general
treasurer shall pay the order and charge fees to the account of the judicial
expenses of the state.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 34, § 19; C.P.A. 1905, § 1093; G.L. 1909, ch. 44,
§ 20; G.L. 1923, ch. 45, § 20; G.L. 1938, ch. 7, § 22; impl. am.
P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 65; G.L. 1956, § 35-6-25; P.L. 2012, ch. 324,
§ 70.)