§ 24-12-50 Relationship to department of transportation. – (a) The department of transportation is hereby constituted as the agency for the authority in carrying out all of the powers to construct, acquire, operate, and maintain turnpikes and bridges as conferred by the general laws upon the authority.
(b) Nothing in chapter 13 of title 42 or in this amendment to
chapter 12 of title 24 shall limit the discretions, powers, and authorities of
the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority necessary or desirable for it to
execute and carry out the covenants, agreements, duties, and liabilities
assumed by it in the trust agreement by and between the authority and the Rhode
Island hospital trust company, as trustee under indenture dated December 1,
1965, as supplemented from time to time, nor shall these chapters be construed
in any way to affect the rights, privileges, powers, and remedies of the Rhode
Island hospital trust company and its successors, or of the holders of the
bonds issued under the indenture, or under any resolutions of the authority.
(P.L. 1970, ch. 111, § 3.)