Residency Requirements - Providence, Rhode Island

Sec. 17-7. Employees to be residents; exceptions.
(a)     Requirements. All officers of the city, as defined in section 1207, and all employees of the city and any and all agencies and instrumentalities thereof, including all employees of the school department and the department of public safety, shall be residents of the city during such employment; provided, however, that any person exempted from such residency under the Home Rule Charter or other relevant and applicable provision shall be likewise exempted hereunder.

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