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Lifetime Contracts

Sixteen towns sued Rhode Island in superior court, claiming its “lifetime contracts law … ties the hands of our municipal leaders, and ultimately binds our taxpayers, to contracts that would never end.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sixteen towns sued Rhode Island in superior court, claiming its “lifetime contracts law … ties the hands of our municipal leaders, and ultimately binds our taxpayers, to contracts that would never end.”

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