The director of the department of human services shall appoint religious instructors who shall conduct religious services at times and at places within institutions under the control of the department, and who shall perform other duties consistent with their office, as may be required of them by the director of human services. The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary to compensate the religious instructors. History of Section.P.L. 1917, ch. 1470, art. 1, § 12; P.L. 1922, ch. 2230, § 7; G.L. 1923, ch. 413, art. 1, § 12; P.L. 1925, ch. 639, § 3; P.L. 1935, ch. 2250, § 149; G.L. 1938, ch. 50, § 6; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 80; G.L. 1956, § 40-2-22; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970.
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