Ryan v. City of Providence

How courts have described this case

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• stating that, when this Court determines legislative intent, “[t]hat intent is discovered from an examination of the language, nature, and object of the statute”
• explaining that the Court will look to the entire statute and not an isolated provision when the language of a statute can be given more than one interpretation
• “When we construe a statute or ordinance, our ultimate goal is to give effect to the purpose of the act as intended by the Legislature.”
• “Such an illogical interpretation is not permitted by our rules of statutory construction.”
• “Such an illogical interpretation is not permitted by our rules of statutory construction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).