Title 23, Title 23 and Safety

Any facility subject to the provisions of this chapter which employs a lifeguard shall maintain and provide an area which is not exposed to sunlight and shall provide sunscreen or other physical protection to insure against overexposure to the sun.

(1) All cities and towns shall supply and maintain one hundred and fifty feet (150′) of rope and a lifesaving buoy at ponds and lakes located within their respective boundaries during the designated periods of time which swimming, boating or other recreational activities are auth…

It shall be the duty of the director of environmental management to enforce the provisions of this chapter and the regulations and orders adopted in accordance with this chapter to prosecute all persons guilty of any violation of this chapter.

No person shall interfere with or obstruct the entrance of the director of environmental management or his or her designated representative to any structure or any premise in the discharge of his or her official duties in connection with the enforcement of this chapter or the reg…

Any person who violates any rule, regulation, or order of the department of environmental management relating to drowning prevention, lifesaving, first aid and safety personnel and equipment at any camp, camp ground, bathhouse, bathing resort, beachside hotel or boarding house, b…

(a) When the director of environmental management or any of his or her duly authorized agents deems it necessary in the interest of public safety to cause any of the facilities mentioned in § 23-22.5-4 to cease operating, he or she may do so by serving written notice upon the own…

Any party aggrieved as a result of any rule, regulation, or order of the department of environmental management shall have the right of appeal to the recreational safety council created in this section. The council shall consist of five (5) members, one of whom shall be the direc…

In the month of February of each year, the governor shall appoint a member or members of the recreational safety council other than the representatives of the state to hold office until the first day of March in the third year after that appointment and until his, her, or their r…

Any vacancy which may occur in the recreational safety council shall be filled in the same manner by appointment by the governor for the remainder of the unexpired term. The council shall make suggestions to and shall advise the director of environmental management concerning the…

No person shall swim in the breachway of the Charlestown Pond, or in the breachway of Quonochontaug Pond, or in the breachway of Weekapaug Pond. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a civil violation and be subject to a fine, not to exceed…