Title 23, Title 23 and Safety

(a) The consumer protection unit of the department of attorney general may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing any judgments, decrees, or court orders which have been rendered under this chapter, including the nature of the charge and the its disposition. …

(a) In the case of any article or substance sold by its manufacturer, distributor, or dealer which is a banned hazardous substance (whether or not it was a banned hazardous substance at the time of its sale), the article or substance shall, in accordance with regulations of the c…

The provisions of this chapter shall be held to be in addition to, and not in substitution for a limitation of, the provisions of any other law. If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter and th…

For the purposes of this chapter: (1)(i) “Banned hazardous substance” means: (A) Any toy or other article intended for use by children, which is a hazardous substance, or which bears or contains a hazardous substance in a manner as to be susceptible of access by a child to whom t…

(a)(1) Whenever in the judgment of the consumer protection unit an action will promote the objectives of this chapter by avoiding or resolving uncertainty as to its application, the consumer protection unit may by regulation declare to be a hazardous substance, for the purposes o…

The following acts and the causing of the acts are prohibited: (1) The introduction or delivery for introduction into intrastate commerce of any misbranded hazardous substance or banned hazardous substance; (2) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of …

(a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of § 23-24-4 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on conviction be subject to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or to imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days, or both; but for offenses committed wit…

(a) Whenever the director of the consumer protection unit of the department of attorney general finds or has probable cause to believe that any article is a misbranded hazardous substance or a banned hazardous substance or that it presents an electrical, mechanical, or thermal ha…

Before any violation of this chapter is reported by the consumer protection unit to the attorney general for institution of a criminal proceeding, the person against whom the proceeding is contemplated shall be given appropriate notice and an opportunity to present his or her vie…

(a) The superior court shall have jurisdiction, for cause shown and subject to the provisions of rule 65(a) and (b) of the Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure, to restrain violations of this chapter. (b) In any proceeding for criminal contempt for violation of an injunction o…

All criminal proceedings and all libel or injunction proceedings for the enforcement, or to restrain violations, of this chapter shall be by and in the name of the state. Subpoenas for witnesses who are required to attend a court of the state in any district or county may run int…