Title 11, Title 11 Offenses

(a) No person shall offer for sale at retail or at wholesale, shall possess or have under his or her control, use or explode, or cause to explode for exhibition or amusement, display fireworks or aerial consumer fireworks unless permits are obtained pursuant to this chapter and c…

For purposes of this chapter unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Destructive or incendiary device or substance” means an explosive, article or device designed or adapted to cause physical harm to persons or property by means of fire, explosion, deflagration, or detonation…

No complaint for a violation of any of the provisions of § 11-13-1 shall be sustained unless it shall be brought within thirty (30) days after the commission of the offense, and all fines for such violation shall enure one-half (½) to the complainant and one-half (½) to the state…

(a) No person shall sell to any child under the age of fifteen (15) years, without the written consent of a parent or guardian of the child, any cartridge or fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a component part, or any gun, pistol or other mechanical contrivance arranged f…

No person or persons shall sell, expose for sale, possess with intent to sell or use, or discharge or use, within this state, any repeating toy cane for discharging any explosive, any toy pistol, or any other toy device designed or used for the discharge of blank cartridges.

No person shall sell or offer to sell blank cartridges to any person under twenty-one (21) years of age.

Any person violating any of the provisions of § 11-13-4 or 11-13-5 shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars ($20.00) for each offense.

Every person who shall sell, expose for sale, possess with intent to sell, use, or explode, or use or explode any firecracker containing any explosive other than gunpowder shall be fined not more than twenty dollars ($20.00).

Every person who shall knowingly deliver or cause to be delivered to any person or carrier any box, can, or other package of nitroglycerine, gunpowder, naphtha, or other equally inflammable and explosive substance, material, or fluid, not marked with a plain and legible label des…

(a) Every person who, without lawful authority, places a bomb, explosive device, or any destructive or incendiary device or substance, or falsely reports the placing of a bomb, explosive device, or any destructive or incendiary device or substance, shall upon conviction be impris…

Every person who shall falsely assume or pretend to be a judge, justice of the peace, warden, deputy sheriff, alderman, member of any city or town council, city or town clerk, city sergeant, constable, correctional officer, any other officer of any city or town in this state as w…

Every person who shall falsely assume or pretend to be a town sealer of weights and measures, auctioneer, corder of wood, or fence-viewer, and shall act as such, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).

Any person not a member, respectively, of the Society of Cincinnati; Society of the War of 1812; Aztec Club of 1847; Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; Grand Army of the Republic; National Association of Naval Veterans of the United States; Society of the Ar…

Any person who willfully uses or displays the label or logo of the American Federation of Musicians without the written permission of, or in any manner not authorized by, the federation shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense.

Every person who shall falsely assume or pretend to be an employee of a public utility company, or the employee of a nonregulated power producer, and act as such so as to gain or attempt to gain entry into any residence or business, for any purpose, shall be imprisoned not exceed…

“Flag,” “standard,” “color,” or “ensign,” as used in §§ 11-15-1 — 11-15-3, includes any flag, standard, color, ensign, or any picture or representation of either of them, made of any substance, or represented on any substance, and of any size, evidently purporting to be either of…

No person, firm or corporation shall use the state seal, the state coat of arms, or a facsimile or imitation of them, for commercial purposes. The use of the state seal, the state coat of arms, or a facsimile or imitation of them as a portion of any letterhead, or in any advertis…

No person, firm or corporation shall use, without authorization, the emblem of the department of the attorney general that is authorized by the attorney general or any such emblem used to imitate an emblem of the department of the attorney general, for any fraudulent purpose, or …

The attorney general of the state of Rhode Island shall, upon the submission of proof of any violation of the provisions of § 11-15-4, seek injunctive relief against further violation.

It shall be unlawful to display the flag or emblem of any foreign country upon the flagstaff of any state, county, city or town building or public schoolhouse within this state; provided, that when any foreigner shall become the guest of the United States, or of this state, the f…

Except as otherwise provided, in respect to specific articles of meat or drink, every person who shall sell any kind of diseased, corrupted, or unwholesome provisions, whether for meat or drink, shall be imprisoned not exceeding six (6) months or be fined not exceeding two hundre…

Every person who shall kill or cause to be killed, for the purpose of sale, or who shall sell to any person engaged in the business of killing of animals to be used for food purposes, any calf less than four (4) weeks old and the weight of which is less than seventy-five (75) pou…

No dealer in groceries, meats, provisions, or any articles of food whatsoever shall use or cause to be used newspapers, printed paper or other second-hand paper for the purpose of wrapping up such articles of food, unless the food shall first be placed in paper carton boxes, jars…

Every person who sells, furnishes, or gives away wood alcohol or any preparation or compound containing wood alcohol, knowing that it is to be used for beverage purposes, shall be punished by imprisonment for life or any term of years, and he or she shall be liable to an action f…

Every person who shall mingle any poison with any food, drink, or medicine, with intent to kill or injure any person, and every person who shall willfully poison any spring, well or reservoir of water with that intent, shall be imprisoned for life or for any term of years.

Every person who shall knowingly offer, give or entice any other person to take or accept any treat, candy, gift, or food for consumption which is poisonous shall be subject to imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than twenty (20) years and may be fined not more than …

Every person who tampers with the contents of a package or container for sale to the public with the intent to injure a potential user of the contents shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not less than three (3) years nor more than ten (10) years, or a fine …

Every person who shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, any public record, or any writ, process, or proceeding in any court of justice in this state, any certificate or attestation of any judge, justice …

(a) Any person who shall knowingly forge or cause to be forged one or more public assistance benefit check or authorization issued pursuant to chapter 6 of title 40, when the total value of the check or authorization so forged or caused to be forged in any period of twelve (12) c…

Every person who shall forge, counterfeit, or cause to be forged or counterfeited, any registration plate or special use identification tag, or knowingly possess any forged or counterfeited registration plate or special use identification tag, as provided in § 31-3-40, shall be g…

Every person who shall cast, stamp, engrave, form, make, or mend or begin to cast, stamp, engrave, form, make, or mend, or have in his or her possession or custody any mould, pattern, die, punch, press, or other tool or instrument whatsoever, devised, adapted, and designed for th…

Whenever the existence of any false, forged, or counterfeit bank bills or notes, or any plates, dies, or other tools, instruments, or implements used by counterfeiters or designed for the forging or making of any false or counterfeit notes, coin, or bills, shall come to the knowl…

Whenever the charter of any bank in this state shall expire or become forfeited, and whenever any bank in this state shall close its business for any cause whatsoever, the directors of the bank who shall have been last in office shall immediately deliver up all their plates and d…

(a) As used in this chapter, “forged” or “counterfeited trademark”, “service mark”, or “identification mark” means any mark or design which is: (1) identical to, substantially indistinguishable from, or an imitation of a trademark, service mark, or identification mark which is re…

Every person who shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, or falsely alter any note, certificate, or other security, in imitation of and purporting to be a note, certificate, or other security, which has been or hereafter may be issued for any debt of this state, or any bank bill …

Every person who shall utter, publish, pass, or tender in payment as true, any false, forged, counterfeited, or altered certificate, security or bank bill or note, knowing it to be false, forged, counterfeited, or altered, with intent to defraud, shall be imprisoned not exceeding…

Every person who shall bring into this state or have in his or her possession or custody within this state, any false, forged, counterfeited, or altered certificate or security, bank bill, or note, knowing it to be false, forged, counterfeited or altered, with intent to utter, pa…

Every person who shall engrave, form, make, or mend, or begin to engrave, form, make, or mend any plate, stone, paper, rolling press, or other instrument or material devised, adapted, and designed for the stamping, forging, or making any false, forged, and counterfeited bank bill…

In no prosecutions for forging, counterfeiting, or altering any bank bill or note or for uttering, passing, or tendering in payment as true any false, forged, counterfeited, or altered bank bill or note, or for bringing into this state or for having in possession or custody any f…

Every person who shall forge or counterfeit any coin in imitation or similitude of any gold or silver coin current within this state by law or usage shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) years nor less than two (2) years.

Every person who shall utter or tender in payment as true any false, forged or counterfeit coin, made and forged in imitation and similitude of any gold or silver coin current within this state by law or usage, knowing it to be false or counterfeit, with intent to defraud, shall …

Every person who shall bring into this state or have in his or her possession or custody any false or counterfeit coin, made and forged in imitation and similitude of any gold or silver coin current within this state by law or usage, knowing it to be false or counterfeit, with in…

(a) No person shall knowingly give to any agent, employee, servant in public or private employ, or public official any receipt, account, or other document in respect of which the principal, master, or employer, or state, city, or town of which he or she is an official is interest…

Any person who knowingly and with criminal intent shall file a fraudulent claim with an insurance company for the purpose of securing money based on a claim of a stolen motor vehicle when, in fact, the motor vehicle did not exist or was not stolen, shall be guilty of a felony pun…

Any person who shall knowingly and intentionally file or cause to be filed with the department of human services, or any employee or agent of the department, any statement or affidavit in writing which is false or erroneous, or defective in any important particular, and which, to…

Any person who shall knowingly and intentionally prepare, file or cause to be filed with the division of motor vehicles, or any employee or agent of the division of motor vehicles, any application, statement or affidavit in writing which is knowingly false in any important partic…