Title 5, Title 5 and Professions

The division is specifically charged with the enforcement of this chapter; shall investigate all complaints for violations of the provisions of this chapter; shall hold a hearing upon any complaint for any violation of the chapter within thirty (30) days after the filing of the c…

All fees that are required to be paid under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid to the department of health and deposited as general revenues.

If any provision or provisions of this chapter or the application of the chapter to any person or circumstance is held invalid by a court of competent authority, that invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter that can be given effect without that…

All proceeds of any fees collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited as general revenues.

The division may, in its discretion, issue to any person recognized by the division as an authority on, or an expert in, the theory or practice of barbering, hairdressing, and cosmetic therapy and/or manicuring or esthetics, and is the holder of a current esthetician’s, manicuris…

No member of the board shall be compensated for his or her services for attendance at meetings of the board or attendance at examinations, but shall be reimbursed by the department of health for his or her traveling and other expenses incurred in the performance of his or her dut…

The board shall meet as often as necessary for the transaction of any business that regularly comes before it. The board shall hold each year, at any times and places within the state that it designates, at least two (2) public examinations for the various classes of licenses tha…

No person shall practice barbering, hairdressing, and cosmetic therapy, esthetics, or manicuring in this state unless the person has first obtained a license for that particular practice; provided, that nothing in this chapter prohibits students enrolled in programs of hairdressi…

(a) The division shall issue licenses to persons engaged in, or desiring to engage in, the practice of barbering, hairdressing and cosmetic therapy and/or manicuring or esthetics and for instructing in any approved school of barbering or hairdressing and cosmetic therapy and mani…

Licenses shall be divided into the following classes and shall be issued by the division to applicants for the licenses who have qualified for each class of license: (1) A “hairdresser’s and cosmetician’s license” shall be issued by the division to every applicant for the license…

Notwithstanding any general law, special law, public law, or rule or regulation to the contrary, any licensed barber, hairdresser, cosmetician, manicurist, or esthetician who operates as an independent contractor at any “hair-design shop” licensed pursuant to § 5-10-15, shall be …

(a) For purposes of this chapter: (1) “Door-to-door salespersons” means persons who deliver goods, wares, or merchandise to customers for which payment has already been made or is to be made at the time of delivery; (2) “Hawker” means any person selling or offering for sale any g…

Every individual sale or offer for sale made contrary to the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed and construed as a distinct and separate offense, and the person making the sale or offer of sale shall be prosecuted for the offense in the manner subsequently prescribed.

Any state police officer, any police officer of any city or town who has probable cause to believe a person has violated the provisions of this chapter, and any deputy sheriff, town sergeant, or town constable within his or her precinct who has probable cause to believe a person …

Any arresting officer named in § 5-11-12, except a state police officer or city or town police officer prosecuting any person complained of under the provisions of this chapter, shall be required to give his or her personal recognizance only for the payment of costs.

Whenever complaint is made to any justice or clerk of a district court within his or her district that any person within the district is selling or offering for sale any article contrary to the provisions of § 5-11-18, the justice or clerk shall examine the complainant under oath…

Every person selling or offering for sale as a hawker or peddler any goods, wares, or merchandise, who neglects or refuses for the space of ten (10) minutes to show a license then in force, and allow the license to be read after being requested by any inhabitant of the state, or …

(a)(1) The board or bureau of police commissioners in any city or town where a board or bureau of police commissioners is established, and if no board or bureau of police commissioners is established then the town or city council, is authorized to provide, by ordinance in the cas…

Each town and city shall, at the time of issuing a license, enter upon a list kept for that purpose the name of the licensed person, the kind of license, and the time of the expiration of the license, and also furnish to any person who may request it a statement, copied from that…

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter are construed as follows: (1) “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation. (2) “Riding school” means any establishment in connection with which one or more horses are let for hire to be ri…

No person shall engage in the business of operating or operate any riding school unless that person has received a license and a certificate for operating a riding school issued by the state board of inspection of horse riding schools created by this chapter.

(a) Any person who holds him or herself out to be an equestrian professional, and who receives compensation for equestrian activities, shall post a first aid certificate consistent with the provisions of § 16-11.1-1 in a conspicuous location in the riding school. (b) The equestri…

(a) There is created in the department of environmental management a state board of inspection of horse riding schools to consist of three (3) qualified electors of the state: (1) The general agent of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; (2) A duly q…

The state board of inspection of horse riding schools shall make all necessary rules and regulations for the proper performance of their duties and rules and regulations for the filing of applications for licenses and the qualifications of applicants.

All applications for licenses shall be filed with the state board of inspection of horse riding schools. The board shall conduct an examination, either oral or written, or partly oral and partly written, in order to determine the qualifications of the person to operate a riding s…

Any member of the state board of inspection of horse riding schools may enter upon and inspect any premises where a licensed riding school is being conducted or any premises upon which he or she has reason to believe a riding school is being conducted without a license.

A license issued under this chapter shall be the property of the state; shall be loaned to the licensee; and it must be kept posted, in a conspicuous place, upon the premises where the riding school is conducted. The license shall expire by limitation on the thirty-first day of M…

Any license issued under this chapter may be suspended or revoked by the state board of inspection of horse riding schools, after a hearing, for any one or more of the following causes: (1) Failure on the part of the holder of the license to provide suitable food, water, and shel…

Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall upon conviction be imprisoned not exceeding eleven (11) months, or be fined not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars ($250), or be both imprisoned and fined as provided in this chapter.

If any hotelkeeper or innkeeper provides a suitable safe in his or her hotel or inn or other convenient place for the safekeeping of any money, jewels, jewelry, watches, ornaments, railroad mileage books and tickets, bank notes, bonds, negotiable securities, and precious stones, …

No hotelkeeper or innkeeper is liable in any sum to any guest for the loss of any wearing apparel, goods, merchandise, or other personal property not mentioned in § 5-14-1, where it appears that the loss occurred without the fault or negligence of the hotelkeeper or innkeeper; no…

As used in this chapter, “hotel” means a hotel, motel, resort, boarding house, or bed and breakfast that is kept, used, or advertised as, or held out to the public as, a place where sleeping or housekeeping accommodations are supplied for pay to guests for leisure, business, or g…

(a) An innkeeper may remove or cause to be removed from a hotel a guest or other person who: (1) Refuses or is unable to pay for accommodations or services; (2) While on the premises of the hotel, acts in an obviously intoxicated manner, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel pro…

An innkeeper may refuse to admit or refuse service or accommodations to a person who: (1) While on the premises of the hotel, acts in an obviously intoxicated manner, destroys or threatens to destroy hotel property, or causes or threatens to cause a public disturbance. (2) The in…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Licensing authorities” means the bureau or board of police commissioners of any city or town where that bureau or board of police commissioners is established; but where there is no bureau or board, it means the town co…

No person may conduct or operate a public laundry in any city or town until the licensing authorities of that city or town shall have caused an inspection to be made of the laundry and shall have issued a permit for the operation of the public laundry. The permit shall be issued …

Application for a permit shall be made in any form and shall contain any information as to the public laundry for which it is desired that the licensing authorities require. Application for a permit may be made at any time. Within forty (40) days after the receipt of an applicati…

Every person to whom a permit is issued under this chapter shall keep the permit displayed in a conspicuous place in the office or place of business for which it is issued, and shall whenever requested exhibit the permit to the licensing authorities or their authorized agents. Th…

No public laundry shall be operated, nor collections of articles to be washed or cleaned in the laundries shall be made, in the town of West Warwick or Bristol or in any city or town whose population according to the latest federal census was more than twenty thousand (20,000), b…

Any person, and any official or agent of a corporation or association operating or maintaining a public laundry or making collections of articles to be washed or cleaned in a public laundry contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or who, in any way, interferes with any of the…

It is made a duty of all persons, firms, or corporations, owning or operating any moving van, furniture van, transfer wagon, express wagon, delivery wagon, commercial automobile, or other vehicle, who hauls or moves, or causes to be hauled or moved, household goods, chattels, or …

(a) The report required by § 5-17-1 shall be made before the expiration of ten (10) days from the date of the removal on blanks furnished by the director of labor and training. Those blanks shall contain generally the character of property moved; the full name of the owner or per…

It is unlawful for any other person, firm, or corporation procuring the removal of any of the property described in this chapter to give false information to the owner or operator of any vehicle employed to haul that property, or to willfully deceive him or her as to that propert…

Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.

The term “outdoor advertising,” as used in this chapter, applies only to all advertising displayed to attract the attention of persons on any public highway, or while in the vehicle of any common carrier, or in any station of a common carrier, or while in any public building, pub…

In order to preserve the health, safety, morals, and comfort of the inhabitants of this state, the city and town councils, in addition to any powers now enabling, shall have power by ordinance to regulate outdoor advertising in their city or town, as to the place where that adver…