Title 11, Title 11 Offenses

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, to store, keep, expose for sale offer for sale, or sell, from any tank or container, or from any pump, or other distributing device or equipment, any liquid fuels, lubricating oils, or other similar products other than th…

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, to disguise or camouflage that person’s or firm’s own equipment, by imitating the design, symbol or trade name of the equipment under which recognized brands of liquid fuels, lubricating oils, and similar products are gen…

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, to expose for sale, offer for sale, or sell under any trademark or trade name in general use, any liquid fuels, lubricating oils, or other like products, except those manufactured or distributed by the manufacturer or dis…

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, to aid or assist any other person, firm, or corporation, in the violation of §§ 11-18-13 — 11-18-16 by depositing or delivering into any tank, receptacle, or other container, any other liquid fuels, lubricating oils, or l…

Any person, firm, or corporation or any officer, agent, servant, or employee who shall violate any provision of §§ 11-18-13 — 11-18-17 shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300), or be imprisoned ninety (90) days, or shall suffe…

Every person who shall knowingly furnish or cause to be furnished to the registrar of vital statistics of any city or town false information concerning any birth, marriage, death and/or divorce shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not exceeding fi…

(a) By trick or false representation. Whoever with intent to defraud the owner or any person lawfully possessing any motor vehicle obtains the custody of the motor vehicle by trick, deceit, fraudulent or willful false representation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished …

The possession of a motor vehicle operator’s license card or other documents commonly used to identify the bearer containing a photograph of the possessor, but with the name, or date of birth of a person other than that of the possessor, shall be punishable by a fine of not more …

Whoever: (1) operates or causes to be operated, or attempts to operate or to cause to be operated, any automatic vending machine, slot machine, turnstile, meter, register, coin-box telephone, or other receptacle designed to receive lawful coin of the United States in connection w…

Whoever manufactures for sale, advertises for sale, sells, offers for sale, or gives away any slug, device, or substance whatsoever, designed or calculated to be placed or deposited in any automatic vending machine, slot machine, turnstile, meter, register, coin-box telephone, or…

Any person who: (1) willfully removes, defaces, covers, alters, or destroys the manufacturer’s serial number or any other distinguishing number or identification mark on any machine or any electrical or mechanical device for the purpose of preventing the detection of a crime or d…

Every person convicted of a misdemeanor for the violation of any provision of § 11-18-23 shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment.

Every person who, while insolvent, shall, with intent to defraud his or her creditors, remove from out of the state, secrete, or unlawfully transfer or otherwise dispose of any property belonging to his or her estate, which is not exempt from attachment by law, or who, having mad…

(a) Every person who shall obtain credit or accommodation at any hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house, or lodging house by means of any false pretense, or who, with intent to defraud the proprietor, or the proprietor’s agent or servant, obtains any credit or accommodation at a …

Any person who unlawfully sells, buys, creates, duplicates, alters, gives, or obtains or attempts to buy, sell, create, duplicate, alter, give, or obtain a diploma or certificate of enrollment, conferred by an accredited institution of education in any country, with the intent to…

Every person who by any false pretense shall obtain from any club, association, society, or company for improving the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, or other domestic animals, the registration of any animal in the herd register or other register of the club, association, …

Every president, secretary, cashier, treasurer, or other officer or agent of any incorporated company or institution, who shall fraudulently issue any stock or certificate of stock of the company or institution, shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and shall…

Every person who shall willfully send to the publishers of any newspaper, for the purpose of publication, a fraudulent notice of the birth of a child or of the marriage of any persons or of the death of any person, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100).

No person may arrange, promote, enter into, or sell any funeral service contract on behalf of a funeral service establishment unless the person is an embalmer or funeral director licensed in accordance with the provisions of chapter 33.2 of title 5. All monies received under thes…

(a) No professional solicitor shall solicit money from any individual or business in the name of any law enforcement agency or any organization which would reasonably appear to be affiliated in any way with any law enforcement agency or personnel. For the purposes of this section…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to reveal, transmit, publish, or disseminate in any manner, any records which would identify the names and addresses of individuals, with the titles or nature of video films, records, cassettes, or the like, which they purchased, leased, re…

(a) As used in this section, “defraud the administration of a drug or alcohol test” means to submit a substance that purports to be from a person other than its actual source, or purports to have been excreted or collected at a time other than when it was actually excreted or col…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Mortgage lending process” means the process through which a person seeks or obtains a residential mortgage loan including, but not limited to, solicitation, application, or origination, negotiation of t…

Every woman who shall conceal the birth of any issue of her body, which, if it were born alive, would be born out of wedlock, so that it may not be known whether it was born dead or alive, or shall conceal the death of any infant child born of her body out of wedlock, so that it …

Every proprietor or publisher of a newspaper or periodical, or any agent or employee of the proprietor or publisher, who shall knowingly misrepresent the circulation of the newspaper or periodical for the purpose of securing advertising or other patronage, shall be deemed guilty …

No person shall knowingly make or cause to be made, either directly or indirectly, or through any agency whatsoever, any false statement in writing, with intent that it shall be relied upon, respecting the financial condition, or means or ability to pay, of himself or herself, or…

No person knowing that a false statement in writing has been made, respecting the financial condition or means or ability to pay, of himself or herself, or the person, firm, or corporation in which he or she is interested, or for whom he or she is acting, shall procure, upon the …

No person knowing that a statement in writing has been made, respecting the financial condition or means or ability to pay, of himself or herself or the person, firm, or corporation, in which he or she is interested, or for whom he or she is acting, shall represent on a later day…

Any person violating the provisions of §§ 11-18-6 — 11-18-8 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or both.

Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, set up, put forth, carry on, promote, or draw, publicly or privately, any lottery, chance, game, or device of any nature or kind whatsoever, or by whatsoever name it may be called, for the purpose of exposing, setting for sale or di…

(a) Any state, city, town, ward, or district committee elected pursuant to the provisions of title 17 or certified candidates, but not both, as defined in title 17, shall be allowed to conduct that lottery commonly known as a “twenty (20) week club” or conduct a raffle once withi…

No person or corporation shall sell, give, or distribute any stamp, trading-stamp, cash discount stamp, amusement stamp, check, coupon or other similar device, to any purchaser of goods, wares, or merchandise, which will entitle the holder of the stamp, trading-stamp, cash discou…

No person or corporation shall, either directly or indirectly, give, sell, or distribute any stamp, trading-stamp, cash discount stamp, amusement stamp, check, coupon, or other similar device with the promise, expressed or implied, as an inducement to the purchase of some article…

Whoever shall violate any provision of §§ 11-19-9 — 11-19-11 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three…

Nothing in §§ 11-19-1 — 11-19-4 or in §§ 11-19-9 — 11-19-11 shall be deemed to prohibit or make illegal the annual or semiannual distribution by chance, of prizes, souvenirs, or favors by any club, society, lodge, or association at its dance, dinner, entertainment, or outing wher…

Except as provided in chapter 4 of title 41 and excluding activities authorized by the division of lottery under chapters 61 and 61.2 of title 42, any person who shall engage in pool selling or bookmaking, or shall occupy or keep any room, shed, tenement, tent, or building, or an…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 11-19-14, any person who shall engage in bookmaking activities while on the premises of a racetrack or fronton facility shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000…

Except as provided in chapter 4 of title 41, every person who shall make any bet or lay any wager of any kind upon any horse, to start, run, or trot, shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100).

Except as provided in title 41, every person who shall knowingly suffer or permit any horse belonging to him or her or of which he or she has the care and charge to start, run, or trot for any bet or wager shall forfeit the horse starting, running, or trotting to the use of the s…

All bonds, notes, judgments, mortgages, deeds or other securities, as well as promises, given or made for money, lands, houses, or other property, or article or piece of property, real, personal, or mixed, won at any game, or by betting at any race or fight, or for the repayment …

Every person who shall keep or suffer to be kept any building, room, booth, shed, tent, arbor, or any other place, or any automobile, bus, coach, van, truck, trainer, railway or railroad car, or any other vehicle in any city or town of this state, or in any vessel, boat, or raft …

If a person in violation of § 11-19-18 is a tavernkeeper, innholder, retailer, or keeper of any other house or place of public resort which is licensed, that license shall in addition be declared null and void by the court in which he or she shall be convicted.

Every person not authorized by the Rhode Island state police who shall sell or expose to sale any ticket, or certificate in the nature of a ticket, or share in any ticket or certificate in the nature of a ticket, in any lottery set up within or without this state, shall be fined …

Every person who shall, on any pretext whatsoever, invite, entice, persuade, or induce any other person to visit any house, room, or other place kept for the purpose of gambling, with the intent that that other person shall at that place engage in gambling or playing at any game …

Every person who shall frequent any gambling house or place where gaming is practiced or carried on, not in the performance of official duty and not being the landlord of that place entering to view the premises, shall be imprisoned not exceeding thirty (30) days.

Every person who shall let or knowingly permit to be occupied any house, shop, or place belonging to or under the control of that person, to be used as a gambling house or place where gambling is carried on, or as a place where pools are sold, shall be fined not exceeding five hu…