Title 2, Title 2 and Forestry

(a) Regulated articles shall mean any of the following raw wood materials taken or harvested from a quarantined area: any living, dead, standing, cut or fallen tree, inclusive of nursery stock, or any piece or portion thereof measuring a half inch or more in diameter, including a…

All state prosecutions under the provisions of §§ 2-17-21 — 2-17-23 shall be instituted by the director of the department of environmental management, and shall be directed by him or her, and all penalties recovered for the violation of any of the provisions of §§ 2-17-21 — 2-17-…

The director of environmental management may make all necessary rules and regulations governing all work done by the chief entomologist to enforce the provision of §§ 2-17-1 — 2-17-8. The director may act in cooperation with any person or persons, corporation or corporations, inc…

To meet the expenses incurred under the authority of §§ 2-17-1 — 2-17-8 there shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the state any sum that the general assembly may annually appropriate, to be expended under the direction of the director of environmental management, fro…

No imagos, eggs, caterpillars, or pupae of the gypsy or brown-tail moths, and no lumber (new or old), wood, posts, shrubs, trees, or branches, stone or rubbish, nor any material which by reason of having been exposed to infestation is liable to carry the live eggs, imagos, caterp…

Any town or city may make any appropriation that it deems necessary for the suppression of the nuisances within its limits, and may appoint an official, with any powers and limitations that it shall prescribe, to expend the appropriation in cooperation with the chief entomologist…

Any person who wilfully resists or obstructs either the chief entomologist or any official of a city or town, or a servant or agent appointed by the chief entomologist or by any other officials, while lawfully engaged in the execution of the purposes of §§ 2-17-1 — 2-17-8 or who …

Any person willfully importing into this state, or willfully transporting from place to place within this state, any imagos, eggs, caterpillars, or pupae of the moths shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) and be imprisoned for not more than one year.

The white pine blister rust, a disease of five (5) needle pines and the species of the genus ribes, is declared to be a public nuisance, and its suppression is authorized and required. No owner or occupant of an estate infested with that nuisance is by reason of that infestation …

Any person, firm or corporation violating § 2-18-9 or offering any hindrance to the carrying out of any part of this section, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) …

The director of environmental management has the power to prescribe any general rules and regulations, not contrary to law, that may in his or her opinion facilitate the carrying out of the provisions of this chapter, and may revoke any certificate or license issued by the direct…

Any person aggrieved by any order made by the chief entomologist may appeal to the director of environmental management. The person may file with the director of environmental management, within five (5) days after the order is made or issued by the chief entomologist, a claim of…

All prosecutions under the provisions of §§ 2-18-9 — 2-18-13 shall be instituted by the director of environmental management, and shall be directed by him or her, and all penalties recovered for the violation of any of the provisions of those sections shall be paid into the treas…

The chief entomologist and the director of environmental management, or either of them, may personally or through his or her deputies inspect any orchard, garden, field or roadside in public or private grounds which he or she knows, or has reason to suspect, is infested with any …

The term arborist as used in this chapter means any person, firm or corporation who makes a business or practice of pruning, trimming, spraying or repairing fruit, shade and ornamental trees, and includes any lines of work that are commonly included under the terms tree surgery, …

Any person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in or practice the art or trade of arborist, as defined in § 2-19-1, shall obtain a license to engage or practice from the director of environmental management. The director is authorized to grant licenses to practice that art or…

The director of the department of environmental management is authorized to make rules and regulations governing the practice of arborists and shall demand any person, firm, or corporation desiring to engage in the art or trade of treating and caring for trees as defined in § 2-1…

One-fifth (⅕) of all funds collected for licensing in this chapter shall, by the director of environmental management, be paid over to the general treasurer and deposited within the general fund, and four-fifths (⅘) of the funds collected shall be deposited in the state forestry …

(a) As used in this chapter: (1) “Arboriculture” means the business or practice of pruning, trimming, spraying or repairing fruit, shade and ornamental trees, and includes any lines of work that are commonly included under the terms tree surgery, tree dentistry, tree spraying, tr…

(a) No arboriculture operation or mulching operation, as defined in this chapter may be found to be a public or private nuisance, due to alleged objectionable: (1) Noise from equipment used in normal, generally accepted arboriculture or mulching operations; (2) Dust created from …

Any person, firm or corporation who falsely represents that he or she holds an arborist license provided for in this chapter or who violates any other provision of this chapter, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).

The city and town councils of all cities and towns where boards, plank, timber, joist and scantling are imported for sale shall annually, on or before the first day of March, appoint one or more surveyors and measurers of boards, plank, timber, joist and scantling, who are remova…

Every surveyor and measurer of boards, planks, timber, joist and scantling, appointed by the city or town council of any city or town or by the council of the city of Newport, shall be subject to all the duties, provisions and penalties contained in this chapter.

All lumber brought by water or imported, discharged or delivered in this state, whether on the land or into a boat or vessel, except as provided in this chapter, shall be surveyed and measured according to the provisions of this chapter.

All boards less than three-fourths (¾) of an inch thick shall be surveyed and measured in the same manner as to quality, quantity and numbers, as though they were of the thickness of one inch (1").

All planks and joists shall be surveyed as to quality and numbers the same as boards and their contents measured and marked in board measure.

(a) In the survey and measurement of mahogany and cedar timber, there shall be allowed: (1) If the timber is sound and free from wane, two (2) inches on one side of the square, one inch on the other side and two (2) inches in length; (2) If the timber is wider on one side than on…

In the surveying of soft pine boards there shall be six (6) sorts: (1) The first sort shall be denominated number 1 and marked I, and includes boards free from sap, rot, knots, shakes and splits, not less than one inch thick, square-edged, and contains not less than sixteen (16) …

In the survey of southern hard pine, spruce, hemlock and juniper boards, planks and sawed and hewed timber, there shall be two (2) sorts: (1) The first sort shall be denominated merchantable, and shall include all boards, planks, joists and timber that are sound and square-edged …

In the survey and measurement of mahogany, cedar and cherry-tree boards, planks and joists and other ornamental wood and lumber, that are sound and free from bad knots and shakes shall be denominated merchantable, all others shall be denominated refuse, and allowance shall be mad…

In the survey of ash, maple and other hardwood boards, planks, joists and timber, there are two (2) sorts: The first sort is denominated merchantable and shall include all boards, planks, joists and timber that are sound and free from bad knots and free from shakes and rot; the s…

In the survey of all boards, planks, joists and timber, the contents of this lumber in board measure shall be marked on this lumber in plain and durable numbers, and all other marks, if not correct, shall be erased. In marking the contents of any lumber, the board measure marks c…

The surveyor of lumber for any city or town may appoint one or more deputy surveyors, whose duty it is to survey mahogany, cedar and cherry tree boards, planks, joists and timber, and other ornamental or hardwood lumber, and ship timber, and the deputy shall give bond with surety…

The merchantable lumber shall be marked Λ and the refuse lumber shall be marked λ and shall be plainly and durably marked on each piece. Deduction shall be made for splits, not exceeding in any case one-half (½) the extent of the split.

All boards, planks, joists and timber shall be received and sold according to their contents, as fixed and marked under the provisions of this chapter.

There shall be paid for the survey of all lumber, excepting hard woods, twenty-five cents (25¢) per one thousand feet (1,000′) board measure, for mahogany, cedar and cherry-tree timber, boards, planks and joists, fifty cents (50¢) per one thousand feet (1,000′) board measure, for…

There shall be paid to the surveyor, of the fees provided for in this chapter, for his or her own use, three cents (3¢) on every one thousand feet (1,000′) of pine, spruce, hemlock and juniper boards, planks, joists and sawed timber, four cents (4¢) on every ton of oak and other …

No lumber shall be surveyed on board a vessel when the lumber can be conveniently landed for the inspection of the surveyors.

No person within this state shall sell, purchase or take the delivery of, whether purchased outside of the state or within it or for his or her own personal use or otherwise, any boards, planks, joists or timber brought into the state unless this lumber shall be surveyed, marked …

Every person importing or purchasing lumber for his or her own private use and benefit, upon giving a certificate to that effect to the surveyor, is not required to have the lumber surveyed and measured but if he or she should dispose of it in any other manner than is provided in…

No person purchasing lumber outside of the state and trans-shipping the lumber through this state to any other state, is required to have the lumber surveyed and measured.

Every person who sells, purchases, delivers or takes the delivery of any boards, planks, joists or timber, in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, shall pay for all boards, planks, joists and timber sold, purchased or delivered, one dollar ($1.00) per one thousand …

Every person who willfully crosses, alters or defaces any mark affixed to any lumber by any deputy surveyor, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00), to be recovered by the surveyor and to enure as provided in § 2-20-28.

There is a surveyor of lumber for the city of Providence, who is well skilled in the surveying and measurement of lumber. The surveyor shall be elected in the month of February annually, by the city council of the city, and shall hold his or her office for one year and until a su…

Every person appointed to office under this chapter, or his or her deputy, who connives at any fraud or deception in surveying, marking or numbering the contents of any boards, planks, joists or timber, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.

Every surveyor or deputy surveyor who, on due notice and request, willfully neglects or refuses to perform the duties enjoined by this chapter shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.