Title 5, Title 5 and Professions

(a) The city or town council of any city or town is authorized to provide by ordinance for the issuing and revocation at pleasure of licenses to all persons selling, purchasing, bartering, and dealing in junk, old metals, and any other second-hand metal articles, and to all perso…

(a) The local licensing authority of a city or town, before granting a license under this chapter to keep an establishment or storehouse for the reception of any junk, old metals, or other second-hand metal articles or to establish, operate, or maintain an automobile junkyard, in…

As used in this chapter, “automobile junkyard” means a place where one or more unserviceable, discarded, worn-out, or junked automobiles, or bodies, engines, tires, parts, or accessories of junked automobiles are gathered together.

No license shall be granted for an automobile junkyard under § 5-21-1 unless: (1) It is to be operated and maintained entirely within a building; (2) It is to be operated and maintained exclusively for the purpose of salvaging the value as scrap of the material collected, as oppo…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter except § 5-21-6, it is a misdemeanor to operate or maintain an automobile junkyard unless: (1) It is to be operated and maintained entirely within a building; (2) It is to be operated and maintained exclusively for the purpo…

The provisions of §§ 5-21-4(1), (2), (3)(ii), and (3)(iii) and 5-21-5(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3)(ii), and (a)(3)(iii) do not apply to any automobile junkyard in existence and having a valid license issued pursuant to § 5-21-1 on May 6, 1966.

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this chapter or their application to any person or circumstance is, for any reason, adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, that judgment does not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this chapter or it…

Any dealer licensed under this chapter to sell second-hand electrical appliances is required to provide the purchaser of the electrical appliance with a three-day warranty of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose as defined by title 6A. The dealer is not allowed to…

The city and town councils may license, regulate, and in those certain cases specifically set forth in § 5-22-5, prohibit and suppress theatrical performances, rope, and wire dancing and all other shows and performances in their respective towns or cities, conforming to law.

The board of licenses for the city of Providence is authorized to license, regulate, or prohibit “live entertainment” in the city of Providence, including, but not limited to, live performances of music or sound by individuals, bands, musicians, disc jockeys, dancing, or karaoke,…

The town council of Little Compton may authorize the performance for pay or profit of vocal, instrumental, or orchestral entertainments and lectures of an instructive character, and moving-picture exhibitions on the first day of the week after the hour of three o’clock (3:00) P.M…

The town council of North Kingstown may authorize the performance for pay or profit of vocal, instrumental, or orchestral entertainments and lectures of an instructive character, and moving picture exhibitions on the first day of the week after the hour of two o’clock (2:00) P.M.…

Town or city councils, bureaus of licenses, or boards of police commissioners shall demand and receive of every person to whom a license is granted under this chapter a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for any single performance, show, exhibition, concert, entertainme…

A license shall not be issued under the provisions of §§ 5-22-4 — 5-22-12 until the building to be used for the show for which that license is desired, together with the apparatus if a motion picture show is to be licensed, has been inspected by the inspector of buildings appoint…

Whenever a license is granted for a period of more than thirty (30) days, the licensing authorities shall cause that building or apparatus for which the license is issued to be inspected and reported upon at least once each month during the period covered by the license.

Town or city councils may fix by ordinance the amount of fee to be paid by the licensee to the inspector for inspections made and that fee shall be paid to the city or town treasurer for the use of the city or town.

Town or city councils may also appoint town constables or other proper officials, at the expense of the licensee, to preserve order and to execute the orders of the city or town council at any such show and to report to the chief of police or the city or town sergeant any violati…

(a) The word “building,” when used in §§ 5-22-13 — 5-22-16, means and includes any theater, hall, building, or rink in which a show is to be given for which a license is required under §§ 5-22-4 — 5-22-12. (b) The word “show,” when used in §§ 5-22-13 — 5-22-17, means and includes…

Any person who violates any of the provisions of §§ 5-22-4 — 5-22-17 and any person who knowingly permits that violation in any building, described in § 5-22-17, belonging to him or her or under his or her control, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or be i…

All sums received for licenses as provided in this chapter shall be paid to the town or city treasurer for the use of the town or city in which the licenses are granted.

Town and city councils may grant a license, for a term not exceeding one year, under any restrictions and regulations that they think proper, to the owner of any house, room, or hall in the town or city, for the purpose of permitting exhibitions in them. The license is revocable …

Whoever offers to view, sets up, sets on foot, maintains, or carries on a theatrical exhibition, public show, concert or dance-hall exhibition of any description, at which lager beer or other intoxicating liquors are sold, or exposed for sale with his or her consent, except as pr…

Whoever gets up, sets on foot, causes to be published, or otherwise aids in getting up and promoting any masked ball or other public assembly at which the company wear masks or other disguises, and to which admission is obtained upon payment of money or the delivery of any valuab…

Any person who hinders or obstructs any deputy sheriff in entering any exhibition, performance, or place mentioned in this chapter is, upon conviction, guilty of obstructing an officer and liable to the penalty imposed in § 11-32-1.

No person who is the proprietor, manager, or doorkeeper of any theater, roller skating rink, public dance hall, vaudeville, or other show, shall permit any boy or girl under the age of fifteen (15) years to enter or remain in that place of amusement owned or controlled by him or …

Whenever by law the powers, conferred pursuant to this chapter upon city or town councils, have been conferred upon boards or bureaus of police commissioners in any city or town, those powers shall continue to be exercised by those boards or bureaus of police commissioners.

It shall be unlawful for any person to promote, advertise, stage, hold, manage, conduct, participate in, engage in, or carry on any bullfight exhibition, any bloodless bullfight, contest or exhibition, or any mock bullfight or similar contest or exhibition, whether for amusement …

No person shall sell, offer for sale, or attempt to sell any ticket, privilege, or license of admission to an entertainment event, including, but not limited to, any place of public amusement, arena, stadium, theatre, performance, sport, exhibition, or athletic contest in this st…

Town and city councils may pass any ordinances, bylaws, and regulations, not inconsistent with law, that they may think proper, in relation to the time of closing shops, saloons, and other places of resort in the evening, within the limits of their respective towns or cities, and…

No person shall publicly or for pay, or for any profit or advantage to himself or herself, exhibit or promote or take part in any theatrical performance, or rope or wire dancing or other show or performance, or conduct, engage in, or promote any wrestling, boxing, or sparring mat…

Any city or town council, the board of police commissioners, or in the case of the city of Providence, the bureau of licenses, or any other licensing board or authority in any city or town may require a license for any place within its respective city or town at which any perform…

The bureau of licenses of the city of Providence may license public automobile shows, ice skating, ice polo, roller skating, and hockey games in rinks and halls between the hours of two o’clock (2:00) P.M. and midnight on the first day of the week.

The city council of the city of Pawtucket or any city or town council may license roller skating between the hours of two o’clock (2:00) P.M. and midnight on the first day of the week.

The bureau of licenses of the city of Providence, the police commissioners of the city of Woonsocket, the town councils of the towns of Burrillville and West Warwick, and the city council or other licensing board of the cities of Central Falls, Cranston, Pawtucket, and Newport ma…

The city or town councils of Cumberland, Coventry, East Providence, East Greenwich, Hopkinton, Westerly, and Lincoln may authorize the performance for pay or profit of vocal, instrumental, or orchestral entertainments and lectures of an instructive character, the operation of amu…

(a) “Holiday,” whenever used in this chapter includes: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Victory Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day (but only in those years that the governor by public proclamation designates it as a legal holiday), and Chri…

(a) A retail establishment may be open on any day of the year except as specifically prohibited herein. A retail establishment shall not be open on December 25 of any year or on Thanksgiving Day, except: (1) Pharmacies licensed under chapter 19.1 of this title; provided, however,…

(a) Upon complaint filed with the director of labor and training by any employee or any consumer, or if a minor, by the minor’s parent or guardian, or by the lawful collective bargaining representative of an employee, that a person, firm, or corporation has violated the terms of …

(a) Any town or city council has the power to regulate, including the setting of hours of operation, the keeping of taverns, victualing houses, cookshops, oyster houses, and oyster cellars in the town or city, by granting licenses for those activities, upon any compensation for t…

(a) The town council of the town of Cumberland shall, in addition to the licensing and regulatory powers enumerated in § 5-24-1, have the power to issue limited victualing-house licenses for the purpose of permitting the operation of any agricultural or farm-related business to s…

Every license issued pursuant to §§ 5-24-1 and 5-24-1.1 shall specify the person licensed; the business licensed; the hours during which the premises may be opened for business; and the building or room in which the business shall be pursued; and shall continue and be in force un…

(a) Every person in any city or town who opens or keeps open any tavern, victualing house, cookshop, oyster house, or oyster cellar, without possessing a license obtained from the city or town council, or in any place other than that specified in that license, shall be fined fift…

Every person licensed pursuant to §§ 5-24-1 and 5-24-1.1 shall maintain good order in the licensed building, and shall not suffer any person in that licensed building to become intoxicated, nor shall he or she take in pawn or pledge any article; neither shall he or she suffer tha…