Title 11, Title 11 Offenses

In any prosecution arising under § 11-31-1 or §11-31-10, it shall be an affirmative defense that the defendant was a bona fide school, or public library, or was a person acting in accordance with library collection policies pursuant to chapter 9 of title 29 and in the course of e…

Any obscene book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper, or other thing mentioned in § 11-31-1 found by any officer in executing a search warrant or which shall be produced and brought into court shall be forfeited to the state. Further proceedings shall be had on them for their forfei…

Any deputy sheriff, when so directed by the director of the department of public safety, may, in the discharge of their duties, enter any exhibition, performance, or place mentioned in this chapter or chapter 22 of title 5.

Every person who shall obstruct any officer, civil, military, or otherwise, including any state, city, or town police, deputy sheriff, or fire fighter, while in the execution of his or her office or duty, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year or be fined not exceeding five h…

Every person who shall knowingly make or cause to be made a false statement of a crime, either oral or written, with intent that it be relied upon by a police officer of any city or town or by any member of the state police, shall be deemed guilty of obstructing an officer and sh…

Whoever corruptly, maliciously, recklessly, by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror or officer in or of any court of this state or officer who may be serving at any examination or o…

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms mean: (1) “Malice” means an intent to vex, annoy, harm, or injure in any way another person, or to thwart or interfere in any manner with the orderly administration of justice. (2) “Victim” means any natural person against who…

(a) Any person who, by expressly or impliedly threatening to commit any unlawful act, maliciously and knowingly communicates with another person with the specific intent to intimidate a victim of a crime or a witness in any criminal proceeding with respect to that person’s partic…

(a) Any court with jurisdiction over any criminal matter, including the family court when it has jurisdiction of a juvenile by virtue of a wayward or delinquent petition alleging the violation of any criminal statute of the state of Rhode Island, may, in its discretion, upon good…

(a) Any pretrial release of any defendant, whether on bail or under any other form of recognizance, shall be deemed as a matter of law to include a condition that the defendant neither do nor cause to be done nor knowingly permit to be done on his or her behalf any act proscribed…

(a) Every person under oath or affirmation who knowingly makes any false material declaration or makes or uses any other information, including any book, paper, document, record, recording, or other material, knowing it contains any false material declaration, shall be deemed gui…

Every person who shall be guilty of perjury or of subornation of perjury by procuring another to commit perjury, shall be imprisoned not exceeding twenty (20) years.

Every person who shall endeavor to incite or procure another to commit perjury, though the person incited does not commit perjury, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) years.

Every person over the age of eighteen (18) years who shall willfully swear or affirm falsely before any notary public, justice of the peace, or other officer authorized to administer oaths, concerning any material fact relating to any contract, lease, or other document pertaining…

In the trial of any complaint or indictment or information charging any offense under this chapter, the guilt of the accused may be established by circumstantial evidence without regard to the number of witnesses who may testify against the defendant.

(a) Every person who shall testify before any committee, sub-committee, or commission of the general assembly may be required to do so under oath or affirmation by the committee, sub-committee, or commission. If required to testify a stenographic record shall be kept of that test…

Every person who shall violate any provision of this chapter in any case or controversy involving the abandonment or nonsupport of a child pending before the family court or any other tribunal or agency of competent jurisdiction shall be guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned…

Any person who violates this section by attempting to engage a person for the purpose of prostitution or other indecent act, or to patronize or induce or otherwise secure a person to commit any indecent act in the building or on the grounds or within three hundred (300) yards of …

(a) Any criminal complaint charging an offense under §§ 11-34-8.1 or 11-34-8.2 shall set forth with reasonable particularity: (1) Whether the law enforcement agency seeks to have forfeited property pursuant to this section; and (2) What property the law enforcement agency seeks t…

Except as provided for in chapter 34 of title 39, no person shall place any electric wire, apparatus, pole, bracket, insulator, or other device or appliance for the purpose of conducting currents of electricity upon any private property without the consent of the owners or of the…

Every person or corporation who shall willfully collect of any person or persons a larger sum for gas or water than appears to be due on inspection of the meter put in to regulate and register it, or shall willfully furnish a meter that shall not correctly register the quantity o…

(a) Any person who willfully refuses to relinquish a party line or who obstructs or damages an individual telephone line or telephone set when he or she knows or should have known that the party line, individual telephone line or telephone set is needed for an emergency call to a…

A copy of § 11-35-14, preceded by the word “Warning” in large type, shall be printed in a prominent place in every telephone directory distributed to the members of the general public in this state or in any portion of it after June 1, 1958, which lists the calling numbers of tel…

(a) Any person who, with intent to injure or defraud any person, persons, association, or corporation furnishing telecommunications service of the whole or any part of the lawful charge for any service, obtains, attempts to obtain, or aids or abets another in obtaining any teleco…

(a) Whoever shall originate a transmission by facsimile machine, or other telecommunication device or shall telephone any person repeatedly or cause any person to be telephoned repeatedly for the sole purpose of harassing, annoying, or molesting the other person or his or her fam…

Whoever, knowing the report to be false, transmits or causes to be transmitted to any person by telephone or other means a communication falsely reporting the location of any explosive or other dangerous substance or contrivance, causing anxiety, unrest, fear, or personal discomf…

The crimes described in §§ 11-35-17 and 11-35-18 may be prosecuted and punished in the territorial jurisdiction in which the communication originates or is received.

No person shall labor upon the work of erecting or repairing any telegraph or telephone line belonging to any telegraph or telephone company without having conspicuously attached to his or her dress a medal or badge, on which shall be legibly inscribed the name of the owners by w…

Every person or corporation who shall willfully for non-payment of charges cut off, discontinue, or otherwise terminate gas, electric, water, telephone, light, heat, or power service to any domestic or institutional user on either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday or at any time when t…

(a) Any person who has been served an order issued pursuant to chapter 8.1 of title 8, or chapters 5 or 15 of title 15 who causes the interruption of any utility service by false presentation or other means at the residence of the person(s) protected by a protective order issued …

(a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in chapter 5.1 of title 12, any person: (1) who willfully intercepts, attempts to intercept, or procures any other person to intercept or attempt to intercept, any wire, electronic, or oral communication; (2) who willfully discloses o…

Except as otherwise specifically provided in chapter 5.1 of title 12, any person: (1) who willfully edits, alters, or tampers with any tape, transcription, or other sound recording, or knows of the editing, altering, or tampering, and presents the recording in any judicial procee…

An employee of any communication common carrier who has knowledge obtained during the course of that employment of any violation of this chapter and willfully fails to report that knowledge within seven (7) days to the attorney general shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable …

(a) Any person who willfully and knowingly possesses, sells, distributes, manufactures, assembles, or places in any publication any advertisement of, an intercepting device, the design of which renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of a wir…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully make, manufacture, assemble, possess, possess with intent to sell, sell, give, or otherwise transfer to another, or offer or place in any newspaper, magazine, handbill, or other publication any advertisement to sell, give, or o…

(a) Any person who operates an automatic telephone dialing system in this state which fails within five (5) seconds after the called party hangs up to automatically create a disconnect signal or an on-hook condition which allows the called party’s line to be released shall be gui…

Every person who, without right, knowingly makes attachments to, or disposes on, the facilities or the rights-of-way of any electric, gas, telephone, or water utility, shall be subject to a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per incident, plus the cost of repa…

Every person who, without right, willfully trespasses and remains upon the land or premises of any utility, after having been forbidden to do so by the owner, agent, or the person having control over the premises of the facility, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars …

Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of §§ 11-35-1 and 11-35-2 shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars ($20.00) or be imprisoned not exceeding three (3) months.

Every person who shall wantonly or willfully and maliciously cut, destroy, break down, or injure, or attempt to cut, destroy, break down, or injure any machine, appliance, or apparatus used for generating electric currents or any electric wire or other appliance or apparatus used…

(a) Whoever being engaged in the business of transmitting electricity or installing or repairing live wires or electrical equipment knowingly permits a journeyperson line worker, while on a pole or structure, to work on live wires in excess of seven hundred and fifty (750) volts …

Every person who shall aid, assist, abet, counsel, hire, command, or procure any person to do or attempt any of the acts mentioned in § 11-35-4 shall be subject to like fine or imprisonment as provided in that section.

Every person who shall willfully or fraudulently injure or shall knowingly suffer to be injured any wire, meter, pipe, or fittings connected with or belonging to any electric company or gaslight company or connected with or belonging to the waterworks of any corporation in this s…

Every person who, with intent to injure or defraud any gaslight company or any electric company, or corporation supplying water in this state at a stipulated rate of payment, shall make or cause to be made any wire, pipe, tube, or other instrument or contrivance, and connect it o…

Every person who shall willfully or fraudulently injure, or shall knowingly suffer to be injured, any meter, or any wire, fittings, or appliances connected with any meter belonging to any corporation furnishing electric current for light, heat, power, or other purposes at a stipu…

Every person who, with intent to injure or defraud any person, persons, association, or corporation generating, conducting, using, or supplying the electric current, either for the purposes of his, her, its or their own business or for the purpose of selling the electric current …