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RI Gen L § 5-61-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-61 - Telephone Sales Solicitation Act|Section 5-61-5 - Criminal penalties.

§ 5-61-5. Criminal penalties.Any person including, but not limited to, the seller, a salesperson, agent or representative of the seller, or an independent contractor, who willfully violates any provision of this chapter or who directly or indirectly employs any device, scheme, or artifice to deceive in connection with the offer or sale by any telephonic seller, or who willfully, directly, or indirectly, engages in any act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person in connection with a sale by any telephonic seller, upon conviction, shall be punished as follows:(1) By a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each unlawful transaction;(2) By imprisonment in the state prison for not more than one year; or(3) By both fine and imprisonment specified in subsections (1) and (2).History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 227, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 456, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-61-5.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-61 - Telephone Sales Solicitation Act|Section 5-61-5.1 - Remedies - Injunctive relief - Civil penalties.

§ 5-61-5.1. Remedies — Injunctive relief — Civil penalties.(a) Any purchaser may have a right of action against a telephonic seller who is in material violation of this chapter. The purchaser may recover triple the amount actually paid to the telephonic seller. In addition to any judgment awarded to the purchaser, the court may allow reasonable attorney's fees to be taxed as cost.(b) The superior court of this state shall have jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this chapter. The court may issue appropriate decrees upon consent and stipulation by the parties. The court may also issue restraining orders. Under no circumstances shall the state be required to post bond in any action under this section.(c) The department may institute proceedings to prevent and restrain violations of this chapter, as provided in subsection (b).(d) The department may bring an action to obtain a declaratory judgment that an act or practice violates the provisions of this chapter.(e) Any person may institute proceedings for injunctive relief, temporary or permanent, as provided in subsection (b), against threatened loss or damage by a violation of this chapter. A preliminary injunction may be issued upon a showing that the danger of irreparable loss or damage is immediate and, within the court's discretion, the execution of a property bond against damages for an injunction improvidently granted. If the court issues a permanent injunction, the plaintiff shall be awarded reasonable attorney's fees, filing fees, and reasonable costs of the suit. Reasonable costs of the suit may include, but not be limited to, the expenses of discovery and document production.(f) In any action brought under this section, the court may make appropriate orders, including appointment of a master or receiver or sequestration of assets, to reimburse purchasers found to have been damaged; to carry out a transaction in accordance with the purchaser's reasonable expectations; or to grant other appropriate relief. The court may assess expenses of a master or receiver against a telephonic seller.(g) In addition to injunctive relief authorized pursuant to subsection (b), any person, firm, corporation, or other entity who violates this chapter may be liable for a civil penalty in a suit by the department of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each violation. The department or the court may waive any civil penalty or other fines or costs if the person has previously made full restitution or reimbursement or has paid actual damages to the purchasers who have been injured by the unlawful act or practice.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 456, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-61-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-61 - Telephone Sales Solicitation Act|Section 5-61-6 - Severability.

§ 5-61-6. Severability.If any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation made under this chapter, or the application of this chapter to any person or circumstance is held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the chapter, rule, or regulation and the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected. The invalidity of any section or sections or parts of any section of this chapter shall not affect the validity of the remainder of the chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 227, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-62-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-1 - [Reserved.]

§ 5-62-1. [Reserved.]
RI Gen L § 5-62-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-3 - Public display, publication, and reproduction of works of fine art.

§ 5-62-3. Public display, publication, and reproduction of works of fine art.Except as limited by § 5-62-5, no person other than the artist, or a person acting with the artist's consent, shall knowingly display in a public exhibition a work of fine art of that artist or shall publish a reproduction of a work of the artist in an altered, defaced, mutilated, or modified form, if the work is displayed, published, or reproduced as being the work of the artist, or under circumstances under which it would reasonably be regarded as being the work of the artist.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 566, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-62-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-4 - Artists' authorship rights.

§ 5-62-4. Artists' authorship rights.(a) Except as limited by § 5-62-5, the artist shall retain at all times the right to claim authorship, or, for just and valid reason, to disclaim authorship of his or her work of fine art. The right to claim authorship shall include the right of the artist to have his or her name appear on, or in connection with, the work of fine art as the artist. Just and valid reason for disclaiming authorship shall include that the work of fine art has been altered, defaced, mutilated, or modified other than by the artist, without the artist's consent, and damage to the artist's reputation is reasonably likely to result or has resulted from this.(b) The rights created by this section shall exist in addition to any other rights and duties that may now or in the future be applicable.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 566, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-62-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-5 - Limitations of applicability.

§ 5-62-5. Limitations of applicability.(a) Alteration, defacement, mutilation, or modification of a work of fine art resulting from the passage of time or the inherent nature of the materials will not by itself create a violation of § 5-62-3 or a right to disclaim authorship under § 5-62-4(a); provided, that the alteration, defacement, mutilation, or modification was not the result of gross negligence in maintaining or protecting the work of fine art.(b) In the case of a reproduction, a change that is an ordinary result of the medium of reproduction does not by itself create a violation of § 5-62-3 or a right to disclaim authorship under § 5-62-4(a).(c) Conservation does not constitute an alteration, defacement, mutilation, or modification within the meaning of this chapter unless the conservation work is shown to be negligent.(d) This chapter does not apply to work prepared under contract for advertising or trade use unless the contract provides.(e) The provisions of this chapter apply only to works of fine art knowingly displayed in a place accessible to the public, published, or reproduced in this state.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 566, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-62-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-6 - Relief.

§ 5-62-6. Relief.(a) An artist aggrieved under § 5-62-3 or § 5-62-4 has a cause of action for legal and injunctive relief.(b) No action may be maintained to enforce any liability under this chapter unless brought within three (3) years of the act complained of or one year after the constructive discovery of the act, whichever is longer.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 566, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-62-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-8 - Exemption from seizure.

§ 5-62-8. Exemption from seizure.No process of attachment, execution, sequestration, replevin, distress, or any kind of seizure shall be served or levied upon any work of fine art while the work is en route to or from, or while on exhibition or deposited by a nonresident exhibitor at any exhibition held under the auspices or supervision of any museum, college, university, or other nonprofit art gallery, institution, or organization within any city or county of this state for any cultural, educational, charitable, or other purpose not conducted for profit to the exhibitor, nor shall the work of fine art be subject to attachment, seizure, levy, or sale for any cause whatever in the hands of the authorities of the exhibition or otherwise.History of Section.P.L. 2000, ch. 429, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-62-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-9 - Express warranties.

§ 5-62-9. Express warranties.Notwithstanding any provision of any other law to the contrary:(1) Whenever an art merchant, in selling or exchanging a work of fine art, furnishes a certificate of authenticity or any similar written instrument to a buyer of the work who is not an art merchant, it:(i) Shall be presumed to be part of the basis of the bargain; and(ii) Creates an express warranty for the material facts stated as of the date of the sale or exchange.(2) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, the warranty shall not be negated or limited, provided that in construing the degree of warranty, due regard shall be given to the terminology used and the meaning accorded to the terminology by the customs and usage of the trade at the time and in the locality where the sale or exchange took place.(3) Language used in a certificate of authenticity, or similar written instrument, stating that:(i) The work is by a named author or has a named authorship, without any limiting words, means unequivocally that the work is by the named author or has the named authorship;(ii) The work is "attributed to a named author" means a work of the period of the author, attributed to him or her, but not with certainty by him or her; or(iii) The work is of the "school of a named author" means a work of the period of the author, by a pupil or close follower of the author, but not by the author.(4) (i) An express warranty and disclaimers intended to negate or limit a warranty shall be construed, wherever reasonable, as consistent with each other, but subject to the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, § 6A-2-202, on parole or extrinsic evidence, negation or limitation is inoperative to the extent that the construction is unreasonable.(ii) A negation or limitation is deemed unreasonable if:(A) The disclaimer is not conspicuous, written, and apart from the warranty, in words that clearly and specifically apprise the buyer that the seller assumes no risk, liability, or responsibility for the material facts stated concerning the work of fine art. Words of general disclaimer are not sufficient to negate or limit an express warranty; or(B) The work of fine art is proved to be a counterfeit and this was not clearly indicated in the description of the work; or(C) The information provided is proved to be, as of the date of sale or exchange, false, mistaken, or erroneous.History of Section.P.L. 2000, ch. 429, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-62-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-10 - Falsifying certificates of authenticity or any similar written instrument.

§ 5-62-10. Falsifying certificates of authenticity or any similar written instrument.A person who, with intent to defraud, deceive, or injure another, makes, utters, or issues a certificate of authenticity, or any similar written instrument for a work of fine art attesting to material facts that the work does not in fact possess, is guilty of a misdemeanor.History of Section.P.L. 2000, ch. 429, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-62-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-11 - Express warranties for multiples.

§ 5-62-11. Express warranties for multiples.(a) When an art merchant furnishes the name of the artist of a multiple, or otherwise furnishes information required by this chapter for any time period as to transactions including offers, sales, or consignments, the provisions of § 5-62-9 shall apply, except that the section shall be deemed to include sales to art merchants. The existence of a reasonable basis in fact for information warranted shall not be a defense in an action to enforce the warranty, except in the case of photographs produced prior to nineteen hundred fifty (1950), and multiples produced prior to nineteen hundred (1900).(b) The provisions of § 5-62-9(4) shall apply when an art merchant disclaims knowledge as to a multiple about which information is required by this chapter; provided, that in addition, the disclaimer shall be ineffective unless clearly, specifically, and categorically stated as to each item of information and contained in the physical context of other language setting forth the required information as to a specific multiple.History of Section.P.L. 2000, ch. 429, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-62-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art - Artists' Rights|Section 5-62-12 - Construction.

§ 5-62-12. Construction.(a) The rights and liabilities created by this chapter shall be construed to be in addition to and not in substitution, exclusion, or displacement of, other rights and liabilities provided by law, including the law of principal and agent, except where the construction would, as a matter of law, be unreasonable.(b) No art merchant who, as buyer, is excluded from obtaining the benefits of an express warranty under this chapter, shall be deprived of the benefits of any other provision of law by that exclusion.History of Section.P.L. 2000, ch. 429, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-63-1 - 5-63-26 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-63 - Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists|Section 5-63-1 - 5-63-26 - [Repealed.]

§ 5-63-1 — 5-63-26. [Repealed.]
RI Gen L § 5-63.1-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-63.1 - Reporting of Sexual Misconduct by Mental Health Professionals|Section 5-63.1-2 - Reports of sexual contact.

§ 5-63.1-2. Reports of sexual contact.(a) If a mental health professional has reasonable cause to suspect that a patient he or she has seen in the course of professional duties is a victim of sexual contact by another mental health professional, or a person who holds himself or herself out to be a mental health professional, as soon thereafter as practicable, the mental health professional shall ask the patient if he or she wants to make a report or wants the mental health professional to make a report under this section. If the patient wants the mental health professional to make the report, the patient shall provide the mental health professional with written consent to report.(b) Within thirty (30) days after a patient consents under subsection (a) to a report, the mental health professional shall report the suspected activity to:(1) The professional's board of licensing, certification, registration, or equivalent oversight authority, if the reporter believes the subject of the report is licensed or certified by the state;(2) In the case of state employees, to the governing agency of the state employee; or(3) The attorney general's office if subsections (b)(1) and (b)(2) are not applicable.(c) A report under this section shall contain only information that is necessary to identify the reporter and subject and to express the suspicion that sexual contact has occurred.(d) Any person required to make a written report under this section who fails to do so shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) and shall be subject to discipline by the appropriate licensing board of registration or equivalent oversight authority. Unlicensed mental health professionals shall be referred to the attorney general's office.(e) The attorney general shall establish, within the office's budget, a restricted-receipts account for the limited purpose of receiving and retaining the fines assessed under the provisions of this chapter. These funds shall be retained in the restricted-receipts account to be used exclusively for programs established by the state and any subdivisions of the state, or established by any municipality, for the purpose of assisting victims of sexual misconduct that is perpetrated by mental health professionals.History of Section.P.L. 1994, ch. 355, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-63.1-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-63.1 - Reporting of Sexual Misconduct by Mental Health Professionals|Section 5-63.1-3 - Immunity from liability.

§ 5-63.1-3. Immunity from liability.Any person or institution participating in good faith in the making of a report under this chapter shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability that results by reason of any action taken. For the purpose of any civil or criminal action or proceeding, any person reporting under this section shall be presumed to be acting in good faith. The immunity provided under this section shall not apply to liability resulting from sexual contact by a mental health professional with a patient or former patient. In any civil action against a sexual contact reporter or victim arising out of a report, if the plaintiff does not prevail in the action, the court may award the reasonable costs and attorney's fees incurred by the defendant in defending the action.History of Section.P.L. 1994, ch. 355, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-63.1-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-63.1 - Reporting of Sexual Misconduct by Mental Health Professionals|Section 5-63.1-4 - Confidentiality of reports.

§ 5-63.1-4. Confidentiality of reports.(a) Reports and records may be disclosed only to appropriate staff of a regulatory or a law enforcement agency within this state for the purposes of investigation or prosecution.(b) The attorney general's office and the professional licensing or certifying board within this state may exchange information from a report or record on the same subject.(c) Whoever intentionally violates this section, or permits or encourages the unauthorized dissemination or use of information contained in reports and records made under this section, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of up to one thousand dollars ($1,000).History of Section.P.L. 1994, ch. 355, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-63.2-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-63.2 - Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists|Section 5-63.2-1 - Statement of policy.

§ 5-63.2-1. Statement of policy.The state of Rhode Island has an interest in regulating the private practice of mental health counseling and marriage and family therapy in order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare.History of Section.P.L. 1996, ch. 85, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-63.2-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-63.2 - Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists|Section 5-63.2-3 - Board of mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists.

§ 5-63.2-3. Board of mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists.Within the division of professional regulation in the state department of health, there is a board of mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists consisting of nine (9) members.History of Section.P.L. 1996, ch. 85, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-63.2-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-63.2 - Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists|Section 5-63.2-4 - Composition of board - Appointment, terms, and removal of members.

§ 5-63.2-4. Composition of board — Appointment, terms, and removal of members.The director of the department of health, with the approval of the governor, shall appoint nine (9) electors as members of the board. Three (3) shall be clinical mental health counselors, at least two (2) of whom shall meet the qualifications of § 5-63.2-9 and have at least five (5) years of private practice experience in mental health counseling; three (3) shall be marriage and family therapists, who shall be clinical marriage and family therapists who meet the qualifications of § 5-63.2-10 and have at least five (5) years of private practice experience in marriage and family therapy; three (3) shall be members of the public. Commencing September 1996, the director of the department of health shall appoint one clinical mental health counselor for one year; one clinical mental health counselor for two (2) years; one clinical mental health counselor for three (3) years; one marriage and family therapist for one year; one marriage and family therapist for two (2) years; one marriage and family therapist for three (3) years; one public member for two (2) years; and two (2) public members for three (3) years. After this, all terms of appointments shall be for three (3) years. In no instance shall a person serve more than six (6) consecutive years on the board.History of Section.P.L. 1996, ch. 85, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-63.2-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-63.2 - Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists|Section 5-63.2-5 - Organization and meetings of board.

§ 5-63.2-5. Organization and meetings of board.The board shall organize immediately after the appointment and qualification of its members. The board shall annually elect a chairperson and secretary. Meetings may be called by the chairperson or the director of the department of health or by written request of four (4) members of the board. Five (5) members of the board shall constitute a quorum; provided, that a clinical mental health counselor and a marriage and family therapist must be present. The board shall meet as often as necessary.History of Section.P.L. 1996, ch. 85, § 2.