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RI Gen L § 11-19-35 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-35 - Pull-tab lottery tickets.

§ 11-19-35. Pull-tab lottery tickets.(a) The Rhode Island lottery is empowered to sell and regulate the sale of pull-tab lottery tickets to religious, fraternal, civic, educational, veterans', or charitable organizations. The lottery shall determine, consistent with this section, those organizations that are authorized to sell pull-tab lottery tickets. As part of such determination, the Rhode Island lottery shall require criminal background checks of the applicant and any individual the lottery deems appropriate and said individuals shall apply to the bureau of criminal investigation of the Rhode Island state police or the Rhode Island department of the attorney general for a national criminal records check with fingerprinting. The individual whose criminal records check is being conducted shall be responsible for the payment of the costs of said criminal records check. The Rhode Island state police or the Rhode Island department of attorney general, as applicable, shall send the results of such criminal check to the Rhode Island lottery. Once said results are sent to and received by the Rhode Island Lottery, the Rhode Island state police and the Rhode Island department of attorney general shall promptly destroy said fingerprint record(s). On or before February 1, 2011, the agency shall adopt rules and regulations establishing criteria to be used in determining whether based upon a criminal records check an application will be approved.(b) The lottery shall insure that the pull tab lottery tickets to be distributed are secured for the purposes under which they are to be sold in terms of concealing the result of the tickets until the time that they are sold to the general public. Consistent with this section, those organizations authorized to sell the tickets are authorized to retain net profits as shall have been provided for by the commission.(c) Notwithstanding any other section of the general laws to the contrary, pull-tab lottery tickets authorized by this section are declared to be legal.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2; P.L. 2010, ch. 252, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-19-36 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-36 - Organizations permitted to conduct other permitted games of chance.

§ 11-19-36. Organizations permitted to conduct other permitted games of chance.Any charitable organization may promote, carry on, or conduct any permitted game of chance authorized by the division of state police in connection with which prizes or prize monies are offered or awarded, provided as follows:(1) The game is conducted by members of the organization.(2) No person in the actual or constructive management and control of the game receives any compensation for services connected to the game.(3) The entire net receipts of the game, including the charges for admission to and participation in the game, are applied solely to the bona fide charitable purposes of the organization.(4) That the organization is granted a license issued pursuant to the provisions of § 11-19-37.(5) That the provisions of this section shall not apply to that lottery commonly known as a "twenty-week club" or a raffle conducted by a charitable organization.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2; P.L. 1993, ch. 84, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-19-37 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-37 - Issuance of licenses.

§ 11-19-37. Issuance of licenses.(a) Any charitable organization within the provisions of §§ 11-19-30 and/or 11-19-31 may be granted a license to conduct the game of bingo or other permitted game of chance authorized by the department.(b) Bingo. A license for the game of bingo shall be obtained as follows:(1) The charitable organization shall annually apply for approval to the department pursuant to § 11-19-31 and shall pay to the department an application fee of five dollars ($5.00).(2) Upon the receipt of notification of approval from the department, the charitable organization shall apply to the local licensing authorities upon forms furnished and pay the local licensing fee, if any;(3) The local licensing authority shall issue the license. A copy of the license shall be forwarded to the department by the local licensing authority;(4) The local licensing authority shall issue the license for a specific date or dates or a specific day or days during each calendar week;(5) Within seven (7) calendar days of the completion of every game of bingo, the charitable organization shall file a financial report, upon forms furnished by the department with the department and with the local licensing authority if it so requires.(c) (1) Other permitted games of chance. The charitable organization shall apply for approval to the department pursuant to this section and shall pay to the department an application fee of five dollars ($5.00).(2) Upon the receipt of a notification of approval from the department, the charitable organization shall apply to the local licensing authority upon forms furnished by the department and pay the local licensing fee, if any;(3) The local licensing authority shall issue the license. A copy of the license shall be forwarded to the department by the local licensing authority;(4) The local licensing authority shall issue the license for a specific date or specific day or days;(5) The application for the local license shall be made at least thirty (30) days prior to the date or day for which the license is issued;(6) Within thirty (30) calendar days of the completion of the permitted game of chance, the charitable organization shall file a financial report upon forms furnished by the department, with the department.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2; P.L. 1993, ch. 84, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 138, art. 45, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-19-38 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-38 - Change of information.

§ 11-19-38. Change of information.If, subsequent to approval by the department pursuant to § 11-19-31, there is a change in any information furnished by the organization to the department, the organization shall so inform the department within seven (7) days of the change. Failure to inform the department within seven (7) days will result in the automatic suspension of approval for a period of three (3) months.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2.
RI Gen L § 11-19-40 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-40 - Rules and regulations.

§ 11-19-40. Rules and regulations.(a) The director shall adopt and issue rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of §§ 11-19-30 — 11-19-40. These rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with chapter 35 of title 42.(b) In promulgating the rules and regulations, the director shall, in addition to the standards set forth in other provisions of this chapter, be guided by the following standards setting forth conduct, conditions and activity deemed undesirable:(1) Fraud. The practice of any fraud or deception upon a participant in a permitted game of chance;(2) Unsafe premises. The conduct of permitted games of chance in, at or upon premises which may be unsafe due to fire hazard or other conditions;(3) Charitable funds. To assure that all the funds raised through bingo and permitted charitable games are maintained and expended for bona fide charitable purposes;(4) Advertising. That advertising for all permitted games of chance and bingo is conducted in accordance with rules and regulations.(c) The director may promulgate less stringent regulations for those charitable organizations that do not intend to run any permitted games more than once in any consecutive six (6) month period, and also for those charitable organizations where the prize for any permitted game will not exceed three hundred dollars ($300).History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2; P.L. 1984, ch. 113, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 84, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-19-41 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-41 - Police regulation of bingo and permitted games of chance.

§ 11-19-41. Police regulation of bingo and permitted games of chance.The division of state police shall have the power and authority to license, regulate, supervise and exercise general control over the operation of bingo and permitted games of chance including, but not limited to, the conduct of permitted games of chance, the distribution of prizes, and the use and licensing of equipment specifically designed to be utilized to conduct bingo and permitted games of chance, as well as the licensing of persons, firms, corporations in the business of the sale and rental of equipment concerning bingo and permitted games of chance. The Rhode Island state police shall have the power and authority to investigate as to the direct or indirect ownership or control of any licenses and to revoke or suspend any license for just cause after a hearing.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2; P.L. 1993, ch. 84, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-19-42 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-42 - Forfeiture of charter rights and privileges.

§ 11-19-42. Forfeiture of charter rights and privileges.(a) Upon conviction for a violation of this chapter or upon revocation of a certificate of approval, the attorney general may apply to the superior court:(1) For the forfeiture of any charter rights, franchise privileges or powers of the corporation held by the convicted person under the laws of this state;(2) For dissolution, if the person is a corporation or limited partnership organized under the laws of this state; or(3) For the suspension of the privilege to exist within this state.(b) The court, after giving due consideration to the public interest and to relevant competitive and economic circumstances, may grant as much of the requested relief as is deemed appropriate. A dissolution shall be conducted in accordance with the procedures specified by law for either voluntary or judicial dissolution of the particular type of corporation, association, firm, or partnership.(c) If any corporation, association, partnership, or limited partnership shall be dissolved or have its privilege to exist in this state suspended or revoked as provided in subsection (a) of this section, no assignee, transferee, or successor-in-interest of the corporation, association, partnership, or limited partnership shall be permitted to incorporate or to transact business in this state without first applying to the court for and receiving an order permitting incorporation or transaction of business. No order shall be granted unless the applicant proves to the satisfaction of the court that it will conduct its affairs in accordance with all applicable laws.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2.
RI Gen L § 11-19-43 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-43 - Acts of officers, directors, representatives, or agents acting within the scope of their authority.

§ 11-19-43. Acts of officers, directors, representatives, or agents acting within the scope of their authority.(a) A corporation, association, firm, partnership, or limited partnership is liable for the acts of its officers, directors, representatives, or agents acting within the scope of their authority. Proof of the acts of any officer, director, representative, or agent shall be received as prima facie proof of the acts of the corporation, association, firm, partnership, or limited partnership itself.(b) When a corporation, association, firm, partnership, or limited partnership violates this chapter, the violation shall be deemed to be that of the individual directors, members, officers, managers, employees, or agents of the corporation, association, firm, partnership, or limited partnership who knowingly authorized, ordered, aided, abetted, or advised in the acts or omissions constituting in whole or in part the violation, whether the individuals acted on their own behalf and for their own benefit, or for the corporation, association, firm, partnership, or limited partnership and in their representative capacity. The individuals, in their capacity as individuals, are subject to the provisions of this chapter and may be joined, if subject to personal jurisdiction, as additional parties defendant in the proceedings against the corporation, association, partnership, or limited partnership.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2.
RI Gen L § 11-19-44 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-44 - Remedies cumulative.

§ 11-19-44. Remedies cumulative.The remedies provided in this chapter are cumulative of each other and of existing powers and remedies inherent in the court.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2.
RI Gen L § 11-19-45 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries|Section 11-19-45 - Severability.

§ 11-19-45. Severability.If any section of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the chapter and the application of the section to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected. The invalidity or unconstitutionality of any section or sections or part of any section or sections of this chapter shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this chapter and to this end the sections of this chapter are severable.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2.
RI Gen L § 11-20-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-20 - Graves and Corpses|Section 11-20-1 - Disinterment of body.

§ 11-20-1. Disinterment of body.Every person who shall, without proper authorization, disinter, dig up, remove, or carry away any human body from its place of sepulture, or who shall knowingly conceal any such body so disinterred or carried away, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) years or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 281, § 21; G.L. 1909, ch. 347, § 22; G.L. 1923, ch. 399, § 22; G.L. 1938, ch. 610, § 22; G.L. 1956, § 11-20-1; P.L. 1991, ch. 66, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-20-1.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-20 - Graves and Corpses|Section 11-20-1.1 - Mutilation of dead human bodies - Penalties - Exemptions.

§ 11-20-1.1. Mutilation of dead human bodies — Penalties — Exemptions.(a) Except as provided in this section, a person who dissects or mutilates a dead human body is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than three (3) years, or a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or both.(b) This section does not apply to:(1) A physician or surgeon acting on the order of a court of competent jurisdiction, a coroner or other qualified officer, a licensed funeral director or a licensed embalmer;(2) Dissection to determine the cause of death when authorized by the nearest living kin of the deceased;(3) Unclaimed dead human bodies delivered by state or county authorities to regularly chartered institutions for scientific research;(4) The necessary mutilation incident to embalming a dead human body when authorized by nearest living kin, a court of competent jurisdiction or other qualified officer; or(5) Conduct authorized by the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, chapter 18.6 of title 23.History of Section.P.L. 1998, ch. 433, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-20-1.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-20 - Graves and Corpses|Section 11-20-1.2 - Necrophilia.

§ 11-20-1.2. Necrophilia.Any person who performs the act of first degree sexual assault upon a dead human body shall be guilty of the crime of necrophilia. Any person convicted of the crime of necrophilia shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten (10) years and may be fined in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000).History of Section.P.L. 1998, ch. 433, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-20-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-20 - Graves and Corpses|Section 11-20-2 - Desecration of grave.

§ 11-20-2. Desecration of grave.Every person who shall willfully and maliciously destroy, mutilate, deface, cover over, injure or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone, American Flag, or other structure or thing placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or any fence, railing, curb, or other thing intended for the protection or for the ornament of any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure of the like character and designed for that purposes, or of any enclosure for the sepulture of the dead, or dig or plow up, cultivate or build upon or within any enclosure or plot of ground used and occupied for the sepulture of the dead, or shall commit any nuisance in it, or wantonly disturb, remove, or in any way desecrate the contents of any grave in any enclosure or plot of ground, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned not less than one year and not exceeding three (3) years, and/or be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or both and shall, in addition to imprisonment and/or fine, be ordered to make full restitution to any person, business or entity incurring the expense of repairing the grave.History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 281, § 22; G.L. 1909, ch. 347, § 23; G.L. 1923, ch. 399, § 23; G.L. 1938, ch. 610, § 23; G.L. 1956, § 11-20-2; P.L. 1976, ch. 229, § 1; P.L. 1977, ch. 141, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 82, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 341, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 375, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-20-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-20 - Graves and Corpses|Section 11-20-3 - Removal of marker on veteran's grave.

§ 11-20-3. Removal of marker on veteran's grave.(a) Every person who maliciously or without authorization removes an American Flag in the vicinity of a veteran's grave or from a flag staff in a cemetery shall be imprisoned not exceeding sixty (60) days or fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100).(b) Every person who shall, without right, remove from any grave a marker that was authorized to be placed by the cemetery to designate that the grave was the grave of a deceased veteran shall be imprisoned not exceeding one hundred and twenty (120) days or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) for a first offense, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding one hundred and twenty (120) days or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) for a second offense.(c) Every person, firm, partnership or corporation who shall purchase, sell or destroy any veteran's grave marker shall be subject to the same penalties provided in subsection (b) of this section.History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 279, § 46; G.L. 1909, ch. 345, § 49; G.L. 1923, ch. 397, § 49; G.L. 1938, ch. 608, § 49; G.L. 1956, § 11-20-3; P.L. 1982, ch. 219, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 490, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 66, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 109, § 6.
RI Gen L § 11-21-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-21 - Hazing|Section 11-21-1 - Penalty for hazing.

§ 11-21-1. Penalty for hazing.(a) Any organizer of, or participant in, an activity constituting hazing, as defined in subsection (b) of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or punished by imprisonment for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than one year, or both.(b) "Hazing" as used in this chapter, means any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, whether on public or private property, which willfully or recklessly endangers the physical or mental health of any student or other person. This conduct shall include, but not be limited to, whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the weather, forced consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, drug, or other substance, or any brutal treatment or forced physical activity which is likely to adversely affect the physical health or safety of the student or any other person, or which subjects the student or other person to extreme mental stress, including extended deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation.History of Section.G.L. 1909, ch. 277, § 29; P.L. 1909, ch. 431, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 395, § 31; G.L. 1938, ch. 606, § 31; G.L. 1956, § 11-21-1; P.L. 1986, ch. 194, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 494, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-21-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-21 - Hazing|Section 11-21-2 - Penalty for school official permitting hazing.

§ 11-21-2. Penalty for school official permitting hazing.Every person, being a teacher, superintendent, commandant, or other person in charge of any public, private, parochial, or military school, college or other educational institution, who shall knowingly permit any activity constituting hazing, as defined in § 11-21-1, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).History of Section.G.L. 1909, ch. 277, § 30; P.L. 1909, ch. 431, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 395, § 32; G.L. 1938, ch. 606, § 32; G.L. 1956, § 11-21-2; P.L. 1986, ch. 195, § 1.
RI Gen L § 11-21-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-21 - Hazing|Section 11-21-3 - Tattooing or permanent disfigurement.

§ 11-21-3. Tattooing or permanent disfigurement.Every person being a student, or being a person in attendance at any public, private, parochial, or military school, college, or other educational institution, who shall tattoo or knowingly and willfully permanently disfigure the body, limbs, or features of any fellow student or person attending the institution by the use of nitrate of silver or any like substance, or by any other means, shall be held guilty of a crime of the degree of mayhem, and shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) years nor less than one year.History of Section.G.L. 1909, ch. 277, § 31; P.L. 1909, ch. 431, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 395, § 33; G.L. 1938, ch. 606, § 33; G.L. 1956, § 11-21-3.
RI Gen L § 11-22-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 11 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11-22 - Highways|Section 11-22-1 - Injuring highway boundary markers.

§ 11-22-1. Injuring highway boundary markers.Every person who shall willfully break down, remove, injure, or destroy any monuments, walls, fences, or bounds, erected for the purpose of designating the boundaries of any public highway, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500). In addition, any and all costs incurred by the state of Rhode Island due to damages/loss under this section shall be fully reimbursed by the party or parties causing the damage.History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 279, § 35; G.L. 1909, ch. 345, § 39; G.L. 1923, ch. 397, § 39; G.L. 1938, ch. 608, § 39; G.L. 1956, § 11-22-1; P.L. 1990, ch. 494, § 1.