TITLE 5
Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-24
Taverns, Cookshops, and Oyster Houses
SECTION 5-24-3
§ 5-24-3 Penalty for violations.
(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 fifty dollars ($50.00) for each
offense, one-half (1/2) of that amount to the use of the city or town in which
the offense has been committed and one-half (1/2) to the use of the state.
(b) In addition to the fines enumerated above, the city of
Pawtucket may close any unlicensed tavern, victualing house, cookshop, oyster
house, or oyster cellar until said unlicensed tavern, victualing house,
cookshop, oyster house, or oyster cellar obtains a license from the Pawtucket
city council or the Pawtucket city council sitting as the Pawtucket board of
license commissioners.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 101, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 122, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch.
126, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 361, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 5-24-3; P.L.
2012, ch. 58, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 60, § 1.)
