TITLE 11
Criminal Offenses
CHAPTER 11-24
Hotels And Public Places
SECTION 11-24-2
§ 11-24-2 Discriminatory practices
prohibited.
No person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent,
or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement shall
directly or indirectly refuse, withhold from, or deny to any person on account
of race or color, religion, country of ancestral origin, disability, age, sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, any of the accommodations,
advantages, facilities, or privileges of that public place. No person shall
directly or indirectly publish, circulate, issue, display, post, or mail any
written, printed or painted communication, notice, or advertisement, to the
effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges
of any public accommodation place shall be refused, withheld from, or denied to
any person on account of race or color, religion, country of ancestral origin,
disability, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age or
that the patronage or custom at that place of any person belonging to or
purporting to be of any particular race or color, religion, country of
ancestral origin, disability, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity
or expression is unwelcome, objectionable, or not acceptable, desired, or
solicited. The production of any written, printed, or painted communication,
notice, or advertisement, purporting to relate to any public place and to be
made by any person being its owner, lessee, proprietor, superintendent, or
manager, shall be presumptive evidence in any action that its production was
authorized by that person.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 277, § 27; G.L. 1909, ch. 343, § 28; G.L. 1923, ch.
395, § 28; P.L. 1925, ch. 658, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 606, § 28;
P.L. 1952, ch. 2958, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 11-24-2; P.L. 1979, ch. 144,
§ 5; P.L. 1988, ch. 227, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 126, § 1; P.L.
1995, ch. 32, § 6; P.L. 1997, ch. 150, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 340,
§ 5.)
