Rhode Island
Rhode Island General Laws — Title 11, Criminal Offenses
760 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 11-24-5 — Liberal construction of provisions
- § 11-24-6 — Severability of provisions
- § 11-24-7 — Discrimination against members of armed forces prohibited
- § 11-24-8 — Civil action for discrimination against armed forces
- § 11-25-1 — Escape from correctional institutions
- § 11-25-1.1 — Escape from municipal detention facility
- § 11-25-10 — Conveyance of intoxicants to prisoner
- § 11-25-11 — Prisoners committed for violation of city or town ordinances
- § 11-25-12 — Earnings of city or town prisoners
- § 11-25-13 — Federal prisoners
- § 11-25-14 — Conveyance of unauthorized articles to or from institutions
- § 11-25-14.1 — Unlawful possession of telecommunications devices
- § 11-25-15 — Imprisonment for failure to appear at a court ordered hearing
- § 11-25-16 — Juvenile escapees
- § 11-25-16.1 — Escape after certification
- § 11-25-17 — Receipt, safekeeping and record of prisoners
- § 11-25-18 — Receipt of gifts by employees of department of corrections
- § 11-25-19 — Record of visitors
- § 11-25-2 — Assault or escape by a custodial unit inmate
- § 11-25-2.1 — Assault by a municipal detention inmate
- § 11-25-20 — Habeas corpus for production of prisoner
- § 11-25-21 — Habeas corpus — Training school for youth
- § 11-25-22 — Escape from custody
- § 11-25-23 — Allowing prisoners to have controlled substances
- § 11-25-24 — Correctional employees — Sexual relations with inmates — Felony
- § 11-25-3 — Fatal assault by maximum custodial inmate deemed murder
- § 11-25-4 — Assault or escape by prisoner of medium or minimum custodial unit
- § 11-25-4.1 — Sentence for assault or escape by prisoner — Consecutive term
- § 11-25-5 — Officer voluntarily allowing prisoner to escape
- § 11-25-6 — Officer negligently allowing escape
- § 11-25-7 — Rescue of prisoner
- § 11-25-8 — Conveyance to prisoner of instruments for escape
- § 11-25-9 — Assisting inmate of correctional institutions to escape
- § 11-26-1 — Kidnapping
- § 11-26-1.1 — Childsnatching
- § 11-26-1.2 — Abduction of child prior to court order
- § 11-26-1.3 — Missing child — Duty to investigate
- § 11-26-1.4 — Kidnapping of a minor
- § 11-26-1.5 — Enticement of children
- § 11-26-2 — Kidnapping with intent to extort
- § 11-26-3 — Venue of prosecutions
- § 11-26-4 — Attempted kidnapping of a minor
- § 11-27-1 — “Hold himself or herself out” and “person” defined
- § 11-27-10 — Agreement or offer to furnish legal services
- § 11-27-11 — Practices permitted to persons not members of bar
- § 11-27-12 — Unauthorized holding out as qualified to practice law
- § 11-27-13 — Visiting attorneys
- § 11-27-14 — Penalties for violations
- § 11-27-16 — Practices permitted to corporations and associations
- § 11-27-17 — Penalty for violations by corporation
- § 11-27-18 — Legal Aid Society — Powers of supreme court
- § 11-27-19 — Unauthorized practice of law committee — Powers and duties — Duties of attorney general
- § 11-27-2 — “Practice of law” defined
- § 11-27-3 — Receipt of fees as practice of law
- § 11-27-4 — Forwarding of claim not deemed practice of law
- § 11-27-5 — Practice restricted to members of bar
- § 11-27-6 — Compensation of unqualified persons for legal services prohibited
- § 11-27-7 — Filling out and signing of process and communications — Business association with laymen
- § 11-27-8 — Solicitation of business by agents prohibited
- § 11-27-9 — Restriction on acts of insurance claim adjusters
- § 11-28-1 — Failure to pay state funds into treasury
- § 11-28-2 — Failure of officer to pay over fines, forfeitures, or penalties
- § 11-28-3 — Failure of presiding officer or clerk of municipal governing body to perform duties
- § 11-28-4 — Omission or delay of duty by sheriff, sergeant, or constable
- § 11-29-1 — Penalty for mutilation or disabling
- § 11-30-1 — Definitions
- § 11-30-10 — Unlawful sale of beverages by club or association
- § 11-30-11 — Injunction
- § 11-30-12 — Slaughterhouses, rendering plants, garbage plants, and brick kilns
- § 11-30-13 — Burning of decaying and waste substances
- § 11-30-2 — Unlicensed manufacture or distribution of intoxicating liquor
- § 11-30-3 — Penalty for common nuisance
- § 11-30-4 — Penalty for nuisance involving intoxicating liquors
- § 11-30-5 — Evidence as to intoxicating liquors
- § 11-30-6 — Annulment of lease by maintenance of nuisance
- § 11-30-7 — Landlord’s liability for nuisance
- § 11-30-8 — Entry by police officers of premises — Commanding departure of persons found
- § 11-30-9 — Officers commanding aid in execution
- § 11-31-1 — Circulation of obscene publications and shows
- § 11-31-10 — Sale or exhibition to minors of indecent publications, pictures, or articles
- § 11-31-11 — Severability
- § 11-31-12 — Penalty for making receipt of obscene publications a condition to delivery of other publications
- § 11-31-13 — Injunctive proceedings by attorney general
- § 11-31-16 — Affirmative defense
- § 11-31-2 — Forfeiture of obscene publications
- § 11-31-8 — Entry of premises by deputies
- § 11-32-1 — Obstructing officer in execution of duty
- § 11-32-2 — False report of crime
- § 11-32-3 — Obstruction of the judicial system
- § 11-32-4 — Definitions
- § 11-32-5 — Intimidation of witnesses and victims of crimes
- § 11-32-6 — Jurisdiction of district, superior and family courts
- § 11-32-7 — Pretrial release
- § 11-33-1 — Perjury
- § 11-33-2 — Penalty for perjury
- § 11-33-3 — Attempt to procure perjury
- § 11-33-4 — False swearing pertaining to sale or conveyance of property
- § 11-33-5 — Manner of proof
- § 11-33-6 — Perjury before general assembly committees
- § 11-33-7 — Perjury or false swearing — Child support
- § 11-34-11 — Loitering for indecent purposes in or near schools
- § 11-34-8.3 — Criminal forfeiture procedures
- § 11-35-1 — Consent of property owner required for electric lines — Tree-trimming — Removal on notice
- § 11-35-10 — Excessive gas or water charges — False meters
- § 11-35-14 — Refusal to relinquish or to damage or to obstruct telephone
- § 11-35-15 — Notice on telephone book
- § 11-35-16 — Wrongfully obtaining telecommunication service
- § 11-35-17 — Crank or obscene telephone calls
- § 11-35-18 — Bomb threats and similar false reports
- § 11-35-19 — Prosecution for violations of §§ 11-35-17, 11-35-18
- § 11-35-2 — Badges of telegraph and telephone workers
- § 11-35-20 — Termination of service
- § 11-35-20.1 — Wrongful termination or disruption of service
- § 11-35-21 — Unauthorized interception, disclosure or use of wire, electronic, or oral communication
- § 11-35-22 — Offenses in connection with authorized interception of communications
- § 11-35-23 — Failure to report to law enforcement officers
- § 11-35-24 — Possession, sale, distribution, manufacture and advertising of intercepting device
- § 11-35-25 — Fraudulent communication devices
- § 11-35-26 — Automatic telephone dialing systems failing to disconnect
- § 11-35-28 — Trespassing on utility right-of-way
- § 11-35-29 — Trespassing on utility property
- § 11-35-3 — Penalty for violating §§ 11-35-1, 11-35-2
- § 11-35-4 — Injuries to electric or communication lines
- § 11-35-4.1 — Installation of live wires or electrical equipment
- § 11-35-5 — Aiding, abetting, counseling, or procuring line injuries
- § 11-35-6 — Interference with gas or electric or water meters
- § 11-35-7 — Bypassing meters — Use of electricity, gas or water with intent to defraud
- § 11-35-8 — Interference with electric meter
- § 11-35-9 — Bypassing electric meter — Use of electricity with intent to defraud
- § 11-36-1 — Hindering passage of trains — Placing explosives near highways, buildings, or tracks
- § 11-36-10 — Evasion of payment of fare
- § 11-36-11 — Unauthorized presence on locomotive or freight train
- § 11-36-12 — Profiteering on tickets
- § 11-36-13 — Tampering with railroad switches
- § 11-36-14 — “Railroad corporation” and “company” defined
- § 11-36-2 — Unauthorized stopping of train
- § 11-36-3 — Throwing missiles at train
- § 11-36-4 — Injuring railroad signals or signal lines
- § 11-36-5 — Loitering on railroad or bus line property
- § 11-36-6 — Trespassing on railroad right-of-way
- § 11-36-7 — Posting of statute
- § 11-36-8 — Removal of waste or packing from journal boxes
- § 11-36-9 — Obstruction of street railway company
- § 11-37-1 — Definitions
- § 11-37-10 — Subsequent offenses
- § 11-37-11 — Corroboration of victim’s testimony unnecessary
- § 11-37-11.2 — Speedy trial
- § 11-37-12 — Proof of resistance unnecessary
- § 11-37-13 — Prior sexual conduct of complainant — Admissibility of evidence
- § 11-37-13.1 — Recording — Grand jury testimony — Child assault
- § 11-37-13.2 — Alternative methods of victim testimony — Child victim
- § 11-37-13.3 — Sexual assault reports
- § 11-37-14 — Severability
- § 11-37-17 — Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) — Mandatory testing
- § 11-37-2 — First degree sexual assault
- § 11-37-3 — Penalty for first degree sexual assault
- § 11-37-3.1 — Duty to report sexual assault
- § 11-37-3.2 — Necessity of complaint from victim
- § 11-37-3.3 — Failure to report — Penalty
- § 11-37-3.4 — Immunity from liability
- § 11-37-3.5 — Duty to report sexual misconduct conviction
- § 11-37-4 — Second degree sexual assault
- § 11-37-5 — Penalty for second degree sexual assault
- § 11-37-6 — Third degree sexual assault
- § 11-37-7 — Penalty for third degree sexual assault
- § 11-37-8 — Penalty for assault with intent to commit first degree sexual assault
- § 11-37-8.1 — First degree child molestation sexual assault
- § 11-37-8.2 — Penalty for first degree child molestation sexual assault
- § 11-37-8.2.1 — Penalty for first degree child molestation sexual assault — Jessica Lunsford Child Predator Act of 2006
- § 11-37-8.3 — Second degree child molestation sexual assault
- § 11-37-8.4 — Penalty for second degree child molestation sexual assault
- § 11-37-8.5 — Identification of victims of child molestation sexual assault
- § 11-37-8.6 — Special assessment — Payment for treatment or counseling
- § 11-37-8.7 — Parole of violators
- § 11-37-8.8 — Indecent solicitation of a child
- § 11-37-8.9 — Penalty for indecent solicitation of a child
- § 11-37-9 — Joinder of offenses
- § 11-38-5 — Inciting riot at correctional institution
- § 11-38-6 — Inciting riot at municipal detention facility
- § 11-39-1 — Penalty for robbery
- § 11-39-2 — Robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle
- § 11-4-10 — Interference with fire alarm apparatus — Penalty
- § 11-4-2 — Arson — First degree
- § 11-4-2.1 — Arson — Custody
- § 11-4-3 — Arson — Second degree
- § 11-4-4 — Arson — Third degree
- § 11-4-5 — Arson — Fourth degree
- § 11-4-6 — Arson — Fifth degree
- § 11-4-7 — Arson — Sixth degree
- § 11-4-8 — Arson — Seventh degree
- § 11-41-1 — Stealing as larceny
- § 11-41-10 — Robbing of fish nets and weirs
- § 11-41-11 — Embezzlement by bank officer or employee
- § 11-41-11.1 — Unlawful appropriation
- § 11-41-12 — Fraudulent conversion by agent or factor
- § 11-41-13 — Obtaining signature by false pretenses
- § 11-41-14 — Failure to return book or other library property
- § 11-41-14.1 — Concealment of book or other property while on premises of library — Removal of book or other property from library
- § 11-41-15 — Recovered stolen property
- § 11-41-16 — Sale or concealment of property leased or purchased on conditional sale