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.)