§ 11-44-1. Vandalism — Obstruction of lawful pursuits. (a) Every person who shall willfully and maliciously or mischievously injure or destroy or write upon, paint, or otherwise deface the property of another, or obstruct the use of the property of another, or obstruct another in the prosecution of his or her lawful business or pursuits, […]
§ 11-44-10. Injurious substances on baiting places. Every person who shall strew or place any powder or brimstone or other sulfurous substance upon any baiting place not his or her own property, or shall burn upon that place any of those substances saturated with tar or turpentine, shall be fined not less than five dollars […]
§ 11-44-11. Injury to boundary or line markers. Every person who shall willfully break down, remove, injure, obscure, or destroy any monument erected for the purpose of designating the boundaries of any town or city or any tract or lot of land, or any tree marked for that purpose, or any stake set up to […]
§ 11-44-12. Injury to public property. Every person who shall willfully cut or deface or otherwise injure any public building or fence or other property shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) unless the amount of damage exceeds one hundred dollars ($100). If that amount shall exceed one hundred dollars ($100), then […]
§ 11-44-12.1. Damage to instrumentality of public transportation. Every person who shall willfully cut or deface or otherwise injure any instrumentality of public transportation managed by or belonging to a public corporation shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by […]
§ 11-44-13. Injury to public statues and monuments. Every person who shall willfully trespass upon, deface, mutilate, cover or keep covered, or otherwise injure the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in the city of Providence, or any other public statue or monument, may be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) and/or by […]
§ 11-44-14. Breaking lamps or windows. Every person who shall willfully break any lamp, lantern, or window shall, for every lamp, lantern, or window broken, be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200). History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 278, § 5; G.L. 1909, ch. 344, § 6; G.L. 1923, ch. 396, § 6; G.L. 1938, […]
§ 11-44-15. Injuring or destroying books and other property of libraries, archives, or other records repositories. (a) Any person who willfully, maliciously, or wantonly writes upon, injures, defaces, tears, cuts, mutilates, or destroys any book, record, or other property belonging to or in the custody of any public county or regional library, the state library, […]
§ 11-44-16. Removal of gravel from or deposit of debris on Easton’s Beach. Every person who shall remove any sand or any gravel from any part of Easton’s Beach, as defined in § 11-44-18, shall be fined twenty dollars ($20.00) for every offense. Every person who shall deposit or leave on the beach any dead […]
§ 11-44-17. Enforcement of § 11-44-16. Any police constable of Newport or of Middletown, viewing any offense committed in violation of § 11-44-16, shall immediately arrest the offender, whether in Newport or in Middletown, and cause him or her to be prosecuted for the offense as soon as may be possible before the district court. […]
§ 11-44-18. Bounds of Easton’s Beach. Easton’s Beach, for the purposes of §§ 11-44-16 and 11-44-17, shall embrace all the lands bounded and described as follows: a tract of land in Newport, bounded northerly on land now or formerly of George H. Norman, easterly on the division line between the town of Middletown and the […]
§ 11-44-19. Deposit of debris on Middletown beaches. Every person who shall deposit or leave on any beach in the town of Middletown, any dead animal, offal, filth, rubbish, waste, or refuse matter, shall be fined twenty dollars ($20.00) for every offense. History of Section.G.L. 1909, ch. 345, § 73; P.L. 1922, ch. 2225, § […]
§ 11-44-2. Injury or removal of vegetation — Buildings and fences. Every person who shall take and carry away, without the consent of the owner, any corn, grain, fruit, or growing vegetable out of any field, garden, or orchard, or who shall willfully and without the consent of the owner root up, cut down, or […]
§ 11-44-20. Property of life saving corps — Interference or deception. Every person who shall willfully destroy any of the property or apparatus of the United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps, or steal or misappropriate it, or any part of it, or willfully interfere with any of its life savers in the performance of their […]
§ 11-44-21. Vandalizing alarms or call boxes — False alarms. Whoever opens a signal box connected with a police, fire, or motorist aid call system for the purpose of giving or causing to be given a false alarm, or interferes in any way with a signal box by breaking, cutting, injuring, or defacing it; or, […]
§ 11-44-21.1. Graffiti — Defacing private residences, offices, businesses or commercial property. (a)(1) Every person who shall willfully, maliciously or mischievously write upon, paint, or otherwise deface the private property or residence of another, any office building, business or commercial property or public building or public property, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, for the […]
§ 11-44-21.2. Restitution or removal of graffiti — Rescission of order suspending or invalidating operator’s license or learner’s permit. If a court of suitable jurisdiction has entered an order for suspension or invalidation of a minor’s operator’s license or a learner’s permit pursuant to § 11-44-21.1, and if the same court subsequently determines that the […]
§ 11-44-22. Throwing articles at moving vehicles. Every person who shall willfully throw, shoot, or in any other manner propel a snowball or any other object at any moving motor or other vehicle in use upon the roads or highways of this state shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred […]
§ 11-44-23. Throwing objects at police officer, firefighter or police or fire vehicles. Every person who shall willfully throw, shoot, or in any other manner propel a rock or any other object at any police officer, firefighter, or any police or fire vehicle, whether moving or not, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine […]
§ 11-44-24. Blocking or obstructing public rights-of-way to water. Every person who shall obstruct or block or cause any obstruction of any public rights-of-way to water areas of the state shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year or be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500). History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 23, § 1; P.L. […]
