§ 11-5-1. Assault with intent to commit specified felonies. Every person who shall make an assault with intent to commit murder, robbery, sexual assault, burglary, or the abominable and detestable crime against nature, shall be imprisoned not exceeding twenty (20) years nor less than one year. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 277, § 18; G.L. […]
§ 11-5-10. Assault on persons 60 years of age or older causing bodily injury. Any person who shall commit an assault and battery upon a person sixty (60) years of age or older, causing bodily injury, shall be deemed to have committed a felony and shall be imprisoned not exceeding five (5) years, or fined […]
§ 11-5-10.1. Assault on persons 60 years of age or older causing serious bodily injury. (a) Any person who shall commit an assault or battery, or both, upon a person sixty (60) years of age or older, causing serious bodily injury, shall be deemed to have committed a felony and shall be imprisoned for not […]
§ 11-5-10.2. Assault on persons with severe impairments causing serious bodily injury. (a) Any person who shall commit an assault or battery, or both, upon a person, with severe impairments causing serious bodily injury, shall be deemed to have committed a felony and shall be imprisoned for not less than two (2) years but not […]
§ 11-5-10.3. Assault on persons 60 years of age or older by caretaker causing bodily injury. Any person who shall commit an assault and battery upon a person sixty (60) years of age or older, causing bodily injury, and who was, at the time of the assault and battery, responsible for the care and treatment […]
§ 11-5-10.4. Assault on persons 60 years of age or older by caretaker causing serious bodily injury. (a) Any person who shall commit an assault or battery, or both, upon a person sixty (60) years of age or older, causing serious bodily injury, and who was, at the time of the assault and battery, responsible […]
§ 11-5-11. Assault on persons with severe impairments. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “adult” means a person over the age of eighteen (18). (2) “major life activities” means: (i) mobility; (ii) self-care; (iii) communication; (iv) receptive and/or expressive language; (v) learning; (vi) self-direction; (vii) capacity for independent living; or (viii) economic self-sufficiency. […]
§ 11-5-12. Abuse, neglect and/or exploitation of adults with severe impairments. (a) Any person primarily responsible for the care of an adult with severe impairments who shall willfully and knowingly abuse, neglect or exploit that adult shall be subject to a fine of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000), or imprisoned not more than […]
§ 11-5-13. Repealed.
§ 11-5-14. Assault on child in care of department of children, youth and families. Any employee of the department of children, youth and families, or any employee of any public or private agency with which the department contracts for services in furtherance of the care or custody of children, who shall commit an assault and […]
§ 11-5-14.1. Assault on child in care of department of children, youth and families causing serious bodily injury. (a) Any employee of the department of children, youth and families, or any employee of any public or private agency with which the department contracts for services in furtherance of the care or custody of children who […]
§ 11-5-14.2. Battery by an adult upon child ten (10) years of age or younger causing serious bodily injury. (a) Any person eighteen (18) years of age or older who shall commit a battery upon a child ten (10) years of age or younger, causing serious bodily injury, shall be deemed to have committed a […]
§ 11-5-15. Aggravated harassment of a deputy sheriff by an inmate. Every prisoner confined in a custodial unit of the adult correctional institutions or in the custody of the warden or other correctional employee while outside the confines of the institutions who causes or attempts to cause any deputy sheriff to come into contact with […]
§ 11-5-16. Assault of health care providers or emergency services medical personnel. (a) Any person who shall knowingly and willfully assault a health care provider and/or emergency medical services personnel while that provider is engaged in providing health care services shall be deemed to have committed a felony, and may be imprisoned no more than […]
§ 11-5-17. Assault or battery for purpose of causing unconsciousness. Any person who shall make an assault or battery, or both, by causing, or attempting to cause, another person to be rendered unconscious by a single punch, kick, or other singular striking motion to the head of such person for the purpose of bringing about […]
§ 11-5-2. Felony assault. (a) Every person who shall make an assault or battery, or both, upon the person of another, with a dangerous weapon, or with acid or other dangerous substance, or by fire, or an assault or battery that results in serious bodily injury shall be guilty of a felony assault. If such […]
§ 11-5-2.1. Felony assault by use of devices similar in appearance to a firearm. (a) Every person who shall make an assault or battery, or both, with any device manufactured and designed to be substantially similar in appearance to a firearm shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years if serious […]
§ 11-5-2.2. Battery — Criminal negligence. (a) When serious bodily injury, as defined in § 11-5-2, of any person, occurs as a proximate result of criminal negligence, the person committing the criminal negligence shall be guilty of battery and shall be deemed to have committed a felony and shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) […]
§ 11-5-2.3. Domestic assault by strangulation. (a) Every person who shall make an assault or battery, or both, by strangulation, on a family or household member as defined in subsection 12-29-2(b), shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years. (b) Where the provisions of “The Domestic Violence Prevention Act,” chapter 29 […]
§ 11-5-3. Simple assault or battery. (a) Except as otherwise provided in § 11-5-2, every person who shall make an assault or battery or both shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. (b) Where the provisions of “The Domestic Violence Prevention Act”, chapter 29 of […]
