Section 17-23-19. – Referenda advertisements.
§ 17-23-19. Referenda advertisements. Media outlets in Rhode Island that sell time for advertisements pertaining to referenda questions at an election shall require the purchasers of the advertisements to prominently display the state in which the referenda election is to be held. History of Section.P.L. 1994, ch. 399, § 1.
Section 17-23-8. – Failure to furnish certificate of election.
§ 17-23-8. Failure to furnish certificate of election. Every city or town clerk or local board required by law to furnish any city, town, ward, or voting district officer elect with a proper certificate of the officer’s election who neglects or refuses to do so, as soon as possible after the election, shall be guilty […]
Section 17-23-9. – Violations as to nomination papers or withdrawals — Protection of party emblems.
§ 17-23-9. Violations as to nomination papers or withdrawals — Protection of party emblems. Any person who falsely makes, or willfully defaces or destroys, any certificate of nomination or nomination paper, or any part of it, or any letter of withdrawal, or files any certificate of nomination or nomination paper or letter of withdrawal, knowing […]
Section 17-23-10. – Violations by public officers generally.
§ 17-23-10. Violations by public officers generally. Any public officer, upon whom a duty is imposed by this title, who willfully neglects to perform his or her duty, or who performs it in a way that hinders the objects of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 11, § […]
Section 17-23-11. – Limitation of prosecutions — Payment to complainant.
§ 17-23-11. Limitation of prosecutions — Payment to complainant. All prosecutions for offenses against the provisions of this chapter shall commence within one year after the offenses have been committed, and not afterwards. And upon the presentation of a certificate of the clerk of any court of the final conviction in the court of any […]
Section 17-23-12. – Qualification of person obtaining signatures.
§ 17-23-12. Qualification of person obtaining signatures. (a) No person, except one qualified to sign a petition for the adoption of a home rule charter as provided in § 6 of article XIII of the Constitution of this state, shall circulate any petition, or obtain signatures on any petition, and any petition circulated, or any […]
Section 17-23-13. – Sound equipment.
§ 17-23-13. Sound equipment. No sound equipment advocating the election or defeat of any candidate or the approval or disapproval of any referenda shall be allowed within five hundred (500) feet of any polling place. History of Section.P.L. 1978, ch. 200, § 2.
Section 17-23-14. – Political advertising.
§ 17-23-14. Political advertising. No newspaper, periodical, radio, or television station shall charge for a political advertisement a sum greater than that charged by the medium for advertisement if it were nonpolitical. The attorney general shall enforce the provisions of this section and, upon conviction, a civil penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) shall be […]
Section 17-23-15. – Polling or surveying of voter opinion.
§ 17-23-15. Polling or surveying of voter opinion. (a) No person shall conduct any form of poll or survey of voter opinion or voter conduct within a building or within fifty (50) feet of the entrance or entrances to a building in which voting is being conducted at any primary or election; provided, that nothing […]
Section 17-23-16. – Guaranteed access in exchange for contributions prohibited.
§ 17-23-16. Guaranteed access in exchange for contributions prohibited. As defined in § 17-2-1, no general officer and no candidate for a general office shall solicit campaign contributions by guaranteeing to all contributors of a specified minimum amount of money, as a quid pro quo for their contributions, the right to meet with the general […]