§ 45-6-1. Scope of ordinances permissible. (a) Town and city councils may, from time to time, make and ordain all ordinances and regulations for their respective towns and cities, not repugnant to law, which they deem necessary for the safety of their inhabitants from fire, firearms, and fireworks; to prevent persons standing on any footwalk, […]
§ 45-6-10. Registration of vending machines. (a) Every city or town, may, by ordinance require each person, corporation, partnership or other business operating a vending machine service for profit, prior to transacting or conducting business from any site within a city or town, to obtain without charge a registration certificate stating the name under which […]
§ 45-6-11. Community restitution. The General Assembly declares that the words “community service” which appear throughout this chapter shall now be substituted with and referred to as “community restitution”. History of Section.P.L. 1998, ch. 454, § 6.
§ 45-6-12. Liability for illegal dumping. Cities and towns may, by ordinance, define as in violation of illegal dumping ordinances those people whose vehicles, either owned or leased, are used to carry materials to a place at which they are illegally dumped. Owners of title of leased vehicles and owners of vehicles that are reported […]
§ 45-6-2. Imposition of penalties for ordinance violations. Town and city councils may impose penalties for the violation of ordinances and regulations, not exceeding in amount five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30) days in some jail or house of correction, and/or require restitution in cases involving property damage or personal injury […]
§ 45-6-2.1. Repealed.
§ 45-6-2.2. Imposition of penalty for illegal dumping or malicious damage to street lights in the city of Warwick. (a) The city of Warwick may impose penalties for each violation of chapter 8 of the compiled ordinances of the city of Warwick not exceeding the sum of six hundred dollars ($600), or by imprisonment of […]
§ 45-6-2.3. Authorization for cities and towns to promulgate and enforce pretreatment and sewer-use ordinances and regulations. (a) The cities and towns may promulgate all ordinances and regulations to implement a wastewater pretreatment program. Those ordinances and regulations may include the authority to: (1) Impose penalties of up to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per day […]
§ 45-6-3. Ordinances to punish indecent intoxication. The several towns and cities in this state are authorized and empowered to make and ordain any ordinances, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state or of the United States, that they deem necessary to prevent and punish indecent intoxication in those towns and cities; […]
§ 45-6-4. Names of localities within towns. Town councils are authorized to fix the names of the various localities within their respective towns. History of Section.P.L. 1912, ch. 820, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 51, § 30; G.L. 1938, ch. 333, § 30; G.L. 1956, § 45-6-4.
§ 45-6-5. Names of railroad stations. No railroad corporation shall affix a name to a new station or change the present name of any existing station, until after the new name has been approved by the town council of the town in which the station is located. Every railway company violating the provisions of this […]
§ 45-6-6. Offenses punishable by state law. No ordinance or regulation, made by a town council, shall impose or at any time be construed to continue to impose, any penalty for the commission or omission of any act punishable as a crime, misdemeanor, or offense, by the statute law of the state. History of Section.G.L. […]
§ 45-6-7. Publication of ordinances. All ordinances, bylaws and regulations shall be printed and published in any manner that the town or city council directs; provided, that the city or town clerk delivers at least one copy of all ordinances including all amendments to those ordinances to the state law library and the state library […]
§ 45-6-8. Officers for execution of ordinances — Enforcement expenses. Town and city councils may appoint all necessary officers for the execution of their ordinances, bylaws, and regulations, may define their duties, and fix their compensation, where provisions are not made by law, and may remove any of these officers at pleasure, but no expense […]
§ 45-6-9. Shut off of water supply for nonpayment of sewer user fees, charges, and assessments. (a) The Woonsocket city council is authorized to enact an ordinance to terminate the water supply service of any person assessed by the city of Woonsocket for water service for nonpayment of sewer user fees, charges, and assessments. The […]
