§ 5-24-1. Licensing and regulatory power of towns and cities. (a) Any town or city council has the power to regulate, including the setting of hours of operation, the keeping of taverns, victualing houses, cookshops, oyster houses, and oyster cellars in the town or city, by granting licenses for those activities, upon any compensation for […]
§ 5-24-1.1. Cumberland — Limited victualing license. (a) The town council of the town of Cumberland shall, in addition to the licensing and regulatory powers enumerated in § 5-24-1, have the power to issue limited victualing-house licenses for the purpose of permitting the operation of any agricultural or farm-related business to sell for consumption on […]
§ 5-24-2. Terms and duration of licenses. Every license issued pursuant to §§ 5-24-1 and 5-24-1.1 shall specify the person licensed; the business licensed; the hours during which the premises may be opened for business; and the building or room in which the business shall be pursued; and shall continue and be in force until […]
§ 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 […]
§ 5-24-4. Maintenance of good order — Drunkards, wastrels, and minors excluded. Every person licensed pursuant to §§ 5-24-1 and 5-24-1.1 shall maintain good order in the licensed building, and shall not suffer any person in that licensed building to become intoxicated, nor shall he or she take in pawn or pledge any article; neither […]
§ 5-24-5. Annulment of license. In case any person licensed pursuant to §§ 5-24-1 and 5-24-1.1 is convicted of keeping a disorderly house, the city or town council shall immediately withdraw and annul his or her license; and he or she shall not be licensed during the two (2) years next following his or her […]
