§ 23-22.5-1. Rules, regulations, and orders — Facilities to which applicable. (a) The department of environmental management is authorized and empowered to adopt and prescribe rules of procedure and regulations and to amend, change, and/or repeal these rules and regulations and make any orders and perform any actions that it may deem necessary to the […]
§ 23-22.5-10. Control of surfboard activities. The director of the department of environmental management or a person designated by him or her and acting in his or her behalf is authorized to designate certain water areas within the state where surfboarding shall be prohibited and to make any rules and regulations that shall be necessary […]
§ 23-22.5-11. City and town responsibility for bathing areas. All cities and towns that own or maintain public beaches and swimming areas shall be fully responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of that beach or swimming area, and for the upkeep and maintenance of all toilet facilities at these areas, and are required to furnish […]
§ 23-22.5-12. Lifesaving buoy required in police vehicles. All state and local police vehicles at all times shall maintain in the trunk area of those vehicles a lifesaving buoy and a minimum of one hundred fifty feet (150′) of rope. History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 53, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-23-12; P.L. 1979, ch. […]
§ 23-22.5-13. Lifeguards — Sun protection. Any facility subject to the provisions of this chapter which employs a lifeguard shall maintain and provide an area which is not exposed to sunlight and shall provide sunscreen or other physical protection to insure against overexposure to the sun. History of Section.P.L. 1992, ch. 495, § 1.
§ 23-22.5-14. Lifesaving equipment required at all lakes and ponds. (1) All cities and towns shall supply and maintain one hundred and fifty feet (150′) of rope and a lifesaving buoy at ponds and lakes located within their respective boundaries during the designated periods of time which swimming, boating or other recreational activities are authorized […]
§ 23-22.5-2. Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the director of environmental management to enforce the provisions of this chapter and the regulations and orders adopted in accordance with this chapter to prosecute all persons guilty of any violation of this chapter. History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 112; P.L. 1954, ch. 3343, […]
§ 23-22.5-3. Obstruction of entrance to premises. No person shall interfere with or obstruct the entrance of the director of environmental management or his or her designated representative to any structure or any premise in the discharge of his or her official duties in connection with the enforcement of this chapter or the regulations and […]
§ 23-22.5-4. Penalty for violations. Any person who violates any rule, regulation, or order of the department of environmental management relating to drowning prevention, lifesaving, first aid and safety personnel and equipment at any camp, camp ground, bathhouse, bathing resort, beachside hotel or boarding house, beachside parking area, swimming pool, other beach and swimming area, […]
§ 23-22.5-5. Orders to cease operating — Relief in equity. (a) When the director of environmental management or any of his or her duly authorized agents deems it necessary in the interest of public safety to cause any of the facilities mentioned in § 23-22.5-4 to cease operating, he or she may do so by […]
§ 23-22.5-6. Recreational safety council — Appeals — Composition of council. Any party aggrieved as a result of any rule, regulation, or order of the department of environmental management shall have the right of appeal to the recreational safety council created in this section. The council shall consist of five (5) members, one of whom […]
§ 23-22.5-7. Appointment of council members. In the month of February of each year, the governor shall appoint a member or members of the recreational safety council other than the representatives of the state to hold office until the first day of March in the third year after that appointment and until his, her, or […]
§ 23-22.5-8. Filling of vacancies — Functions of council. Any vacancy which may occur in the recreational safety council shall be filled in the same manner by appointment by the governor for the remainder of the unexpired term. The council shall make suggestions to and shall advise the director of environmental management concerning the drowning […]
§ 23-22.5-9. Swimming in breachways prohibited. No person shall swim in the breachway of the Charlestown Pond, or in the breachway of Quonochontaug Pond, or in the breachway of Weekapaug Pond. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a civil violation and be subject to a fine, not […]
