§ 3-5-1. License required for manufacture, sale, or importation of beverages. No person shall at any time manufacture or sell or suffer to be manufactured or sold or keep or suffer to be kept on his or her premises or possession or under his or her charge for the purpose of sale within this state […]
§ 3-5-10. Residence of licensees and qualifications of persons and corporations as licensee. (a)(1) Except as otherwise provided, licenses are issued only to citizens who are residents of this state. It is not required that dining car companies, sleeping car companies, railroad companies operating in this state, or companies operating passenger-carrying marine vessels in this […]
§ 3-5-11. Licensing of chain stores. (a) Licenses, except retailer’s Class E, Class B, Class B-H, Class B-L, Class B-M, and Class B-V licenses, authorized by this title shall not be granted, issued, or transferred to or for the use of any “chain store organization,” which term shall consist of any chain of retail or […]
§ 3-5-11.1. Liquor franchises prohibited. (a) To promote the effective and reasonable control and regulation of the Rhode Island alcoholic beverage industry and to help the consumer by protecting their choices and ensuring equitable pricing. Class A liquor license authorized by this title shall not be granted, issued, renewed, or transferred to or for the […]
§ 3-5-12. Licensees to keep or sell legal beverages only — Minimum size of containers. Only beverages which have been legally manufactured and on which all taxes and charges, federal and state, have been paid, shall be kept for sale or sold by a licensee. Holders of Class B, C, D, I and J licenses […]
§ 3-5-13. Consumption of distilled liquors on premises. Licenses to be issued under this chapter shall in no case authorize the sale for consumption on the premises where sold of distilled liquors, or of beverages composed wholly or partly of those liquors, unless these sales are authorized by this title. History of Section.P.L. 1933, ch. […]
§ 3-5-14. Licenses issued by department of business regulation. The right, power, and jurisdiction to issue manufacturer’s, wholesaler’s, or retailer’s Class G and Class I licenses are solely in the department of business regulation; provided, that before the department issues any Class I license it shall first receive the approval of the licensing authority of […]
§ 3-5-14.1. Licenses issued by the department of business regulation. The right, power, and jurisdiction to issue manufacturer’s and wholesaler’s licenses are solely in the department. The department has the right and power to limit the number of manufacturer’s and wholesaler’s licenses of each class. History of Section.P.L. 1996, ch. 100, art. 36, § 8.
§ 3-5-15. Local licensing authorities. The right, power, and jurisdiction to issue all other licenses authorized by this title within the maximum number to be fixed as provided in § 3-5-16 are in the town councils or license boards of the several towns, and in the mayors and city councils in the several cities. However, […]
§ 3-5-16. Maximum number of licenses. (a)(1) The department of business regulation shall have the right and power to limit the number of licenses of each class. The limit shall not exceed the maximum number, if any, of any class of license that is fixed by the licensing boards within their respective towns or cities. […]
§ 3-5-16.1. Revocation of abandoned Class A licenses. Whenever it comes to the attention of any local licensing authority as defined in § 3-5-15 that the holder of a Class A license has abandoned the premises from which the licensee has been conducting his or her business or has ceased to operate under the license […]
§ 3-5-17. Notice and hearing on licenses. Before granting a license to any person under the provisions of this chapter and title, the board, body or official to whom application for the license is made, shall give notice by advertisement published once a week for at least two (2) weeks in some newspaper published in […]
§ 3-5-18. Signature on licenses — Posting and exhibition. (a) All retail licenses issued under chapter 7 of this title shall bear the signature, or electronic signature, of the clerk of the licensing board, body, or officials issuing them, and shall not be printed, stamped, typewritten, engraved, photographed, or cut from one instrument and attached […]
§ 3-5-19. Transfer or relocation of license. (a) The board, body or official which has issued any license under this title may permit the license to be used at any other place within the limits of the town or city where the license was granted, or, in their discretion, permit the license to be transferred […]
§ 3-5-2. Local option — Questions put to electors — Petition for election. (a) In every election in every town and city, held for the election of town or city officers, the official or officials charged with the duty of preparing the official ballot labels, shall cause to be printed on these ballot labels the […]
§ 3-5-20. Rules and regulations — Notice and procedure. All licenses issued shall be in any form prescribed by the department of business regulation and the license shall be held under any rules and regulations as the department shall impose, establish, and authorize and the department is authorized to establish rules and regulations and to […]
§ 3-5-20.1. Manufacturer’s and wholesaler’s licenses — Notice and procedure. All manufacturer’s and wholesaler’s licenses to be issued under this chapter shall be in any form prescribed by the department. The licensee shall be held liable under any rules and regulations that the department shall impose, establish and authorize and the department is authorized to […]
§ 3-5-21. Revocation or suspension of licenses — Fines for violating conditions of license. (a) Every license is subject to revocation or suspension and a licensee is subject to fine by the board, body, or official issuing the license, or by the department or by the division of taxation, on its own motion, for: (1) […]
§ 3-5-22. Reissuance of license after revocation. In case any license issued is revoked, the board, body or official revoking the license shall, as part of the order of revocation, provide that no license be granted to the same person for the period of one year after the revocation, and in case the order is […]
§ 3-5-23. Revocation of license for criminal offenses or disorderly conditions — Action on bond. (a) If any licensed person is convicted of violating any of the provisions of this title, or of chapters 6, 10, 34, or 45 of title 11, or §§ 11-2-1, 11-9-13, 11-9-15, 11-11-5, 11-18-2 — 11-18-4, 11-20-1, 11-20-2, 11-23-4, 11-30-1 […]
