2018 -- H 7472

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2018

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - FALSE PERSONATION

     

     Introduced By: Representatives Edwards, Craven, McEntee, Knight, and Keable

     Date Introduced: February 07, 2018

     Referred To: House Judiciary

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

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     SECTION 1. Section 11-14-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 11-14 entitled "False

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Personation" is hereby amended to read as follows:

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     11-14-2. Impersonation of town sealer, auctioneer, corder, or fence-viewer.

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Impersonation of town sealer.

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     Every person who shall falsely assume or pretend to be a town sealer of weights and

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measures, auctioneer, corder of wood, or fence-viewer, and shall act as such, shall be fined not

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less than twenty dollars ($20.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).

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     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - FALSE PERSONATION

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     This act would remove auctioneers, corders of wood and fence viewers as subjects of this

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violation.

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     This act would take effect upon passage.

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