2018 -- H 7538

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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 - DISORDERLY CONDUCT

     Introduced By: Representatives Edwards, Newberry, Keable, Casey, and Coughlin

     Date Introduced: February 09, 2018

     Referred To: House Judiciary

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 11-11-3 of the General Laws in Chapter 11-11 entitled "Disorderly

Conduct" is hereby repealed.

     11-11-3. Carrying on business or entertainment in vicinity of religious meeting.

     Whenever any religious society shall hold any camp, tent, grove or other out-door

meeting, or the Society of General Six-principle Baptists of Rhode Island and Massachusetts shall

hold their annual "general meeting," for any purpose connected with the object for which the

religious society was organized, no person, without the consent of the religious society or of its

proper officers, shall keep in any shop, tent, booth, wagon or carriage or other place, for sale, or

expose for sale any spirituous or intoxicating liquors or other drinks or food or merchandise of

any kind, or hawk or peddle any liquors or merchandise mentioned in this section within one mile

of the place of the meeting, nor shall any person engage in gaming, horse racing, or exhibit or

offer to exhibit any show or play within the like distance of one mile of a meeting; and every

person violating any provision of this section shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars ($20.00)

nor less than five dollars ($5.00) or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty (30) days; provided, that

nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to prevent innkeepers, grocers, or other

persons from pursuing their ordinary business at their usual place of doing business, nor to

prevent any person from selling victuals in his or her usual place of abode.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - DISORDERLY CONDUCT

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     This act would repeal the criminal offense for keeping an unpermitted location where

certain business is conducted when the location is within one mile of a religious society meeting.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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