2018 -- S 2731

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2018

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RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRESPASS AND VANDALISM

     

     Introduced By: Senators Paolino, and Nesselbush

     Date Introduced: March 20, 2018

     Referred To: Senate Judiciary

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

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     SECTION 1. Sections 11-44-16, 11-44-17 and 11-44-18 of the General Laws in Chapter

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11-44 entitled "Trespass and Vandalism" are hereby repealed.

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     11-44-16. Removal of gravel from or deposit of debris on Easton's Beach.

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     Every person who shall remove any sand or any gravel from any part of Easton's Beach,

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as defined in § 11-44-18, shall be fined twenty dollars ($20.00) for every offense. Every person

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who shall deposit or leave on the beach any dead animal, offal, filth, rubbish, or refuse matter,

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shall be fined twenty dollars ($20.00) for every offense.

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     11-44-17. Enforcement of § 11-44-16.

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     Any police constable of Newport or of Middletown, viewing any offense committed in

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violation of § 11-44-16, shall immediately arrest the offender, whether in Newport or in

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Middletown, and cause him or her to be prosecuted for the offense as soon as may be possible

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before the district court.

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     11-44-18. Bounds of Easton's Beach.

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     Easton's Beach, for the purposes of §§ 11-44-16 and 11-44-17, shall embrace all the lands

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bounded and described as follows: a tract of land in Newport, bounded northerly on land now or

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formerly of George H. Norman, easterly on the division line between the town of Middletown

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and the city of Newport, southerly on the ocean at low-water mark, and westerly on land now or

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formerly of the Gibbs Land Company to the Bath Road, and along and across that road to and

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along the cliffs at land now or formerly of J. W. Chandler; and a tract of land in Middletown,

 

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bounded northerly on the northern side of a road which runs from the foot of Bath Road in

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Newport, easterly through the above bounded beach or land, and then onward over the lands

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between Easton's Beach and Sachuest Beach, easterly on the line of the old fence or wall which

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has hitherto separated the upland of the Benjamin Easton Farm from Easton's Beach and the

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sandy tract adjoining it, southerly on the ocean at low-water mark, and westerly on the division

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line between Newport and Middletown.

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     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 -- TRESPASS AND VANDALISM

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     This act would repeal the prohibition of the general laws regarding the removal of gravel

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or the deposit of debris from Easton's Beach, the enforcement provisions, and the bounds of

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Easton's Beach.

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     This act would take effect upon passage.

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