Title 11
Criminal Offenses

Chapter 18
Fraud and False Dealing

R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-18-3

§ 11-18-3. Fraudulent notice to newspaper of birth, marriage, or death.

Every person who shall willfully send to the publishers of any newspaper, for the purpose of publication, a fraudulent notice of the birth of a child or of the marriage of any persons or of the death of any person, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100).

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 281, § 27; G.L. 1909, ch. 347, § 28; G.L. 1923, ch. 399, § 27; G.L. 1938, ch. 610, § 27; G.L. 1956, § 11-18-3.