Title 23
Health and Safety

Chapter 18.2
Preservation and Care of Burial Places and Memorials for the Dead

R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-18.2-4

§ 23-18.2-4. Unlawful possession or sale of gravestones.

A person is guilty of the unlawful possession or sale of gravestones when he or she possesses or sells, offers for sale or attempts to sell or transfers or disposes of any monument, gravestone, or other structure placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or any portion or fragment of a memorial of the dead, knowing that it has been unlawfully removed from a cemetery or burial ground.

History of Section.
P.L. 1990, ch. 204, § 1.