§ 28-2-8 Duty of law enforcement officers
to seek unemployed persons. –
After the issuance of the proclamation in § 28-2-1, it shall be the duty
of a member of the division of sheriffs and of any other officer, state,
county, or municipality charged with enforcing the law, to seek and continue to
seek diligently the names and places of residence of able-bodied male persons
within their respective jurisdictions between the ages of eighteen (18) and
fifty (50) not regularly or continuously employed.
(P.L. 1918, ch. 1661, § 8; G.L. 1923, ch. 90, § 8; G.L. 1938, ch.
288, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 28-2-8; P.L. 2012, ch. 324, §
54.)