Title 4
Animals and Animal Husbandry

Chapter 15
Animals at Large

R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-15-5

§ 4-15-5. Animals in private ways in Newport.

Horses, neat-cattle, sheep, and hogs are deemed to be at large within the meaning of this chapter within the limits of any private way in the city of Newport, without the consent of the owners of the fee in that private way, and that private way, for the purpose of authorizing the taking up and impounding of those animals, is deemed a common within the meaning of this chapter.

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 128, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 154, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 184, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 641, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 4-15-5.