Title 47
Weights and Measures

Chapter 12
Firewood and Charcoal

R.I. Gen. Laws § 47-12-6

§ 47-12-6. Standard charcoal basket.

Every basket used in measuring charcoal brought into any town for sale shall be of the following dimensions: nineteen inches (19") in breadth in every part thereof, and seventeen and one-half inches (171/2”) deep, measuring from the highest part of the bottom of the basket perpendicularly to a level with the top of the basket.

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 149, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 175, § 4; G.L. 1923, ch. 206, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 411, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 47-12-6.