Title 47
Weights and Measures

Chapter 2
Produce Scales in Markets

R.I. Gen. Laws § 47-2-2

§ 47-2-2. Penalty for improper care of standards.

Every town or city sealer who neglects to provide a suitable place for keeping the weights, measures, and balances, or suffers any of them through his or her neglect to be lost, damaged, or destroyed, shall be fined the sum of not less than twenty dollars ($20.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00).

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 167, § 9; G.L. 1909, ch. 194, § 9; G.L. 1923, ch. 221, § 9; G.L. 1938, ch. 407, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 47-2-2.