Town and city councils may impose penalties for the violation of ordinances and regulations,
not exceeding in amount five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment not exceeding
thirty (30) days in some jail or house of correction, and/or require restitution in
cases involving property damage or personal injury in an amount up to twenty-five
hundred dollars ($2,500) and/or require community restitution for a not-for-profit
entity for not more than fifty (50) hours for any one offense, to be prosecuted by
some officer appointed for that purpose, and to be recovered to the use of the town
or city, or of the person or persons, and in the proportions, that the councils in
their ordinances and regulations designate.
Notes of Decisions
Town of West Greenwich v. Stepping Stone Enter., Ltd., 416 A.2d 659 (R.I. 1979).
· cites it 3× “1956 (1970 Reenactment) §45-6-2, 5 as amended by P.L. 1971, ch. 224, §1, the General Assembly gave municipalities the power to impose penalties for the violation of its ordinances and regulations.”
Cadillac Lounge, LLC v. City of Providence, 913 A.2d 1039 (R.I. 2007).
“— Notwithstanding the provisions of § 45-6-2 or any other general or special law to the contrary, the bureau of licenses of the city of Providence is authorized to impose a fíne not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) upon any person, firm, or corporation which holds a license…”
State v. Berberian, 216 A.2d 507 (R.I. 1966).
· cites it 3× “Section 45-6-2 provides that city councils, having enacted ordinances and regulations, “may impose penalties for the violation of such ordinances and regulations * * * unless other penalties therefor, or penalties within other limits, are specially prescribed by statute * * The…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.