Rhode Island § 11-30-12 § 11-30-12. Slaughterhouses, rendering plants, garbage plants, and brick kilns.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 11-30-12 — § 11-30-12. Slaughterhouses, rendering plants, garbage plants, and brick kilns.

Rhode Island § 11-30-12

Title 11Criminal Offenses

Ch. 11-30Nuisances

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-30-12 (2026).

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§ 11-30-12. Slaughterhouses, rendering plants, garbage plants, and brick kilns.
All buildings, places, or lands used as slaughterhouses, rendering establishments,
            garbage plants, or brick kilns, and located within three hundred (300) feet of any
            public park or public hospital, are declared to be common nuisances. This section
            shall not apply to any slaughterhouse or rendering establishment previously located
            by the proper authorities of any city or town. Every person who shall maintain any
            common nuisance of this type shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand
            dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
        

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§ 11-30-12. Slaughterhouses, rendering plants, garbage plants, and brick kilns.

All buildings, places, or lands used as slaughterhouses, rendering establishments, garbage plants, or brick kilns, and located within three hundred (300) feet of any public park or public hospital, are declared to be common nuisances. This section shall not apply to any slaughterhouse or rendering establishment previously located by the proper authorities of any city or town. Every person who shall maintain any common nuisance of this type shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

Legislative History

P.L. 1905, ch. 1240, §§ 1, 2; P.L. 1906, ch. 1345, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 109, §§ 6, 7; G.L. 1923, ch. 122, §§ 6, 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 600, §§ 6, 7; G.L. 1956, § 11-30-12.