Rhode Island § 11-8-4 § 11-8-4. Breaking and entering business place, public building, or ship with felonious intent.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 11-8-4 — § 11-8-4. Breaking and entering business place, public building, or ship with felonious intent.

Rhode Island § 11-8-4

Title 11Criminal Offenses

Ch. 11-8Burglary and Breaking and Entering

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Bluebook

R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-8-4 (2026).

Text

§ 11-8-4. Breaking and entering business place, public building, or ship with felonious intent.

Every person who shall break and enter any bank, shop, office or warehouse, not adjoining to or occupied as a dwelling house, any meeting house, church, chapel, courthouse, town house, college, academy, schoolhouse, library or other building erected for public use or occupied for any public purpose, or any ship or vessel, with intent to commit murder, sexual assault, robbery or larceny, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten

(10)years.

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§ 11-8-4. Breaking and entering business place, public building, or ship with felonious intent.

Every person who shall break and enter any bank, shop, office or warehouse, not adjoining to or occupied as a dwelling house, any meeting house, church, chapel, courthouse, town house, college, academy, schoolhouse, library or other building erected for public use or occupied for any public purpose, or any ship or vessel, with intent to commit murder, sexual assault, robbery or larceny, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) years.

Legislative History

G.L. 1896, ch. 279, § 8; G.L. 1909, ch. 345, § 8; G.L. 1923, ch. 397, § 8; G.L. 1938, ch. 608, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 11-8-4; P.L. 1987, ch. 140, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 314, § 1.