Rhode Island § 3-9-6 § 3-9-6. Sale of liquor with injurious ingredients.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 3-9-6 — § 3-9-6. Sale of liquor with injurious ingredients.

Rhode Island § 3-9-6

Title 3Alcoholic Beverages

Ch. 3-9Adulterated Liquors

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 3-9-6 (2026).

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§ 3-9-6. Sale of liquor with injurious ingredients.
Any person keeping for sale or offering to sell or selling any spirituous or intoxicating
            liquors which are adulterated with any poison or deleterious ingredients injurious
            to health, shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars ($300) nor more than
            five hundred dollars ($500) or be imprisoned in the adult correctional institution
            for not less than three (3) months nor more than six (6) months; and upon the second
            conviction of a violation of this or of any preceding section of this chapter, the
            person convicted shall be sentenced to be both fined and imprisoned.
         

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§ 3-9-6. Sale of liquor with injurious ingredients.

Any person keeping for sale or offering to sell or selling any spirituous or intoxicating liquors which are adulterated with any poison or deleterious ingredients injurious to health, shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars ($300) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or be imprisoned in the adult correctional institution for not less than three (3) months nor more than six (6) months; and upon the second conviction of a violation of this or of any preceding section of this chapter, the person convicted shall be sentenced to be both fined and imprisoned.

Legislative History

G.L. 1896, ch. 151, § 6; G.L. 1909, ch. 177, § 6; G.L. 1923, ch. 208, § 6; G.L. 1938, ch. 173, § 6; impl. am. P.L. 1956, ch. 3721, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 3-9-6.