§ 42-14.2-20. Cease and desist orders.
(a) If the department shall have reason to believe that any person, firm, corporation,
or association is violating the provisions of this chapter, the department may issue
its order to that person, firm, corporation, or association commanding them to appear
before the department at a hearing to be held not sooner than ten (10) days nor later
than twenty (20) days after issuance of the order to show cause why the commission
should not issue an order to the person to cease and desist from the violation of
the provisions of this chapter.
(b) An order to show c
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§ 42-14.2-20. Cease and desist orders.
(a) If the department shall have reason to believe that any person, firm, corporation,
or association is violating the provisions of this chapter, the department may issue
its order to that person, firm, corporation, or association commanding them to appear
before the department at a hearing to be held not sooner than ten (10) days nor later
than twenty (20) days after issuance of the order to show cause why the commission
should not issue an order to the person to cease and desist from the violation of
the provisions of this chapter.
(b) An order to show cause may be served on any person, firm, corporation, or association
named therein by any person in the same manner that a summons in a civil action may
be served, or by mailing a copy of the order to the person at any address at which
the person has done business or at which the person lives. If upon the hearing the
department shall be satisfied that the person is in fact violating any provision of
this chapter, then the department shall order that person, in writing, to cease and
desist from the violation. At any hearing, any person subject to an order of the department
to cease and desist may be represented by counsel.
(c) The department shall not be bound by common law rules of evidence, but may receive
and consider any statements, documents, and things that shall be considered by them
necessary or useful in arriving at their decision. If that person shall thereafter
fail to comply with the order of the department, the superior court for Providence
County shall have jurisdiction upon the complaint of the department to restrain and
enjoin that person from violating this chapter. The complaint shall be in the form
of a civil action. The findings and order of the department shall constitute prima
facie evidence that the person ordered by the department to cease and desist has violated
the provisions of this chapter.
(d) The attorney general shall afford the department any necessary assistance in obtaining
relief in the superior court.