Rhode Island § 5-21-2 § 5-21-2. Hearing and objections by neighboring landowners.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 5-21-2 — § 5-21-2. Hearing and objections by neighboring landowners.

Rhode Island § 5-21-2

Title 5Businesses and Professions

Ch. 5-21Second-Hand Dealers

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Bluebook

R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-21-2 (2026).

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§ 5-21-2. Hearing and objections by neighboring landowners.
(a) The local licensing authority of a city or town, before granting a license under this
            chapter to keep an establishment or storehouse for the reception of any junk, old
            metals, or other second-hand metal articles or to establish, operate, or maintain
            an automobile junkyard, in any location not lawfully occupied for that purpose at
            the time of the application for that license, shall hold a public hearing, notice
            of which shall be posted at least seven (7) days but not more than fourteen (14) days
            prior to the hearing in not less than two (2) public places in that city or town and
 

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§ 5-21-2. Hearing and objections by neighboring landowners.

(a) The local licensing authority of a city or town, before granting a license under this chapter to keep an establishment or storehouse for the reception of any junk, old metals, or other second-hand metal articles or to establish, operate, or maintain an automobile junkyard, in any location not lawfully occupied for that purpose at the time of the application for that license, shall hold a public hearing, notice of which shall be posted at least seven (7) days but not more than fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing in not less than two (2) public places in that city or town and in a newspaper of general circulation in that city or town where the establishment, storehouse, or junkyard is to be established, operated, or maintained. Before the local licensing authority posts or publishes a notice of a hearing, the local licensing authority shall collect from the applicant for the license a fee of ten dollars ($10.00), plus the cost of posting and publishing the notice.

(b) No license shall be granted under this chapter to the keeper of any establishment or storehouse for the reception of any junk, old metals, or other second-hand metal articles or to a person establishing, operating, or maintaining an automobile junkyard, in any location not lawfully occupied for that purpose at the time of the application for the license, where the owners or occupants of the greater part of the land within two hundred feet (200â€²) of that building or place file with the board, city, or town council, respectively, having jurisdiction to grant licenses, their objection to the granting of the license. This subsection does not apply to any applicant who is the keeper of an establishment or storehouse, or automobile junkyard, that is being acquired under eminent domain proceedings, who is applying for licensing within § 5-21-1 within the same city or town in which he or she was formerly licensed.

Legislative History

P.L. 1902, ch. 1058, § 2; P.L. 1903, ch. 1097, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 197, § 2; G.L. 1923, ch. 224, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 398, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 5-21-2; P.L. 1963, ch. 208, § 1; P.L. 1965, ch. 138, § 1; P.L. 2023, ch. 79, art. 7, § 1, effective June 16, 2023.