§ 11-20-2 - Desecration of grave. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-20-2

   § 11-20-2  Desecration of grave. – Every person who shall willfully and maliciously destroy, mutilate, deface,cover over, injure or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone, American Flag, orother structure or thing placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or anyfence, railing, curb, or other thing intended for the protection or for theornament of any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure of the likecharacter and designed for that purposes, or of any inclosure for the sepultureof the dead, or dig or plow up, cultivate or build upon or within any inclosureor plot of ground used and occupied for the sepulture of the dead, or shallcommit any nuisance in it, or wantonly disturb, remove, or in any way desecratethe contents of any grave in any inclosure or plot of ground, shall be guiltyof a felony and shall be imprisoned not less than one year and not exceedingthree (3) years, or be fined not more than three thousand dollars ($3,000), orboth.