§ 11-21-3 - Tattooing or permanent disfigurement. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-21-3

   § 11-21-3  Tattooing or permanentdisfigurement. – Every person being a student, or being a person in attendance at any public,private, parochial, or military school, college, or other educationalinstitution, who shall tattoo or knowingly and willfully permanently disfigurethe body, limbs, or features of any fellow student or person attending theinstitution by the use of nitrate of silver or any like substance, or by anyother means, shall be held guilty of a crime of the degree of mayhem, andshall, upon conviction, be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) years nor lessthan one year.