§ 11-24-2 - Discriminatory practices prohibited. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-24-2

   § 11-24-2  Discriminatory practicesprohibited. – No person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent,or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement shalldirectly or indirectly refuse, withhold from, or deny to any person on accountof race or color, religion, country of ancestral origin, disability, age, sex,sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, any of the accommodations,advantages, facilities, or privileges of that public place. No person shalldirectly or indirectly publish, circulate, issue, display, post, or mail anywritten, printed or painted communication, notice, or advertisement, to theeffect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privilegesof any public accommodation place shall be refused, withheld from, or denied toany person on account of race or color, religion, country of ancestral origin,disability, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age orthat the patronage or custom at that place of any person belonging to orpurporting to be of any particular race or color, religion, country ofancestral origin, disability, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identityor expression is unwelcome, objectionable, or not acceptable, desired, orsolicited. The production of any written, printed, or painted communication,notice, or advertisement, purporting to relate to any public place and to bemade by any person being its owner, lessee, proprietor, superintendent, ormanager, shall be presumptive evidence in any action that its production wasauthorized by that person.