§ 11-30-5 - Evidence as to intoxicating liquors. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-30-5

   § 11-30-5  Evidence as to intoxicatingliquors. – It shall not be necessary to prove an actual sale of intoxicating liquors inany building, place, or tenement, in order to establish the character of suchpremises as a common nuisance as provided in § 11-30-2 The notoriouscharacter of any premises, the notoriously bad or intemperate character ofpersons visiting them, the keeping of the implements or appurtenances usuallyappertaining to grog-shops, tippling-shops, or places where intoxicatingliquors are sold, shall be evidence that the premises are nuisances within themeaning of §§ 11-30-1 and 11-30-2. Evidence of the sale or keeping ofintoxicating liquors for sale in any building, place or tenement shall beevidence that the sale or keeping is illegal, and that the premises arenuisances within the meaning of §§ 11-30-1 and 11-30-2.