§ 11-36-1 - Hindering passage of trains – Placing explosives near highways, buildings, or tracks. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-36-1

   § 11-36-1  Hindering passage of trains– Placing explosives near highways, buildings, or tracks. – Every person who shall willfully place upon any railroad track any substance orthing with intent to hinder or impede the passage of any locomotive engine orcar over the railroad, or shall willfully do any other act, matter, or thing,with intent to hinder, impede, or interrupt the passage of the locomotiveengine or car, or whoever willfully throws into, against, or upon, or puts,places, or explodes, or causes to be exploded, in, upon or near a publichighway, building, monument, bridge, railroad track, or car on it, or vessel,any gunpowder or other explosive substance, or a bombshell, torpedo, or anyinstrument or package filled or loaded with an explosive substance, with intentunlawfully to destroy or injure the highway, building, monument, bridge,railroad track, car, or vessel, or any person or property, in, on or near thehighway, building, monument, highway, bridge, railroad track, car, or vessel,shall be imprisoned not less than two (2) years nor more than twenty (20)years, or be fined not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both.