§ 11-36-10 - Evasion of payment of fare. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-36-10

   § 11-36-10  Evasion of payment of fare.– Every person who shall fraudulently evade or attempt to evade the payment ofany fare, rate or toll lawfully established by any railroad company, or astreet railway company, or a toll bridge company, or by the owners orcharterers of any steamboat or ferryboat, or by any steamship company, or byany owner or operator of a motor bus holding a certificate from the publicutility commission, or by the Rhode Island public transit authority, either bygiving a false answer to the collector of the fare, rate, or toll, or bypresenting for his or her fare, rate, or toll a ticket good only for thetransportation of another person, or by traveling beyond the point to which heor she may have paid his or her fare, rate, or toll, or by leaving the train,car, bridge, steamboat, ferryboat, or steamship without having paid the fair,rate, or toll established for the distance traveled, or otherwise, shall befined twenty dollars ($20.00) for each offense.