§ 11-41-18 - Defacement or conversion of rental battery. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-41-18

   § 11-41-18  Defacement or conversion ofrental battery. – Any person, other than the owner or the owner's duly authorized agent, whoshall wrongfully or maliciously remove, deface, alter, or destroy, or cause tobe removed, defaced, altered, or destroyed, the word "rental" printed, painted,stamped upon or attached to any electric storage battery, or who shallwrongfully sell, give, or attempt to sell or give to any person any electricstorage battery so marked, or who shall, without the written consent of theowner, retain in his or her possession any electric storage battery so marked,with intent to wrongfully keep or dispose of the battery by sale or gift, shallbe fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100).