§ 45-6-1 - Scope of ordinances permissible. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 45-6-1

   § 45-6-1  Scope of ordinances permissible.– (a) Town and city councils may, from time to time, make and ordain allordinances and regulations for their respective towns and cities, not repugnantto law, which they deem necessary for the safety of their inhabitants fromfire, firearms, and fireworks; to prevent persons standing on any footwalk,sidewalk, doorstep, or in any doorway, or riding, driving, fastening, orleaving any horse or other animal or any carriage, team, or other vehicle onany footwalk, sidewalk, doorstep, or doorway within the town or city, to theobstruction, hindrance, delay, disturbance, or annoyance of passersby or ofpersons residing or doing business in this vicinity; to regulate the putting upand maintenance of telegraph and other wires and their appurtenances; toprevent the indecent exposure of any one bathing in any of the waters withintheir respective towns and cities; against breakers of the Sabbath; againsthabitual drunkenness; respecting the purchase and sale of merchandise orcommodities within their respective towns and cities; to protect burial groundsand the graves in these burial grounds from trespassers; and, generally, allother ordinances, regulations and bylaws for the well ordering, managing, anddirecting of the prudential affairs and police of their respective towns andcities, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state, or of theUnited States.

   (b) Town and city councils shall furnish to their senatorsand representatives, upon request and at no charge, copies and updates of allordinances and regulations.

   (c) In lieu of newspaper publication, advance notice ofproposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of any ordinance or regulation by amunicipality may be provided via electronic media on a website maintained bythe office of the secretary of state.