§ 5-16-1 - Definitions. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 5-16-1

   § 5-16-1  Definitions. – In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

   (1) "Licensing authorities" means the bureau or board ofpolice commissioners of any city or town where that bureau or board of policecommissioners is established; but where there is no bureau or board, it meansthe town council of a town, and the city council of a city.

   (2) "Person" means and includes a person, partnership, orcorporation.

   (3) "Public laundry" means and includes any plant orequipment conducted or operated as a laundry for profit, and for which businessis solicited from the general public, but does not mean or include a laundryoperated exclusively for and in connection with a hospital, school or otherinstitution, hotel, boardinghouse, or private dwelling, nor a laundry operatedby one institution which also serves another institution.