§ 6-28.1-2 - Definitions. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 6-28.1-2

   § 6-28.1-2  Definitions. – (a) "Consumer" means an individual who seeks or acquires, by purchase or lease,any goods or services for personal, family, or household purposes.

   (b) "Disabled person" means any person who has a physical ormental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.

   (c) "Goods" means tangible chattels bought or leased for useprimarily for personal, family, or household purposes, including certificatesor coupons exchangeable for these goods, and including goods which, at the timeof the sale or subsequently, are to be so affixed to real property as to becomea part of real property whether or not severable from real property.

   (d) "Home solicitation" means any transaction made at theconsumer's primary residence, except those transactions initiated by theconsumer. A consumer response to an advertisement is not a home solicitation.

   (e) "Person" means an individual, partnerships, corporation,limited liability company, association, or other group, however organized.

   (f) "Senior citizens" means a person who is sixty-five(65)years of age or older.

   (g) "Services" means work, labor, and services for other thana commercial or business and including services furnished in connection withthe sale or repair of goods.

   (h) "Transaction" means an agreement between a consumer andany other person, whether or not the agreement is a contract enforceable byaction, and includes the making of, and the performance pursuant to, thatagreement.