2005 Rhode Island Code - § 39-13-7 — Posting of bond to pay damages from jitney operation.

    Whenever any person, association, or corporation has obtained and filed with the division of motor vehicles a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the division for the operation of a jitney, the person, association, or corporation, before operating a jitney, shall deposit with the general treasurer of the state a bond running to the general treasurer and in form and substance approved by the division of motor vehicles, with such surety, if any, as the division may require, conditioned to pay any final judgment obtained against the principal named in the bond for any injury to person or property or damage for causing the death of any person, which injury, death, or damage may result from or have been caused by the use or operation of the jitney by the owner thereof or his or her or its agents, employees, or drivers. Any person so injured or damaged or his or her executor or administrator, or the executor or administrator of any person whose death was so caused, may enforce payment of a judgment by suit on the bond in the name of the general treasurer.