2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-15 - Itinerant Vendors
§ 5-15-13 - Enforcement – Failure to produce license as evidence – Seizure.

SECTION 5-15-13

   § 5-15-13  Enforcement – Failure to produce license as evidence – Seizure. – (a) It is the duty of the officers in each town and city in this state to see that the provisions of this chapter are complied with and to prosecute for violations of those provisions. All of those officers shall have power to demand the production of the proper state and local licenses from any itinerant vendor advertising or actually engaged in business, and any failure to produce those licenses shall be prima facie evidence against the vendor that he or she has none.

   (b) Property held out for sale by any itinerant vendor in this state without a permit to make sales at retail issued by the division of taxation is subject to seizure, without a warrant, by the tax administrator, his or her agents or employees, or by any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or police officer of the state when directed by the tax administrator to do so. Any property seized may be offered by the tax administrator for sale at public auction to the highest bidder after advertisement to discharge any tax liability owed to the state; provided, that any property seized in that manner is not released until the tax administrator is satisfied that all taxes owed to the state are paid and the retailer is in compliance with the sales/use tax law.