2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-16 - Laundries
§ 5-16-1 - Definitions.
SECTION 5-16-1
§ 5-16-1 Definitions. – In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Licensing authorities" means the bureau or board of police commissioners of any city or town where that bureau or board of police commissioners is established; but where there is no bureau or board, it means the town council of a town, and the city council of a city.
(2) "Person" means and includes a person, partnership, or corporation.
(3) "Public laundry" means and includes any plant or equipment conducted or operated as a laundry for profit, and for which business is solicited from the general public, but does not mean or include a laundry operated exclusively for and in connection with a hospital, school or other institution, hotel, boardinghouse, or private dwelling, nor a laundry operated by one institution which also serves another institution.
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