2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 31 - Motor and Other vehicles
Chapter 31-25 - Size, Weight, and Load Limits
Chapter 31-25-18 - Weighing of suspected overweight vehicles.


RI Gen L § 31-25-18 (2012) What's This?

§ 31-25-18 Weighing of suspected overweight vehicles. – Any proper officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load is unlawful is authorized to require the driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the vehicle and load by means of either portable or stationary scales, and may require that the vehicle be driven to the nearest available stationary scales.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1950, ch. 2595, art. 35, § 10; G.L. 1956, § 31-25-18.)

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