2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 19 - Financial institutions
Chapter 19-14.4 - Check Cashing
Section 19-14.4-3 - Rules and regulations.

§ 19-14.4-3 Rules and regulations. – (a) The director or the director's designee is authorized, directed and empowered to promulgate regulations that provide for the safety and security of customers of the licensee, and/or its employees, from robbery or other criminal activities to include, but not be limited to, bulletproof glass and steel partitions.

(b) The rules and regulations, in addition to any other provisions as the director or the director's designee may require, must provide that licensees maintain:

(1) Continuously, for each licensed premises, liquid assets of at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000);

(2) A cash sheet which must be prepared daily for each day's business reflecting all transactions for that day;

(3) A money order register recording the date issued, money order number, amount and date paid. In lieu of the money order register, a copy of the money order may be kept when carbonized type money orders are used;

(4) Insurance issued by an insurance company or indemnity company, authorized to do business under the laws of this state, which shall insure the applicant against loss by theft, burglary, robbery or forgery in principal sum, as determined by the director or the director's designee, which shall in no event be less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) nor more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). The required amounts shall bear a relationship to the liquid assets on hand at the licensed location; and

(5) An adequate written policy and affirmative program to insure compliance with state and federal money laundering statutes.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1995, ch. 82, § 56.)