2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations
Chapter 28-6.1 - Lie Detector Tests as Conditions of Employment
Section 28-6.1-2 - Penalty – Exception.


RI Gen L § 28-6.1-2 (2013) What's This?

§ 28-6.1-2 Penalty – Exception. – Any employer who subjects any person employed by him or her, or any person applying for employment, to a lie detector test, or causes, directly or indirectly, any employee or applicant to take a lie detector test, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). This section does not apply to lie detector tests administered by law enforcement agencies in the performance of their official duties.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1964, ch. 229, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 398, § 1.)

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