2014 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 16 - Education
Chapter 16-93 - Genocide Education in Secondary Schools [See Title 16 Chapter 97 – The Rhode Island Board of Education Act]
Section 16-93-2 - Definitions.
§ 16-93-2 Definitions. – For the purpose of this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Genocide," as defined by the Genocide Convention: "means" any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such as: (i) Killing members of the group; (ii) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (iii) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (iv) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group and/or; (v) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2011, ch. 45, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 70, § 1.)
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