2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 5-61 - Telephone Sales Solicitation Act
Section 5-61-5 - Criminal penalties.
§ 5-61-5. Criminal penalties.
Any person including, but not limited to, the seller, a salesperson, agent or representative of the seller or an independent contractor, who willfully violates any provision of this chapter or who directly or indirectly employs any device, scheme, or artifice to deceive in connection with the offer or sale by any telephonic seller, or who willfully, directly, or indirectly, engages in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person in connection with a sale by any telephonic seller, upon conviction, shall be punished as follows:
(1) By a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each unlawful transaction;
(2) By imprisonment in the state prison for not more than one year;
(3) By both fine and imprisonment specified in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this section.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1987, ch. 227, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 456, § 1.)
