Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-13. Responsibility of registrant for acts of agents/employees
If a registrant is a firm or corporation, it is sufficient cause for the suspension or revocation of a registration that any officer, director, manager, or trustee of the firm or entity or any member or partner, in the case of a partnership, has been found by the department to have engaged in any act or omission that would be cause for denying, suspending, or revoking a registration to that party as an individual. Each registrant shall be responsible for the acts of any person working on their mobile food establishment or any person acting as the agent for that registrant, and for the acts of any chef or other employee acting as the agent for that registrant.
History of Section.
P.L. 2018, ch. 80, § 2; P.L. 2018, ch. 94, § 2.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-13
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Department: means the department of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
- Director: means the director of the department of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
- Mobile food establishment: means a food service operation that is operated from a movable motor-driven or propelled vehicle, portable structure, or watercraft that can change location. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
- Registrant: means the holder of a "state mobile food establishment registration. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
- registration: means a registration issued by the department which authorizes a mobile food establishment to operate in the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.