Rhode Island General Laws 5-16-3. Application for permit
Application for a permit shall be made in any form and shall contain any information as to the public laundry for which it is desired that the licensing authorities require. Application for a permit may be made at any time. Within forty (40) days after the receipt of an application, the licensing authorities shall determine whether or not the permit applied for shall be granted. The licensing authorities shall give the applicant for, or holder of, any permit, notice, in writing, of any decision they may make in relation to the permit. Any applicant or holder aggrieved by the decision may within thirty (30) days after receipt of that notice, appeal the decision to the superior court for the counties of Providence and Bristol. That court shall hear the appeal as soon as it may be heard and determine the appeal.
History of Section.
P.L. 1928, ch. 1200, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 369, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 5-16-3.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 5-16-3
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
- Licensing authorities: means the bureau or board of police commissioners of any city or town where that bureau or board of police commissioners is established; but where there is no bureau or board, it means the town council of a town and the city council of a city. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-16-1
- Public laundry: means and includes any plant or equipment conducted or operated as a laundry for profit, and for which business is solicited from the general public, but does not mean or include a laundry operated exclusively for and in connection with a hospital, school, or other institution, hotel, boardinghouse, or private dwelling, nor a laundry operated by one institution that also serves another institution. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-16-1