Rhode Island General Laws 5-16-5. Night and Sunday operations
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No public laundry shall be operated, nor collections of articles to be washed or cleaned in the laundries shall be made, in the town of West Warwick or Bristol or in any city or town whose population according to the latest federal census was more than twenty thousand (20,000), between the hours of 12 o’clock midnight and 5 o’clock in the morning of any day, nor at any time during the first day of the week; provided, that none of the previous provisions apply to automatic coin-operated laundries.
History of Section.
P.L. 1928, ch. 1200, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 369, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 5-16-5; P.L. 1961, ch. 109, § 1.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 5-16-5
- 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
- town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9