Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 3-4 – Transportation of Beverages


§ 3-4-1	Importation orders
§ 3-4-2	Payment of purchase price and service charges
§ 3-4-3	Importation and payments by division of taxation
§ 3-4-4	Risk assumed by purchaser
§ 3-4-5	Class G licensees exempt
§ 3-4-6	Penalty for carrying beverages for unlawful sale
§ 3-4-7	Waybill or memorandum of shipment required
§ 3-4-8	Unlawful sale and shipment

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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 3-4 - Transportation of Beverages

Access: means to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, enter data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of, a computer, computer system, or computer network. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Airport: means any area of land or water, or both, designed and set aside for the approach, landing, and taking off of aircraft and utilized or to be utilized in the interest of the public for those purposes. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-3-2
Airport corporation: means the Rhode Island airport corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-3-2
Airport hazard: means any electronic transmission device or structure, that, as determined by the federal aviation administration, interferes with radio communication between airport and aircraft approaching or leaving the airport, or any structure or tree or use of land that obstructs the airspace required for the flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at any airport or is otherwise hazardous to the landing or taking off of aircraft. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-3-2
Airport hazard area: means any area of land or water upon which an airport hazard might be established if not prevented as provided in this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-3-2
Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
Appraisal: A determination of property value.
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
Beverage: means any liquid that either by itself or by mixture with any other liquid or liquids, is, or may become, fit for human consumption as a drink and that contains five-tenths of one per cent (. See Rhode Island General Laws 3-1-1
computer: includes any connected or directly related device, equipment, or facility which enables the computer to store, retrieve or communicate computer programs, computer data or the results of computer operations to or from a person, another computer or another device. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Computer data: means any representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts, or instructions which is being prepared or has been prepared and is intended to be processed, is being processed, or has been processed in a computer or computer network. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Computer network: means a set of related, remotely connected devices and any communications facilities including more than one computer with the capability to transmit data among them through the communications facilities. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Computer program: means a series of instructions or statements or related data that, in actual or modified form, is capable of causing a computer or a computer system to perform specified functions in a form acceptable to a computer, which permits the functioning of a computer system in a manner designed to provide appropriate products from the computer systems. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Computer services: includes computer time or services, data processing services, Internet service providers' networks and facilities located in the state or information or data stored in connection with them. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Computer software: means a sequence of instructions written in any programming language that is executed on a computer. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52.2-1
Computer software: means a set of computer programs, procedures, and associated documentation concerned with the operation of a computer, computer program or computer network. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Computer system: means a set of related, connected or unconnected, computer equipment, devices, and software. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
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.
Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
Damage: means any significant impairment to the integrity or availability of data, computer software, a system, or information. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52.2-1
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Data: means any representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts, or instructions which are being prepared or have been prepared and are intended to be entered, processed, or stored, are being entered, processed, or stored or have been entered, processed, or stored in a computer, computer system, or computer network. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
Department: means the department of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 3-1-1
Division of taxation: means the division of taxation of the department of administration. See Rhode Island General Laws 3-1-1
Document-making implement: means any implement, impression, electronic device, or computer hardware or software, that is specifically configured or primarily used for making an identification document, a false identification document, or another document-making implement;

(2) "Identification document" means a document made or card issued by or under the authority of the United States Government, a state, political subdivision of a state, a foreign government, political subdivision of a foreign government, an international governmental or an international quasi-governmental organization which, when completed with information concerning a particular individual, is of a type intended or commonly accepted for the purpose of identification of individuals;

(3) "Means of identification" means any name or number that may be used, alone or in conjunction with any other information, to identify a specific individual, including any:

(i) Name, social security number, date of birth, official state or government issued driver's license or identification number, alien registration number, government passport number, employer or taxpayer identification number;

(ii) Unique biometric data, such as fingerprint, voice print, retina or iris image, or other unique physical representation;

(iii) Unique electronic identification number, address, or routing code; or

(iv) Telecommunication identifying information or access device as defined in Rhode Island General Laws 11-49.1-2
Electronic mail service provider: means any business or organization qualified to do business in the state of Rhode Island that provides registered users the ability to send or receive electronic mail through equipment located in this state and that is an intermediary in sending or receiving electronic mail. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
Financial instrument: includes , but is not limited to, any check, draft, warrant, money order, note, certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bill of exchange, credit or debit card transaction authorization mechanism, marketable security, or any computerized representation of any of these. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Gambling: includes , but is not limited to, pool-selling, bookmaking, maintaining slot-machines, roulette wheels or dice tables, and conducting lotteries, Policy, Bolita, or numbers games or selling chances in them. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-51-1
Import: means at one time, or in one transaction, to take, or cause to be taken, into this state from outside the state any malt beverage in excess of eight (8) gallons or any vinous beverage or any beverage consisting in whole, or in part, of alcohol produced by distillation in excess of three (3) gallons. See Rhode Island General Laws 3-1-1
Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
Intentionally deceptive: means any of the following:

(a) An intentionally and materially false or fraudulent statement;

(b) A statement or description that intentionally omits or misrepresents material information in order to deceive an owner or operator; and

(c) An intentional and material failure to provide any notice to an owner or operator regarding the installation or execution of computer software in order to deceive the owner or operator. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52.2-1
Internet: means the global information system that is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the internet protocol (IP), or its subsequent extensions, and that is able to support communications using the transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) suite, or its subsequent extensions, or other IP-compatible protocols, and that provides, uses, or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure described in this subsection. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52.2-1
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
Obstruction: means any tangible, inanimate physical object, natural or artificial, protruding above the surface of the ground. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-3-2
Organized criminal gambling business: as used in this chapter means a gambling business which involves three (3) or more persons who conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct, operate, or own all or part of the business and which has been or remains in substantially continuous operation for a period in excess of fifteen (15) days, or which has conducted operations on at least two (2) days in each of two (2) consecutive weeks, or which has a combined gross revenue of at least one thousand dollars ($1,000) in any single day, or which has entered into a total of at least one hundred (100) gambling transactions in any single day. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-51-1
Owner: means an owner or lessee of a computer or a computer network or an owner, lessee, or licensee of computer data, computer programs, or computer software. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Owner or operator: means the owner or lessee of a computer, or someone using such computer with the owner's or lessee's authorization. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52.2-1
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
Person: shall include any individual, partnership, association, corporation or joint venture. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other organization, or any combination thereof. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52.2-1
Personal property: All property that is not real property.
Personally identifiable information: means any of the following with respect to an individual who is an owner or operator:

(a) First name or first initial in combination with last name;

(b) A home or other physical address including street name;

(c) An electronic mail address;

(d) A credit or debit card number, bank account number, or a password or access code associated with a credit or debit card or bank account;

(e) Social security number, tax identification number, driver's license number, passport number, or any other government-issued identification number; and

(f) Any of the following information in a form that personally identifies an owner or operator:

(i) Account balances;

(ii) Overdraft history; and

(iii) Payment history. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52.2-1
Political subdivision: means any city or town or any other public corporation, authority or district, department, or any combination of two (2) or more, currently empowered to adopt, administer and enforce municipal zoning regulations or to purchase or condemn pursuant to § 1-2-3. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-3-2
Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
Produce: means to manufacture, alter, authenticate, or assemble an identification document;

(5) "State" includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any other commonwealth, possession, or territory of the United States; and

(6) "Financial information" means any of the following information identifiable to an individual that concerns the amount and/or condition of an individual's assets, liabilities or credit:

(i) Account numbers and balances;

(ii) Transactional information concerning any account; or

(iii) Codes, passwords, social security numbers, tax identification numbers, driver's license numbers or any other information held for the purpose of account access or transaction initiation. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-49.1-2
Property: includes , but is not limited to:

(i) Real property;

(ii) Computers and computer networks;

(iii) Financial instruments, computer data, computer programs, computer software and all other personal property regardless of whether they are:

(A) Tangible or intangible;

(B) In a format readable by humans or by a computer;

(C) In transit between computers or within a computer network or between any devices which comprise a computer; or

(D) Located on any paper or in any device on which it is stored by a computer or by a human; and

(E) Computer services. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
Services: includes , but is not limited to, computer time, data processing, and storage functions. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
Source document: means an original document or record which forms the basis of every electronic entry put into a computer, computer system, or computer network. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52-1
State: includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any other commonwealth, possession, or territory of the United States; and

(6) "Financial information" means any of the following information identifiable to an individual that concerns the amount and/or condition of an individual's assets, liabilities or credit:

(i) Account numbers and balances;

(ii) Transactional information concerning any account; or

(iii) Codes, passwords, social security numbers, tax identification numbers, driver's license numbers or any other information held for the purpose of account access or transaction initiation. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-49.1-2
Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Structure: means any object constructed or installed by humans, including, but without limitation, buildings, towers, smokestacks, and overhead transmission lines, including the poles or other structures supporting the object. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-3-2
Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
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
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
Transmit: means to transfer, send, or make available computer software, or any component thereof, via the internet or any other medium, including local area networks of computers, other nonwire transmission, and disc or other data storage device. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-52.2-1
Tree: means any object of natural growth. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-3-2
Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8