Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 6-31 - Unit Pricing

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Consumer commodity: means any food, drug, device, or cosmetic and other article, product, or commodity of any other kind or class, except for drugs sold only by prescription, that:

  (i)  Are customarily produced for sale to retail sales agencies or instrumentalities for consumption by individuals; for use by individuals for purposes of personal care; or in the performance of services ordinarily rendered in or around the household; and

  (ii)  Usually are consumed or expended in the course of the consumption or use. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-31-1

• 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.
• Customer: means the person, business, or other entity that places an order for merchant products through the marketplace. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-58-1
• Director: means the director of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-31-1
• 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
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Retail price: means the price at which the consumer commodity is sold to the ultimate customer. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-31-1
• Sale at Retail: means sale of a consumer commodity to the ultimate customer. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-31-1
• Ultimate customer: is a person who purchases a product other than for resale. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-31-1