§ 10-10-11. Bonds and obligations not provided for void.
If any deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constable or the warden of the adult correctional institutions shall take or receive from any prisoner in his or her custody any bond, obligation, covenant, promise, or assurance whatsoever, to indemnify and save harmless the person taking the bond, obligation, covenant, promise, or assurance for the enlargement or ease of the prisoner, in any other form or manner than is prescribed by law for taking bail on mesne process in a civil action, or is prescribed in this chapter or chapter 12 of this title, every such bond, obligation, covenant, promise or assurance whatsoever, shall be utterly void.
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 259, § 16; G.L. 1909, ch. 325, § 16; G.L. 1923, ch. 376, § 16; G.L. 1938, ch. 562, § 16; impl. am. P.L. 1956, ch. 3721, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 10-10-11; P.L. 2012, ch. 324, § 25.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 10 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure in Particular Actions
Chapter 10-10 - Imprisonment on Civil Process
Section 10-10-1. - Grounds for writ commanding arrest.
Section 10-10-2. - Form of writ from superior court.
Section 10-10-3. - Form of writ from district court.
Section 10-10-4. - Exemption of females from arrest on contract.
Section 10-10-5. - Exemption of voters at time of elections.
Section 10-10-6. - Exemption of persons on military duty.
Section 10-10-7. - Custody of person arrested.
Section 10-10-8. - Notation of cause of action on execution and commitment.
Section 10-10-9. - Privileges allowed person committed in absence of memorandum.
Section 10-10-10. - Validity of assignments made by prisoner.
Section 10-10-11. - Bonds and obligations not provided for void.
Section 10-10-12. - Payment of prisoner’s board.
Section 10-10-13. - Discharge of prisoner on default in board payments.