§ 11-35-4.1. Installation of live wires or electrical equipment.
(a) Whoever being engaged in the business of transmitting electricity or installing or repairing live wires or electrical equipment knowingly permits a journeyperson line worker, while on a pole or structure, to work on live wires in excess of seven hundred and fifty (750) volts to ground unless he or she is assisted on or at the base of each pole or structure by a journeyperson line worker, a second year apprentice, or a line worker having a title commonly accepted as the equivalent of the foregoing, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100).
(b) Each violation of this section shall be a separate offense.
(c) This section shall not apply to work done by any person who is commonly called a troubleshooter, who would be employed in the performance of making emergency repairs, locating electrical faults, clearing defective apparatus, and answering service calls.
History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 195, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 11-35 - Public Utilities
Section 11-35-2. - Badges of telegraph and telephone workers.
Section 11-35-3. - Penalty for violating §§ 11-35-1, 11-35-2.
Section 11-35-4. - Injuries to electric or communication lines.
Section 11-35-4.1. - Installation of live wires or electrical equipment.
Section 11-35-5. - Aiding, abetting, counseling, or procuring line injuries.
Section 11-35-6. - Interference with gas or electric or water meters.
Section 11-35-7. - Bypassing meters — Use of electricity, gas or water with intent to defraud.
Section 11-35-8. - Interference with electric meter.
Section 11-35-9. - Bypassing electric meter — Use of electricity with intent to defraud.
Section 11-35-10. - Excessive gas or water charges — False meters.
Section 11-35-11 - — 11-35-13. Repealed.
Section 11-35-14. - Refusal to relinquish or to damage or to obstruct telephone.
Section 11-35-15. - Notice on telephone book.
Section 11-35-16. - Wrongfully obtaining telecommunication service.
Section 11-35-17. - Crank or obscene telephone calls.
Section 11-35-18. - Bomb threats and similar false reports.
Section 11-35-19. - Prosecution for violations of §§ 11-35-17, 11-35-18.
Section 11-35-20. - Termination of service.
Section 11-35-20.1. - Wrongful termination or disruption of service.
Section 11-35-22. - Offenses in connection with authorized interception of communications.
Section 11-35-23. - Failure to report to law enforcement officers.
Section 11-35-25. - Fraudulent communication devices.
Section 11-35-26. - Automatic telephone dialing systems failing to disconnect.