§ 11-36-10. Evasion of payment of fare.
Every person who shall fraudulently evade or attempt to evade the payment of any fare, rate or toll lawfully established by any railroad company, or a street railway company, or a toll bridge company, or by the owners or charterers of any steamboat or ferryboat, or by any steamship company, or by any owner or operator of a motor bus holding a certificate from the public utility commission, or by the Rhode Island public transit authority, either by giving a false answer to the collector of the fare, rate, or toll, or by presenting for his or her fare, rate, or toll a ticket good only for the transportation of another person, or by traveling beyond the point to which he or she may have paid his or her fare, rate, or toll, or by leaving the train, car, bridge, steamboat, ferryboat, or steamship without having paid the fair, rate, or toll established for the distance traveled, or otherwise, shall be fined twenty dollars ($20.00) for each offense.
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 279, § 43; G.L. 1909, ch. 345, § 46; P.L. 1916, ch. 1391, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 397, § 46; P.L. 1930, ch. 1534, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 608, § 46; G.L. 1956, § 11-36-10; P.L. 1997, ch. 151, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 11-36 - Railroads and Carriers
Section 11-36-2. - Unauthorized stopping of train.
Section 11-36-3. - Throwing missiles at train.
Section 11-36-4. - Injuring railroad signals or signal lines.
Section 11-36-5. - Loitering on railroad or bus line property.
Section 11-36-6. - Trespassing on railroad right-of-way.
Section 11-36-7. - Posting of statute.
Section 11-36-8. - Removal of waste or packing from journal boxes.
Section 11-36-9. - Obstruction of street railway company.
Section 11-36-10. - Evasion of payment of fare.
Section 11-36-11. - Unauthorized presence on locomotive or freight train.
Section 11-36-12. - Profiteering on tickets.
Section 11-36-13. - Tampering with railroad switches.
Section 11-36-14. - “Railroad corporation” and “company” defined.