Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages
Section 28-12-15. - Hindering enforcement — Failure to carry out administrative requirements.

§ 28-12-15. Hindering enforcement — Failure to carry out administrative requirements.
Any employer who or that: (1) Hinders or delays the director of labor and training, or his or her authorized representative, in the performance of his or her duties in the enforcement of this chapter; (2) Refuses to admit the director of labor and training, or his or her authorized representative, to any place of employment; (3) Fails to make, keep, and preserve any records as required under the provisions of this chapter; (4) Falsifies any record; (5) Refuses to make any record accessible to the director of labor and training, or his or her authorized representative, upon demand; (6) Refuses to furnish a sworn statement of the record or any other information required for the proper enforcement of this chapter to the director of labor and training, or his or her authorized representative, upon demand; or (7) Fails to post a summary of this chapter or a copy of any applicable regulation or order as required by § 28-12-11, shall be deemed in violation of this chapter and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500). Each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense.
History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3745, § 12; G.L. 1956, § 28-12-15; P.L. 2000, ch. 109, § 54.

Structure Rhode Island General Laws

Rhode Island General Laws

Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations

Chapter 28-12 - Minimum Wages

Section 28-12-1. - Short title.

Section 28-12-2. - Definitions.

Section 28-12-3. - Minimum wages.

Section 28-12-3.1. - Wages for minors.

Section 28-12-3.2. - Wages for failure to furnish shift work.

Section 28-12-4. - [Repealed.]

Section 28-12-4.1. - Overtime pay.

Section 28-12-4.2. - Biweekly overtime pay.

Section 28-12-4.3. - Exemptions.

Section 28-12-4.4. - Regulations.

Section 28-12-5. - Employees receiving gratuities.

Section 28-12-6. - Occupational administrative regulations.

Section 28-12-7. - Revision of regulations.

Section 28-12-8. - Judicial review of regulations.

Section 28-12-9. - [Repealed.]

Section 28-12-10. - Learners and apprentices.

Section 28-12-11. - Posting of law and orders.

Section 28-12-12. - Records of employers.

Section 28-12-13. - Responsibility for enforcement.

Section 28-12-14. - Enforcement powers.

Section 28-12-15. - Hindering enforcement — Failure to carry out administrative requirements.

Section 28-12-16. - Discrimination against employees invoking provisions.

Section 28-12-17. - Payment of substandard wages.

Section 28-12-18. - Penalty for other violations.

Section 28-12-19. - Actions for relief.

Section 28-12-20. - Assignment of wage claim and action by department.

Section 28-12-21. - More favorable laws preserved.

Section 28-12-22. - Collective bargaining rights preserved.

Section 28-12-23. - Annual appropriation.

Section 28-12-24. - Severability.

Section 28-12-25. - Uniformity.