(a) Any entity that is a child safe zone is prohibited from employing a person who is an offender.
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 11-37.3-2
- Child Safe Zone: means the following entities:
(i) Any private, municipal, county, or state fair or carnival;
(ii) Any children's arcade, amusement center having coin-or token-operated devices for entertainment, movie theatre, or facilities providing programs or services intended primarily for minors;
(iii) A public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school, child care facility, or public library:
(iv) Any place intended primarily for use by minors including, but not limited to, a playground, a children's play area, recreational or sport-related activity area, a swimming or wading pool, or a beach; and
(v) Any healthcare facility intended primarily for minors. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-37.3-1
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Offender: means a person who is, or is required to be, registered as a sex offender in this state or any other jurisdiction and whose victim was a minor. See Rhode Island General Laws 11-37.3-1
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
(b) The individual who made the final hiring decision for an entity that is a child safe zone that knowingly employs an offender as prohibited in § 11-37.3-3(a) shall be subject to a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day the offender is employed.
(c) Any offender who knowingly misrepresents or omits his or her sex offender registration status to obtain employment in a child safe zone shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, be subject to imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or both.
History of Section.
P.L. 2014, ch. 506, § 1.
