(a)  A fee of three hundred dollars ($300) shall be paid to the director of labor and training on behalf of the state of Rhode Island for the original issuance of an employer‘s license.

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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-5

  • Director: means the director of labor and training. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2
  • Employer: means any person who either directly or through an employee, agent, subcontractor, independent contractor, or any other person delivers, distributes, supplies, or furnishes, or causes to be delivered, distributed, supplied, or furnished, to another person any materials to be processed in a home, including the home of the employer, and that are subsequently to be returned to him or her or to some person acting on his or her behalf, not for the personal use of himself or herself or of a member of his or her family. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2
  • Industrial homework: means the processing in a home, including the home of the employer in whole or in part, of material furnished by an employer of any article or articles to be returned to the employer. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-18-2

(b)  For each annual renewal of an employer’s license, the employer shall pay to the director of labor and training a fee of:

(1)  Forty dollars ($40.00) where the employer is delivering or causing to be delivered industrial homework to five (5) persons or less;

(2)  Eighty dollars ($80.00) where the employer is delivering or causing to be delivered industrial homework to from five (5) to twenty (20) persons;

(3)  One hundred fifty dollars ($150) where an employer is delivering or causing to be delivered industrial homework to from twenty (20) to one hundred (100) persons;

(4)  Three hundred dollars ($300) where an employer is delivering or causing to be delivered industrial homework to more than one hundred (100) persons.

History of Section.
P.L. 1936, ch. 2328, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 293, § 3; P.L. 1945, ch. 1608, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-18-5; P.L. 1960, ch. 74, § 12.