(a)  “Consumer” means an individual who seeks or acquires, by purchase or lease, any goods or services for personal, family, or household purposes.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 6-28.1-2

  • Agreement: means a written contractual agreement between the merchant and the third-party delivery service. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-58-1
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

(b)  “Disabled person” means any person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.

(c)  “Goods” means tangible chattels bought or leased for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, including certificates or coupons exchangeable for these goods, and including goods that, at the time of the sale or subsequently, are to be so affixed to real property as to become a part of real property whether or not severable from real property.

(d)  “Home solicitation” means any transaction made at the consumer’s primary residence, except those transactions initiated by the consumer. A consumer response to an advertisement is not a home solicitation.

(e)  “Person” means an individual, partnerships, corporation, limited-liability company, association, or other group, however organized.

(f)  “Senior citizen” means a person who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older.

(g)  “Services” means work, labor, and services for other than a commercial or business and including services furnished in connection with the sale or repair of goods.

(h)  “Transaction” means an agreement between a consumer and any other person, whether or not the agreement is a contract enforceable by action, and includes the making of, and the performance pursuant to, that agreement.

History of Section.
P.L. 1997, ch. 121, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 528, § 20.