Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 2-9 – Forestry Functions of Department of Environmental Management


§ 2-9-3	Leases and concessions on reservations
§ 2-9-4	Employees – Records – Annual report
§ 2-9-5	Appropriations – Expenses
§ 2-9-6	Publication of information

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Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
art merchant: includes an auctioneer who sells art works at public auction, and except in the case of multiples, includes persons, not otherwise defined or treated as art merchants in this section, who are consignors or principals of auctioneers. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Artist: means the creator of a work of fine art or, in the case of multiples, the person who conceived or created the image, that is contained in or constitutes the master from which the individual print was made. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
authorship: refers to the creator of a work of fine art or multiple or to the period, culture, source, or origin, as the case may be, with which the creation of that work is identified in the description of the work. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
Certificate of authenticity: means a written statement by an art merchant confirming, approving, or attesting to the authorship of a work of fine art or multiple, which is capable of being used to the advantage or disadvantage of some person. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
Conservation: means acts taken to correct deterioration and alteration and acts taken to prevent, stop, or retard deterioration. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
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.
Counterfeit: means a work of fine art or multiple made, altered, or copied, with or without intent to deceive, in any manner that it appears or is claimed to have an authorship that it does not in fact possess. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Craft: means a functional or nonfunctional work individually designed and crafted by hand in any medium, including, but not limited to: textile, tile, paper, clay, glass, fiber, wood, metal, or plastic; provided, that if produced in multiples, craft does not include works mass produced or produced in other than a limited edition. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Creditors: means "creditor" as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code, § 6A-1-201(13). See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
Department: means the department of attorney general. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
Former patient: is a person who obtained a professional consultation or diagnostic or therapeutic service from a mental-health professional within two (2) years prior to sexual contact with the mental-health professional. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-63.1-1
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (§?6A-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
Hours of operation: means Monday through Friday, except a state or federal holiday, nine o'clock (9:00 a. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
Interest: means :

(i) A share in a business corporation;

(ii) A membership in a nonprofit corporation;

(iii) A partnership interest in a general partnership;

(iv) A partnership interest in a limited partnership;

(v) A membership interest in a limited liability company;

(vi) A share in a general cooperative association;

(vii) A member's interest in a limited cooperative association;

(viii) A membership in an unincorporated nonprofit association;

(ix) A beneficial interest in a statutory trust, business trust, or common-law business trust; or

(x) A governance interest or distributional interest in any other type of unincorporated entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Interest holder: means :

(i) A shareholder of a business corporation;

(ii) A member of a nonprofit corporation;

(iii) A general partner of a general partnership;

(iv) A general partner of a limited partnership;

(v) A limited partner of a limited partnership;

(vi) A member of a limited liability company;

(vii) A shareholder of a general cooperative association;

(viii) A member of a limited cooperative association;

(ix) A member of an unincorporated nonprofit association;

(x) A beneficiary or beneficial owner of a statutory trust, business trust, or common-law business trust; or

(xi) Any other direct holder of an interest. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Item: means any goods and services and includes coupon books that are to be used with businesses other than the seller's business. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Jurisdiction of formation: means the jurisdiction whose law governs the internal affairs of an entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-102
Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
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}
Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and any other applicable rules of law. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
Limited edition: means works of art produced from a master, all of which are the same image and bear numbers or other markings to denote the limited production of the work to a stated maximum number of multiples, or are otherwise held out as limited to a maximum number of multiples. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Master: when used alone, is used in lieu of and means the same as such things as printing plate, stone, block, screen, photographic negative, or other like material that contains an image used to produce visual art objects in multiples, or in the case of sculptures, a mold, model, cast, form, or other prototype, other than from glass, from which additional multiples of sculpture are produced, fabricated, or carved. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Mental-health professional: includes a licensed, an unlicensed, a certified, or an uncertified or an in-training:

(i) Marriage and family therapist;

(ii) Mental-health counselor;

(iii) Psychiatric nurse;

(iv) Psychiatrist;

(v) Psychologist;

(vi) Social worker;

(vii) Chemical dependency professional; or

(viii) Any mental health or human service professional, or any other person, licensed or unlicensed, certified or uncertified, rendering or offering to render services, for the purpose of treating, diagnosing, or assessing mental or emotional disorders or distress, modifying behaviors, or alleviating problems pertaining to interpersonal relationships, work and life adjustment, and personal effectiveness that are caused by mental or emotional disorders or distress. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-63.1-1
Merger: means a transaction authorized by § 7-12. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Merging entity: means an entity that is a party to a merger and exists immediately before the merger becomes effective. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
multiples: means prints, photographs, positive or negative, sculpture, and similar art objects produced in more than one copy and sold, offered for sale, or consigned in, into, or from this state for an amount in excess of one hundred dollars ($100), exclusive of any frame, or in the case of sculpture, an amount in excess of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500). See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
On consignment: means that no title to, estate in, or right to possession of the work of fine art or multiple that is superior to that of the cosigner vests in the cosignee, notwithstanding the cosignee's power or authority to transfer or convey all the right, title, and interest of the cosignor, in and to such work, to a third person. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Organic law: means the law of an entity's jurisdiction of formation governing the internal affairs of the entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Organic rules: means the public organic record and private organic rules of an entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
Owner: means a person who owns or controls ten percent (10%) or more of the equity of, or otherwise has claim to ten percent (10%) or more of the net income of, a telephonic seller. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
Partner: means a person that:

(i) Has become a partner in a partnership under § 7-12. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-102
Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
Partnership agreement: means the agreement, whether or not referred to as a partnership agreement and whether oral, implied, in a record, or in any combination thereof, of all the partners of a partnership concerning the matters described in § 7-12. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-102
Patient: is a person who obtains a professional consultation or diagnostic or therapeutic service from a mental health professional. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-63.1-1
Person: includes an individual, firm, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, or any other business entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other group, however organized. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
Personal property: All property that is not real property.
Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
Plan: means a plan of merger, plan of interest exchange, plan of conversion, or plan of domestication. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Plan of merger: means a plan under § 7-12. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
Principal: means an owner; an executive officer of a corporation; a general partner of a partnership; a sole proprietor of a sole proprietorship; a trustee of a trust; or any other individual with similar supervisory functions with respect to any person. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
Private organic rules: means the rules, whether or not in a record, that govern the internal affairs of an entity, are binding on all its interest holders, and are not part of its public organic record, if any. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Property: means all property, whether real, personal, or mixed or tangible or intangible, or any right or interest therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-102
prospective purchaser: means a person who is solicited to become, or does become, obligated to a telephonic seller. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
Public organic record: means the record the filing of which by the secretary of state is required to form an entity and any amendment to or restatement of that record. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
Reproduction: means a copy, in any medium, of a work of fine art that is displayed or published under circumstances that, reasonably construed, evinces an intent that it be taken as a representation of a work of fine art as created by the artist. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
Salesperson: means any individual employed, appointed, or authorized by a telephonic seller, whether referred to by the telephonic seller as an agent, representative, or independent contractor, who attempts to solicit or solicits a sale on behalf of the telephonic seller. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
Sculpture: means a three-dimensional fine-art object produced, fabricated, or carved in multiple from a mold, model, cast, form, or other prototype, other than from glass, sold, offered for sale, or consigned in, into, or from this state for an amount in excess of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500). See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
seller: means a person who, on his or her own behalf or through salespersons or through the use of an automatic-dialing-announcing device, causes a telephone solicitation, or attempted telephone solicitation, to occur that meets the criteria specified as follows:

(i) A telephone solicitation, or attempted telephone solicitation, where the telephonic seller initiates or engages in telephonic contact with a prospective purchaser and represents or implies one or more of the following:

(A) That a prospective purchaser who buys one or more items will also receive additional or other items, whether or not of the same type as purchased, without "further cost. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
Sexual contact: means any of the following, whether or not occurring with the consent of a patient or former patient:

(A) Sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal intercourse, or any intrusion, however slight, into the genital or anal openings of the patient's or former patient's body by any part of the mental health professional's body or any object used by the mental health professional for that purpose, or any intrusion, however slight, into the genital or anal openings of the mental health professional's body by any part of the patient's or former patient's body or by any object used by the patient or former patient for that purpose, if consented to by the mental health professional;

(B) Sustained kissing of the mouth or kissing or intentional touching by the mental health professional of the patient's or former patient's genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttocks, or breast or the clothing covering any of these body parts; or sustained kissing of the mouth or kissing or intentional touching by the patient or former patient of the mental health professional's genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttocks, or breast or the clothing covering any of these body parts if the mental health professional consents to the kissing or intentional touching;

(C) Exhibition by the mental health professional in view of the patient or former patient of the mental health professional's genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttocks, or breast; voyeurism by the mental health professional in the form of viewing the patient's or former patient's genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttocks, or breast;

(D) Using the influence inherent in the mental health professional-patient or mental health professional-former patient relationship to induce the patient or former patient to engage in sexual contact with a third party. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-63.1-1
Signed: means autographed by the artist's own hand, and not by mechanical means of reproduction, after the multiple was produced, whether or not the master was signed or unsigned. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-102
Statement of merger: means a statement under § 7-12. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Subject: means the mental health professional named in a report as being suspected of having sexual contact with a patient or former patient or who has been determined to have engaged in sexual contact with a patient or former patient. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-63.1-1
supervised financial institution: means any commercial bank, trust company, savings and loan association, credit union, industrial loan company, personal property broker, consumer finance lender, commercial finance lender, or insurer; provided, that the institution is subject to supervision by an official or agency of this state or of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-2
Surviving entity: means the entity that continues in existence after or is created by a merger. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
telephone solicitation: means the engagement of a telephone conversation for the purpose of encouraging a person to purchase personal property, investment opportunities, goods or services, or for the purpose of gathering information for sales solicitation. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-61-1
Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Type of entity: means a generic form of entity:

(i) Recognized at common law; or

(ii) Formed under an organic law, whether or not some entities formed under that organic law are subject to provisions of that law that create different categories of the form of entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-12.1-1101
Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
Work of fine art: means any original work of visual or graphic art of any medium that includes, but is not limited to, the following: painting; drawing; print; photographic print; or sculpture of a limited edition of no more than three hundred (300) copies; provided, that "work of fine art" does not include sequential imagery such as that in motion pictures. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2
Written instrument: means a written or printed agreement, bill of sale, invoice, certificate of authenticity, catalogue, or any other written or printed note or memorandum or label describing the work of fine art or multiple that is to be sold, exchanged, or cosigned by an art merchant. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-62-2