§ 23-27.3-100.0 Scope
§ 23-27.3-100.1 Short title — Applicability
§ 23-27.3-100.1.1 Chapter title — Applicability
§ 23-27.3-100.1.2 Purpose
§ 23-27.3-100.1.3 Creation of the state building code standards committee
§ 23-27.3-100.1.4 Appointment and qualifications of the committee
§ 23-27.3-100.1.5 Building code — Adoption and promulgation by committee
§ 23-27.3-100.1.5.1 Housing and maintenance code — Powers and duties of the building code standards committee
§ 23-27.3-100.1.5.2 Existing codes
§ 23-27.3-100.1.5.3 State rehabilitation building and fire code for existing buildings and structures
§ 23-27.3-100.1.5.4 State energy conservation code
§ 23-27.3-100.1.5.5 Hurricane, storm, and flood standards
§ 23-27.3-100.1.6 Committee as board of standards and appeals — Powers and duties — Appeals
§ 23-27.3-100.1.7 Effect of local codes — Repeal of local authority
§ 23-27.3-100.1.8 Severability
§ 23-27.3-100.2 Application of references
§ 23-27.3-100.3 Construction
§ 23-27.3-100.4 Specialized codes incorporated
§ 23-27.3-101.0 Matters covered
§ 23-27.3-101.1 Exemption for ordinary repairs
§ 23-27.3-101.2 Matters not covered
§ 23-27.3-101.2.1 Proposed buildings
§ 23-27.3-101.2.2 Buildings and structures, existing and under construction
§ 23-27.3-101.3 Zoning restrictions
§ 23-27.3-102.0 Ordinary repairs
§ 23-27.3-103.0 Installation of service equipment
§ 23-27.3-104.0 Maintenance
§ 23-27.3-104.1 Owner responsibility
§ 23-27.3-105.0 Change in existing use
§ 23-27.3-105.1 Continuation of existing use
§ 23-27.3-105.2 Change in use and occupancy
§ 23-27.3-105.3 Part change in use
§ 23-27.3-105.4 Reestablishment of a prior use
§ 23-27.3-106.0 Existing structures
§ 23-27.3-106.1 Substantial improvements
§ 23-27.3-106.2 Substantial damages exceeding fifty percent
§ 23-27.3-106.3 Improvements and damages between twenty-five and fifty percent of value
§ 23-27.3-106.4 Improvements or damages under twenty-five percent of value
§ 23-27.3-106.5 Physical value
§ 23-27.3-107.0 Department of building inspection
§ 23-27.3-107.1 Local building official — Appointment
§ 23-27.3-107.1.1 State and local inspector — Qualifications — Powers and duties
§ 23-27.3-107.2 Alternate local building official
§ 23-27.3-107.3 Appointment of personnel by state building commissioner
§ 23-27.3-107.4 Qualifications and duties of the state building commissioner
§ 23-27.3-107.5 Local building official — Qualifications — Powers and duties
§ 23-27.3-107.6 Certification of local building officials — Educational programs
§ 23-27.3-107.7 Recertification and continuing education
§ 23-27.3-107.8 Restriction on employees’ activities
§ 23-27.3-107.9 Relief from personal responsibility
§ 23-27.3-108.0 Duties and powers of the building official and the state building commissioner
§ 23-27.3-108.1 Local building official — Enforcement duties
§ 23-27.3-108.1.1 Applications and permits
§ 23-27.3-108.1.3 New materials and methods of construction
§ 23-27.3-108.1.3.1 Test results
§ 23-27.3-108.1.3.2 Retesting
§ 23-27.3-108.1.4 Inspections
§ 23-27.3-108.1.6 Administrative procedures
§ 23-27.3-108.1.7 Department records
§ 23-27.3-108.1.8 Reports
§ 23-27.3-108.2 State building commissioner’s duties
§ 23-27.3-108.2.1 Duties of committee
§ 23-27.3-108.2.2 Compensation of committee members
§ 23-27.3-108.2.3 Emergency procedures
§ 23-27.3-108.2.4 Municipal advisory council on statewide permitting
§ 23-27.3-109.1 Committee’s rule making authority — Legislative report — Legislative committee
§ 23-27.3-109.1.1 Committee — Licensing of laboratories and test personnel
§ 23-27.3-109.1.2 Committee — Regulation of manufactured buildings
§ 23-27.3-109.1.3 Adoption of federal standards for manufactured homes
§ 23-27.3-109.1.3.1 Inspection of manufactured homes manufacturers
§ 23-27.3-109.1.3.2 Penalties for violation as to manufactured homes
§ 23-27.3-109.1.3.3 Monitoring inspection fee
§ 23-27.3-109.1.3.4 Reports of manufactured home manufacturers, distributors, and dealers
§ 23-27.3-109.1.3.5 Temporary greenhouse defined
§ 23-27.3-109.2 Accepted engineering practice
§ 23-27.3-109.3 Proposing amendments to rules and regulations
§ 23-27.3-110.0 Modifications and variances

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 23-27.3 > Article 1 - Administration and Enforcement

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Apprentice barber: means an employee whose principal occupation is service with a barber who has held a current license as a barber for at least three (3) years with a view to learning the art of barbering, as defined in subsection (14). See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Barber: means any person who shaves or trims the beard; waves, dresses, singes, shampoos, or dyes the hair; or applies hair tonics, cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders, oil clays, or lotions to the scalp, face, or neck of any person; or cuts the hair of any person; gives facial and scalp massages; or treatments with oils, creams, lotions, or other preparations. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Board: means the state board of barbering and hairdressing as provided for in this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • 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.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Department: means the Rhode Island department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Department: means the department of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
  • Director: means the director of the department of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Division: means the division of professional regulation within the department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • 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
  • Esthetician: means a person who engages in the practice of esthetics, and is licensed as an esthetician. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Esthetics: means the practice of cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, and beautifying skin, including, but not limited to, the treatment of such skin problems as dehydration, temporary capillary dilation, excessive oiliness, and clogged pores. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • 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.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Hairdresser and cosmetician: means any person who arranges, dresses, curls, cuts, waves, singes, bleaches, or colors the hair or treats the scalp, or manicures the nails of any person, either with or without compensation, or who, by the use of the hands or appliances, or of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, creams, powders, oils or clays, engages, with or without compensation, in massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, or beautifying, or in doing similar work upon the neck, face, or arms, or who removes superfluous hair from the body of any person. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • 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.
  • Instructor: means any person licensed as an instructor under the provisions of this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Manicurist: means any person who engages in manicuring for compensation and is duly licensed as a manicurist. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Mobile food establishment: means a food service operation that is operated from a movable motor-driven or propelled vehicle, portable structure, or watercraft that can change location. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
  • 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.
  • operator: means a person or corporate entity who or that owns, manages, or controls, or who or that has the duty to manage or control, the operation of a mobile food establishment. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
  • 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.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Practice of barbering: means the engaging by any licensed barber in all, or any combination of, the following practices: shaving or trimming the beard or cutting the hair; giving facial and scalp massages or treatments with oils, creams, lotions, or other preparations, either by hand or mechanical appliances; singeing, shampooing, arranging, dressing, curling, waving, chemical waving, hair relaxing, or dyeing the hair or applying hair tonics; or applying cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders, oils, clays, or lotions to the scalp, face, or neck. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Practice of hairdressing and cosmetic therapy: means the engaging by any licensed hairdresser and cosmetician in any one or more of the following practices: the application of the hands or of mechanical or electrical apparatus, with or without cosmetic preparations, tonics, lotions, creams, antiseptics, or clays, to massage, cleanse, stimulate, manipulate, exercise, or otherwise to improve or to beautify the scalp, face, neck, shoulders, arms, bust, or upper part of the body; or the manicuring of the nails of any person; or the removing of superfluous hair from the body of any person; or the arranging, dressing, curling, waving, weaving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, bleaching, coloring, or similarly treating the hair of any person. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Practice of manicuring: means the cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring, or cleansing the nails of any person. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • real estate: may be construed to include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and rights thereto and interests therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-10
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • registration: means a registration issued by the department which authorizes a mobile food establishment to operate in the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
  • 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.
  • RIDOH: means the Rhode Island department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-11.1-3
  • School: means a school approved under chapter 40 of Title 16, as amended, devoted to the instruction in, and study of, the theory and practice of barbering, hairdressing, and cosmetic therapy, esthetics, and/or manicuring. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-10-1
  • seal: shall be construed to include an impression of the seal made with or without the use of wax or wafer on the paper. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-15
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8