§ 4-1.1-1 Definitions
§ 4-1.1-2 Purpose
§ 4-1.1-3 Unlawful confinement
§ 4-1.1-4 Exceptions
§ 4-1.1-5 Penalty
§ 4-1.1-6 Severability

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 4-1.1 - Unlawful Confinement of a Covered Animal

  • Active duty: means full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the United States, including members of the National Guard and Reserve on active duty orders pursuant to 10 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Board of Regents: means the state board of regents for elementary and secondary education established in chapter 16-60. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-90-4
  • Certificate of limited partnership: means the certificate required by § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
  • Children of military families: means a school-aged child or children, enrolled in kindergarten through twelfth grade, in the household of an active duty member. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • Compact commissioner: means the voting representative of each compacting state appointed pursuant to § 16-91-9 of this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Deployment: means the period one month prior to the service members' departure from their home station on military orders through six (6) months after return to their home station. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • Extracurricular activities: means a voluntary activity sponsored by the school or local education agency or an organization sanctioned by the local education agency. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • 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.
  • General partner: means a person that:

    (i)  Has become a general partner under § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102

  • Genocide: means any act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group such as:

    (i)  Killing members of that group;

    (ii)  Causing serious bodily injury to members of that group;

    (iii)  Causing permanent impairment of the mental faculties of members of the group through drugs, torture, or similar techniques;

    (iv)  Subjecting the group to conditions of life that are intended to cause the physical destruction of the group in whole or in part;

    (v)  Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or

    (vi)  Forcibly transferring or attempting to transfer children of the group to another group, as defined by the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987 (18 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-93.1-2

  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Holocaust: means the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million (6,000,000) Jews and five million (5,000,000) other individuals by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-93.1-2
  • 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
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Limited partner: means a person that:

    (i)  Has become a limited partner under § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102

  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Local education agency: means a public authority legally constituted by the state as an administrative agency to provide control of and direction for kindergarten through twelfth grade public educational institutions. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • Member state: means a state that has enacted this compact. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • Military installation: means a base, camp, post, station, yard, center, homeport facility for any ship, or other activity under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense, including any leased facility, which is located within any of the several states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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.
  • Partner: means a limited partner or general partner. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
  • 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 limited partnership concerning the matters described in § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
  • Person: means an individual, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, general cooperative association, limited cooperative association, unincorporated nonprofit association, cooperative housing corporation, workers' cooperative, producers' cooperative, consumer's cooperative, statutory trust, business trust, common-law business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Principal office: means the principal executive office of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership, whether or not the office is located in this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Receiving state: means the state to which a child of a military family is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • 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.
  • Required information: means the information that a limited partnership is required to maintain under § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
  • Rule: means a written statement by the interstate commission promulgated pursuant to § 16-91-13 of this chapter that is of general applicability, implements, interprets or prescribes a policy or provision of the compact, or an organizational, procedural, or practice requirement of the interstate commission, and has the force and effect of statutory law in a member state, and includes the amendment, repeal, or suspension of an existing rule. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • 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
  • Sending state: means the state from which a child of a military family is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • 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 7-13.1-102
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Student: means the child of a military family for whom the local education agency receives public funding and who is formally enrolled in kindergarten through twelfth grade. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • Transferable interest: means the right, as initially owned by a person in the person's capacity as a partner, to receive distributions from a limited partnership, whether or not the person remains a partner or continues to own any part of the right. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
  • Transferee: means a person to which all or part of a transferable interest has been transferred, whether or not the transferor is a partner. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
  • Transition: means : (i) The formal and physical process of transferring from school to school; or (ii) The period of time in which a student moves from one school in the sending state to another school in the receiving state. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-92-3
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8