R.I. Gen. Laws § 12-19-30: Certification and default on recognizances.

Every recognizance pursuant to § 12-19-29 shall be immediately certified to the clerk of the superior court for the same county and filed by the clerk in his or her office; and in case any person under a recognizance shall fail to perform its conditions, his or her default shall be recorded and process shall issue against the persons bound in the recognizance, or any of them that the attorney general shall direct.