R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-27.3-126.1: Application for review.

The owner of a building or other structure or the owner’s duly authorized representative who has been served with an order pertaining to an unsafe building or other structure and a notice to make the building or other structure safe, secure, or habitable or to take down and remove the building or other structure, shall have the right, except in cases of emergency, to demand a hearing before the board of appeal if the owner deems such order to be unnecessary, improper, or unreasonable, and the demand shall be in writing with a statement of reasons therefor.