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Rhode Island · Through site files published 2025-08-13 · Newer source version available

R.I. Gen. Laws § 31-11-16: Unlawful use of license.

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  1. Title 31 Motor and Other Vehicles
  2. Chapter 11 Suspension or Revocation of Licenses — Violations

It is a civil violation for any person:

(1) To display, or cause or permit to be displayed, or have in his or her possession any cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, or fraudulently altered operator’s or chauffeur’s license;

(2) To lend his or her operator’s or chauffeur’s license to any other person or knowingly permit the use of it by another;

(3) To display or represent as one’s own any operator’s or chauffeur’s license not issued to him or her;

(4) To fail or refuse to surrender to the division of motor vehicles upon its lawful demand any operator’s or chauffeur’s license which has been suspended, revoked, or cancelled;

(5) To use a false or fictitious name in any application for an operator’s or chauffeur’s license or to knowingly make a false statement or to knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application;

(6) To permit any unlawful use of an operator’s or chauffeur’s license issued to him or her; or

(7) To do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required by this title.

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