R.I. Gen. Laws § 39-9-2: Abandonment of stations — Seasonal stations.

No railroad corporation shall abandon any railroad station that is on its road and in this state after the station has been established for twelve (12) months, except by permission of the commission; but the corporation may establish stations to be used only during certain months of each year, and for such trains, as they may designate by notice put up and maintained in some conspicuous place at the stations so established, specifying the months during which the station will be used.