{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-11-7-13","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-7-13","heading":"Acceptance of gratuity by employees of banking division of department of business regulation.","body":"(a) No person who is an employee of the banking division of the department of business regulation or an employee of the department with jurisdiction over the banking division, shall accept a gratuity from a financial institution governed by title 19 or from any officer, director, or employee of the financial institution.\n(b) If the gratuity, so accepted, is valued at less than one hundred dollars ($100), the person who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be imprisoned for not more than one year, or fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both.\n(c) If the gratuity, so accepted, is valued at one hundred dollars ($100) or more, or if the aggregate of the gratuities so accepted within a year equal or exceed one hundred dollars ($100), the person who violated this section shall be guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned not more than three (3) years, or fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or three (3) times the amount of the gratuity so given, whichever is greater, or both.","path":["Title 11 Criminal Offenses","Chapter 7 Bribery"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE11/11-7/11-7-13.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T19:55:10Z","sha256":"2f77d6aa685b46c88e50f946536e4bb0f940b561fa015d90b376bae2696087ba","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-11-7-12","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-11-7-14"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}