{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-6-32-2","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 6-32-2","heading":"Duties of the seller.","body":"It shall be unlawful for any seller of goods:\n(1) To fail to disclose or to misrepresent in any way the store’s policy with reference to a “lay-away” sale;\n(2) To represent to a buyer who is purchasing on a “lay-away” sale that the specific goods chosen by the buyer or an exact duplicate of the goods are being laid away for that buyer when that is not a fact;\n(3) To fail to disclose to the buyer that the specified goods or their exact duplicate will only be set aside for a certain period of time;\n(4) To deliver to the buyer after payments (pursuant to the lay-away sale) are completed, goods that are not identical to, or exact substitutes of, those specified, unless prior approval in writing has been received from the buyer;\n(5) To increase the price of the goods specified either by way of increasing the payments or substituting goods that are of a lower quality or price;\n(6) To fail to deliver to the buyer, on any date payment is made, a receipt showing the amount and the date of that payment, and, upon request, the balance of payments made up to that date.","path":["Title 6 Commercial Law — General Regulatory Provisions","Chapter 32 Lay-Away Sales"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE6/6-32/6-32-2.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:18:29Z","sha256":"0da442a20f2ec49363690add03b4f3b35b1b100826f380f960946222397b1554","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-6-32-1","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-6-32-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}