R.I. Gen. Laws § 3-9-6
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§ 3-9-6. Sale of liquor with injurious ingredients.
Official statutory text
Any person keeping for sale or offering to sell or selling any spirituous or intoxicating liquors which are adulterated with any poison or deleterious ingredients injurious to health, shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars ($300) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or be imprisoned in the adult correctional institution for not less than three (3) months nor more than six (6) months; and upon the second conviction of a violation of this or of any preceding section of this chapter, the person convicted shall be sentenced to be both fined and imprisoned.
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