R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-38-6

Application for license shall be made in duplicate to the department of business regulation in any form that the department requires and shall be accompanied by the required fee and evidence of financial responsibility. The department may require, in that application, information relating to the applicant€™s financial standing, the applicant€™s business integrity, whether the applicant has an established place of business, whether the applicant is properly able to conduct the business of an automobile body repair shop, and any other pertinent information consistent with the safeguarding of the public interest in the location in which that applicant proposes to engage in business, all of which may be considered by the department in determining whether the granting of that application is in the public interest. In the event of denial of an application, the filing fee paid with that application shall be refunded.