Rhode Island General Laws — Title 44 (Taxation)
R.I. Gen. Laws § 44-19-37
Penalty for misappropriation
Any retailer and any officer, agent, servant, or employee of any corporate retailer responsible for either the collection or payment of the tax, who appropriates or converts the tax collected to his or her own use or to any use other than the payment of the tax to the extent that the money required to be collected is not available for payment on the due date as prescribed in this chapter, shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or be imprisoned for one year, or by both fine and imprisonment, both fine and imprisonment to be in addition to any other penalty provided by this chapter.
Amendment history
History of Section. P.L. 1962, ch. 92, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 268, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 504, § 1.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 44-19-11 · Deficiency determinations â Interest
- 44-19-12 · Pecuniary penalties for deficiencies
- 44-19-13 · Notice of determination
- 44-19-14 · Determination without return â Interest and penalties
- 44-19-15 · Jeopardy determinations
- 44-19-15.2 · Flea markets
- 44-19-16 · Finality of determination â Time payment due
- 44-19-17 · Hearing by administrator on application
- 44-19-18 · Appeals
- 44-19-19 · Judgment on review
- 44-19-20 · Interest and penalties on delinquent payments
- 44-19-20.1 · Interest on overpayments
- 44-19-21 · Taxes as debt to state â Lien on real estate
- 44-19-22 · Notice of transfer of business â Taxes due immediately
- 44-19-23 · Collection powers â Surety bond to pay
- 44-19-24 · Disposition of proceeds
- 44-19-25 · Claims for refund â Hearing â Judicial review
- 44-19-26 · Payment of refunds
- 44-19-27 · Records required â Users â Collectors of taxes â…
- 44-19-27.1 · Examination of taxpayerâs records â Witnesses
- 44-19-27.2 · Power to summon witnesses and evidence
- 44-19-27.3 · Service of summons
- 44-19-27.4 · Enforcement of summons
- 44-19-28 · Reports required as to use tax
- 44-19-29 · Access to records of state agencies
- 44-19-30 · Information confidential â Types of disclosure authorized
- 44-19-30.1 · Waiver of confidentiality
- 44-19-31 · Penalty for violations generally
- 44-19-32 · Deposit in mail as sufficient notice
- 44-19-33 · Rules and regulations â Forms
- 44-19-34 · Service of process â Director of business regulation as…
- 44-19-35 · Tax collection as property held in trust for the state
- 44-19-36 · Notice to segregate trust funds
- 44-19-37 · Penalty for misappropriation
- 44-19-38 · Remedy not exclusive
- 44-19-39 · Exclusion of certain small sales
- 44-19-40 · Disposition of revenue
- 44-19-41 · Materialperson â Definitions and applicability
- 44-19-42 · Suppression of sales â Definitions and applicability
- 44-19-43 · Managed audit program