Any person that violates any of the provisions of this chapter, or of the regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter, and any principal, proprietor, agent, servant, or employee, who directs or knowingly permits a violation or who aids or assists a violation, shall upon conviction be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or to both the fine and imprisonment.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 21-9-22