Chapter 34-18 - RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT
- Section 34-18-1 - Short title
- Section 34-18-2 - Purposes - Rules of construction
- Section 34-18-3 - Supplementary principles of law applicable
- Section 34-18-4 - Construction against implicit repeal
- Section 34-18-5 - Administration of remedies - Enforcement
- Section 34-18-6 - Temporary restraining orders - Ex parte proceedings
- Section 34-18-7 - Application
- Section 34-18-8 - Exclusions from application of chapter
- Section 34-18-9 - Jurisdiction
- Section 34-18-10 - Service of process for actions pursuant to chapter
- Section 34-18-11 - Definitions
- Section 34-18-12 - Obligation of good faith
- Section 34-18-13 - Unconscionability
- Section 34-18-14 - Notice
- Section 34-18-15 - Terms and conditions of rental agreement
- Section 34-18-16 - Effect of unsigned or undelivered rental agreement
- Section 34-18-16.1 - Rent increases - Notice requirements
- Section 34-18-17 - Prohibited provisions in rental agreements
- Section 34-18-18 - Receipt of rent free of maintenance obligations forbidden
- Section 34-18-19 - Security deposits
- Section 34-18-20 - Disclosure
- Section 34-18-21 - Landlord to deliver possession of dwelling unit
- Section 34-18-22 - Landlord to maintain premises
- Section 34-18-22.1 - Landlord's duty to notify tenant of violation
- Section 34-18-22.2 - Landlord's duty regarding compliance with zoning and minimum housing laws
- Section 34-18-22.3 - Nonresident landlord to designate agent for service of process
- Section 34-18-23 - Limitation of liability upon sale or change of management
- Section 34-18-24 - Tenant to maintain dwelling unit
- Section 34-18-25 - Rules and regulations
- Section 34-18-26 - Access
- Section 34-18-27 - Tenant to use and occupy
- Section 34-18-28 - Noncompliance by the landlord in general
- Section 34-18-29 - Failure to deliver possession
- Section 34-18-30 - Self-help for limited repairs
- Section 34-18-31 - Wrongful failure to supply heat, water, hot water, or essential services
- Section 34-18-32 - Landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession or rent
- Section 34-18-33 - Fire or casualty damage
- Section 34-18-34 - Tenant's remedies for landlord's unlawful ouster, exclusion, or diminution of service
- Section 34-18-35 - Eviction for nonpayment of rent
- Section 34-18-36 - Eviction for noncompliance with rental agreement
- Section 34-18-37 - Termination of periodic tenancy
- Section 34-18-38 - Eviction for unlawfully holding over after termination or expiration of tenancy
- Section 34-18-38.1 - Definitions for purpose of the eviction of tenants in residential foreclosed properties
- Section 34-18-38.2 - Just cause needed for eviction of foreclosed residential property tenants
- Section 34-18-39 - Failure to maintain
- Section 34-18-40 - Remedies for abandonment
- Section 34-18-41 - Waiver of landlord's right to terminate
- Section 34-18-42 - Landlord liens - Distraint for rent abolished
- Section 34-18-43 - Remedy after termination
- Section 34-18-44 - Self-help recovery of possession prohibited
- Section 34-18-45 - Landlord and tenant remedies for abuse of access
- Section 34-18-46 - Retaliatory conduct prohibited
- Section 34-18-47 - Appeals
- Section 34-18-48 - Execution
- Section 34-18-49 - Payment of rent on stay of execution
- Section 34-18-50 - Payment of moving costs required
- Section 34-18-51 - Issuance of execution on nonpayment of rent
- Section 34-18-52 - Payment of rent during pendency of appeal
- Section 34-18-53 - Dismissal of appeal for nonpayment of rent during pendency of appeals
- Section 34-18-54 - Savings clause
- Section 34-18-55 - Severability
- Section 34-18-56 - Notices and complaint forms
- Section 34-18-57 - Providence and Warwick Absentee Landlord Enforcement Act
- Section 34-18-58 - Statewide mandatory rental registry
- Section 34-18-59 - Fair limitation on rental application fees - Effective January 1, 2024
- Section 34-18-60 - Sealing and unsealing of court files