Rhode Island Landlord Tenant Law

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