CHAPTER 34-18 - Residential Landlord and Tenant Act
- § 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.
- § 34-18-39 - 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.