§ 42-14.2-20 - Cease and desist orders.
SECTION 42-14.2-20
§ 42-14.2-20 Cease and desist orders.– (a) If the department shall have reason to believe that any person, firm,corporation, or association is violating the provisions of this chapter, thedepartment may issue its order to that person, firm, corporation, orassociation commanding them to appear before the department at a hearing to beheld not sooner than ten (10) days nor later than twenty (20) days afterissuance of the order to show cause why the commission should not issue anorder to the person to cease and desist from the violation of the provisions ofthis chapter.
(b) An order to show cause may be served on any person, firm,corporation, or association named therein by any person in the same manner thata summons in a civil action may be served, or by mailing a copy of the order tothe person at any address at which he or she has done business or at which heor she lives. If upon the hearing the department shall be satisfied that theperson is in fact violating any provision of this chapter, then the departmentshall order that person, in writing, to cease and desist from the violation. Atany hearing, any person subject to an order of the department to cease anddesist may be represented by counsel.
(c) The department shall not be bound by common law rules ofevidence, but may receive and consider any statements, documents, and thingswhich shall be considered by them necessary or useful in arriving at theirdecision. If that person shall thereafter fail to comply with the order of thedepartment, the superior court for Providence County shall have jurisdictionupon the complaint of the department to restrain and enjoin that person fromviolating this chapter. The complaint shall be in the form of a civil action.The findings and order of the department shall constitute prima facie evidencethat the person ordered by the department to cease and desist has violated theprovisions of this chapter.
(d) The attorney general shall afford the department anynecessary assistance in obtaining relief in the superior court.