110 R.I. Code R. 110-RICR-40-00-3.1
The Department of Attorney General, in conjunction with the Rhode Island Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles and the Rhode Island Motor Vehicle Dealers License Commission, has found that all too frequently motor vehicles in the State of Rhode Island are sold with tampered, altered, replaced, reset, or misrepresented odometer gauge readings. The Attorney General has also found that, as a result of the sale of these motor vehicles with deceptive odometer gauge readings, members of the consuming public have been and are threatened to be damaged and therefore need protection. These rules and regulations are for the purpose of determining and/or regulating certain conduct concerning the sale of automobiles with altered, replaced, reset or at any time disconnected odometer gauges. These rules and regulations are also for the purpose of determining and/or regulating certain representations and/or misrepresentations of the actual mileage traveled by a motor vehicle. These practices are or may involve unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices as defined in R.I. Gen. Laws § 6-13.1-1 and as prohibited by R.I. Gen. Laws § 6-13.1-2. These rules and regulations are for the purpose of protecting unknowing purchasers from suffering financial damage through the purchase of a motor vehicle with a tampered, altered, reset, misrepresented, or at any time disconnected odometer gauge.
110 R.I. Code R. 110-RICR-40-00-3.1