Section 270-RICR-50-00-2.11 - PenaltiesA. Criminal Penalties 1. In addition to the foregoing, any person who willfully and knowingly violates any provision of R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 11-19, or who shall willfully and knowingly give false or incorrect information to the Department in filing statements or reports, whether such report or statement is verified or not, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be sentenced pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-19-39 for the first offense to pay a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or both, and for the second and any subsequent offenses to pay a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or imprisonment for no more than five (5) years, or both.B. Forfeiture of Charter 1. Whenever the Attorney General shall have reason to believe, or the Attorney General has been advised by the Superintendent (who shall have given due notice and full hearing to the charitable organization), that said charitable organization is doing or has done any of the following, in addition to all other actions authorized by law: a. Operating in violation of the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 11-19;b. Has knowingly and willfully made any false statements in any initial or any renewal application, or in any other information required to be filed;c. Failed to file a registration statement required by the Department;d. Employed, or is about to employ any device, scheme or artifice to defraud or to obtain money or property by means of any false pretense, representation or promise;e. The officers or representatives fail, after notice, to produce any records of such organization;f. The funds raised by the game are not devoted, or will not be devoted, to the charitable purposes of the charitable organization2. The Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island may bring an action in the name of the State of Rhode Island against such charitable organization and its officers, or any other person who has violated the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 11-19, to enjoin such charitable organization or person from continuing such violation, doing any acts in furtherance thereof, and for such other relief as the court deems appropriate. The court may make such additional orders and/or judgments as may be necessary to restore to any person in interest any monies or property, real or personal, which may have been acquired by means of any practice in R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 11-19, declared to be unlawful.3. The Department may refuse to grant an initial application, renew an application and may revoke a registration of any charitable organization which knowingly makes a false statement in any initial registration application, renewal application or statement, annual report, or other information required to be filed by the Department or the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 11-19.270 R.I. Code R. 270-RICR-50-00-2.11