Section 11-5-10.1 - Assault on persons 60 years of age or older causing serious bodily injury(a) Any person who shall commit an assault or battery, or both, upon a person sixty (60) years of age or older, causing serious bodily injury, shall be deemed to have committed a felony and shall be imprisoned for not less than three (3) years but not more than twenty (20) years, or fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both. Every person so convicted shall be ordered to make restitution to the victim of the offense or to perform up to five hundred (500) hours of public community restitution work or attend violence counseling and/or substance abuse counseling, or any combination of them imposed by the sentencing judge. The court may not waive the obligation to make restitution and/or public community restitution work. The restitution and/or public community restitution work shall be in addition to any fine or sentence which may be imposed and not in lieu of the fine or sentence.(b) "Serious bodily injury" means physical injury that: (1) Creates a substantial risk of death;(2) Causes protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily part, member or organ; or(3) Causes serious permanent disfigurement.R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-5-10.1
P.L. 1987, ch. 123, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 491, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 324, §1; P.L. 1997 , ch. 119, § 1.