§ 31-11-16. Unlawful use of license. It is a civil violation for any person:
(1) To display, or cause or permit to be displayed, or have in his or her possession any cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, or fraudulently altered operator's or chauffeur's license;
(2) To lend his or her operator's or chauffeur's license to any other person or knowingly permit the use of it by another;
(3) To display or represent as one's own any operator's or chauffeur's license not issued to him or her;
(4) To fail or refuse to surrender to the division of motor vehicles upon its lawful demand any operator's or chauffeur's license which has been suspended, revoked, or cancelled;
(5) To use a false or fictitious name in any application for an operator's or chauffeur's license or to knowingly make a false statement or to knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application;
(6) To permit any unlawful use of an operator's or chauffeur's license issued to him or her; or
(7) To do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required by this title.
History of Section. (P.L. 1950, ch. 2595, art. 17, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 31-11-1; G.L. 1956, § 31-11-16; P.L. 1962, ch. 204, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 218, art. 6, § 5.)
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