Rhode Island General Laws Title 5. Businesses and Professions § 5-20.7-26. Order to cease unsafe practices--Appeal

If the department of business regulation has reason to believe that any person, firm, or corporation or association is conducting any activities requiring licensure or certification pursuant to this chapter without obtaining a license, or who after the denial, suspension, or revocation of a license conducts any activities requiring licensure or certification pursuant to this chapter, the department may issue its order to that person, firm, corporation, or association commanding them to appear before the department at a hearing to be held not sooner than ten (10) days and not later than twenty (20) days after issuance of that order, to show cause why the department should not issue an order to that entity to cease and desist from the violation of the provisions of this chapter. The order to show cause may be served on any person, firm, corporation, or association named in the order in the same manner that a summons in a civil action may be served, or by mailing a copy of the order, certified mail, return receipt requested, to that entity at any address that is the place of business or place of residence. If upon that hearing the department is satisfied that the entity is in fact violating any provision of this chapter, then the department may order that entity, in writing, to cease and desist from that violation. All hearings shall be governed in accordance with chapter 35 of title 42. If that entity fails to comply with an order of the department after being afforded a hearing, the superior court in the county where the land or real estate is located has jurisdiction upon complaint of the department to restrain and enjoin that entity from violating this chapter.