The statutes consolidated and arranged in this revision of 1956 may be designated in all citations thereof as the general laws, adding to the citation whenever necessary the number of the title, the chapter, and of the section; but such statutes shall be deemed as statutes of the year in which they were, respectively, originally enacted.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 43-4-3
Citation of general laws
G.L. 1896, ch. 297, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 366, § 4; G.L. 1923, ch. 419, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 657, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 43-4-3.
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