Q: What can a person be charged with for having sex in a car in a public park in Rhode Island?
I should add that I am referring to 2 consenting adults.
A:
§ 180-1 Disturbing the peace.
Every person who shall revel, commit any nuisance or mischief, quarrel or otherwise behave in an indecent or disorderly manner in any of the public buildings or places to which the public is admitted, halls, railroad stations, places of amusement, churches, schools, streets, highways, public bridges, public lands, burial grounds, public parks, or grounds set apart for public purpose, to the disturbance or annoyance of the peaceable inhabitants of the Town or any portion of them, or who shall aid, assist, encourage or promote such actions to be done by any other person, shall be guilty of an offense.
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