Title 34
Property
Chapter 18
Residential Landlord and Tenant Act
R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-18-24
§ 34-18-24. Tenant to maintain dwelling unit.
A tenant shall:
(1) Comply with all obligations primarily imposed upon tenants by applicable provisions
of building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety;
(2) Keep that part of the premises that he or she occupies and uses as clean and safe
as the condition of the premises permit;
(3) Dispose from his or her dwelling unit all ashes, garbage, rubbish, and other waste
in a clean and safe manner;
(4) Keep all plumbing fixtures in the dwelling unit or used by the tenant as clean as
their condition permits;
(5) Use in a reasonable manner all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating,
air-conditioning, and other facilities and appliances, including elevators, in the
premises;
(6) Not deliberately or negligently destroy, deface, damage, impair, or remove any part
of the premises or knowingly permit any person to do so;
(7) Conduct himself or herself, and require other persons on the premises with his or
her consent to conduct themselves, in a manner that will not disturb his or her neighbors’
peaceful enjoyment of the premises;
(8) Refrain from using any part of the premises in a manner such as would constitute the
maintaining of a narcotics nuisance under the provisions of § 21-28-4.06;
(9) Refrain from using any part of the premises or any public property adjacent thereto
for the manufacture, sale, or delivery of a controlled substance or from possessing
on the premises or any public property adjacent thereto with the intent to manufacture,
sell, or deliver a controlled substance classified in schedule I or schedule II of
chapter 28 of title 21; and