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DUI law in Rhode Island

The criminal charge and your driving privileges are separate questions. Check both.

DUI law in Rhode Island concerns both the criminal charge and the right to drive. The applicable licence process depends on the alleged conduct, test result or refusal, and the notice or court order. A criminal court date is not a substitute for checking a separate licence deadline. The cited rules below identify what has been verified for this jurisdiction.

The two legal questions

The criminal charge and driving privileges can involve different proceedings. The notice, order and cited rule identify the applicable process.

Driving privileges

The licence case

Forum: The agency or court identified by the applicable licence proceeding
Clock: Check the applicable notice or order for the deadline and its starting event

Deadline to request a hearing: Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.Check the suspension notice or order and the licensing agency’s official instructions. Do not rely on the criminal court date.
Suspension under the cited rule: Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Hearing procedure under the cited rule: By written request to the traffic tribunal or district court

Criminal charge

The criminal case

Forum: A criminal court
Clock: Check court notices and orders; no case duration is predicted here

Alcohol-concentration threshold: Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
First-offense penalty rule: Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.The cited rule may describe a range or a minimum with conditions, not a predicted sentence.
Lookback period: Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.

Alcohol-concentration thresholds in Rhode Island

The cited provision controls the threshold’s scope. Underage and commercial rules can concern licensing as well as criminal liability; they are not all the same offense.

Standard drivers: Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Operating a commercial motor vehicle: Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Under-21 rule: Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.

Rhode Island in detail

License suspensionThe administrative deadline to request a hearing, what happens if it passes, and how the licence case runs beside the criminal one.PenaltiesStatutory ranges by offense number, lookback-period aware — fines, jail, suspension length, interlock.Implied consent and refusalWhat refusing a test does to the licence case and to the criminal case.

8 further Rhode Island topics — interlock, hardship licences, drug DUI, felony DUI, underage, commercial drivers, checkpoints and record relief — are part of the approved taxonomy and are not built yet.