§ 42-4-17 - State Tartan.
SECTION 42-4-17
§ 42-4-17 State Tartan. – (a) The St. Andrews Society of RI, Inc. is authorized to create, authenticateand register, at the sole expense of the society, the official tartan of thestate, to be called "the state of Rhode Island tartan".
(b) For the purposes of this section, "tartan" means any ofmany textile patterns consisting of stripes of varying widths and colorscrossed at right angles against a solid background, each forming a distinctivedesign worn by the members of a Scottish clan.