The state or any county, city, town, municipal corporation or school district, or any person, corporation or organization, shall be entitled to recover damages in a court of competent jurisdiction from the parents of any minor under the age of eighteen (18) years, living with the parents at the time of the act, who shall commit any criminal or delinquent act resulting in bodily injury to any person or damage to or larceny of any property, real, personal or mixed, belonging to the state or a county, city, town, municipal corporation, school district, person, corporation or organization. The amount of damages awarded shall not exceed Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00).

Added by Laws 1957, p. 19, § 1; Amended by Laws 1971, HB 1202, c. 62, § 1, emerg. eff. April 7, 1971; Amended by Laws 1977, HB 1398, c. 212, § 1, eff. January 1, 1978; Amended by Laws 1979, HB 1345, c. 238, § 1, eff. October 1, 1979; Amended by Laws 1982, HB 1879, c. 19, § 1, eff. October 1, 1982.