---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 120"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "120"
heading: "Rhode Island"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/120"
units:
  - "Part I — Organization of Courts"
  - "Chapter 5 — District Courts"
---

# §120. Rhode Island


Rhode Island constitutes one judicial district.

Court shall be held at Providence.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 889.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 185 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 104, 36 Stat. 1123; Feb. 1, 1912, ch. 27, 37 Stat. 59).

Changes in phraseology were made.