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Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 5-8.1 – Land Surveyors
§ 5-8.1-1 Declaration of policy
§ 5-8.1-2 Definitions
§ 5-8.1-3
§ 5-8.1-4 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Authority, powers, and duties
§ 5-8.1-4.1 Continuing education exemption
§ 5-8.1-5 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Membership, appointments, terms, and vacancies
§ 5-8.1-6 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Compensation and expenses
§ 5-8.1-7 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Organization
§ 5-8.1-8 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Records and reports
§ 5-8.1-9 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Application and qualification for registration
§ 5-8.1-10 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Issuance and renewal of certificates
§ 5-8.1-11 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Fees — Payment and disposition
§ 5-8.1-12 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Official stamp of professional land surveyor
§ 5-8.1-13 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Permitted practices
§ 5-8.1-14 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Unlawful practices
§ 5-8.1-15 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Disciplinary actions
§ 5-8.1-16 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Appeals
§ 5-8.1-17 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Violations and penalties — Injunctions
§ 5-8.1-18 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Public works
§ 5-8.1-19 Board of registration for professional land surveyors — Duties of recorders
§ 5-8.1-20 Land surveyors rendering assistance during disaster emergency — Immunity from civil liability
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 5-8.1
Account: means any one of the three (3) accounts created by § 27-34-6;
(2) "Affiliate" means a person, who directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another on December 31 of the year immediately preceding the date the insurer becomes an insolvent insurer;
(3) "Association" means the Rhode Island insurance guaranty association created under § 27-34-6. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Account: means either of the two accounts created under § 27-34. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Affiliated company: means any corporation controlled by or an affiliate of a parent, an industrial insured, or a member organization by virtue of common ownership, control, operation, or management;
(2) "Association" means any association of individuals, corporations, partnerships, or associations that has a separate legal existence, the member organizations of which collectively:
(i) Own, control, or hold with power to vote all of the outstanding voting securities of an association captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurance company; or
(ii) Have complete voting control over an association captive insurance company incorporated as a mutual insurance company;
(3) "Association captive insurance company" means any company that insures risks of the member organizations of the association, and their affiliated companies;
(4) "Captive insurance company" means any subsidiary captive insurance company, association captive insurance company, or industrial insured captive insurance company formed or licensed under the provisions of this chapter, including a captive insurance company that is organized as a protected cell company under the Protected Cell Companies Act, chapter 64 of this title;
(5) "Commissioner" means the director of the department of business regulation;
(6) "Industrial insured" means an insured:
(iii) Who has at least twenty-five (25) full-time employees;
(7) "Industrial insured captive insurance company" means any company that insures risks of the industrial insured that comprise the industrial insured group, and their affiliated companies;
(8) "Industrial insured group" means any group that meets either of the following criteria:
(i) Any group of industrial insured that collectively: (A) own, control, or hold with power to vote all of the outstanding voting securities of an industrial insured captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurance company, or (B) have complete voting control over an industrial insured captive insurance company incorporated as a mutual insurance company; or
(ii) Any group which is created under 15 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-43-1
(c) "Commissioner" or "health insurance commissioner" means that individual appointed pursuant to § 42-14. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Association: means the Rhode Island life and health insurance guaranty association created under § 27-34. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Association similar to the association: means any guaranty association, security fund or other insolvency mechanism that affords protection similar to that of the association. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Assumed claims transaction: means the following:
(i) Policy obligations that have been assumed by the insolvent insurer, prior to the entry of a final order of liquidation, through a merger between the insolvent insurer and another entity obligated under the policies, and for which assumption consideration has been paid to the applicable guaranty associations, if the merged entity is a non-member insurer;
(ii) Policy obligations that have been assumed by the insolvent insurer, prior to the entry of a final order of liquidation, pursuant to a plan, approved by the domestic commissioner of the assuming insurer, which:
(A) Transfers the direct policy obligations and future policy renewals from one insurer to another insurer; and
(B) For which assumption consideration has been paid to the applicable guaranty associations, if the assumption is from a non-member insurer. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Assumption consideration: shall mean the consideration received by a guaranty association to extend coverage to the policies assumed by a member insurer from a non-member insurer in any assumed claims transaction including liabilities that may have arisen prior to the date of the transaction. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
authorized: when used in the context of assessments means a resolution by the board of directors has been passed whereby an assessment will be called immediately or in the future from member insurers for a specified amount. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Benefit plan: means a specific employee, union or association of natural persons benefit plan. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
called: when used in the context of assessments means that a notice has been issued by the association to member insurers requiring that an authorized assessment be paid within the time frame set forth within the notice. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Claimant: means any person instituting a covered claim; provided that no person who is an affiliate of the insolvent insurer may be a claimant;
(8) "Commissioner" means the director of the department of business regulation or his or her designee;
(9) "Control" means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with, or corporate office held by, the person. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance within the department of business regulation of this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Commissioner: means the director of the department of business regulation or his or designee;
(2) "Compensation" means commissions, dividends, retrospective rate credits, service fees, expense allowances or reimbursements, gifts, furnishing of equipment, facilities, goods or services, or any other form of remuneration resulting directly from the sale of consumer credit insurance;
(3) "Consumer credit insurance" is a general term used in this chapter to refer to any or all credit life insurance, credit accident and health insurance, credit unemployment insurance specifically defined in this chapter;
(4) "Credit accident and health insurance" means insurance on a debtor to provide indemnity for payments or debt becoming due on a specific loan or other credit transaction while the debtor is disabled as defined in the policy;
(5) "Credit life insurance" means insurance on a debtor or debtors, pursuant to or in connection with a specific loan or other credit transaction, to provide for satisfaction of a debt, in whole or in part, upon the death of an insured debtor;
(6) "Credit transaction" means any transaction by the terms of which the repayment of money loaned or loan commitment made, or payment for goods, services or properties sold or leased, is to be made at a future date or dates;
(7) "Credit unemployment insurance" means insurance on a debtor to provide indemnity for payments or debt becoming due on a specific loan or other credit transaction while the debtor is involuntarily unemployed as defined in the policy;
(8) "Creditor" means the lender of money or vendor or lessor of goods, services, property, rights, or privileges, for which payment is arranged through a credit transaction or any successor to the right, title, or interest of any lender, vendor, or lessor, and an affiliate, associate, or subsidiary of any of them or any director, officer, or employee of any of them or any other person in any way associated with any of them;
(9) "Debtor" means a borrower of money or a purchaser or lessee of goods, services, property, rights, or privileges for which payment is arranged through a credit transaction;
(10) "Gross debt" means the sum of the remaining payments owed to the creditor by the debtor;
(11) "Identifiable charge" means a charge for a type of consumer credit insurance that is made to debtors having such insurance and not made to debtors not having such insurance; it includes a charge for insurance that is disclosed in the credit or other instrument furnished to the debtor which sets out the financial elements of the credit transaction and any difference in the finance, interest, service or other similar charge made to debtors who are in like circumstances except for the insured or non-insured status of the debtor or of the property used as security for the credit transaction;
(12) "Net debt" means the amount necessary to liquidate the remaining debt in a single lump-sum payment, excluding all unearned interest and other unearned finance charges;
(13) "Open-end credit" means credit extended by a creditor under an agreement in which:
(ii) The creditor imposes a finance charge from time to time on an outstanding unpaid balance; and
(iii) The amount of credit that may be extended to the debtor during the term of the agreement (up to any set limit by the creditor) is generally made available to the extent that any outstanding balance is repaid. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-30-2
Consumer credit insurance: is a general term used in this chapter to refer to any or all credit life insurance, credit accident and health insurance, credit unemployment insurance specifically defined in this chapter;
contract owner: means the person who is identified as the legal owner under the terms of the policy or contract or who is otherwise vested with legal title to the policy or contract through a valid assignment completed in accordance with the terms of the policy or contract and properly recorded as the owner on the books of the insurer. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Contractual obligation: means any obligation under a policy or contract or certificate under a group policy or contract, or portion of a group policy or contract for which coverage is provided under § 27-34. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
covered benefits: means coverage or benefits for the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or amounts paid for the purpose of affecting any structure or function of the body including coverage or benefits for transportation primarily for and essential thereto, and including medical services as defined in R. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Covered claim: means :
(i) An unpaid claim, including one for unearned premiums, submitted by a claimant, which arises out of and is within the coverage and subject to the applicable limits of an insurance policy to which this chapter applies if the insurer becomes an insolvent insurer after the effective date of this chapter and the policy was either issued by the insurer or assumed by the insurer in an assumed claims transaction, and:
(A) The claimant or insured is a resident of this state at the time of the insured event; provided, that for entities other than an individual, the residence of a claimant, insured or policyholder is the state in which its principal place of business is located at the time of the insured event; or
(B) The claim is a first-party claim for damage to property with a permanent location in this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Covered health services: means the services that a health maintenance organization contracts with enrollees and enrolled groups to provide or make available to an enrolled participant. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Covered policy: means any policy or contract or portion of a policy or contract for which coverage is provided under § 27-34. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Director: means the director of the department of business regulation or his or her duly appointed agents. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Elective surgical procedure: means any non-emergency surgical procedure that may be scheduled at the convenience of the patient or the surgeon without jeopardizing the patient's life or causing serious impairment to the patient's bodily functions;
(2) "Eligible physician" means a physician licensed to practice medicine and surgery who holds the rank of diplomate of an American board (M. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-39-1
Employee: means any person who has entered into the employment of or works under a contract of service or apprenticeship with any employer. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Employer: means any person, partnership, association, trust, estate, or corporation, whether foreign or domestic, or the legal representative, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, or trustee of a receiver, or the legal representative of a deceased person, including the state of Rhode Island and each city and town in the state, which has in its employ one or more individuals during any calendar year. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Enrollee: means an individual who has been enrolled in a health maintenance organization. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Evidence of coverage: means any certificate, agreement, or contract issued to an enrollee setting out the coverage to which the enrollee is entitled. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Grandfathered health plan: means any group health plan or health insurance coverage subject to 42 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Group health insurance coverage: means , in connection with a group health plan, health insurance coverage offered in connection with such plan. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Group health plan: means an employee welfare benefit plan as defined in 29 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Health care facility: means an institution providing health care services or a health care setting, including but not limited to hospitals and other licensed inpatient centers, ambulatory surgical or treatment centers, skilled nursing centers, residential treatment centers, diagnostic, laboratory and imaging centers, and rehabilitation and other therapeutic health settings. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Health care professional: means a physician or other health care practitioner licensed, accredited or certified to perform specified health care services consistent with state law. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Health care services: means any services included in the furnishing to any individual of medical, podiatric, or dental care, or hospitalization, or incident to the furnishing of that care or hospitalization, and the furnishing to any person of any and all other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, injury, or physical disability. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Health insurance carrier: means a person, firm, corporation or other entity subject to the jurisdiction of the commissioner under this chapter, and includes a health maintenance organization. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
health insurer: as used in this chapter includes all persons, firms, corporations, or other organizations offering and assuring health services on a prepaid or primarily expense incurred basis, including, but not limited to, policies of accident or sickness insurance, as defined by chapter 18 of this title, nonprofit hospital or medical service plans, whether organized under chapter 10 or 20 of this title or under any public law or by special act of the general assembly, health maintenance organizations, and any other entity which insures or reimburses for diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive services to a defined population on the basis of a periodic premium. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-36-1
Health insurers: as used in this chapter includes all persons, firms, corporations, or other organizations offering and assuring health services on a prepaid or primarily expense incurred basis, including, but not limited to, policies of accident or sickness insurance, as defined by chapter 18 of this title, except for supplemental policies which only provide coverage for specified diseases, or other supplemental policies, nonprofit hospital or medical service plans, whether organized under chapter 19 or 20 of this title or under any public law or by special act of the general assembly, health maintenance organizations, and any other entity, which insures or reimburses for diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive services to a determined population on the basis of a periodic premium;
(2) "Pediatric preventive care" means those services recommended by the committee on practice and ambulatory medicine of the American academy of pediatrics when delivered, supervised, prescribed, or recommended by a physician and rendered to a child from birth through age nineteen (19); and
(3) "School policy" means a policy of accident and sickness insurance, as defined in § 27-18-1, providing coverage for a minor child only and issued by or through the school attended by the child. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-38.1-1
Health maintenance organization: means a single public or private organization which:
(1) Provides or makes available to enrolled participants health care services, including at least the following basic health care services: usual physician services, hospitalization, laboratory, x-ray, emergency, and preventive services, and out of area coverage, and the services of licensed midwives;
(2) Is compensated, except for copayments, for the provision of the basic health care services listed in subdivision (1) of this subsection to enrolled participants on a predetermined periodic rate basis; and
(3)(i) Provides physicians' services primarily:
(A) Directly through physicians who are either employees or partners of the organization; or
(B) Through arrangements with individual physicians or one or more groups of physicians organized on a group practice or individual practice basis;
(ii) "Health maintenance organization" does not include prepaid plans offered by entities regulated under chapter 1, 2, 19, or 20 of this title that do not meet the criteria above and do not purport to be health maintenance organizations;
(4) Provides the services of licensed midwives primarily:
(i) Directly through licensed midwives who are either employees or partners of the organization; or
(ii) Through arrangements with individual licensed midwives or one or more groups of licensed midwives organized on a group practice or individual practice basis. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Impaired insurer: means a member insurer which is not an insolvent insurer, and
(i) Is placed under an order of rehabilitation or conservation by a court of competent jurisdiction. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Insolvent insurer: means an insurer licensed to transact insurance in this state either at the time the policy was issued; when the obligation with respect to the covered claim was assumed under an assumed claims transaction; or when the insured event occurred, and against whom a final order of liquidation has been entered after the effective date of this chapter with a finding of insolvency by a court of competent jurisdiction in the insurer's state of domicile;
(12) "Insured" means any named insured, any additional insured, any vendor, lessor or any other party identified as an insured under the policy. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Insolvent insurer: means a member insurer which after January 1, 1996, is placed under an order of liquidation by a court of competent jurisdiction with a finding of insolvency. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Licensed midwife: means any midwife licensed pursuant to § 23-13-9. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Line of credit: means an irrevocable stand-by commitment whereby the association or member insurer and a qualified financial institution or group of qualified financial institutions enter into a formal and binding contract in which the qualified financial institution or group of qualified financial institutions agree to lend a certain amount of money within a stated period of time. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Material modification: means only systemic changes to the information filed under § 27-41-3. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
(i) Writes any kind of insurance to which this chapter applies, under § 27-34-3, including the exchange of reciprocal or interinsurance contracts;
(ii) Is licensed to transact insurance in this state; and
(b) An insurer shall cease to be a member insurer effective on the day following the termination or expiration of its license to transact the kinds of insurance to which this chapter applies, however, the insurer shall remain liable as a member insurer for any and all obligations, including obligations for assessments levied prior to the termination or expiration of the insurer's license and assessment levied after the termination or expiration, which relate to any insurer that became an insolvent insurer prior to the termination or expiration of the insurer's license. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Member insurer: means any insurer licensed or which holds a certificate of authority to transact in this state any kind of insurance for which coverage is provided under § 27-34. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Member organization: means any individual, corporation, partnership, or association that belongs to an association;
(10) "Parent" means a corporation, partnership, or individual that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting securities of a subsidiary captive insurance company;
(11) "Personal lines of insurance" means personal motor vehicle, homeowner's insurance coverage, health insurance, life insurance, worker's compensation, residential fire insurance, or any component of them; and
(12) "Subsidiary captive insurance company" means any company that insures risks of its parent and affiliated companies. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-43-1
Net direct written premiums: means direct gross premiums written in this state on insurance policies to which this chapter applies, including policy and membership fees, less the following amounts: (i) Return premiums, (ii) Premiums on policies not taken and (iii) Dividends paid or credited to policyholders on that direct business. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Novation: means that the assumed claim or policy obligations became the direct obligations of the insolvent insurer through consent of the policyholder and that thereafter the ceding insurer or entity initially obligated under the claims or policies is released by the policyholder from performing its claim or policy obligations. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Ocean marine insurance: means any form of insurance, regardless of the name, label or marketing designation of the insurance policy, which insures against maritime perils or risks and other related perils or risks, which are usually insured against by traditional marine insurance, such as hull and machinery, marine builders risk, and marine protection and indemnity. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Office of the health insurance commissioner: means the agency established under § 42-14. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Pediatric preventive care: means those services recommended by the committee on practice and ambulatory medicine of the American academy of pediatrics when delivered, supervised, prescribed, or recommended by a physician and rendered to a child from birth through age nineteen (19); and
Person: means any individual, aggregation of individuals, corporation, partnership, or other entity;
(19) "Qualified financial institution" shall have the same meaning as the term in § 27-1. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Person: means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, governmental body or entity or voluntary organization. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Physician: includes podiatrist as defined in chapter 29 of title 5. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Plan sponsor: means :
(i) The employer in case of a benefit plan established or maintained by a single employer;
(ii) The employee organization in the case of a benefit plan established or maintained by an employee organization; or
(iii) In the case of a benefit plan established or maintained by two (2) or more employers or jointly by one or more employers and one or more employee organizations, the association, committee, joint board of trustees, or other similar group of representatives of the parties who establish or maintain the benefit plan. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Premiums: means amounts or considerations (by whatever name called) received on covered policies or contracts less returned premiums, considerations and deposits, and less dividends and experience credits. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Private organization: means a legal corporation with a policy making and governing body. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
provider: means a health care professional or a health care facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Receiver: means liquidator, rehabilitator, conservator or ancillary receiver, as the context requires. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
Receivership court: means the court in the insolvent or impaired insurer's state having jurisdiction over the conservation, rehabilitation or liquidation of the insurer. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Rescission: means a cancellation or discontinuance of coverage that has retroactive effect for reasons unrelated to timely payment of required premiums or contribution to costs of coverage. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Resident: means a person to whom a contractual obligation is owed and who resides in this state on the date of entry of court order that determines a member insurer to be an impaired insurer or a court order that determines a member insured to be an insolvent insurer, whichever occurs first. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Second surgical opinion: means an opinion of an eligible physician based on that physician's examination of a person for the purpose of evaluating the medical advisability of that person undergoing an elective surgical procedure. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-39-1
Self-insurer: means a person that covers its liability through a qualified individual or group self-insurance program or any other formal program created for the specific purpose of covering liabilities typically covered by insurance. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34-5
State: means a state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or a United States possession, territory or protectorate. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Structured settlement annuity: means an annuity purchased in order to fund periodic payments for a claimant in payment for or with respect to personal injuries suffered by the claimant. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
(1) A health maintenance organization's statutory capital and surplus (i. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
Unallocated annuity contract: means any annuity contract or group annuity certificate which is not issued to and owned by an individual, except to the extent of any annuity benefits guaranteed to an individual by an insurer under the contract or certificate. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-34.3-5
Uncovered expenditures: means the costs of health care services that are covered by a health maintenance organization, but that are not guaranteed, insured, or assumed by a person or organization other than the health maintenance organization. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-41-2
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