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RI Gen L § 23-10.1-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-10.1 - Emergency Commitment for Drug Intoxication|Section 23-10.1-4 - Emergency commitment.

§ 23-10.1-4. Emergency commitment.(a) Any police officer may take an individual into protective custody and transport him or her to the emergency room of any hospital if the officer has reason to believe that:(1) The individual is intoxicated by drugs other than alcohol and as a result is likely to injure him or herself or others if allowed to be at liberty pending examination by a licensed physician; or(2) The individual is in need of immediate assistance due to the use of drugs and requests the assistance.(b) A physician in charge of an emergency room of a hospital shall determine if any individual brought into the emergency room by a police officer, family member, or other interested person, requires emergency medical treatment for his or her condition or if the individual is appropriate for emergency commitment to an approved public treatment facility by reason of the grounds stated in this section.(c) If a physician determines, upon examination, that an individual is medically stable and appropriate for emergency commitment to an approved public treatment facility, he or she shall make application for the individual's admission to the approved public treatment facility.(d) The application for admission shall state the circumstances under which an individual was taken into custody, brought to the emergency room, or brought to an approved public treatment facility and the reason for the physician's determination that the individual needs emergency commitment for drug intoxication.(e) Upon the request of any physician making application in writing under this section, it shall be the duty of any police department of this state or any governmental subdivision of this state to whom the request is made, to take into custody and transport the individual to the designated approved public treatment facility.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 370, art. 14, § 20.
RI Gen L § 23-10.1-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-10.1 - Emergency Commitment for Drug Intoxication|Section 23-10.1-5 - Period of treatment.

§ 23-10.1-5. Period of treatment.An individual admitted to an approved public treatment facility pursuant to this chapter shall be held for a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours for evaluation, and shall be discharged no later than five (5) days measured from the date of his or her admission.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 370, art. 14, § 20.
RI Gen L § 23-10.1-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-10.1 - Emergency Commitment for Drug Intoxication|Section 23-10.1-6 - Criminal law limitations.

§ 23-10.1-6. Criminal law limitations.Nothing in this chapter affects any law, ordinance, or resolution against driving under the influence of drugs, or other similar offense involving the operation of a vehicle, aircraft, boat, machinery, or other equipment, or regarding the sale, purchase, dispensing, possessing, or use of drugs.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 370, art. 14, § 20.
RI Gen L § 23-11-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-1 - Diseases declared contagious - Exposure of another to infection.

§ 23-11-1. Diseases declared contagious — Exposure of another to infection.Sexually transmitted diseases shall include, but not be limited to, syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, granuloma inguinale, and lymphogranuloma venereum and other diseases that the director of health may by regulation determine to constitute a sexually transmitted disease. Sexually transmitted diseases are declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable, and dangerous to the public health. It shall be unlawful for anyone knowingly, while in the infectious condition with these diseases, or any of them, to expose another person to infection. Any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100) or imprisoned for not more than three (3) months.History of Section.P.L. 1921, ch. 2081, §§ 1, 2; G.L. 1923, ch. 163, §§ 1, 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, §§ 1, 2; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-1; P.L. 1967, ch. 58, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 2.
RI Gen L § 23-11-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-2 - Repealed.

§ 23-11-2. Repealed.
RI Gen L § 23-11-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-3 - Compulsory treatment of infected persons.

§ 23-11-3. Compulsory treatment of infected persons.The department of health is empowered to require persons who are in an infectious condition with a sexually transmitted disease to report for treatment to a licensed physician and to continue treatment until cured of his or her infectious condition. Any person suffering from any sexually transmitted disease while in the infectious and contagious stage of that disease who refuses to report for treatment, or who refuses to continue treatment, shall be isolated and treated until that person has been pronounced by a licensed physician to be noninfectious and no longer a danger to the public health.History of Section.P.L. 1921, ch. 2081, § 4; G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 4; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-3; P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 2.
RI Gen L § 23-11-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-4 - State laboratory facilities and treatment.

§ 23-11-4. State laboratory facilities and treatment.The state department of health shall provide and/or make arrangements for laboratory tests for the diagnosis of sexually transmitted disease and shall provide and/or make arrangements for the clinical treatment of sexually transmitted diseases as determined by the director of health. In addition, the department of health is authorized to establish by rule and regulation a reasonable fee structure for these laboratory tests and clinical treatments.History of Section.P.L. 1921, ch. 2081, § 5; G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 5; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 5; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-4; P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 2; P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 26, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-11-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-5 - Reports of cases by public and private institutions.

§ 23-11-5. Reports of cases by public and private institutions.The superintendent or other officer or other person in charge of public or private institutions, such as hospitals or other licensed health care facilities, dispensaries, clinics, homes, asylums, and charitable and correctional institutions, shall promptly report the identity of every patient suffering from a sexually transmitted disease in any form in a manner that may be prescribed by the director of the department of health.History of Section.P.L. 1921, ch. 2081, § 6; G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 6; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 6; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-5; P.L. 1967, ch. 58, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 2.
RI Gen L § 23-11-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-6 - Reports by physicians.

§ 23-11-6. Reports by physicians.Any physician who diagnoses and/or treats a case of sexually transmitted disease shall immediately make a report of that case to the state department of health in the manner and form that the department shall direct.History of Section.P.L. 1921, ch. 2081, § 7; G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 7; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-6; P.L. 1967, ch. 58, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 2.
RI Gen L § 23-11-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-7 - Penalty for failure to report.

§ 23-11-7. Penalty for failure to report.Any person who shall neglect for a period of ten (10) days to make a report as provided in §§ 23-11-5, 23-11-6, and 23-11-14 shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100).History of Section.P.L. 1921, ch. 2081, § 8; G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 8; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-7; P.L. 1967, ch. 58, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-11-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-8 - Blood test of pregnant women.

§ 23-11-8. Blood test of pregnant women.It shall be the duty of every physician engaged in prenatal attendance upon a pregnant woman to obtain a blood specimen of that pregnant woman within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit. That blood specimen shall be submitted to the laboratory of the state department of health, or to a laboratory approved by the department, for the performance of a Wassermann or other standard laboratory blood test for syphilis. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor and that physician shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 395, § 251/2; P.L. 1938, ch. 2606, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 606, § 27; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-8.
RI Gen L § 23-11-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-9 - Repealed.

§ 23-11-9. Repealed.History of Section.P.L. 1921, ch. 2081, § 9; G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 9; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 9; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-9; P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 2; Repealed by P.L. 2017, ch. 13, § 1, effective June 19, 2017; P.L. 2017, ch. 25, § 1, effective June 19, 2017.
RI Gen L § 23-11-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-10 - Investigation of suspected cases and sources.

§ 23-11-10. Investigation of suspected cases and sources.In all suspected cases of sexually transmitted disease, the state department of health is empowered to take appropriate measures to determine whether the person or persons suspected of being infected are suffering from any sexually transmitted disease; and whenever any sexually transmitted disease is found to exist, the state department of health shall, whenever possible, ascertain the sources of the infections. In these investigations, the state department of health is vested with full powers of inspection and examination and treatment as determined by the director of health.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 11; P.L. 1936, ch. 2366, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 10; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-10; P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 2.
RI Gen L § 23-11-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-11 - Power to examine suspected cases - Right of suspect to own physician.

§ 23-11-11. Power to examine suspected cases — Right of suspect to own physician.For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the state department of health is empowered to make examinations of persons reasonably suspected of having sexually transmitted disease; provided, however, that any person so examined shall have the right to have present at that examination, at his or her own expense, a physician selected by him or her. The state department of health shall inform him or her of this right and afford him or her a reasonable opportunity to exercise that right; and at the trial of any person being prosecuted under the provisions of § 23-11-12, the prosecution must prove that he or she was so informed and was afforded that opportunity. Persons under eighteen (18) years of age may give legal consent for examination and treatment for any sexually transmitted disease. For the purposes of this section, physical examination and treatment by a licensed physician or his or her designated representative upon the person of a minor who has given consent shall not constitute an assault or an assault and battery upon the person.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 12; P.L. 1936, ch. 2366, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 11; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-11; P.L. 1967, ch. 58, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 2.
RI Gen L § 23-11-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-12 - Refusal to submit to examination.

§ 23-11-12. Refusal to submit to examination.Any person refusing to permit the department of health to examine him or her, as provided in § 23-11-11, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00), or by imprisonment for thirty (30) days, or by both fine and imprisonment.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 13; P.L. 1936, ch. 2366, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 12; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-12.
RI Gen L § 23-11-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-13 - Appropriations and disbursements.

§ 23-11-13. Appropriations and disbursements.The general assembly shall annually appropriate that sum that it may deem necessary for carrying out the provisions and purposes of this chapter, and the state controller shall draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of the sum appropriated, or so much of it as may be from time to time required, upon receipt by him or her of proper vouchers authenticated by the director of health.History of Section.P.L. 1921, ch. 2081, § 10; G.L. 1923, ch. 163, § 10; G.L. 1938, ch. 257, § 13; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, §§ 65, 180; G.L. 1956, § 23-11-13.
RI Gen L § 23-11-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-14 - Reports by public and private laboratories.

§ 23-11-14. Reports by public and private laboratories.Whenever any public or private laboratory performs a laboratory test for any sexually transmitted disease, the result, if reactive or positive, shall be reported within ten (10) days after the test by the person in charge of the laboratory to the state department of health in the manner and form that may be prescribed by the director of health.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 23-11-14; P.L. 1967, ch. 58, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 2; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 2.
RI Gen L § 23-11-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-15 - Report not violation of physician-patient relationship.

§ 23-11-15. Report not violation of physician-patient relationship.Any report made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed a violation of the physician-patient relationship or otherwise contrary to the ethics of the medical profession.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 23-11-15; P.L. 1967, ch. 58, § 2.
RI Gen L § 23-11-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-16 - Violations - Penalties.

§ 23-11-16. Violations — Penalties.Unless another penalty is provided by the laws of this state, any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter, or any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or both.History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 246, § 3; P.L. 1986, ch. 436, § 3.
RI Gen L § 23-11-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-17 - Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing.

§ 23-11-17. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing.The physician or healthcare provider attending any person for a suspected sexually transmitted disease shall offer testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). All testing pursuant to this section shall be as provided for in chapter 6.3 of this title.History of Section.P.L. 1988, ch. 405, § 3; P.L. 2000, ch. 171, § 2; P.L. 2006, ch. 599, § 5; P.L. 2008, ch. 475, § 41; P.L. 2009, ch. 196, § 5; P.L. 2009, ch. 289, § 5.
RI Gen L § 23-11-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-18 - Legislative findings.

§ 23-11-18. Legislative findings.The general assembly recognizes and declares that:(1) The special legislative commission to study the feasibility of implementing a needle exchange program has met in accordance with 1992 joint resolution 192, and strongly recommends passage of a law enabling the department of health to implement a pilot needle exchange program for the prevention of HIV transmission among intravenous drug users;(2) Seventy-one percent (71%) of all AIDS cases among women are linked to injection drug use; fifty-eight percent (58%) of children with AIDS were infected through their mother who injected drugs or had sex with an IDU. In Rhode Island, the number of injection drug users has been estimated as high as eight thousand (8,000); and intravenous drug use accounts for forty-five percent (45%) of reported cases of HIV infection since 1989;(3) The yearly cost of a syringe exchange program is often less than the costs to treat a single person with AIDS. The lifetime medical costs for treating someone with AIDS is approximately eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000);(4) Needle exchange programs have been shown to reduce HIV transmission by as much as thirty-three percent (33%), and have been successfully implemented in over twenty (20) locations in the United States, including Boulder, Colorado; New Haven, Connecticut; Honolulu, Hawaii; Portland, Oregon; Seattle and Tacoma, Washington; San Francisco, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Indianapolis, Indiana;(5) That legislation is necessary to enable the department of health to pursue additional funding from the federal government and private foundations for a needle exchange program; and the general assembly of the state does recognize and declare that a well designed and well monitored pilot needle exchange program should play a vital and necessary role in our larger public health effort to reduce the transmission of HIV; and(6) This act should not be misconstrued to mean that the state endorses or encourages the illegal use and/or abuse of illicit or harmful substances in any form or method of transmission whatsoever. Rather, the express purpose of this act is to assist in the reduction of the transmission of life-threatening diseases, such as AIDS and HIV, through the use of contaminated needles and syringes. Moreover, it shall be the ongoing policy of the state to use its considerable resources to educate its citizens about the dangers of all forms of substance abuse in any manner of transmission and to foster programs of prevention so as to reduce the incidence of substance abuse, drug addiction, AIDS/HIV, and like problems.History of Section.P.L. 1994, ch. 30, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-11-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-19 - Exchange of hypodermic needles and syringes.

§ 23-11-19. Exchange of hypodermic needles and syringes.(a) The director of the department of health shall maintain a program offering the free exchange of new hypodermic needles and syringes for used hypodermic needles and syringes as a means to prevent the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or viral hepatitis among injecting drug users eighteen (18) years of age or older. Any site used in the program shall be approved by the director of health and shall make available educational materials, HIV counseling and testing, and referral services targeted to the education of HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis transmission as well as information and referrals pertaining to substance abuse prevention and treatment.(b) Any program of needle and syringe exchange must be implemented pursuant to the provisions of this section and shall incorporate an on-going evaluation plan to determine the impact of the needle exchange program on the participants and the community in the efforts to lower the HIV rate among injecting users including successful referrals to substance abuse treatment.History of Section.P.L. 1994, ch. 30, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 213, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 309, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 599, § 5.
RI Gen L § 23-11-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|Section 23-11-20 - Expedited partner therapy.

§ 23-11-20. Expedited partner therapy.(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a physician licensed under chapter 37 of title 5, a physician assistant licensed under chapter 54 of title 5 or a certified registered nurse practitioner licensed under chapter 34 of title 5 who is authorized to prescribe and dispense prescription drugs, and who diagnoses a sexually transmitted chlamydia or gonorrhea infection in an individual patient, may prescribe prescription drugs to the patient's sexual partner or partners for the treatment of the sexually transmitted chlamydia or gonorrhea infection without an examination of the sexual partner or partners.(b) Neither a licensed physician, licensed physician assistant or certified registered nurse practitioner who, in good faith, prescribes prescription drugs to a patient's sexual partner or partners for the treatment of a sexually transmitted chlamydia or gonorrhea infection in accordance with this section, nor the group or healthcare facility for which they work, shall be subject to civil or criminal liability and shall not be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct.History of Section.P.L. 2010, ch. 166, § 1; P.L. 2010, ch. 175, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-12-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-12 - Cancer|Section 23-12-1 - Formulation of plans and minimum standards for care and treatment.

§ 23-12-1. Formulation of plans and minimum standards for care and treatment.It shall be the duty of the state director of health to formulate a plan for the care and treatment of indigent persons suffering from cancer and to establish and designate standard requirements for the organization, equipment, and conduct of cancer units or departments in general hospitals of this state. The state director of health shall consult with physicians designated by the president of the Rhode Island Medical Society, with other interested organizations, and with any other experts or nonexperts wherever located that he or she may deem proper with a view to carrying out the purposes of this chapter and with a view to establishing a minimum standard for the conduct and equipment of cancer units or departments in general hospitals in those parts or districts of the state as may, in the opinion of the state director of health, be deemed most advantageous to the public health.History of Section.P.L. 1942, ch. 1254, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-12-1.
RI Gen L § 23-12-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-12 - Cancer|Section 23-12-2 - Educational plan.

§ 23-12-2. Educational plan.The state director of health shall formulate and put into effect an educational plan for the purpose of preventing cancer, for the purpose of aiding in the early diagnosis of cancer, and for the purpose of informing hospitals and cancer patients of the proper treatment.History of Section.P.L. 1942, ch. 1254, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 23-12-2.