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RI Gen L § 23-17.27-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-17.27 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act|Section 23-17.27-1 - Definitions.

§ 23-17.27-1. Definitions.As used in this chapter:(1) "After-care" means any assistance provided by a caregiver to a patient under this chapter after the patient's discharge from a hospital that is related to the patient's condition at the time of discharge. Such assistance may include, but is not limited to, assisting with basic activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), or other tasks as determined to be appropriate by the discharging physician or other healthcare professional.(2) "Caregiver" means any individual duly designated as a caregiver by a patient under this chapter who provides after-care assistance to a patient living in his or her residence. A designated caregiver may include, but is not limited to, a relative, partner, friend, or neighbor who has a significant relationship with the patient.(3) "Discharge" means a patient's exit or release from a hospital to the patient's residence following an inpatient admission.(4) "Entry" means a patient's admission into a hospital for the purposes of medical care.(5) "Hospital" means a facility licensed under Rhode Island statute.(6) "Patient" means a patient eighteen (18) years of age or older.(7) "Residence" means a dwelling that the patient considers to be his or her home. A "residence" for the purposes of this chapter shall not include any rehabilitation facility, hospital, nursing home, assisted-living facility, or group home licensed by Rhode Island.History of Section.P.L. 2015, ch. 95, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 115, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-17.27-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-17.27 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act|Section 23-17.27-2 - Caregiver designation.

§ 23-17.27-2. Caregiver designation.(a) Any hospital licensed pursuant to this title shall provide each patient or, if applicable, the patient's legal guardian with an opportunity to designate at least one caregiver under this chapter following the patient's entry into a hospital.(1) In the event that the patient is unconscious or otherwise incapacitated upon his or her entry into a hospital, the hospital shall provide such patient, or his/her legal guardian, with an opportunity to designate a caregiver within a given timeframe, at the discretion of the attending physician or other healthcare professional, following the patient's recovery of consciousness of capacity. The hospital shall inform the patient that the purpose of providing a caregiver's identity is to include that caregiver and discharge planning and sharing of post-discharge care information or instruction.(2) In the event that the patient, or the patient's legal guardian, declines to designate a caregiver under this chapter, the hospital shall promptly document this in the patient's medical record.(3) In the event that the patient or the patient's legal guardian designates an individual as a caregiver under this chapter:(i) The hospital shall record the patient's designation of the caregiver, the relationship of the designated caregiver to the patient, and the name, telephone number, and the address of the patient's designated caregiver in the patient's medical record.(ii) The hospital shall promptly request the written consent of the patient, or the patient's legal guardian, to release medical information to the patient's designated caregiver following the hospital's established procedures for releasing personal health information and in compliance with all federal and state laws.(A) If the patient or the patient's legal guardian declines to consent to release medical information to the patient's designated caregiver, the hospital is not required to provide notice to the caregiver under § 23-17.27-4 or provide information contained in the patient's discharge plan under § 23-17.27-5.(4) A patient, or the patient's legal guardian, may elect to change the patient's designated caregiver at any time, and the hospital must record this change in the patient's medical record before the patient's discharge.(b) A designation of a caregiver by a patient or patient's legal guardian under this section does not obligate any individual to perform any after-care tasks for any patient.(c) This section shall not be construed to require a patient, or a patient's legal guardian, to designate any individual as a caregiver as defined by this chapter.(d) In the event that the patient is a minor child, and the parents of the patient are divorced, the custodial parent shall have the authority to designate a caregiver. If the parents have joint custody of the patient, they shall jointly designate the caregiver.History of Section.P.L. 2015, ch. 95, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 115, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-17.27-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-17.27 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act|Section 23-17.27-3 - Notice to designated caregiver.

§ 23-17.27-3. Notice to designated caregiver.(a) Any hospital licensed pursuant to this title shall notify the patient's designated caregiver of the patient's discharge or transfer to another facility licensed by the state as soon as possible, in any event, upon issuance of a discharge order by the patient's attending physician or other healthcare professional. In the event the hospital is unable to contact the designated caregiver, the lack of contact shall not interfere with, delay, or otherwise affect the medical care provided to the patient or an appropriate discharge of the patient. The hospital shall promptly document the attempt in the patient's medical record.History of Section.P.L. 2015, ch. 95, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 115, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-17.27-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-17.27 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act|Section 23-17.27-5 - Non-interference with powers of existing healthcare directives.

§ 23-17.27-5. Non-interference with powers of existing healthcare directives.(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with the rights of an agent operating under a valid healthcare directive pursuant to chapter 4.10 of title 23 (health care power of attorney), or § 23-4.11-3.1 (medical orders for life sustaining treatment).(b) A patient may designate a caregiver in an advance directive.History of Section.P.L. 2015, ch. 95, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 115, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-17.27-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-17.27 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act|Section 23-17.27-6 - Caregiver reimbursement.

§ 23-17.27-6. Caregiver reimbursement.(a) A caregiver shall not be reimbursed by any government or commercial payer for after-care assistance that is provided pursuant to this chapter, with the sole exception that this chapter shall not supersede the applicability of wage replacement benefits paid to workers under Rhode Island's temporary disability insurance program, pursuant to § 28-41-35.(b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impact, impede, or otherwise disrupt or reduce the reimbursement obligations of an insurance company, health service corporation, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation, health maintenance organization, or any other entity issuing health benefits plans.History of Section.P.L. 2015, ch. 95, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 115, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-17.27-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-17.27 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act|Section 23-17.27-7 - Limitations of actions.

§ 23-17.27-7. Limitations of actions.(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to create a private right of action against a hospital or any of its directors, trustees, officers, employees, or agents, or any contractors with whom the hospital has a contractual relationship.(b) A hospital, a hospital employee, or any consultants or contractors with whom a hospital has a contractual relationship, shall not be held liable, in any way, for the services rendered or not rendered by the caregiver to the patient at the patient's residence.History of Section.P.L. 2015, ch. 95, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 115, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-17.27-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-17.27 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act|Section 23-17.27-8 - Severability.

§ 23-17.27-8. Severability.If any provision of this chapter or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance is held invalid or unconstitutional, the invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid or unconstitutional provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.History of Section.P.L. 2015, ch. 95, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 115, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-1 - Definitions.

§ 23-18-1. Definitions.The following terms used in this chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:(1) "Agencies" mean town cemeteries, religious or ecclesiastical society cemeteries, cemetery associations, or any person, firm, corporation, or unincorporated association previously or hereafter engaged in the business of conducting a cemetery or operating a community mausoleum or columbarium.(2) "Columbarium" means a structure or room, or other space in a building or structure of durable or lasting fireproof construction, containing niches, used, or intended to be used, to contain cremated human remains.(3) "Community mausoleum" means a structure or building of durable or lasting construction, used or intended to be used, for the permanent disposition in crypts or spaces therein of the remains of deceased persons, provided the crypts or spaces and their use are available to or may be obtained by individuals for a price in money or other form of security.(4) "Crypt" means the chamber in a mausoleum of sufficient size to contain the remains of a deceased person.(5) "Historic cemetery" means any tract of land which has been for more than one hundred (100) years used as a burial place, whether or not marked with an historic marker, including but not limited to, ancient burial places known or suspected to contain the remains of one or more American Indians.(6) "Niche" means a recess in a columbarium or other structure, used, or intended to be used, for the permanent disposition of the cremated remains of one or more deceased persons.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-1; P.L. 1992, ch. 478, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-2 - Location of mausoleums and columbaria.

§ 23-18-2. Location of mausoleums and columbaria.Every community mausoleum, other than structures containing crypts erected or controlled by churches and religious societies, and every columbarium, or other similar structure intended to hold or contain the bodies or remains of the dead, the spaces, crypts, or niches of which are available to the public, shall be located only within the confines of an established cemetery.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-2.
RI Gen L § 23-18-2.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-2.1 - Cremated human remains.

§ 23-18-2.1. Cremated human remains.(a) If a cemetery has rules or regulations in effect regarding the disposition of cremated human remains on or in cemetery property, those rules and regulations, if not contrary to law, shall be binding on all interested parties.(b) The scattering of cremated human remains within a cemetery shall be prohibited except within a specific area designated for that purpose. Violation of this subsection shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500).(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a cemetery to authorize the scattering of ashes when that practice is contrary to the religious beliefs associated with the cemetery.History of Section.P.L. 1998, ch. 349, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-3 - Approval of construction plans - Supervisory control.

§ 23-18-3. Approval of construction plans — Supervisory control.Before commencing the building, construction, or erection of any community mausoleum or columbarium, the agency constructing the structure shall make and file plans and specifications of the structure with the city or town clerk of the city or town where the structure is to be erected, and secure the approval of the city or town to erect the community mausoleum or columbarium. Before the approval shall be granted, the city or town wherein the structure is located shall satisfy itself that the proposed new structure or any alterations or additions to an old structure for that purpose, shall be built in accordance with the standards set forth in ordinances adopted by the city or town wherein the structure is located under its supervision, and shall comply with any further requirements as to perpetual care and maintenance that shall then be or later prescribed by the city or town. The city or town wherein the structure is located shall have supervisory control over the construction of the structure and it shall be the duty of the cities and towns to adopt suitable ordinances concerning the structures.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-3; P.L. 1993, ch. 45, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-4 - Completion of structure and maintenance provisions required before interments.

§ 23-18-4. Completion of structure and maintenance provisions required before interments.No structure shall be used for the purpose of depositing therein human remains until the structure is finally completed, nor until provision for maintenance of the structure has been provided in accordance with the requirements as provided by the city or town wherein the structure is located.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-4; P.L. 1993, ch. 45, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-5 - Sales before completion of structure - Bond.

§ 23-18-5. Sales before completion of structure — Bond.No crypt, room, or space in the structure shall be sold or offered for sale before the structure is entirely completed, unless and until the agency selling the crypt or niches, enters into an agreement whereby it agrees to refund to each and every purchaser all sums of money paid by each, together with legal interest on all sums of money, in the event it fails to complete the structure within the time which shall have been limited by the city or town wherein the structure is located, which agreement shall be entered into with some bank or trust company or other organization as trustee for the persons as directed by the city or town, nor until the agency shall also have made, executed and delivered to the trustee, its bond, with adequate security, if required, conditioned upon paying to the trustee a sum of money sufficient to provide for the refund previously provided and to provide for the repair, maintenance, and replacement of the structure, or shall have paid or delivered to the trustee a sum of money or other property sufficient for these purposes, the amount of the bond, payment, or delivery of property and the security on the bonds, if any shall be required, to be fixed and determined by the city or town wherein the structure is located.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 5; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-5; P.L. 1993, ch. 45, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-6 - Proceeds of sales.

§ 23-18-6. Proceeds of sales.The proceeds from the sales of crypts, niches, or any space in the structure, shall be used for the repayment of loans for the purpose of construction thereof with reasonable interest on the loans and for the construction, maintenance, and perpetual care of the structure, and may not be divided among any persons as profits.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 6; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-6.
RI Gen L § 23-18-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-7 - Re-interment of bodies in structure becoming health menace.

§ 23-18-7. Re-interment of bodies in structure becoming health menace.Whenever a mausoleum, vault, crypt, or similar structure previously or hereafter erected and containing one or more deceased human bodies, shall, in the opinion of the city or town where the structure is located, become a menace to public health, and the owner or owners of the structure fail to repair or remove the structure to the satisfaction of the city or town, any court of competent jurisdiction may order the person, association, or other agency owning the structure to remove the body or bodies for interment in some suitable cemetery at the expense of the person, association, or other agency owning the mausoleum, vault, crypt, or similar structure. When no person, association, or any representative of any agency can be found in the county where the mausoleum, vault, crypt, or similar structure is located, then the removal and interment shall be at the expense of the cemetery or other agency where the mausoleum, vault, crypt, or similar structure may be located.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-7; P.L. 1993, ch. 45, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-8 - Speculative sales prohibited.

§ 23-18-8. Speculative sales prohibited.The sale of cemetery lots or plots, or the sale of crypts or niches in a community mausoleum, or niches in a columbarium, crematory, or any other similar structure, for speculative purposes, or upon the promise, representation, or inducement to the purchaser that the structure may be resold at a financial profit, is prohibited. Any person or individual who shall make, or attempt to make, either on his or her own behalf or on behalf of another, a sale or conveyance contrary to the provisions of this chapter, shall be punished as provided in § 23-18-9.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-8; P.L. 2001, ch. 86, § 72.
RI Gen L § 23-18-8.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-8.1 - Perpetual care funds.

§ 23-18-8.1. Perpetual care funds.(a) All funds paid to or held by an agency for the purpose of funding the perpetual care of cemetery lots, crypts, or niches shall be maintained in a separate perpetual care fund, and shall not be commingled with any other funds of the agency; and(b) Not less than twenty percent (20%) of the sale price of a cemetery lot, crypt, or niche sold with perpetual care shall be deposited by the agency in the perpetual care fund.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 473, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-8.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-8.2 - Additional deposits.

§ 23-18-8.2. Additional deposits.If at any time after a cemetery lot, crypt, or niche has been sold an agency receives additional funds from any source for perpetual care of the lot, crypt, or niche, all of the funds shall be deposited in the perpetual care fund.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 473, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-8.3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-8.3 - Maintenance of perpetual care funds.

§ 23-18-8.3. Maintenance of perpetual care funds.The corpus or principal of perpetual care funds shall be maintained intact, and shall not be expended to pay for perpetual care or any other expenses, but the income and other earnings on the corpus or principal of perpetual care funds may be so expended.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 473, § 1.
RI Gen L § 23-18-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-9 - Penalty for violations.

§ 23-18-9. Penalty for violations.Any person, member of a firm, or any officer or director of a corporation, failing to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter, upon each and every conviction of any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for not less than sixty (60) days nor more than six (6) months, or by both fine and imprisonment.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 9; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-9.
RI Gen L § 23-18-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 23 - Health and Safety|Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries|Section 23-18-10 - City and town regulation of burial grounds.

§ 23-18-10. City and town regulation of burial grounds.(a) The city or town council of any city or town may prohibit burials in the compact or thickly-populated parts of the city or town, and may make any bylaws and ordinances relating to burials and the use of grounds for burials in the city or town that it may think necessary for preserving the health of the city or town, and as necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and may enforce the ordinances in the manner provided in chapter 18 of this title.(b) The town councils of the towns of East Greenwich and Smithfield and the city councils of the cities of East Providence, Warwick, Cranston, and Woonsocket, after having prevented further burials in those parts of their towns or cities as provided in subsection (a), may order, in accordance with this chapter, the owner of the burial ground so prohibited, and in the interest of public welfare, to cause to be removed the cadavers or remains of any persons buried in the burial ground, and transferred to and interred in some other cemetery within the state, the removal and interment to be under the direction of a qualified funeral director and with the approval of the nearest of kin of the deceased and at the expense of the owner of the land.(c) No cadaver or remains shall be removed unless the owner of the land shall give notice by certified mail to the nearest of kin known to him or her, and by advertising in one or more daily newspapers having circulation within the town or city at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks. In the event there shall be no nearest of kin known to the owner or that the nearest of kin shall neglect or refuse to approve the removal and interment, the city or town shall cause the cadavers or remains to be removed, transferred, and interred in any other cemetery in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations of the religious denomination, if any shall be known or ascertained, to which the deceased subscribed.History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 91, § 18; G.L. 1909, ch. 107, § 18; G.L. 1923, ch. 119, § 18; G.L. 1938, ch. 601, § 17; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-10; R.P.L. 1957, ch. 147, § 1; P.L. 1958, ch. 96, § 1; P.L. 1958, ch. 107, § 1; P.L. 1959, ch. 182, § 1; P.L. 1966, ch. 38, § 1; P.L. 1968, ch. 252, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 542, § 48; P.L. 1993, ch. 45, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 86, § 72.