2005 Rhode Island Code - § 23-4-13 — Establishment of fees.

    The director of the department of health may establish reasonable fees of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for autopsy reports, cremation certificates, and statistics, and not less than five hundred dollars ($500) per hour nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) per day to give testimony in civil suits under this chapter. All of these fees shall be collected and deposited as general revenues; provided, however, that no city or town, or any agency or department of a city and town within the state, or the department of human services, shall be required to pay any fees established by the director pursuant to this section. The fee for an autopsy report shall not exceed thirty dollars ($30.00) and the fee for a cremation certificate shall not exceed twenty dollars ($20.00).