2010 Rhode Island Code
Title 13 Criminals – Correctional Institutions
CHAPTER 13-8.1 Medical Parole
§ 13-8.1-3 Definitions.
§ 13-8.1-3 Definitions. – (a) "Permanently physically incapacitated" means suffering from a condition caused by injury, disease, or illness which, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, permanently and irreversibly physically incapacitates the individual to the extent that no significant physical activity is possible, and the individual is confined to bed or a wheelchair.
(b) "Terminally ill" means suffering from a condition caused by injury (except self-inflicted injury), disease, or illness which to a reasonable degree of medical certainty will result in death within six (6) months.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1999, ch. 297, § 1.)
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