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2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety
Chapter 23-9 - Quarantine of Vessels
- Chapter 23-9-1 - Appointment of seaport health officers Duties and compensation.
- Chapter 23-9-2 - Publication of city or town quarantine regulations.
- Chapter 23-9-3 - Places from which vessels arriving are subject to quarantine.
- Chapter 23-9-4 - Designation of time and place of quarantine.
- Chapter 23-9-5 - Sentinel to order ships into quarantine.
- Chapter 23-9-6 - Penalty for refusal to anchor in quarantine.
- Chapter 23-9-7 - Council order to anchor in quarantine.
- Chapter 23-9-8 - Unauthorized departure from vessel under quarantine.
- Chapter 23-9-9 - Quarantine of vessels bound for Providence.
- Chapter 23-9-10 - Enforcement by sheriffs, sergeants, and constables.
- Chapter 23-9-11 - Disposition of fines.
- Chapter 23-9-12 - Federal quarantine system superseding Providence regulations.
- Chapter 23-9-13 - Repealed.
- Chapter 23-9-14 - Hoisting of quarantine colors.
- Chapter 23-9-15 - Unauthorized departure from infected vessel.
- Chapter 23-9-16 - Examination of vessel Guards to prevent unauthorized communication.
- Chapter 23-9-17 - Confinement or removal of persons on board.
- Chapter 23-9-18 - Disinfection of imported goods.
- Chapter 23-9-19 - Certification and delivery of disinfected goods Expense of disinfection.
- Chapter 23-9-20 - Delivery of goods not infected Cleansing or destruction of infected goods.
- Chapter 23-9-21 - Forfeiture of unlawfully imported goods.
- Chapter 23-9-22 - Settlement of wages and charges.
- Chapter 23-9-23 - Action for recovery of expenses.
- Chapter 23-9-24 - Waters under concurrent jurisdiction of Newport.
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