2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 27 - Insurance
Chapter 27-19 - Nonprofit Hospital Service Corporations
Chapter 27-19-16 - Severability.

§ 27-19-16 Severability. – If a court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge that the requirement in § 27-19-14 that the state be a party to negotiations in which the United States is a party or otherwise interested is invalid or unconstitutional, that judgment shall not impair or invalidate § 27-19-14 insofar as it requires the state to be a party to negotiations between hospitals and hospital service corporations; and if any other clause, sentence, or section of §§ 27-19-14, 27-19-15, or this section is adjudged invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions of the sections will not be impaired or invalidated by that invalidity, but the effect of the judgment shall be confined to the clause, sentence, or section so adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional. If the United States or any of its departments or agencies requires that funds supplied by it to the state for the purchase or reimbursement of hospital services be disbursed in a manner inconsistent with any agreement reached by the parties pursuant to §§ 27-19-14 and 27-19-15, that requirement shall not affect any agreement as to other funds to be paid by the state or by hospital service corporations. The provisions of this section shall be repealed upon the implementation of amendments and new methodology pursuant to §§ 40-8-13.3 and 40-8-13.4, but in any event no later than March 30, 2010.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1971, ch. 208, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch. 68, art. 23, § 8.)