2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety

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Chapter 23-1 - Department of Health
Chapter 23-1.1 - Division of Occupational Health
Chapter 23-1.2 - Division of Legal Services
Chapter 23-1.3 - Radiation Control
Chapter 23-1.8 - Commission on the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
Chapter 23-1.9 - Sheath Needles
Chapter 23-1.10 - Alcoholism
Chapter 23-1.11 - Needlestick Safety And Injury Prevention Act
Chapter 23-2 - Local Health Officers
Chapter 23-3 - Vital Records
Chapter 23-4 - Office of State Medical Examiners
Chapter 23-4.1 - Emergency Medical Transportation Services
Chapter 23-4.5 - Blood Bank Services
Chapter 23-4.6 - Consent to Medical and Surgical Care
Chapter 23-4.7 - Informed Consent for Abortion
Chapter 23-4.8 - Spousal Notice for Abortion
Chapter 23-4.9 - Retention of X-rays
Chapter 23-4.10 - Health Care Power of Attorney
Chapter 23-4.11 - Rights of the Terminally Ill Act
Chapter 23-4.12 - Partial Birth Abortion
Chapter 23-5 - Reports of Disease and Disability
Chapter 23-5.1 - Identification of Persons Suffering from Certain Disabilities
Chapter 23-6 - Prevention and Suppression of Contagious Diseases
Chapter 23-6.1 - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Program in High Schools
Chapter 23-6.2 - Public Access Defibrillation
Chapter 23-6.3 - Prevention and Suppression of Contagious Diseases - HIV/AIDS
Chapter 23-6.4 - Life-Saving Allergy Medication - Stock Supply of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors - Emergency Administration
Chapter 23-6.5 - Automated External Defibrillators Required at Public Places
Chapter 23-7 - Mosquito Abatement
Chapter 23-7.1 - Rodent Control and Eradication
Chapter 23-8 - Quarantine Generally
Chapter 23-9 - Quarantine of Vessels
Chapter 23-10 - Tuberculosis
Chapter 23-10.1 - Emergency Commitment for Drug Intoxication
Chapter 23-11 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Chapter 23-12 - Cancer
Chapter 23-12.1 - Hemophilia Care Program
Chapter 23-12.5 - New England Compact on Radiological Health Protection
Chapter 23-12.6 - Ovarian Cancer Education, Detection, and Prevention
Chapter 23-12.7 - The Breast Cancer Act
Chapter 23-12.8 - The Firefighter Cancer Wellness Act
Chapter 23-12.9 - Dense Breast Notification and Education
Chapter 23-13 - Maternal and Child Health Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Chapter 23-13.1 - The Safe Haven For Infants Act
Chapter 23-13.2 - Nursing Working Mothers
Chapter 23-13.3 - Birth Defects Surveillance and Information System
Chapter 23-13.4 - Hazardous Chemicals - Contamination of Breast Milk and Environment
Chapter 23-13.5 - Breastfeeding in Public Places
Chapter 23-13.6 - Lactation Consultant Practice Act of 2014
Chapter 23-13.7 - The Rhode Island Family Home-Visiting Act
Chapter 23-14 - Childhood Disease Fund
Chapter 23-14.1 - Health Professional Loan Repayment Program
Chapter 23-15 - Determination of Need for New Health-Care Equipment and New Institutional Health Services
Chapter 23-16 - Health Facilities Construction
Chapter 23-16.1 - New England Health Services and Facilities Compact
Chapter 23-16.2 - Laboratories
Chapter 23-16.3 - Clinical Laboratory Science Practice
Chapter 23-16.4 - Human Cloning
Chapter 23-17 - Licensing of Health-Care Facilities
Chapter 23-17.1 - Licensing of Nursing or Personal Care Homes
Chapter 23-17.2 - Accountability of Services to Patients of Nursing or Personal Care Homes
Chapter 23-17.3 - Long-term Care Coordinating Council
Chapter 23-17.4 - Assisted Living Residence Licensing Act
Chapter 23-17.5 - Rights of Nursing Home Patients
Chapter 23-17.6 - Mobile Intensive Care Unit Program
Chapter 23-17.7 - Licensing of Nursing Service Agencies
Chapter 23-17.7.1 - Licensing of Nursing Service Agencies
Chapter 23-17.8 - Abuse in Health Care Facilities
Chapter 23-17.9 - Registration of Nursing Assistants
Chapter 23-17.10 - Administrative Penalties
Chapter 23-17.11 - The Nursing Facilities Receivership Act
Chapter 23-17.12 - Health Care Services - Utilization Review Act
Chapter 23-17.13 - Health Care Accessibility and Quality Assurance Act
Chapter 23-17.14 - The Hospital Conversions Act
Chapter 23-17.15 - Long-Term Health Care Goals And Values
Chapter 23-17.16 - Home Care Patient Rights
Chapter 23-17.17 - Health Care Quality Program
Chapter 23-17.18 - Health Plan Modification Act
Chapter 23-17.19 - Immunization In Long Term Care Facilities
Chapter 23-17.20 - Health Care Facilities Staffing
Chapter 23-17.21 - The Rhode Island Patient Safety Act of 2008
Chapter 23-17.22 - Healthy Rhode Island Reform Act of 2008
Chapter 23-17.23 - Center for Health Professions
Chapter 23-17.24 - The Adult Supportive Care Residence Act
Chapter 23-17.25 - Distressed Essential Community Hospitals
Chapter 23-17.26 - Comprehensive Discharge Planning
Chapter 23-17.27 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act
Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries
Chapter 23-18.1 - Disposition of Bodies to be Buried with Public Funds
Chapter 23-18.2 - Preservation and Care of Burial Places and Memorials For the Dead
Chapter 23-18.3 - Advisory Commission on Historical Cemeteries
Chapter 23-18.5 - Anatomical Gifts
Chapter 23-18.6 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Chapter 23-18.6.1 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Chapter 23-18.6.2 - Rhode Island Public Education Advisory Council for Organ and Tissue Donation Registration
Chapter 23-18.7 - Bone Marrow Donation
Chapter 23-18.8 - Waste Recycling
Chapter 23-18.9 - Refuse Disposal
Chapter 23-18.10 - Prohibition of Products Containing Chlorofluorocarbons Products
Chapter 23-18.11 - Promotion of Paper Bag Usage
Chapter 23-18.12 - Beverage Container Recyclability
Chapter 23-18.13 - Toxic Packaging Reduction Act
Chapter 23-18.14 - Degradable Plastics and Packaging
Chapter 23-18.15 - Plastic Bottle and Container Labeling Act
Chapter 23-18.16 - Newspaper Recyclability
Chapter 23-18.17 - Used Cooking Oil Recycling
Chapter 23-19 - Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation
Chapter 23-19.1 - Hazardous Waste Management
Chapter 23-19.2 - Local Health Regulations
Chapter 23-19.3 - Sanitarians
Chapter 23-19.3.1 - Residential Sanitary Sewer Connections
Chapter 23-19.4 - Septage, Industrial Wastes and Waste Oil Pumping, Cleaning and Transportation
Chapter 23-19.5 - Percolation Tests and Water Table Elevation Determinations
Chapter 23-19.6 - Used Oil Recycling
Chapter 23-19.7 - Hazardous Waste Management Facilities
Chapter 23-19.8 - Hazardous Waste Cleanup
Chapter 23-19.9 - Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact
Chapter 23-19.10 - Hazardous Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Treatment Research and Demonstration Act of 1986
Chapter 23-19.11 - Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
Chapter 23-19.12 - Generation - Transportation - Storage - Treatment - Management and Disposal of Regulated Medical Waste
Chapter 23-19.13 - Gull Control Program
Chapter 23-19.14 - Industrial Property Remediation and Reuse Act
Chapter 23-19.15 - The Rhode Island Cesspool Act of 2007
Chapter 23-19.16 - Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund
Chapter 23-20 - Sanitation in Hotels and Boarding Houses
Chapter 23-20.5 - Choke-Saving
Chapter 23-20.6 - Smoking in Public Places
Chapter 23-20.7 - Workplace Smoking Pollution Control Act
Chapter 23-20.7.1 - Off-Duty Rights to Privacy by Employees
Chapter 23-20.8 - Licensing of Massage Therapists
Chapter 23-20.8.1 - Registration of Music Therapists
Chapter 23-20.9 - Smoking in Schools
Chapter 23-20.10 - Public Health and Workplace Safety Act
Chapter 23-20.11 - Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity and Firefighter Protection
Chapter 23-20.12 - Food Allergy Awareness in Food-Service Establishments
Chapter 23-21 - Licensing of Recreational Facilities
Chapter 23-21.1 - Sanitation Standards for Bathing Beaches
Chapter 23-22 - Licensing of Swimming Pools
Chapter 23-22.5 - Drowning Prevention and Lifesaving
Chapter 23-23 - Air Pollution
Chapter 23-23.1 - Air Pollution Episode Control
Chapter 23-23.5 - Noxious Trades
Chapter 23-23.6 - Air Quality in Ice Arenas
Chapter 23-23.7 - Biodiesel Heating Oil Act of 2013
Chapter 23-24 - Hazardous Substances
Chapter 23-24.1 - Poison Prevention Packaging
Chapter 23-24.2 - Flammable Fabrics
Chapter 23-24.3 - Substances or Compounds Used as Sewerage System Cleaners
Chapter 23-24.4 - Hazardous Substances Community Right to Know Act
Chapter 23-24.5 - Asbestos Abatement
Chapter 23-24.6 - Lead Poisoning Prevention Act
Chapter 23-24.7 - Occupational Health - Lead Protection
Chapter 23-24.8 - Mercury Fever Thermometers
Chapter 23-24.9 - Mercury Reduction and Education Act
Chapter 23-24.10 - Electronic Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling Act
Chapter 23-24.11 - Comprehensive Children's Jewelry Safety Act
Chapter 23-24.12 - Proper Management of Unused Paint
Chapter 23-25 - Pesticide Control
Chapter 23-25.1 - Hazardous Pesticides, Insecticides, Fungicides, Herbicides, and Rodenticides
Chapter 23-25.2 - Pesticide Relief Fund
Chapter 23-25.3 - Marine Tributyltin Antifoulant Paints
Chapter 23-25.4 - Utilization of Unused Prescription Drugs Act
Chapter 23-25.5 - The Return or Exchange of Drugs Act
Chapter 23-26 - Bedding and Upholstered Furniture
Chapter 23-27 - Building Regulation Generally
Chapter 23-27.1 - Safety Glazing
Chapter 23-27.2 - State Building Code
Chapter 23-27.3 - State Building Code
Chapter 23-27.4 - Interstate Compact on Industrialized/Modular Buildings
Chapter 23-28 - Fire Prevention and Investigation
Chapter 23-28.01 - Comprehensive Fire Safety Act
Chapter 23-28.1 - Fire Safety Code - General Provisions
Chapter 23-28.2 - Division of Fire Safety
Chapter 23-28.3 - Fire Safety Code Board of Appeal and Review
Chapter 23-28.4 - Safety and Health Programs for Fire Departments
Chapter 23-28.5 - Inspection of Buildings
Chapter 23-28.6 - Places of Assembly
Chapter 23-28.7 - Hotels and Motels
Chapter 23-28.8 - Fire Escapes - Outside Stairways
Chapter 23-28.9 - Heating and Cooking Facilities
Chapter 23-28.10 - Health Care Facilities
Chapter 23-28.11 - Fireworks and Pyrotechnics
Chapter 23-28.12 - Schools
Chapter 23-28.13 - Boarding Homes
Chapter 23-28.14 - Rooming Houses
Chapter 23-28.15 - Child Day Care Centers
Chapter 23-28.16 - Apartment Houses
Chapter 23-28.17 - Industrial, Mercantile, Business, and Storage Buildings
Chapter 23-28.18 - Theatres
Chapter 23-28.19 - Tents - Grandstands - Air-Supported Structures
Chapter 23-28.20 - Storage and Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gas
Chapter 23-28.21 - Fuel Oil Installations
Chapter 23-28.22 - Flammable and Combustible Liquids
Chapter 23-28.23 - Exit Signs
Chapter 23-28.24 - Emergency Lighting
Chapter 23-28.25 - Fire Alarm Systems
Chapter 23-28.26 - Dip Tanks Containing Flammable or Combustible Liquid
Chapter 23-28.27 - Spray Application Using Flammable or Combustible Material
Chapter 23-28.28 - Explosives
Chapter 23-28.29 - Model Rocket Engines
Chapter 23-28.30 - Community Residences for the Mentally Retarded, Mentally Ill, Drug Abusers, and Alcoholics
Chapter 23-28.31 - Horse Stables
Chapter 23-28.32 - Sales or Leasing and Servicing of Portable Fire Extinguishers and Fixed Fire Extinguishing Systems
Chapter 23-28.33 - Storage and Handling of Liquefied Natural Gas
Chapter 23-28.34 - Fire and Carbon Monoxide Detection Systems
Chapter 23-28.35 - Fire Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Systems in Existing Residential Occupancies
Chapter 23-28.36 - Notification of Fire Fighters, Police Officers and Emergency Medical Technicians After Exposure to Infectious Diseases
Chapter 23-28.37 - Vaccination of Firefighters to Prevent Hepatitis B
Chapter 23-28.38 - Detention and Correctional Occupancies
Chapter 23-28.39 - Housing for the Elderly - Emergency Generators Required
Chapter 23-29 - Fire Regulations in Places of Public Assembly
Chapter 23-29.1 - Rehabilitation Building And Fire Code For Existing Buildings And Structures
Chapter 23-30 - Fire Escapes And Stairways
Chapter 23-31 - Automatic Sprinkler Systems
Chapter 23-32 - Inspection of Buildings
Chapter 23-33 - Elevators, Escalators, and Dumbwaiters
Chapter 23-34 - Amusement Ride Inspection and Insurance Act
Chapter 23-34.1 - Amusement Ride Safety Act
Chapter 23-35 - Motion Picture Projectors
Chapter 23-36 - Inspection and Handling of Inflammable Substances
Chapter 23-37 - Powers of Fire Companies
Chapter 23-38 - Degradable Connectors and Non-Detachable Metal Openers for Beverage Containers
Chapter 23-38.1 - Hazardous Substances
Chapter 23-38.2 - Poison Prevention Packaging
Chapter 23-38.3 - Flammable Fabrics
Chapter 23-39 - Respiratory Care Act
Chapter 23-40 - New England Health Services and Facilities Compact
Chapter 23-41 - Hazardous Pesticides, Insecticides, Fungicides, Herbicides and Rodenticides
Chapter 23-41.1 - Pesticide Control
Chapter 23-42 - Disposition of Bodies to be Buried with Public Funds
Chapter 23-43 - Office of Mental Retardation
Chapter 23-43.1 - Retardation Law
Chapter 23-43.2 - Parental Succession - Retarded Persons
Chapter 23-43.3 - Licensing of Facilities and Programs for the Alcoholic, Drug Abuser, Mentally Ill and the Mentally Retarded
Chapter 23-44 - New England Compact on Radiological Health Protection
Chapter 23-45 - Rodent Control and Eradication
Chapter 23-46 - Refuse Disposal
Chapter 23-46.1 - Solid Waste Management Corporation
Chapter 23-46.2 - Hazardous Waste Management
Chapter 23-47 - Anatomical Gifts
Chapter 23-48 - Sanitarians
Chapter 23-49 - Septage, Industrial Wastes and Waste Oil Pumping, Cleaning and Transportation
Chapter 23-50 - Blood Bank Services
Chapter 23-51 - Consent to Medical and Surgical Care
Chapter 23-52 - Emergency Medical Transportation Services
Chapter 23-53 - Special Packaging of Poisonous Substances
Chapter 23-54 - Choke-Saving Devices
Chapter 23-55 - Percolation Tests and Water Table Elevation Determinations
Chapter 23-56 - Smoking in Public Places
Chapter 23-57 - Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Chapter 23-58 - Massage Parlors
Chapter 23-59 - Continuing Care Provider Registration and Disclosure
Chapter 23-60 - Battery Deposit and Control
Chapter 23-60.1 - Dry Cell Battery Control
Chapter 23-61 - Radon Control
Chapter 23-62 - Truth in Food Disclosure Law
Chapter 23-63 - Vehicle Tire Storage and Recycling
Chapter 23-64 - Minority Health Promotion Act
Chapter 23-64.1 - Commission for Health Advocacy and Equity
Chapter 23-65 - Board of Certification of Operators of Public Water Supply Facilities
Chapter 23-66 - Comprehensive Health Risk Assessments
Chapter 23-67 - The Rhode Island Research and Treatment Fund for Uninsured and Underinsured Women Stricken with Cancer
Chapter 23-68 - Tanning Facility Safety Standards Act
Chapter 23-69 - New England Compact on Involuntary Detention for Tuberculosis Control
Chapter 23-70 - Osteoporosis
Chapter 23-71 - Tobacco Product Manufacturers' Escrow Funds
Chapter 23-72 - Mercury In Fish Products
Chapter 23-73 - Latex Gloves Safety Act
Chapter 23-74 - Unlicensed Health Care Practices
Chapter 23-75 - Children's Product Safety Act
Chapter 23-76 - Vaccine Shortage Protection Act
Chapter 23-77 - Healthcare Information Technology and Infrastructure Development Fund
Chapter 23-78 - The Stroke Task Force
Chapter 23-78.1 - Stroke Prevention and Treatment Act of 2009
Chapter 23-79 - The Rhode Island Autism Spectrum Disorder Evaluation and Treatment Act
Chapter 23-80 - Safe Patient Handling Act of 2006
Chapter 23-81 - Rhode Island Coordinated Health Planning Act of 2006
Chapter 23-82 - Implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Act
Chapter 23-83 - The Umbilical Cord Blood Donation Notification Act
Chapter 23-84 - The Rhode Island Climate Risk Reduction Act of 2010
Chapter 23-85 - Green Economy Roundtable
Chapter 23-86 - Women's Cardiovascular Screening and Risk Reduction Pilot Program
Chapter 23-87 - The Rhode Island Lupus Education and Awareness Plan
Chapter 23-88 - Code Consistency Council
Chapter 23-89 - The Rhode Island Palliative Care and Quality of Life Act
Chapter 23-90 - Responsible Recycling, Reuse and Disposal of Mattresses
Chapter 23-91 - Service Member Licensure
Chapter 23-92 - Military Spouse Licensure
Chapter 23-93 - Rhode Island Access to Medical Technology Innovation Act
Chapter 23-94 - Prevention of Conversion Therapy for Children

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2017 Rhode Island General LawsTitle 23 - Health and Safety

2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety