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2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety
Chapter 23-6.3 - Prevention and Suppression of Contagious Diseases - HIV/AIDS
Section 23-6.3-5 - Reasonable efforts to secure consent.
Universal Citation: RI Gen L § 23-6.3-5 (2017)
§ 23-6.3-5. Reasonable efforts to secure consent.
No involuntary testing for HIV shall take place under any of the exceptions set forth in § 23-6.3-4, unless reasonable efforts have been made to: (1) Secure voluntary consent from the individual to be tested, or in the case of a minor patient, from the legal parent or guardian of the minor patient; and (2) Provide verbal or written information as specified in subsection 23-6.3-3(h).
History of Section.
(P.L. 2009, ch. 196, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch. 289, § 1.)
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