Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 23-17 - Licensing of Healthcare Facilities
Section 23-17-12.3. - Penalty for violation of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2.

§ 23-17-12.3. Penalty for violation of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2.
Every person including a controlling person, or corporation who shall willfully and continually violate the provisions of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2 will be subject to a fine up to three hundred dollars ($300) for each violation of these sections.
For purposes of this section, “controlling person” is any person or entity in control of a nursing facility directly or indirectly, including: (1) in the case of a corporation or of a limited liability company, a person having a beneficial ownership interest of five percent (5%) or more in the nursing facility; (2) in the case of a general partnership or limited partnership, any general partner; (3) a legal entity that operates or contracts with another person for the operation of a nursing facility or an owner thereof; (4) in the case of a limited liability company, any member; (5) each president, vice president, secretary, treasurer of a business corporation that is not exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of such code; and (6) such other ownership interest or relationship as may be determined by the director.
History of Section.P.L. 1978, ch. 269, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 23-16-12.3; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-17-12.3; P.L. 2005, ch. 158, § 3; P.L. 2005, ch. 247, § 3.

Structure Rhode Island General Laws

Rhode Island General Laws

Title 23 - Health and Safety

Chapter 23-17 - Licensing of Healthcare Facilities

Section 23-17-1. - Short title.

Section 23-17-2. - Definitions.

Section 23-17-3. - Purpose of provisions.

Section 23-17-4. - License required for healthcare facility operation.

Section 23-17-4.1. - Rules and regulations for school-based health centers.

Section 23-17-5. - Application for license.

Section 23-17-5.1. - Additional information required of nursing facility applicants for initial licensure or change of ownership.

Section 23-17-5.2. - Additional information required for license renewal of all nursing facilities.

Section 23-17-6. - Issuance of license — Posting — Transfer — Conditions.

Section 23-17-7. - Expiration and renewal of license.

Section 23-17-8. - Denial, suspension, or revocation of license.

Section 23-17-8.1. - Curtailment of activities.

Section 23-17-9. - Judicial review of license action.

Section 23-17-10. - Regulations, inspections, and investigations — Certain hospitals required to provide on-premises coverage by physician — Uniform reports — Data systems.

Section 23-17-10.1. - Financial regulation of health maintenance organizations.

Section 23-17-10.2. - Full financial disclosure by hospitals and freestanding emergency-care facilities.

Section 23-17-10.3. - Special care unit disclosure by facilities.

Section 23-17-10.4. - Rehabilitation special care unit and sub-acute special care unit disclosure by facilities.

Section 23-17-10.5. - Medical director and attending physician file.

Section 23-17-10.6. - Nursing facility wandering hazard prevention plans.

Section 23-17-10.7. - Nursing facility assessment and disclosure for residents on probation or parole.

Section 23-17-11. - Abortion and sterilization — Protection for nonparticipation — Procedure.

Section 23-17-12. - Inspections — Nursing facilities.

Section 23-17-12.1. - Scope of inspections.

Section 23-17-12.2. - Time for correction of defects.

Section 23-17-12.3. - Penalty for violation of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2.

Section 23-17-12.4. - Enforcement of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2.

Section 23-17-12.5. - Complaints — Nursing homes.

Section 23-17-12.6. - Independent quality monitor, quality consultant and temporary manager.

Section 23-17-12.7. - Adverse change in financial condition.

Section 23-17-12.8. - Posting of nursing staff levels in nursing facilities.

Section 23-17-12.9. - Resident and family notification.

Section 23-17-12.10. - Quality predictive modeling — Established.

Section 23-17-12.11. - Nursing facility quality improvement program.

Section 23-17-13. - Repealed.

Section 23-17-13.1. - Health services council.

Section 23-17-14. - Functions of health services council.

Section 23-17-14.1. - Immunity for council members.

Section 23-17-14.2. - Compensation.

Section 23-17-14.3. - Review criteria.

Section 23-17-14.4. - Procedures for review.

Section 23-17-15. - Information confidential.

Section 23-17-15.1. - Reports public.

Section 23-17-16. - Annual report of activities.

Section 23-17-17. - Penalty for operation of unlicensed health care facility.

Section 23-17-18. - Obtaining treatment or services under false pretenses.

Section 23-17-19. - Injunction to restrain operation without license.

Section 23-17-19.1. - Rights of patients.

Section 23-17-19.2. - Posting of law.

Section 23-17-19.3. - Patients’ visitation rights.

Section 23-17-20. - Inapplicability.

Section 23-17-21. - Power of enforcement.

Section 23-17-22. - Severability.

Section 23-17-23. - Hospital disciplinary powers.

Section 23-17-24. - Internal risk management program.

Section 23-17-25. - Privileges and immunities for peer review activities.

Section 23-17-26. - Emergency health care.

Section 23-17-27. - Disclosure of nonparticipation in hospital service plan.

Section 23-17-28. - Health care cost containment.

Section 23-17-29. - Applicability.

Section 23-17-30. - Blood or tissue transfer services.

Section 23-17-31. - Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing — Hospitals.

Section 23-17-31.1. - Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing — Facilities for drug users.

Section 23-17-32. - Mammograms — Quality assurance standards.

Section 23-17-33. - Pap smears — Quality assurance standards.

Section 23-17-34. - Criminal records review — Nursing facilities — Home nursing-care providers and home-care providers.

Section 23-17-35. - Prior criminal records checks.

Section 23-17-36. - Rules and regulations.

Section 23-17-37. - Disqualifying information.

Section 23-17-38. - Establishment of fees.

Section 23-17-38.1. - Hospitals — Licensing fee.

Section 23-17-39. - Immunity from liability.

Section 23-17-40. - Hospital and freestanding emergency-care facility events reporting.

Section 23-17-41. - Employer/employee relationships.

Section 23-17-42. - Home nursing care providers — Uncompensated care provisions.

Section 23-17-43. - Charity care requirements.

Section 23-17-44. - Moratorium on new initial nursing-facility licensed beds and on increases to the licensed capacity of existing nursing-facility licenses.

Section 23-17-45. - Quality standards for volume related tertiary services.

Section 23-17-46. - Financial interest disclosure.

Section 23-17-47. - Identification badges.

Section 23-17-48. - Labor disputes/actions.

Section 23-17-49. - Surgical procedures — General provisions.

Section 23-17-49.1. - Workplace and patient safety — Evacuation of surgical smoke plume required in operating rooms.

Section 23-17-50. - Physician ambulatory-surgery center — Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions.

Section 23-17-51. - Magnetic resonance imaging — Quality assurance standards.

Section 23-17-52. - Department of health concern line.

Section 23-17-53. - Physician contracts.

Section 23-17-54. - Provisions of interpreter services.

Section 23-17-55. - Severability.

Section 23-17-56. - School based health centers — Special requirements and exceptions.

Section 23-17-57. - Podiatry ambulatory-surgery center — Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions.

Section 23-17-58. - Documentation of pre-hospital and pre-freestanding emergency-care facility exposure of emergency medical services workers.

Section 23-17-59. - Safe patient handling.

Section 23-17-60. - Compilation and publication of the charges for common hospital procedures.

Section 23-17-61. - Written estimates for hospital medical services.

Section 23-17-62. - Criminal records review — Long-term care hospital.

Section 23-17-63. - Patient safety — Circulating nurses required in operating rooms.

Section 23-17-64. - Influenza immunization.

Section 23-17-65. - Transparency of ownership in healthcare facilities.