§ 23-9-15. Unauthorized departure from infected vessel.
If any person shall come on shore from on board a vessel as described in this chapter without first obtaining a license, the city or town council may immediately send that offender back on board that vessel, or confine him or her on shore in a convenient place that appears to the city or town council most effectual to prevent the spreading of any infection; and the offending person shall satisfy and pay all charges that shall arise on the confinement, and shall be fined forty dollars ($40.00).
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 94, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 110, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 154, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 256, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 23-9-15; P.L. 2008, ch. 475, § 40.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 23-9 - Quarantine of Vessels
Section 23-9-1. - Appointment of seaport health officers — Duties and compensation.
Section 23-9-2. - Publication of city or town quarantine regulations.
Section 23-9-3. - Places from which vessels arriving are subject to quarantine.
Section 23-9-4. - Designation of time and place of quarantine.
Section 23-9-5. - Sentinel to order ships into quarantine.
Section 23-9-6. - Penalty for refusal to anchor in quarantine.
Section 23-9-7. - Council order to anchor in quarantine.
Section 23-9-8. - Unauthorized departure from vessel under quarantine.
Section 23-9-9. - Quarantine of vessels bound for Providence.
Section 23-9-10. - Enforcement by sheriffs, sergeants, and constables.
Section 23-9-11. - Disposition of fines.
Section 23-9-12. - Federal quarantine system superseding Providence regulations.
Section 23-9-14. - Hoisting of quarantine colors.
Section 23-9-15. - Unauthorized departure from infected vessel.
Section 23-9-16. - Examination of vessel — Guards to prevent unauthorized communication.
Section 23-9-17. - Confinement or removal of persons on board.
Section 23-9-18. - Disinfection of imported goods.
Section 23-9-19. - Certification and delivery of disinfected goods — Expense of disinfection.
Section 23-9-20. - Delivery of goods not infected — Cleansing or destruction of infected goods.
Section 23-9-21. - Forfeiture of unlawfully imported goods.
Section 23-9-22. - Settlement of wages and charges.
Section 23-9-23. - Action for recovery of expenses.
Section 23-9-24. - Waters under concurrent jurisdiction of Newport.