§ 40.1-2-19. Treatment and isolation of diseased residents — Detention after time for release.
Every inmate, prisoner, patient, or pupil in any of the institutions under the department’s control, who has any dangerous, infectious, or contagious disease, including syphilis in the infectious stages and gonococcus infection, shall be forthwith placed under medical treatment, and if in the opinion of the attending physician it is necessary, shall be isolated until danger of contagion has passed, or until the attending physician determines that further isolation is unnecessary; and if danger of contagion shall not have passed, or if further isolation is still necessary at the expiration of sentence or at the time for discharge or release from the institution, the afflicted inmate, prisoner, patient, or pupil shall be detained in the institution and continued under medical treatment until the attending physician shall determine that his or her discharge or release from the institution will not endanger the public health; and during the period of detention, the person so detained shall be supported in the same manner as before the detention.
History of Section.P.L. 1917, ch. 1470, art. 4, § 3; P.L. 1918, ch. 1613, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 413, art. 4, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 54, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 40-2-19; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970; P.L. 1999, ch. 83, § 105; P.L. 1999, ch. 130, § 105.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals
Chapter 40.1-2 - Administration of State Institutions
Section 40.1-2-1. - Definitions.
Section 40.1-2-2. - Rules and regulations.
Section 40.1-2-4. - Disclosure of information about patient’s estate.
Section 40.1-2-6. - Records and reports as to institution residents.
Section 40.1-2-7. - Application of funds deposited to care and treatment of residents.
Section 40.1-2-8. - Notice of balance to credit of deceased or discharged resident.
Section 40.1-2-9. - Payment of balance to general treasurer.
Section 40.1-2-10. - Establishment of right to balance paid to general treasurer.
Section 40.1-2-11. - Abandonment of property of deceased or discharged residents.
Section 40.1-2-12. - Transfer of abandoned property to the general treasurer.
Section 40.1-2-13. - Description of abandoned property transferred.
Section 40.1-2-14. - Sale of abandoned property — Remission of proceeds.
Section 40.1-2-15. - Application of proceeds of sale.
Section 40.1-2-16. - Protection of health of residents.
Section 40.1-2-17. - Resident physicians and dentists.
Section 40.1-2-20. - Records of venereal disease.
Section 40.1-2-21. - Powers as to health of residents.
Section 40.1-2-22. - Religious instructors and services.
Section 40.1-2-24. - Compensation of officers and employees.
Section 40.1-2-25. - Institutional farms.
Section 40.1-2-26. - Supervision of schools in institutions — Qualifications of teachers.
Section 40.1-2-27. - Departmental seal.
Section 40.1-2-28. - Annual report to general assembly.
Section 40.1-2-29. - Prohibition against duplication of keys.
Section 40.1-2-30. - Petitions for appointment of conservator or legal guardian.