§ 40.1-5.3-1. Facility for incompetent persons and others.
(a) The state director of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals shall maintain appropriate facilities, including the Rhode Island state psychiatric hospital and the Eleanor Slater hospital, for the confinement of persons committed to the director’s custody pursuant to this chapter and shall provide for the proper care, treatment, and restraint of all such persons. All persons now or hereafter committed, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 40.1-5.3-3, 40.1-5.3-4, 40.1-5.3-7, or the provisions of prior law, shall be removed or committed, as the case may be, to the facility into the custody of the director, or the director’s designee, who in turn shall ensure the admission of the person to either the Rhode Island state psychiatric hospital or the Eleanor Slater hospital in the discretion of the director or the director’s designee.
(b) The cost of care, maintenance, and treatment of persons committed to the custody of the director of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals, as provided in §§ 40.1-5.3-3 and 40.1-5.3-4, unless otherwise provided for, shall be paid by the person, if the person has any estate, or by the person liable for the person’s support, if such there be; otherwise, the director may maintain without charge or defray the expense of care and treatment of the poor or indigent persons incompetent to stand trial or acquitted on the grounds of insanity.
History of Section.P.L. 1973, ch. 175, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 26-4-1; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; P.L. 1982, ch. 221, § 1; P.L. 2022, ch. 231, art. 11, § 8, effective June 27, 2022.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals
Chapter 40.1-5.3 - Incompetency to Stand Trial and Persons Adjudged Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
Section 40.1-5.3-1. - Facility for incompetent persons and others.
Section 40.1-5.3-2. - Transfers between state-operated hospitals.
Section 40.1-5.3-3. - Competency to stand trial.
Section 40.1-5.3-4. - Commitment of persons acquitted on ground of insanity.
Section 40.1-5.3-5. - Expenses of examination.
Section 40.1-5.3-6. - Examination of persons awaiting trial or convicted and imprisoned for crime.
Section 40.1-5.3-7. - Hearing on petition.
Section 40.1-5.3-8. - Duration of order of transfer — Officer to whom directed.
Section 40.1-5.3-9. - Return to confinement.
Section 40.1-5.3-9.1. - Hearing on petition.
Section 40.1-5.3-10. - Expenses of examination.
Section 40.1-5.3-11. - Liability for expenses of maintenance — Action for collection of expenses.
Section 40.1-5.3-12. - Investigation of ability to pay for maintenance.
Section 40.1-5.3-13. - General rights.
Section 40.1-5.3-14. - Right to treatment — Treatment plan.
Section 40.1-5.3-15. - Disclosure of confidential information and records.
Section 40.1-5.3-16. - Disclosure of rights.
Section 40.1-5.3-17. - Penalties for deprivation of rights — Disciplinary action — Duty to report.