§ 5-37-14. Exceptions to licensure requirement — Immunity from liability.
No person licensed under this chapter, or members of the same professions licensed to practice in other states of the United States, who voluntarily and gratuitously and other than in the ordinary course of his or her employment or practice renders emergency medical assistance to a person in need of it, shall be liable for civil damages for any personal injuries that result from acts or omissions by these persons in rendering emergency care that may constitute ordinary negligence. This immunity does not apply to acts or omissions constituting gross, willful, or wanton negligence, or when rendered at any hospital, doctors’ offices, or clinic where these services are normally rendered.
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 165, § 6; P.L. 1901, ch. 926, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 193, § 6; G.L. 1923, ch. 159, § 6; G.L. 1938, ch. 275, § 6; G.L. 1956, § 5-37-14; P.L. 1963, ch. 138, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 492, § 4; P.L. 2014, ch. 190, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 213, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 5-37 - Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline
Section 5-37-1. - Definitions.
Section 5-37-1.2. - Examining committees.
Section 5-37-1.3. - Board of medical licensure and discipline — Powers and duties.
Section 5-37-1.4. - Director — Powers and duties.
Section 5-37-2. - License to practice — Qualifications of applicants — Fee — Reexamination.
Section 5-37-2.1. - Recertification — Continuing medical education.
Section 5-37-3. - Itinerants disqualified.
Section 5-37-4. - Refusal of licensure.
Section 5-37-5.1. - Unprofessional conduct.
Section 5-37-5.2. - Complaints.
Section 5-37-5.3. - Specification of charges.
Section 5-37-5.4. - Time and notice of hearing.
Section 5-37-6. - Subpoenas — Contempt.
Section 5-37-6.1. - Report of hearing.
Section 5-37-6.2. - Decision of the board.
Section 5-37-6.3. - Sanctions.
Section 5-37-7. - Appeal from the decision of the director.
Section 5-37-8. - Grounds for discipline without hearing.
Section 5-37-9.1. - Requirements relating to professional conduct.
Section 5-37-9.2. - Physician profiles — Public access to data.
Section 5-37-10. - Biannual registration, physicians — Annual registration, hospitals.
Section 5-37-11. - Inactive list.
Section 5-37-12. - Unauthorized practice of medicine.
Section 5-37-13. - [Repealed.]
Section 5-37-14. - Exceptions to licensure requirement — Immunity from liability.
Section 5-37-15. - Practice of religious beliefs.
Section 5-37-16. - Limited registrations.
Section 5-37-16.1. - Limited registration — Academic faculty.
Section 5-37-16.2. - Exceptions to licensure requirement.
Section 5-37-17. - Power to examine individuals.
Section 5-37-18. - Prescription slips.
Section 5-37-18.1. - Physicians required to authorize product selection.
Section 5-37-18.2. - Penalty for violating § 5-37-18 or § 5-37-18.1.
Section 5-37-19. - Blank prescriptions.
Section 5-37-20. - Acupuncture.
Section 5-37-21. - Fee splitting.
Section 5-37-22. - Disclosures.
Section 5-37-23. - Over-billing reward program.
Section 5-37-24. - [Repealed.]
Section 5-37-25. - Violations — Penalties.
Section 5-37-25.1. - Injunction of violations.
Section 5-37-26. - Medical forms.
Section 5-37-27. - Severability.
Section 5-37-28. - Communications of information among healthcare facilities.
Section 5-37-29. - Hospital responsibility to take action based upon adverse information received.
Section 5-37-30. - Closure of medical practice — Preservation of records.
Section 5-37-31. - Mammograms — Quality assurance standards.
Section 5-37-32. - Pap smears — Quality assurance standards.