Rhode Island § 40.1-2-19 § 40.1-2-19. Treatment and isolation of diseased residents — Detention after time for release.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 40.1-2-19 — § 40.1-2-19. Treatment and isolation of diseased residents — Detention after time for release.

Rhode Island § 40.1-2-19

Title 40.1Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals

Ch. 40.1-2Administration of State Institutions

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 40.1-2-19 (2026).

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§ 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 

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§ 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.

Legislative History

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.