Rhode Island Statutes

§ 40.1-5.3-2 — § 40.1-5.3-2. Transfers between state-operated hospitals.

Rhode Island § 40.1-5.3-2
JurisdictionRhode Island
Title 40.1Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals
Ch. 40.1-5.3Incompetency to Stand Trial and Persons Adjudged Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity

This text of Rhode Island § 40.1-5.3-2 (§ 40.1-5.3-2. Transfers between state-operated hospitals.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Rhode Island primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 40.1-5.3-2 (2026).

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§ 40.1-5.3-2. Transfers between state-operated hospitals.

Whenever any person committed, transferred, or removed to either the Rhode Island state psychiatric hospital or the Eleanor Slater hospital to the facility provided for in § 40.1-5.3-1 shall have recovered his or her mental health sufficiently, the director may, upon request of the chief executive officer or the chief medical officer of either state-operated hospital, discharge the person from the first hospital and then admit the person to the general units of either the Rhode Island state psychiatric hospital or Eleanor Slater hospital, as the case may be.

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Legislative History

P.L. 1973, ch. 175, § 2: G.L. 1956, § 26-4-2; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; P.L. 2022, ch. 231, art. 11, § 8, effective June 27, 2022.

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