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Chapter
23-1
Department of Health
Chapter
23-1.1
Division of Occupational Health
Chapter
23-1.2
Division of Legal Services
Chapter
23-1.3
Radiation Control
Chapter
23-1.7
Rhode Island Program to Address Alzheimer's Disease
Chapter
23-1.8
Commission on the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
Chapter
23-1.9
Sheath Needles
Chapter
23-1.10
Alcoholism
Chapter
23-1.11
Needlestick Safety And Injury Prevention Act
Chapter
23-2
Local Health Officers
Chapter
23-3
Vital Records
Chapter
23-4
Office of State Medical Examiners
Chapter
23-4.1
Emergency Medical Transportation Services
Chapter
23-4.5
Blood Bank Services
Chapter
23-4.6
Consent to Medical and Surgical Care
Chapter
23-4.7
Informed Consent for Abortion
Chapter
23-4.8
Spousal Notice for Abortion
Chapter
23-4.9
Retention of X-rays
Chapter
23-4.10
Health Care Power of Attorney
Chapter
23-4.11
Rights of the Terminally Ill Act
Chapter
23-4.12
Partial Birth Abortion
Chapter
23-4.13
Reproductive Privacy Act
Chapter
23-5
Reports of Disease and Disability
Chapter
23-5.1
Identification of Persons Suffering from Certain Disabilities
Chapter
23-6
Prevention and Suppression of Contagious Diseases
Chapter
23-6.1
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Program in High Schools
Chapter
23-6.2
Public Access Defibrillation
Chapter
23-6.3
Prevention and Suppression of Contagious Diseases - HIV/AIDS
Chapter
23-6.4
Life-Saving Allergy Medication - Stock Supply of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors - Emergency Administration
Chapter
23-6.5
Automated External Defibrillators Required at Public Places
Chapter
23-7
Mosquito Abatement
Chapter
23-7.1
Rodent Control and Eradication
Chapter
23-8
Quarantine Generally
Chapter
23-9
Quarantine of Vessels
Chapter
23-10
Tuberculosis
Chapter
23-10.1
Emergency Commitment for Drug Intoxication
Chapter
23-11
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Chapter
23-12
Cancer
Chapter
23-12.1
Hemophilia Care Program
Chapter
23-12.5
New England Compact on Radiological Health Protection
Chapter
23-12.6
Ovarian Cancer Education, Detection, and Prevention
Chapter
23-12.7
The Breast Cancer Act
Chapter
23-12.8
The Firefighter Cancer Wellness Act
Chapter
23-12.9
Dense Breast Notification and Education
Chapter
23-13
Maternal and Child Health Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Chapter
23-13.1
The Safe Haven For Infants Act
Chapter
23-13.2
Nursing Working Mothers
Chapter
23-13.3
Birth Defects Surveillance and Information System
Chapter
23-13.4
Hazardous Chemicals - Contamination of Breast Milk and Environment
Chapter
23-13.5
Breastfeeding in Public Places
Chapter
23-13.6
Lactation Consultant Practice Act of 2014
Chapter
23-13.7
The Rhode Island Family Home-Visiting Act
Chapter
23-14
Childhood Disease Fund
Chapter
23-14.1
Health Professional Loan Repayment Program
Chapter
23-15
Determination of Need for New Healthcare Equipment and New Institutional Health Services
Chapter
23-16
Health Facilities Construction
Chapter
23-16.1
New England Health Services and Facilities Compact
Chapter
23-16.2
Laboratories
Chapter
23-16.3
Clinical Laboratory Science Practice
Chapter
23-16.4
Human Cloning
Chapter
23-17
Licensing of Healthcare Facilities
Chapter
23-17.1
Licensing of Nursing or Personal Care Homes
Chapter
23-17.2
Accountability of Services to Patients of Nursing or Personal Care Homes
Chapter
23-17.3
Long-Term Care Coordinating Council
Chapter
23-17.4
Assisted Living Residence Licensing Act
Chapter
23-17.5
Rights of Nursing Home Patients
Chapter
23-17.6
Mobile Intensive Care Unit Program
Chapter
23-17.7
Licensing of Nursing Service Agencies
Chapter
23-17.7.1
Licensing of Nursing Service Agencies
Chapter
23-17.8
Abuse in Healthcare Facilities
Chapter
23-17.9
Registration of Nursing Assistants
Chapter
23-17.10
Administrative Penalties
Chapter
23-17.11
The Nursing Facilities Receivership Act
Chapter
23-17.12
Health Care Services - Utilization Review Act
Chapter
23-17.13
Health Care Accessibility and Quality Assurance Act
Chapter
23-17.14
The Hospital Conversions Act
Chapter
23-17.15
Long-Term Health Care Goals And Values
Chapter
23-17.16
Home Care Patient Rights
Chapter
23-17.17
Health Care Quality Program
Chapter
23-17.18
Health Plan Modification Act
Chapter
23-17.19
Immunization In Long Term Care Facilities
Chapter
23-17.20
HealthCare Facilities Staffing
Chapter
23-17.21
The Rhode Island Patient Safety Act of 2008
Chapter
23-17.22
Healthy Rhode Island Reform Act of 2008
Chapter
23-17.23
Center for Health Professions
Chapter
23-17.24
The Adult Supportive Care Residence Act
Chapter
23-17.25
Distressed Essential Community Hospitals
Chapter
23-17.26
Comprehensive Discharge Planning
Chapter
23-17.27
Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act
Chapter
23-18
Cemeteries
Chapter
23-18.1
Disposition of Bodies to be Buried with Public Funds
Chapter
23-18.2
Preservation and Care of Burial Places and Memorials For the Dead
Chapter
23-18.3
Advisory Commission on Historical Cemeteries
Chapter
23-18.5
Anatomical Gifts
Chapter
23-18.6
Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Chapter
23-18.6.1
Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Chapter
23-18.6.2
Rhode Island Public Education Advisory Council for Organ and Tissue Donation Registration
Chapter
23-18.7
Bone Marrow Donation
Chapter
23-18.8
Waste Recycling
Chapter
23-18.9
Refuse Disposal
Chapter
23-18.10
Prohibition of Products Containing Chlorofluorocarbons Products
Chapter
23-18.11
Promotion of Paper Bag Usage
Chapter
23-18.12
Beverage Container Recyclability
Chapter
23-18.13
Toxic Packaging Reduction Act
Chapter
23-18.14
Degradable Plastics and Packaging
Chapter
23-18.15
Plastic Bottle and Container Labeling Act
Chapter
23-18.16
Newspaper Recyclability
Chapter
23-18.17
Used Cooking Oil Recycling
Chapter
23-19
Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation
Chapter
23-19.1
Hazardous Waste Management
Chapter
23-19.2
Local Health Regulations
Chapter
23-19.3
Sanitarians
Chapter
23-19.3.1
Residential Sanitary Sewer Connections
Chapter
23-19.4
Septage, Industrial Wastes and Waste Oil Pumping, Cleaning and Transportation
Chapter
23-19.5
Percolation Tests and Water Table Elevation Determinations
Chapter
23-19.6
Used Oil Recycling
Chapter
23-19.7
Hazardous Waste Management Facilities
Chapter
23-19.8
Hazardous Waste Cleanup
Chapter
23-19.9
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact
Chapter
23-19.10
Hazardous Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Treatment Research and Demonstration Act of 1986
Chapter
23-19.11
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
Chapter
23-19.12
Generation - Transportation - Storage - Treatment - Management and Disposal of Regulated Medical Waste
Chapter
23-19.13
Gull Control Program
Chapter
23-19.14
Industrial Property Remediation and Reuse Act
Chapter
23-19.15
The Rhode Island Cesspool Act of 2007
Chapter
23-19.16
Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund
Chapter
23-20
Sanitation in Hotels and Boarding Houses
Chapter
23-20.5
Choke-Saving
Chapter
23-20.6
Smoking in Public Places
Chapter
23-20.7
Workplace Smoking Pollution Control Act
Chapter
23-20.7.1
Off-Duty Rights to Privacy by Employees
Chapter
23-20.8
Licensing of Massage Therapists
Chapter
23-20.8.1
Registration of Music Therapists
Chapter
23-20.9
Smoking in Schools
Chapter
23-20.10
Public Health and Workplace Safety Act
Chapter
23-20.11
Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity and Firefighter Protection
Chapter
23-20.12
Food Allergy Awareness in Food-Service Establishments
Chapter
23-21
Licensing of Recreational Facilities
Chapter
23-21.1
Sanitation Standards for Bathing Beaches
Chapter
23-22
Licensing of Swimming Pools
Chapter
23-22.5
Drowning Prevention and Lifesaving
Chapter
23-23
Air Pollution
Chapter
23-23.1
Air Pollution Episode Control
Chapter
23-23.5
Noxious Trades
Chapter
23-23.6
Air Quality in Ice Arenas
Chapter
23-23.7
Biodiesel Heating Oil Act of 2013
Chapter
23-24
Hazardous Substances
Chapter
23-24.1
Poison Prevention Packaging
Chapter
23-24.2
Flammable Fabrics
Chapter
23-24.3
Substances or Compounds Used as Sewerage System Cleaners
Chapter
23-24.4
Hazardous Substances Community Right to Know Act
Chapter
23-24.5
Asbestos Abatement
Chapter
23-24.6
Lead Poisoning Prevention Act
Chapter
23-24.7
Occupational Health - Lead Protection
Chapter
23-24.8
Mercury Fever Thermometers
Chapter
23-24.9
Mercury Reduction and Education Act
Chapter
23-24.10
Electronic Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling Act
Chapter
23-24.11
Comprehensive Children's Jewelry Safety Act
Chapter
23-24.12
Proper Management of Unused Paint
Chapter
23-25
Pesticide Control
Chapter
23-25.1
Hazardous Pesticides, Insecticides, Fungicides, Herbicides, and Rodenticides
Chapter
23-25.2
Pesticide Relief Fund
Chapter
23-25.3
Marine Tributyltin Antifoulant Paints
Chapter
23-25.4
Utilization of Unused Prescription Drugs Act
Chapter
23-25.5
The Return or Exchange of Drugs Act
Chapter
23-26
Bedding and Upholstered Furniture
Chapter
23-27
Building Regulation Generally
Chapter
23-27.1
Safety Glazing
Chapter
23-27.2
State Building Code
Chapter
23-27.3
State Building Code
Chapter
23-27.4
Interstate Compact on Industrialized/Modular Buildings
Chapter
23-28
Fire Prevention and Investigation
Chapter
23-28.01
Comprehensive Fire Safety Act
Chapter
23-28.1
Fire Safety Code - General Provisions
Chapter
23-28.2
Office of State Fire Marshal
Chapter
23-28.3
Fire Safety Code Board of Appeal and Review
Chapter
23-28.4
Safety and Health Programs for Fire Departments
Chapter
23-28.5
Inspection of Buildings
Chapter
23-28.6
Places of Assembly
Chapter
23-28.7
Hotels and Motels
Chapter
23-28.8
Fire Escapes - Outside Stairways
Chapter
23-28.9
Heating and Cooking Facilities
Chapter
23-28.10
Health Care Facilities
Chapter
23-28.11
Fireworks and Pyrotechnics
Chapter
23-28.12
Schools
Chapter
23-28.13
Boarding Homes
Chapter
23-28.14
Rooming Houses
Chapter
23-28.15
Child Day Care Centers
Chapter
23-28.16
Apartment Houses
Chapter
23-28.17
Industrial, Mercantile, Business, and Storage Buildings
Chapter
23-28.18
Theatres
Chapter
23-28.19
Tents - Grandstands - Air-Supported Structures
Chapter
23-28.20
Storage and Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gas
Chapter
23-28.21
Fuel Oil Installations
Chapter
23-28.22
Flammable and Combustible Liquids
Chapter
23-28.23
Exit Signs
Chapter
23-28.24
Emergency Lighting
Chapter
23-28.25
Fire Alarm Systems
Chapter
23-28.26
Dip Tanks Containing Flammable or Combustible Liquid
Chapter
23-28.27
Spray Application Using Flammable or Combustible Material
Chapter
23-28.28
Explosives
Chapter
23-28.29
Model Rocket Engines
Chapter
23-28.30
Community Residences for the Mentally Retarded, Mentally Ill, Drug Abusers, and Alcoholics
Chapter
23-28.31
Horse Stables
Chapter
23-28.32
Sales or Leasing and Servicing of Portable Fire Extinguishers and Fixed Fire Extinguishing Systems
Chapter
23-28.33
Storage and Handling of Liquefied Natural Gas
Chapter
23-28.34
Fire and Carbon Monoxide Detection Systems
Chapter
23-28.35
Fire Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Systems in Existing Residential Occupancies
Chapter
23-28.36
Notification of Fire Fighters, Police Officers and Emergency Medical Technicians After Exposure to Infectious Diseases
Chapter
23-28.37
Vaccination of Firefighters to Prevent Hepatitis B
Chapter
23-28.38
Detention and Correctional Occupancies
Chapter
23-28.39
Housing for the Elderly - Emergency Generators Required
Chapter
23-29
Fire Regulations in Places of Public Assembly
Chapter
23-29.1
Rehabilitation Building And Fire Code For Existing Buildings And Structures
Chapter
23-30
Fire Escapes And Stairways
Chapter
23-31
Automatic Sprinkler Systems
Chapter
23-32
Inspection of Buildings
Chapter
23-33
Elevators, Escalators, and Dumbwaiters
Chapter
23-34
Amusement Ride Inspection and Insurance Act
Chapter
23-34.1
Amusement Ride Safety Act
Chapter
23-35
Motion Picture Projectors
Chapter
23-36
Inspection and Handling of Inflammable Substances
Chapter
23-37
Powers of Fire Companies
Chapter
23-38
Degradable Connectors and Non-Detachable Metal Openers for Beverage Containers
Chapter
23-38.1
Hazardous Substances
Chapter
23-38.2
Poison Prevention Packaging
Chapter
23-38.3
Flammable Fabrics
Chapter
23-39
Respiratory Care Act
Chapter
23-40
New England Health Services and Facilities Compact
Chapter
23-41
Hazardous Pesticides, Insecticides, Fungicides, Herbicides and Rodenticides
Chapter
23-41.1
Pesticide Control
Chapter
23-42
Disposition of Bodies to be Buried with Public Funds
Chapter
23-43
Office of Mental Retardation
Chapter
23-43.1
Retardation Law
Chapter
23-43.2
Parental Succession - Retarded Persons
Chapter
23-43.3
Licensing of Facilities and Programs for the Alcoholic, Drug Abuser, Mentally Ill and the Mentally Retarded
Chapter
23-44
New England Compact on Radiological Health Protection
Chapter
23-45
Rodent Control and Eradication
Chapter
23-46
Refuse Disposal
Chapter
23-46.1
Solid Waste Management Corporation
Chapter
23-46.2
Hazardous Waste Management
Chapter
23-47
Anatomical Gifts
Chapter
23-48
Sanitarians
Chapter
23-49
Septage, Industrial Wastes and Waste Oil Pumping, Cleaning and Transportation
Chapter
23-50
Blood Bank Services
Chapter
23-51
Consent to Medical and Surgical Care
Chapter
23-52
Emergency Medical Transportation Services
Chapter
23-53
Special Packaging of Poisonous Substances
Chapter
23-54
Choke-Saving Devices
Chapter
23-55
Percolation Tests and Water Table Elevation Determinations
Chapter
23-56
Smoking in Public Places
Chapter
23-57
Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Chapter
23-58
Massage Parlors
Chapter
23-59
Continuing Care Provider Registration and Disclosure
Chapter
23-60
Battery Deposit and Control
Chapter
23-60.1
Dry Cell Battery Control
Chapter
23-61
Radon Control
Chapter
23-62
Truth in Food Disclosure Law
Chapter
23-63
Vehicle Tire Storage and Recycling
Chapter
23-64
Minority Health Promotion Act
Chapter
23-64.1
Commission for Health Advocacy and Equity
Chapter
23-65
Board of Certification of Operators of Public Water Supply Facilities
Chapter
23-66
Comprehensive Health Risk Assessments
Chapter
23-67
The Rhode Island Research and Treatment Fund for Uninsured and Underinsured Women Stricken with Cancer
Chapter
23-68
Tanning Facility Safety Standards Act
Chapter
23-69
New England Compact on Involuntary Detention for Tuberculosis Control
Chapter
23-70
Osteoporosis
Chapter
23-71
Tobacco Product Manufacturers' Escrow Funds
Chapter
23-72
Mercury In Fish Products
Chapter
23-73
Latex Gloves Safety Act
Chapter
23-74
Unlicensed Health Care Practices
Chapter
23-75
Children's Product Safety Act
Chapter
23-76
Vaccine Shortage Protection Act
Chapter
23-77
Healthcare Information Technology and Infrastructure Development Fund
Chapter
23-78
The Stroke Task Force
Chapter
23-78.1
Stroke Prevention and Treatment Act of 2009
Chapter
23-79
The Rhode Island Autism Spectrum Disorder Evaluation and Treatment Act
Chapter
23-80
Safe Patient Handling Act of 2006
Chapter
23-81
Rhode Island Coordinated Health Planning Act of 2006
Chapter
23-82
Implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Act
Chapter
23-83
The Umbilical Cord Blood Donation Notification Act
Chapter
23-84
The Rhode Island Climate Risk Reduction Act of 2010
Chapter
23-85
Green Economy Roundtable
Chapter
23-86
Women's Cardiovascular Screening and Risk Reduction Pilot Program
Chapter
23-87
The Rhode Island Lupus Education and Awareness Plan
Chapter
23-88
Code Consistency Council
Chapter
23-89
The Rhode Island Palliative Care and Quality of Life Act
Chapter
23-90
Responsible Recycling, Reuse and Disposal of Mattresses
Chapter
23-91
Service Member Licensure
Chapter
23-92
Military Spouse Licensure
Chapter
23-93
Rhode Island Access to Medical Technology Innovation Act
Chapter
23-94
Prevention of Conversion Therapy for Children