§ 23-9-1. Appointment of seaport health officers — Duties and compensation. Each seaport city or town, or the city or town council of each seaport city or town, may appoint a health officer for the city or town who shall visit all vessels which shall be subject to examination of quarantine, and carry into execution […]
§ 23-9-10. Enforcement by sheriffs, sergeants, and constables. Every sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant, and town constable shall carry the rules and regulations of the city or town council within his or her precinct into effect. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 95, § 11; G.L. 1909, ch. 114, § 11; G.L. 1923, ch. 157, § […]
§ 23-9-11. Disposition of fines. The fines for the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be recovered to the use of the city or town where the offense was committed. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 95, § 12; G.L. 1909, ch. 114, § 12; G.L. 1923, ch. 157, § 12; G.L. […]
§ 23-9-12. Federal quarantine system superseding Providence regulations. Whenever the United States of America shall put in force a system of national quarantine inspection for the port of Providence, the duties of the quarantine health officer and sentinel of that city shall be suspended for so long a period as the quarantine inspection shall be […]
§ 23-9-13. Repealed.
§ 23-9-14. Hoisting of quarantine colors. The commander of a vessel as described in this chapter, on his or her arrival in any of the waters of the state, shall immediately hoist and keep his or her colors in the shrouds of that vessel as a signal that he or she has come from some […]
§ 23-9-15. Unauthorized departure from infected vessel. If any person shall come on shore from on board a vessel as described in this chapter without first obtaining a license, the city or town council may immediately send that offender back on board that vessel, or confine him or her on shore in a convenient place […]
§ 23-9-16. Examination of vessel — Guards to prevent unauthorized communication. The city or town council of the city or town where a vessel as described in this chapter arrives shall send a physician or other suitable person to examine and report to them of the true state of that vessel and the people on […]
§ 23-9-17. Confinement or removal of persons on board. The city or town council of the city or town where a vessel as described in this chapter arrives shall confine on board that vessel, or send to some hospital or other suitable place, all persons who came in that vessel, for a convenient time, until […]
§ 23-9-18. Disinfection of imported goods. The city or town council of a city or town where a vessel as described in this chapter arrives shall appoint suitable persons to take effectual care that all goods, wares, and merchandise imported in that vessel which they think may hold and communicate the infection or contagion are […]
§ 23-9-19. Certification and delivery of disinfected goods — Expense of disinfection. Whenever infected or contagious goods are sufficiently aired and cleansed, those persons described in § 23-9-18 shall give the owners or persons entitled to possession of those goods a certificate to that effect; and the city or town council shall allow and order […]
§ 23-9-2. Publication of city or town quarantine regulations. The city or town council shall publish in one or more newspapers published in the state, within or nearest the city or town where the rules and regulations shall be adopted, at the expense of the city or town, all rules and regulations made by it […]
§ 23-9-20. Delivery of goods not infected — Cleansing or destruction of infected goods. All goods that are judged by the city or town council not to be infected shall be delivered to the owners without delay and expense of airing and as soon as may be consistent with the safety of the city or […]
§ 23-9-21. Forfeiture of unlawfully imported goods. All goods imported in a vessel as described in this chapter that shall be clandestinely landed or brought into any house, shop, or warehouse without a certificate and allowance as provided in § 23-9-19, or that shall be imported by land as provided in § 23-9-20 and not […]
§ 23-9-22. Settlement of wages and charges. The city and town councils of the respective cities and towns shall fix, settle, and adjust all wages and charges demanded by persons employed by them to secure a vessel, or to air and cleanse those goods, or to attend upon and nurse those persons as provided in […]
§ 23-9-23. Action for recovery of expenses. If any owner, freighter, mariner, or passenger shall refuse to pay those wages and charges settled, adjusted, and fixed pursuant to § 23-9-22, then the city or town shall sue for and recover those wages and charges, and the court where the action is brought and maintained shall […]
§ 23-9-24. Waters under concurrent jurisdiction of Newport. The health officer of the city of Newport shall, under the direction of the council of that city, have authority concurrent with the city or town councils of the several cities or towns in the county of Newport bordering on the public waters of the state in […]
§ 23-9-3. Places from which vessels arriving are subject to quarantine. The city or town council shall prescribe from time to time the several ports, places, or countries from which vessels arriving shall be subject to examination or quarantine. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 95, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 114, § 3; G.L. 1923, […]
§ 23-9-4. Designation of time and place of quarantine. The city or town council shall designate the particular place in the harbor, bay, or river adjacent to the city or town where all arriving ships or vessels subject to examination or quarantine shall come to anchor; and shall define the limits of the quarantine ground, […]
§ 23-9-5. Sentinel to order ships into quarantine. The city or town council may appoint a sentinel, who shall be paid by the city or town and stationed in some convenient place on shore, or in some properly situated boat or vessel, to hail all ships or vessels which may arrive in that river, bay, […]
