Section 40.1-28-1 – — 40.1-28-6. [Repealed.]
§ 40.1-28-1 — 40.1-28-6. [Repealed.]
Section 40.1-27-2. – Duty to report.
§ 40.1-27-2. Duty to report. (a) Any person within the scope of his or her employment at a program or in his or her professional capacity who has knowledge of, or reasonable cause to believe, that a participant in a program has been abused, mistreated, or neglected shall make, within twenty-four (24) hours or by […]
Section 40.1-27-3. – Duties of the director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.
§ 40.1-27-3. Duties of the director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals. The director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals, or his or her designee shall: (1) Notify the attorney general, or his or her designee, the chair of the program’s human rights committee forthwith upon receipt […]
Section 40.1-27-4. – Penalty — Failure to report.
§ 40.1-27-4. Penalty — Failure to report. (a) Any person so required to make a report as provided by § 40.1-27-2 and who fails to do so shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500). (b) Any person who alters or changes without […]
Section 40.1-27-5. – Physician’s report of examination — Duty of program.
§ 40.1-27-5. Physician’s report of examination — Duty of program. Whenever a program shall receive a report by a person other than a physician that a participant has been harmed as a result of abuse, neglect, or mistreatment, the program shall have the patient examined by a licensed physician. It shall be mandatory for the […]
Section 40.1-27-6. – Immunity from liability.
§ 40.1-27-6. Immunity from liability. Any person who, in good faith, makes an oral or written report pursuant to § 40.1-27-2, excluding any perpetrator or conspirator of the acts described in § 40.1-27-1, shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, that might be incurred as a result of having made the report. No […]
Section 40.1-26-4.1. – Aversive interventions — Prohibitions.
§ 40.1-26-4.1. Aversive interventions — Prohibitions. It shall be unlawful for any agency to use prohibited aversive intervention techniques on a person with a developmental disability in the state of Rhode Island. The specific strategies to be prohibited within the context of behavioral treatment interventions include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Noxious, […]
Section 40.1-26-5. – Participant grievance procedure.
§ 40.1-26-5. Participant grievance procedure. (a) Every agency must establish a written grievance procedure. The grievance procedure shall be presented to every participant or applicant in a manner consistent with the participant’s or applicant’s learning style and be conspicuously posted in each agency. The notice of grievance procedure shall include the name of organizations that […]
Section 40.1-26-6. – Immunity from liability.
§ 40.1-26-6. Immunity from liability. The state shall protect and hold harmless any volunteer member of a human rights committee from financial loss and expense, including legal fees and costs, if any, arising out of any claim, demand, or suit for damages resulting from acts or omissions committed in the discharge of his or her […]
Section 40.1-26-6.1. – Good-faith immunity.
§ 40.1-26-6.1. Good-faith immunity. Any volunteer member of a human rights committee, acting in good faith and meeting the requirements of this statute, shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, that might be incurred in the performance of his or her duties as a volunteer member of a human rights committee and shall […]