§ 23-6-1. Common drinking cups and towels. (a) In order to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, the state department of health is authorized to prohibit, in any public places, vehicles, or buildings that it may designate, the use of a common drinking cup and a common towel, and the director may establish rules and […]
§ 23-6-10 — 23-6-27. Repealed.
§ 23-6-2. Spitting in public places. No person shall spit upon the floor, or upon the sides, or upon any of the furnishings or equipment of any public conveyance, not devoted exclusively to smoking, or of any shop, store, hall, church, schoolhouse, railroad station, or other public building, or in the hallways of any private […]
§ 23-6-3. Vaccinations provided by cities or towns. The city or town councils in the several cities or towns shall provide annually for the gratuitous vaccination of the inhabitants of the several cities or towns. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 94, § 28; G.L. 1909, ch. 110, § 28; G.L. 1923, ch. 154, § 28; […]
§ 23-6-4. Employment of physicians for vaccinations. The city or town councils shall contract with and provide a suitable number of physicians to vaccinate as provided in § 23-6-3 and order the city or town treasurers of the several cities or towns respectively to pay them the compensation that may be previously agreed upon; and […]
§ 23-6-5. Record of vaccinations. The physicians contracted with in § 23-6-4, as soon after fulfilling their contract as may be convenient, shall deposit in the city or town clerk’s office a book in which they have respectively recorded, in a fair and legible hand, the name and age of every person they have vaccinated […]
§ 23-6-6. Preservation of records. City and town clerks shall safely keep the books described in § 23-6-5 for the accommodation of those physicians and others, without any compensation, and deliver them over to their successors; but they may charge lawful fees for searching them or for any copies. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 94, […]
§ 23-6-7. Investigation and suppression of poliomyelitis. The department of health is authorized and directed to investigate any conditions associated with any case or suspected case of, or the spread of, the disease known as anterior poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis in this state and, as far as possible, to aid in the suppression of that […]
§ 23-6-8. Local authorization of hospital or camp for communicable disease. No person, association, corporation, city, or town shall establish any hospital, camp, or other establishment for the treatment of patients suffering from contagious diseases or from the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis, unless the department of health shall by resolution authorize its establishment in […]
§ 23-6-9. Abatement of unauthorized hospital or camp. Any hospital, camp, or other establishment, as described in § 23-6-8 established without the authority may be abated as a nuisance by any court of competent jurisdiction. History of Section.P.L. 1909, ch. 400, § 2; G.L. 1923, ch. 154, § 37; G.L. 1938, ch. 256, § 37; […]
