TITLE 40.1

Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals

CHAPTER 40.1-2

Administration of State Institutions

SECTION 40.1-2-19



   § 40.1-2-19  Treatment and isolation of

diseased residents – Detention after time for release. –

Every inmate, prisoner, patient, or pupil in any of the institutions under the

department's control, who has any dangerous, infectious or contagious disease,

including syphilis in the infectious stages and gonococcus infection, shall be

forthwith placed under medical treatment, and if in the opinion of the

attending physician it is necessary, shall be isolated until danger of

contagion has passed or until the attending physician determines that further

isolation is unnecessary; and if danger of contagion shall not have passed or

if further isolation is still necessary at the expiration of sentence or at the

time for discharge or release from the institution, the afflicted inmate,

prisoner, patient, or pupil shall be detained in the institution and continued

under medical treatment until the attending physician shall determine that his

or her discharge or release from the institution will not endanger the public

health; and during such period of detention, the person so detained shall be

supported in the same manner as before the detention.



History of Section.

(P.L. 1917, ch. 1470, art. 4, § 3; P.L. 1918, ch. 1613, § 1; G.L.

1923, ch. 413, art. 4, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 54, § 3; G.L. 1956, §

40-2-19; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970; P.L. 1999, ch. 83, § 105; P.L. 1999, ch.

130, § 105.)