Title 40, Title 40 Services

The department is hereby authorized and directed, by the attending physician at any of the institutions or by another physician as the director of the department may from time to time designate, to use every available means to ascertain the existence of any dangerous, infectious,…

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

For the statistical purposes of the department of health, the department of human services shall keep records of all cases of venereal diseases in the institutions, but the records shall not be open to public inspection, and the department of human services shall make every reaso…

In carrying out the provisions of §§ 40-2-12 — 40-2-16, the department is hereby vested with full powers of inspection, examination, isolation, and disinfection of all inmates, prisoners, patients, or pupils in any of the institutions, and the powers may be delegated to, and exer…

The director of the department of human services shall appoint religious instructors who shall conduct religious services at times and at places within institutions under the control of the department, and who shall perform other duties consistent with their office, as may be req…

All officers appointed by the director under this chapter shall hold their respective offices during his or her pleasure, and may be removed and their successors appointed by the director at any time. In addition to the duties prescribed for the officers by law, they shall perfor…

The director of human services may contribute to the support of the destitute family of any adult resident of this state, committed to any one of the state institutions under his or her supervision, whenever he or she is satisfied that the destitution has resulted from the commit…

The director shall fix the compensation of the officers and employees of the several institutions appointed under the authority of this chapter, and of the other institutions under his or her control, within the sum or sums appropriated to be expended for the purpose.

The director of the department of human services shall annually make to the department of elementary and secondary education in the month of July, a report of all the schools maintained in the institutions under its control, the report to be in the manner and form as prescribed b…

The department shall have a seal that shall have engraved thereon the words “department of human services, state of Rhode Island,” and the seal shall be affixed to all written contracts that the department is authorized and directed to make under the provisions of this chapter, a…

(a) The director shall make an annual report to the general assembly during the month of January, setting forth: (1) The condition and needs of the several institutions under his or her control; the number of inmates in each institution; and an abstract of all reports received fr…

Every key for maximum security units of the several institutions under the control of the department of human services shall contain embossed thereon the state seal with the words “do not duplicate,” and whoever reproduces or causes to be reproduced any key without a written orde…

The director of the department of human services shall apply any funds now or hereafter deposited in the name of any discharged or deceased patient or inmate in any institution under the control of the department of human services as partial or full payment, as the case may be, f…

When a balance remains after the payment of the amount due the department of human services for care and treatment, the director shall cause notice of the balance to be mailed, postage prepaid, to each discharged patient or inmate at his or her last known address or to the neares…

The balance, as shall remain after the amount due the department of human services for the care and treatment of any discharged or deceased patient or inmate is applied in payment thereof, shall be paid over to the general treasurer by the director.

Any person or persons claiming a right to any moneys paid to the general treasurer may establish the right in the same manner as is provided in the case of unclaimed bank deposits in the hands of the general treasurer.

All personal property, excepting moneys, that shall have been left by any discharged or deceased patient or inmate in any institution under the control of the department of human services and that, now or hereafter, shall not have been claimed by any of the discharged or deceased…

The director of the department of human services shall order the transfer of abandoned personal property to the state general treasurer.

The director shall, upon ordering transfer of the abandoned personal property, cause to be forwarded to the state general treasurer a list or declaration setting forth the name of each discharged or deceased patient or inmate and a description of each article of personal property…