Title 23, Title 23 and Safety

If any provision of this chapter or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect the provisions or application of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to …

The director of health is authorized to appoint an advisory board to advise the director on all matters relating to this chapter. The duties, powers, and membership of the board shall be enumerated through rules and regulations promulgated by the director.

The director is authorized to adopt regulations consistent with the provisions of this chapter, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 and the amendments and the federal regulations adopted under it. All registered nursing assistants and health care facilities subject to t…

(a) As used in this chapter: (1) “Certifying agency” means the state department of health. (2) “Director” means the director of the state department of health, or his or her designee. (3) “Nursing assistant” is defined as a nurses’ aide, orderly, or home health aide who is a para…

Standards for training and/or competency evaluation programs for nursing assistants and exemptions for applicants from the requirements of training programs shall be consistent with federal statutory and regulatory requirements and shall be defined according to the rules and regu…

The duties of each level of nursing assistant shall be defined according to the rules and regulations promulgated by the department of health.

Nursing assistants as defined in § 23-17.9-2 who are employed or have had experience as a nursing assistant prior to the enactment of this chapter, and the effective date of the regulations promulgated in relation to this chapter, shall pass the appropriate level of examination a…

Every nursing assistant being employed as a nursing assistant or offering services as a nursing assistant must obtain a certificate of registration issued by the department. Every nursing assistant, prior to being issued a certificate of registration by the department, shall succ…

Every holder of a nursing assistant certificate of registration shall register biennially by making application to the department on forms provided by the agency. The renewals shall be granted as a matter of course, upon payment of a fee as set forth in § 23-1-54 unless the agenc…

The department may suspend or revoke any certificate of registration issued under this chapter or may reprimand, censure, or otherwise discipline or may deny an application for registration in accordance with the provisions of this section upon decision and after a hearing as pro…

It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) and/or by imprisonment for not more than one year for any person to: (1) Obtain his or her certification or registration by means of fraud, misrepresentation, or concealment of material fa…

Unless the office of the state medical examiners has established its jurisdiction over the body of a deceased person in accordance with chapter 4 of this title, whoever has custody of the body of a deceased person required to be buried at public expense shall use reasonable effor…

As used in this chapter: (1) “Burial ground authority” means the municipality, ecclesiastical society, or cemetery association, as the case may be. (2) “Burial place” means any tract of land within any municipality that is used or has been used or has been in existence as a buria…

No municipality shall alienate or appropriate any burial place to any use other than that of a burial ground. No portion of any burial place shall be taken for public use without the approval of the general assembly. If any burial place is appropriated for any other use and the b…

No fence, tomb, monument, or gravestone or fragment of a gravestone within any cemetery or burial place shall be destroyed or injured or shall be removed except in accordance with the provisions of this section. Any gravestone or other memorial for the dead may be removed for the…

A person is guilty of the unlawful possession or sale of gravestones when he or she possesses or sells, offers for sale or attempts to sell or transfers or disposes of any monument, gravestone, or other structure placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or any portion or fr…

(a) Whoever violates the provisions of § 23-18.2-4 shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). (b) In addition to any other penalties imposed for a violation of the provisions of this…

(a) Any person convicted under the provisions of § 23-18.2-5 or chapter 20 of title 11, shall, in addition to any fine or penalty imposed, pay treble damages to the burial ground authority, religious organization, cemetery corporation, or persons having charge of the burial groun…

The general assembly declares that the words “public community service” which appear throughout this chapter shall now be substituted with and referred to as “public community restitution”.

(a) There is created a permanent advisory commission to study the location, condition, and inventory of historical cemeteries in Rhode Island and to make recommendations relative to historical cemeteries in Rhode Island. (b) The commission shall consist of eighteen (18) members, …

A simple majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business. Meetings may be called upon reasonable notice by the chairperson.

The commission shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations in compliance with the open meetings law to govern the conduct of its meetings and the accomplishment of its purposes under this chapter.

Annually, the commission shall report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly, to the governor, and to the historical preservation and heritage commission.

(a) The commission is authorized and directed to continue the program previously conducted by the Rhode Island graves registration committee of placing a bronze plaque bearing the name and dates of service of each deceased former governor together with the national and state flag…

The department of health and the Roger Williams Cancer Center shall facilitate, foster and assist in the education of residents of the state regarding bone marrow donors and shall further assist and promote annual, bone marrow donor drives. The director and the Roger Williams Can…

The director of health shall encourage state employees to volunteer to be potential bone marrow donors. The director of health shall declare and designate the last week of April as the “Rhode Island Bone Marrow Awareness Week”.

This chapter shall be cited as the “Rhode Island Recycling Act”.

The general assembly recognizes and declares that: (1) Any environmentally and economically sound solid waste management system must incorporate recycling; (2) A sound recycling program will be best achieved by cooperation of the Rhode Island resource recovery corporation, the de…

As used in this chapter: (1) “Corporation” means the Rhode Island resource recovery corporation; (2) “Department” means the department of environmental management; (3) “Director” means the director of the department of environmental management; (4) “Post-consumer waste” has the m…

The director of the department of transportation shall, where possible, utilize as fill in the construction of roads and highways, ash from resource recovery facilities owned and operated by the Rhode Island resource recovery corporation, so long as the ash conforms with all appl…

(a) No person shall dispose of any telephone directory within the state except through established systems of recycling. (b) Any telephone directory produced for distribution in the state shall be bound with a binder which will not interfere with recyclability.

(a)(1) Each city and town is required to make provision for the safe and sanitary disposal of all refuse which is generated within its boundaries, including refuse from commercial and industrial sources, but excluding refuse from sources owned or operated by the state or federal …

(a) Criminal penalties. (1) Any person who constructs a solid waste management facility or construction and demolition (C&D) debris processing facility or installs equipment in the facility or expands the facility without first obtaining approval of the plans and specifications f…

(a) All prosecutions for the criminal violation of any provision of this chapter, or any rule or regulation made by the director in conformance with this chapter, shall be by indictment or information. The director, without being required to enter into any recognizance or to give…

(a) Every private landfill operator shall keep a written record of the vehicles which unload cargo at the landfill. The record shall contain the date, the time, and the registration of the vehicle. The landfill operator shall upon request make the written record available for ins…

Whenever the director issues a notice of violation and order pursuant to this chapter that disposal of solid waste has occurred onto or into real property or in any landfill not permitted under the provisions of this chapter, the director shall cause the notice or a summary of th…

(a) Applicability. This section applies to all solid waste management facilities/activities regulated pursuant to this chapter that are undertaken within and in the vicinity of an area known as the environmental management district, located in the town of Johnston and the city of…

The town of Richmond shall be empowered to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations governing tree stump disposal in the town of Richmond.

(a) The director may approve proposals for the environmentally beneficial reuse of solid waste in a municipality in order to save natural resources by providing alternative materials for projects that would otherwise use new materials and preserve landfill space by removing mater…

(a) On and after January 1, 2016, each covered entity and each covered educational institution shall ensure that the organic-waste materials that are generated by the covered entity or at the covered educational facility are recycled at an authorized composting facility or anaero…

Each covered entity or covered educational institution shall keep a written record of the amount of solid waste it generates and the amount of organic waste material it recycles at composting or anaerobic digestion facilities. The covered entity or covered educational institution…

(a) Funds annually appropriated by the general assembly for the purposes of this chapter shall not exceed forty cents ($.40) per capita as determined from the latest available federal census of population for the state. (b) Sixty-two and one-half percent (62.5%) of the total shal…

(a) Any state financial assistance granted to a local community under the terms of this chapter shall be used solely in the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of refuse disposal facilities; provided, that the funds are used for the maintenance and operation of only …

(a) No person shall dispose of solid waste at other than a solid waste management facility licensed by the director, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (b) The phrase “dispose of solid waste”, as prohibited in this section, refers to the depositing, casting, throwing, …

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall, where the context permits, be construed as follows: (1) “Beneficial reuse material” means a processed, nonhazardous, solid waste not already defined as recyclable material by this chapter and by regulations of the Rhode Island d…

(a)(1) No person shall operate any solid waste management facility or construction and demolition (C&D) debris processing facility or expand an existing facility unless a license is obtained from the director except as authorized by this section. The director shall have full powe…