Title 5, Title 5 and Professions

The division has power by its administrator to summon any person to appear as a witness and testify at any hearing of the division under the provisions of this chapter and to examine and to administer oaths to those witnesses.

Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of the division may appeal that decision to the administrator of the division or his or her designee. A further appeal may then be made to the appropriate board of examiners. Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of that boa…

(a) The members of the board of examiners in embalming shall be residents of this state for at least five (5) years; three (3) of whom shall have had at least five (5) years’ practical experience in embalming dead human bodies and in funeral directing, and shall have been actuall…

All the proceeds of any fees collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be placed in a restricted receipts accounts, which is used for the general purposes of the division of professional regulation with the department of health.

Any person, partnership, corporation, limited-liability company, association, or his or her or its agents or representatives violating any of the provisions of this chapter, or of any rules or regulation of the division, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be pun…

(a) Complaints for violation of the provisions of this chapter or of any lawful rules or regulation made under this chapter by the division may be made by the administrator of the division or by any person authorized by the administrator, who shall be exempt from giving surety fo…

If any provision of this chapter or of any rule or regulation made under this chapter, or the application of this chapter to any person or circumstances, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the chapter, rule, or regulation and the application of…

Every licensed funeral director/embalmer, licensed funeral establishment, licensed crematory, and cemetery shall comply with the following rules with respect to proper authority for funeral arrangements and disposition of human remains: (1) If a licensed funeral establishment is …

Every funeral director/embalmer shall be required to participate in a total of five (5) hours annually of continuing education training of which one hour is mandated by annual OSHA training; provided, however, those funeral directors or embalmers who are sixty-five (65) years of …

Any funeral director/embalmer who is currently licensed in good standing in another state may be licensed by endorsement in Rhode Island. Every funeral director/embalmer seeking such licensure must also be a graduate of a mortuary college, must have passed the funeral director an…

The director of the department of health has the power to adopt any rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, that he or she deems necessary, in carrying out the purposes of this chapter and for the prevention of and transmission of disease.

It is unlawful for any person to engage in, conduct, or hold himself or herself out as engaged in the practice of funeral directing and/or embalming, or of preparing for or disposing of dead human remains by any means in this state or preserving in any manner, dead human bodies, …

Any person who desires to engage in embalming or funeral directing, or both, shall submit, in writing, to the division of professional regulation, an application for a license. That application shall be accompanied by a fee set by the department of health.

A funeral director or embalmer’s license shall be issued only to individuals, and no corporation, partnership, association, limited-liability company, or organization shall be entitled to obtain the license. In order to be entitled to a funeral director/embalmer’s license, an app…

Any person who has served in the armed forces of the United States and has been honorably discharged from that service, and who has, prior to his or her induction into the armed forces, completed his or her high school education and a full course of instruction in a funeral/direc…

No person who has promoted or is promoting, or has participated in or is participating in, any scheme or plan in the nature of a burial association or a burial certificate plan, or in which there is any element of fraud, shall be entitled to any license under the provisions of th…

Any person or persons, association, or corporation having charge of or conducting a cemetery shall not engage in the business of funeral directing. No funeral home will be licensed, nor be permitted to operate as a funeral home, if it is located on property owned by a cemetery or…

This act may be known as the “Funeral Planning Agent Designation Act.”

As used in this chapter: (a) “Funeral planning agent” means a person who is at least eighteen (18) years of age; who has been duly and lawfully designated, and who has accepted the designation, to act for the principal; and who has authority and responsibility to make all arrange…

(a) Any individual who is at least eighteen (18) years of age and of sound mind is allowed to designate a primary funeral planning agent and alternate agent, if they wish. (b) All healthcare providers, as licensed under the provisions of chapter 29 or 37 of this title, all health…

(a) The designation provided for in section 5-33.3-3 may be in substantially the following form: I, (PRINCIPAL), do hereby name and designate (PRIMARY AGENT) as my primary funeral planning agent, or if he/she is unwilling or incapable (ALTERNATE AGENT) as my alternate funeral pla…

The provisions of this chapter shall govern the licensure requirements and practice standards for nurse anesthetists practicing in the state.

(a) “Board” means the board of nurse registration and nurse education established in § 5-34-4. (b) “Certified registered nurse anesthetist” (CRNA) means a registered nurse who has successfully met the requirements stated in this chapter. (c) “Practice of certified registered nurs…

Requirements for licensure as a nurse anesthetist shall consist of the following: (1) Current licensure as a professional registered nurse in the state; and (2) Graduation from an educational program accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Education Program…

(a) Applications. Applicants for licensure shall submit appropriate certification credentials, as described in § 5-34.2-3, plus an application fee (not refundable) made payable to the general treasurer, state of Rhode Island, as set forth in § 23-1-54. (b) Renewal. Licensure as a…

(a) Accountability. The nurse anesthetist shall be responsible and accountable to the consumer for his or her practice of nurse anesthesia as defined under this chapter. (b) Scope of practice. The governing board of a licensed hospital or, in the case of a clinic or office a lice…

This chapter may be cited as the “Nurse Licensure Compact Act.”

(a) The party states hereby create and establish a joint public entity known as the interstate commission of nurse licensure compact administrators (the “commission”). (1) The commission is an instrumentality of the party states. (2) Venue is proper, and judicial proceedings by o…

(a) The commission shall exercise its rulemaking powers pursuant to the criteria set forth in this section and the rules adopted thereunder. Rules and amendments shall become binding as of the date specified in each rule or amendment and shall have the same force and effect as pr…

(a) Oversight. (1) Each party state shall enforce this compact and take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate this compact’s purposes and intent. (2) The commission shall be entitled to receive service of process in any proceeding that may affect the powers, respons…

(a) This compact shall become effective upon passage. All party states to this compact, that also were parties to the prior nurse licensure compact superseded by this compact (“prior compact”), shall be deemed to have withdrawn from said prior compact within six (6) months after …

This compact is designed to facilitate the regulation of nurses, and does not relieve employers from complying with statutorily imposed obligations. This compact does not supersede existing state labor laws.

This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the Unite…

The nurse licensure compact is hereby adopted and entered into with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact, which is, in form, substantially similar to this chapter.

(a) The general assembly finds and declares that: (1) The health and safety of the public are affected by the degree of compliance with and the effectiveness of enforcement activities related to state nurse licensure laws; (2) Violations of nurse licensure and other laws regulati…

As used in this chapter: (1) “Adverse action” means any administrative, civil, equitable, or criminal action permitted by a state’s laws which is imposed by a licensing board or other authority against a nurse, including actions against an individual’s license or multistate licen…

(a) A multistate license to practice registered or licensed practical nursing/vocational nursing issued by a home state to a resident in that state will be recognized by each party state as authorizing a nurse to practice as a registered nurse (RN) or as a licensed practical nurs…

(a) Upon application for a multistate license, the licensing board in the issuing party state shall ascertain, through the coordinated licensure information system, whether the applicant has ever held, or is the holder of, a license issued by any other state, whether there are an…

(a) Notwithstanding any other powers conferred by state law, party state nurse licensing boards shall have the authority to: (1) Take adverse action against a nurse’s multistate licensure privilege to practice within that party state. (i) Only the home state shall have the power …

(a) All party states shall participate in a coordinated licensure information system of all licensed registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses/vocational nurses (LPNs/VNs). This system will include information on the licensure and disciplinary history of each nurse, a…

As used in this chapter, the following terms are construed as follows: (1) “Amplified optometrist” means an optometrist licensed in this state to practice optometry and authorized by the board to administer and prescribe pharmaceutical agents in the treatment of conditions of the…

It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, as merchandise, in any store or established place of business in the state, any eyeglasses, spectacles, or lenses for the correction of vision, unless a licensed optometrist, physician, or optician under the laws of thi…

(a) Any contract providing for healthcare benefits that calls for the expenditure of private or public funds, for any purpose involving eye care that is within the scope of the practice of optometry, shall provide the recipients and/or beneficiaries the freedom to choose within t…

An insurer, including a company offering accident and sickness insurance as defined in chapter 18 of title 27, a nonprofit hospital-service corporation as defined in chapter 19 of title 27, a nonprofit medical-service corporation as defined in chapter 20 of title 27, or a health-…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, amplified optometrists of this state may use and prescribe pharmaceutical agents in the treatment of conditions of the human eye and its appendages, without the use of surgery or other invasive techniques; provided, that all qua…

The director shall appoint a board of optometry. The board shall consist of five (5) members, all of whom shall be residents of the state, four (4) of whom shall be licensed optometrists engaged in the practice of optometry for at least five (5) years prior to their appointment, …