Title 40, Title 40 Services

(a) The director shall cooperate with federal, state, and local agencies to coordinate the service programs established pursuant to § 40-1-14. (b) The director shall promulgate rules concerning the eligibility of persons for the job training and other programs of the multipurpose…

(a) In order to enable the displaced homemaker to contribute to society and maintain independence and economic security, the director shall establish a multipurpose service center for displaced homemakers. The director may make a grant to a nonprofit agency or organization to car…

The director shall reimburse certain health centers at a rate of twenty-four dollars ($24.00) per patient visit for physician services including case management. In accordance with the state Medicaid plan as provided in chapter 8 of this title, any rules or regulations as establi…

(a) For purposes of this chapter: (1) “Agency” means the Kent County Visiting Nurse Association; Newport Visiting Nurse Service; VNA, Inc.; Visiting Nurse Services of Woonsocket; Little Compton Visiting Nurse Association; Northwest Community Nursing & Health Service; Visiting Nur…

To carry out the purposes of this chapter, the department of human services, with the approval of the governor, shall have the authority to receive and expend monies from any other sources, public or private, including, but not limited to, legislative enactments, bond issues, gif…

The council shall make suggestions to and shall advise the director of the department concerning the policies, rules, and regulations of the department. The council shall have no administrative power.

The director of the department of human services shall be authorized to appoint advisory committees as he or she thinks appropriate to make suggestions to and to advise the various agencies within the department. The members of the committees shall serve without pay. The chairper…

All functions, services, and duties of the department of human services shall be organized by the director with the approval of the governor as to: (1) Community services to include generally and specifically the administration of all forms of human services excluding child welfa…

The department of social and rehabilitative services is hereby renamed the department of human services. Whenever in the general or public laws there appears any reference to the department of social and rehabilitative services, the reference shall be construed to refer to the de…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, any division, bureau, or other unit or agency within the department of human services, however entitled or described, may at any time be reorganized, divided, consolidated, abolished, or otherwise reconstituted by the director of human…

The respective officers appointed by the director of human services to be in charge of the state’s administration of veterans’ relief, of graves’ registration, and the commandant and the assistant commandant of the Rhode Island veterans’ home, in addition to any other qualificati…

The department of administration shall furnish the state department of human services offices in which to transact its business and keep its records. The offices shall be open for business each day of the year, except Sundays and legal holidays, during such hours as may be prescr…

The director of the department of human services, subject to the provisions of chapter 4 of title 36, shall be the appointing authority for all employees of the department, and the director may assign this function to subordinate officers and employees as may to him or her seem f…

(a) There is hereby created an adaptive telephone equipment loan program fund that shall be administered by the general treasurer and the principal and interest of which shall be used solely for the purpose of providing funds for the purchase, maintenance, replacement, and distri…

The department of human services shall keep a record showing the name, residence, sex, age, nativity, occupation, condition, and date of entrance or commitment of every inmate, patient, or pupil in the several institutions under the control of the department; the date, cause, and…

The state general treasurer, upon receipt of the abandoned personal property and a list or declaration, shall sell the articles at public sale advertised in a manner that, to the general treasurer, shall seem satisfactory, and the general treasurer shall remit the proceeds receiv…

The proceeds from advertised public sale or sales, when received, shall be treated in the same manner as is provided for in §§ 40-2-3 — 40-2-6.

The director of the department of human services shall appoint resident physicians, dentists, and other physicians, as may be necessary to give proper attention to the physical and mental welfare of the inmates of the institutions under the control of the department. The general …

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…

The governor is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a committee of twelve (12) duly qualified electors of this state to be known as the Rhode Island displaced persons committee. The members of the committee shall serve at the pleasure of the governor.

The displaced persons committee shall elect, from its members, a chairperson and a vice-chairperson and such other officers as it may determine, including an executive committee, and define their duties. The committee may appoint such subcommittees as it deems advisable and defin…

It shall be the duty of the displaced persons committee to expedite the processing of applications for admission to the United States of America and to the state, and to promote the rehabilitation and readjustment of displaced persons entering Rhode Island pursuant to federal law…

The directors of public aid of the several cities and towns shall hereafter be known as “directors of public welfare,” and wherever in any general law, public law, or resolution of the general assembly, or in any document, record, instrument, or proceeding authorized by any law o…

Every town shall be required to relieve and support all poor and indigent persons lawfully settled therein, whenever they shall stand in need of relief and support, and to afford temporary relief to other poor and indigent persons.

Whenever any pauper shall not be suitably cared for by the town to which he or she is chargeable, any person, upon first issuing five (5) days’ notice to the state director of human services or directors of public welfare of the town of the situation of the pauper, and on continu…

The superior court may, after ordering notice to the town of the pendency of the complaint, appoint a commission of not exceeding three (3) persons, who shall visit the pauper or paupers concerning whom the complaint is made and, upon hearing the allegations and evidence of the p…

(a) The kindred of any poor person, if any he or she shall have in the line or degree of father or grandfather, mother or grandmother, children or grandchildren, by consanguinity, or children by adoption, living within this state and of sufficient ability, shall be holden to supp…

The district court at any session thereof in any county where any kindred shall reside, upon the petition of the director of public welfare of any town, or the department of human services of the state through its representative duly appointed for that purpose, who shall have bee…