{"id":"DUT-RI-005","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Rhode Island","state":"RI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Rhode Island General Assembly (codified statute administered by the Director of Health)","authority":"R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 23, ch. 8 (Quarantine Generally)","instrument":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-8-4","title":"Quarantine","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR"],"addressees":["persons generally; through the executive orders, every employer whose workers were quarantined or excluded"],"clause":"the director or his or her authorized agent may require or provide that person to be confined, in some proper place, for the purpose of isolation or quarantine, or another less restrictive intervention treatment, including, but not limited to, immunization, treatment, exclusion or other protective actions until the threat to the public health has abated.","enforcement":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-8-7 (Ex. DUT-RI-006): violation of confinement, fine to $50 or ninety days, or both; § 30-15-21 (Ex. DUT-RI-010) for the executive quarantine orders","functions":[],"notes":"On a determination that a person is suffering or appears to be suffering from a communicable disease and threatens the public health, the Director of Health may confine that person for isolation or quarantine or impose \u0027exclusion or other protective actions\u0027; the orders under the chapter run through the compliance-order procedures of §§ 23-1-20 to 23-1-24; the quarantine-and-isolation executive orders (Ex. RI-012, RI-024, RI-030, RI-036, RI-059, RI-060, RI-066) and the Safe Activities regulation\u0027s duty to deny access to symptomatic persons and to cooperate with \u0027isolation and quarantine follow up\u0027 (RI-069 § 7.4(A)(1)(f), (2)(b), (9)) rest on this power. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE23/23-8/23-8-4.htm","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20240711035941/http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE23/23-8/23-8-4.htm","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":64601,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-RI","url":"/library/DUT-RI-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-RI-005","citation":"Rhode Island General Assembly (codified statute administered by the Director of Health), R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-8-4 (standing) (Ex. DUT-RI-005)","stateName":"Rhode Island","related":["RI-012","RI-024","RI-030","RI-036","RI-059","RI-060","RI-066","RI-069","RI-013","RI-015","DUT-RI-006","DUT-RI-010"]}