The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Rhode Island
- Level
- State
- Authority
- R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 23, ch. 8 (Quarantine Generally)
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Quarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; through the executive orders, every employer whose workers were quarantined or excluded
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Rhode Island DUT-RI
Operative words
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.
Penalty
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
What it required
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 'exclusion or other protective actions'; 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's duty to deny access to symptomatic persons and to cooperate with 'isolation and quarantine follow up' (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).
Retrieval noteEvery Rhode Island executive order of the period recited 'Title 30, Chapter 15, and Title 23, Chapter 8' as its authority (e.g., EO 20-21 recital, Ex. RI-013; EO 20-24 recital, Ex. RI-015). § 23-8-1 (reports of communicable diseases) and § 23-8-4.1 (examination of suspected cases) were read on the Legislature's site and not saved.