Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-5.3-2. Transfers between state-operated hospitals
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Whenever any person committed, transferred, or removed to either the Rhode Island state psychiatric hospital or the Eleanor Slater hospital to the facility provided for in § 40.1-5.3-1 shall have recovered his or her mental health sufficiently, the director may, upon request of the chief executive officer or the chief medical officer of either state-operated hospital, discharge the person from the first hospital and then admit the person to the general units of either the Rhode Island state psychiatric hospital or Eleanor Slater hospital, as the case may be.
History of Section.
P.L. 1973, ch. 175, § 2: G.L. 1956, § 26-4-2; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; P.L. 2022, ch. 231, art. 11, § 8, effective June 27, 2022.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-5.3-2
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6