§ 23-11-3 - Compulsory treatment of infected persons. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 23-11-3

   § 23-11-3  Compulsory treatment of infectedpersons. – The department of health is empowered to require persons who are in aninfectious condition with a sexually transmitted disease to report fortreatment to a licensed physician and to continue treatment until cured of hisor her infectious condition. Any person suffering from any sexually transmitteddisease while in the infectious and contagious stage of that disease whorefuses to report for treatment, or who refuses to continue treatment, shall beisolated and treated until that person has been pronounced by a licensedphysician to be noninfectious and no longer a danger to the public health.