§ 40.1-1.1-3 - Powers of department. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 40.1-1.1-3

   § 40.1-1.1-3  Powers of department. –The department of mental health, retardation, and hospitals is herebyauthorized:

   (1) To develop jointly with the federal government throughits appropriate agency or instrumentality, a plan or plans for the purposespecified in § 40.1-1.1-1 and to make such rules and regulations as may benecessary or desirable for the administration of such plans and the provisionsof this chapter;

   (2) To receive and expend in accordance with those plans anyfunds made available to the department by the federal government, the state, orits political subdivision for that purpose;

   (3) To develop services and to provide encouragement inassistance of adequate methods of treatment of psychiatric disorders inaccordance with those plans.