§ 40.1-3-6 - Support of Zambarano hospital patients. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 40.1-3-6

   § 40.1-3-6  Support of Zambarano hospitalpatients. – The charge for the support of the patients of the hospital as are of sufficientability to pay for same, or have persons or kindred bound by law to maintainthem, shall be paid by those patients, persons, or kindred, at a rate to bedetermined by the director of mental health, retardation, and hospitals. Theboard of such patients as have a legal settlement in some city or town shall bepaid by the city or town, if those patients are received at the hospital on therequest of the director of public welfare of the city or town. The director, inhis or her discretion, may receive other patients who have no means to pay fortreatment, and the expense for board of those patients shall be paid by thegeneral treasurer. But no board shall be paid by the general treasurer foranyone having a legal settlement in another state. The director shall have thepower to fix all charges for board of the patients, and the amount which he orshe may so receive shall be paid over to the general treasurer monthly.