Rhode Island
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Chapter 1 Department of Health
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Chapter 1.1 Division of Occupational Health
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Chapter 1.10 Alcoholism
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Chapter 1.11 Needlestick Safety and Injury Prevention Act
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Chapter 1.2 Division of Legal Services
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Chapter 1.3 Radiation Control
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Chapter 1.7 Rhode Island Program to Address Alzheimer’s Disease
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Chapter 1.8 Commission on the Deaf and Hard-Of-Hearing
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Chapter 1.9 Sheath Needles [Repealed.]
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Chapter 2 Local Health Officers
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Chapter 3 Vital Records
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Chapter 4 Office of State Medical Examiners
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Chapter 4.1 Emergency Medical Transportation Services
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Chapter 4.10 Health Care Power of Attorney
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Chapter 4.11 Rights of the Terminally Ill Act
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Chapter 4.12 Partial Birth Abortion
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Chapter 4.13 Reproductive Privacy Act
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Chapter 4.14 Feminine Hygiene Product Donation Act
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Chapter 4.5 Blood Bank Services
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Chapter 4.6 Consent to Medical and Surgical Care
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Chapter 4.7 Informed Consent for Abortion
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Chapter 4.8 Spousal Notice for Abortion
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Chapter 4.9 Retention of X-Rays
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Chapter 5 Reports of Disease and Disability
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Chapter 5.1 Identification of Persons Suffering from Certain Disabilities
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Chapter 6 Prevention and Suppression of Contagious Diseases
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Chapter 6.1 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Program in High Schools
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Chapter 6.2 Public Access Defibrillation
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Chapter 6.3 Prevention and Suppression of Contagious Diseases — HIV/AIDS
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Chapter 6.4 Life-Saving Allergy Medication — Stock Supply of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors — Emergency Administration
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Chapter 6.5 Automated External Defibrillators Required at Public Places and Healthcare Facilities
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Chapter 7 Mosquito Abatement
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Chapter 7.1 Rodent Control and Eradication
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Chapter 8 Quarantine Generally
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Chapter 9 Quarantine of Vessels
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Chapter 10 Tuberculosis
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Chapter 10.1 Emergency Commitment for Drug Intoxication
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Chapter 11 Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Chapter 12 Cancer
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Chapter 12.1 Hemophilia Care Program
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Chapter 12.10 Harm Reduction Center Advisory Committee and Program [Expires March 1, 2028.]
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Chapter 12.5 New England Compact on Radiological Health Protection
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Chapter 12.6 Ovarian Cancer Education, Detection, and Prevention
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Chapter 12.7 The Breast Cancer Act
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Chapter 12.8 The Firefighter Cancer Wellness Act
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Chapter 12.9 Dense Breast Notification and Education
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Chapter 13 Maternal and Child Health Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs
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Chapter 13.1 The Safe Haven for Infants Act
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Chapter 13.2 Nursing Working Mothers
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Chapter 13.3 Birth Defects Surveillance and Information System
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Chapter 13.4 Hazardous Chemicals — Contamination of Breast Milk and Environment
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Chapter 13.5 Breastfeeding in Public Places
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Chapter 13.6 Lactation Consultant Practice Act of 2014
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Chapter 13.7 The Rhode Island Family Home-Visiting Act
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Chapter 13.8 Lactation Counselors Practice Act of 2024
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Chapter 14 Childhood Disease Fund
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Chapter 14.1 Health Professional Loan Repayment Program
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Chapter 15 Determination of Need for New Healthcare Equipment and New Institutional Health Services
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Chapter 16 Health Facilities Construction
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Chapter 16.1 New England Health Services and Facilities Compact
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Chapter 16.2 Laboratories
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Chapter 16.3 Clinical Laboratory Science Practice
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Chapter 16.4 Human Cloning
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Chapter 17 Licensing of Healthcare Facilities
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Chapter 17.1 Licensing of Nursing or Personal Care Homes [Repealed.]
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Chapter 17.10 Administrative Penalties
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Chapter 17.11 The Nursing Facilities Receivership Act
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Chapter 17.12 Health Care Services — Utilization Review Act
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Chapter 17.13 Health Care Accessibility and Quality Assurance Act
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Chapter 17.14 The Hospital Conversions Act
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Chapter 17.15 Long-Term Health Care Goals and Values
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Chapter 17.16 Home Care Patient Rights
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Chapter 17.17 Health Care Quality Program
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Chapter 17.18 Health Plan Modification Act
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Chapter 17.19 Immunization in Long Term Care Facilities
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Chapter 17.2 Accountability of Services to Patients of Nursing or Personal Care Homes
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Chapter 17.20 Healthcare Facilities Staffing
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Chapter 17.21 The Rhode Island Patient Safety Act of 2008
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Chapter 17.22 Healthy Rhode Island Reform Act of 2008
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Chapter 17.23 Center for Health Professions
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Chapter 17.24 The Adult Supportive Care Residence Act
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Chapter 17.25 Distressed Essential Community Hospitals
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Chapter 17.26 Comprehensive Discharge Planning
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Chapter 17.27 Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act
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Chapter 17.28 Hospital Workplace Violence Protection Act
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Chapter 17.29 Electronic Monitoring in Nursing and Assisted Living Facilities
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Chapter 17.3 Long-Term Care Coordinating Council
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Chapter 17.30 Primary Care Training Sites Program
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Chapter 17.4 Assisted Living Residence Licensing Act
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Chapter 17.5 Rights of Nursing Home Patients
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Chapter 17.6 Mobile Intensive Care Unit Program
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Chapter 17.7 Licensing of Nursing Service Agencies
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Chapter 17.7.1 Licensing of Nursing Service Agencies
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Chapter 17.8 Abuse in Healthcare Facilities
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Chapter 17.9 Registration of Nursing Assistants
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Chapter 18 Cemeteries
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Chapter 18.1 Disposition of Bodies to Be Buried with Public Funds
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Chapter 18.10 Prohibition of Products Containing Chlorofluorocarbons Products
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Chapter 18.11 Promotion of Paper Bag Usage
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Chapter 18.12 Beverage Container Recyclability
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Chapter 18.13 Toxic Packaging Reduction Act
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Chapter 18.14 Degradable Plastics and Packaging [Repealed.]
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Chapter 18.15 Plastic Bottle and Container Labeling Act
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Chapter 18.16 Newspaper Recyclability
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Chapter 18.17 Used Cooking Oil Recycling
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Chapter 18.18 Consumer PFAS Ban Act of 2024
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Chapter 18.19 Textile Recycling
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Chapter 18.2 Preservation and Care of Burial Places and Memorials for the Dead
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Chapter 18.3 Advisory Commission on Historical Cemeteries
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Chapter 18.5 Anatomical Gifts [Repealed.]
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Chapter 18.6 Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
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Chapter 18.6.1 Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
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Chapter 18.6.2 Rhode Island Public Education Advisory Council for Organ and Tissue Donation Registration
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Chapter 18.7 Bone Marrow Donation
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Chapter 18.8 Waste Recycling
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Chapter 18.9 Refuse Disposal
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Chapter 19 Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation
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Chapter 19.1 Hazardous Waste Management
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Chapter 19.10 Hazardous Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Treatment Research and Demonstration Act of 1986
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Chapter 19.11 Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
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Chapter 19.12 Generation — Transportation — Storage — Treatment — Management and Disposal of Regulated Medical Waste
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Chapter 19.13 Gull Control Program
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Chapter 19.14 Industrial Property Remediation and Reuse Act
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Chapter 19.15 The Rhode Island Cesspool Act of 2007
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Chapter 19.16 Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund
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Chapter 19.17 High-Heat Waste Facility Act of 2021
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Chapter 19.18 Plastic Waste Reduction Act
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CHAPTER 19.19 The Statewide Implementation Analysis for a Beverage Container Redemption, Packaging, and Recycling Plan
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Chapter 19.2 Local Health Regulations
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Chapter 19.3 Sanitarians
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Chapter 19.3.1 Residential Sanitary Sewer Connections
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Chapter 19.4 Septage, Industrial Wastes and Waste Oil Pumping, Cleaning and Transportation
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Chapter 19.5 Percolation Tests and Water Table Elevation Determinations
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Chapter 19.6 Used Oil Recycling
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Chapter 19.7 Hazardous Waste Management Facilities
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Chapter 19.8 Hazardous Waste Cleanup
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Chapter 19.9 Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact
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Chapter 20 Sanitation in Hotels and Boarding Houses [Repealed.]
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Chapter 20.10 Public Health and Workplace Safety Act
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Chapter 20.11 Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity and Firefighter Protection
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Chapter 20.12 Food Allergy Awareness in Food-Service Establishments
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Chapter 20.5 Choke-Saving
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Chapter 20.6 Smoking in Public Places [Repealed.]
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Chapter 20.7 Workplace Smoking Pollution Control Act [Repealed.]
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Chapter 20.7.1 Off-Duty Rights to Privacy by Employees [Repealed.]
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Chapter 20.8 Licensing of Massage Therapists [Repealed.]
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Chapter 20.8.1 Registration of Music Therapists
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Chapter 20.9 Smoking in Schools
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Chapter 21 Licensing of Recreational Facilities
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Chapter 21.1 Sanitation Standards for Bathing Beaches
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Chapter 21.2 Licensing of Youth Camps
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Chapter 22 Licensing of Swimming Pools
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Chapter 22.5 Drowning Prevention and Lifesaving
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Chapter 23 Air Pollution
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Chapter 23.1 Air Pollution Episode Control
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Chapter 23.5 Noxious Trades
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Chapter 23.6 Air Quality in Ice Arenas
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Chapter 23.7 Biodiesel Products
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Chapter 24 Hazardous Substances
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Chapter 24.1 Poison Prevention Packaging
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Chapter 24.10 Electronic Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling Act
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Chapter 24.11 Comprehensive Children’s Jewelry Safety Act
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Chapter 24.12 Proper Management of Unused Paint
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Chapter 24.2 Flammable Fabrics
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Chapter 24.3 Substances or Compounds Used as Sewerage System Cleaners
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Chapter 24.4 Hazardous Substances Community Right to Know Act
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Chapter 24.5 Asbestos Abatement
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Chapter 24.6 Lead Poisoning Prevention Act
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Chapter 24.7 Occupational Health — Lead Protection
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Chapter 24.8 Mercury Fever Thermometers
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Chapter 24.9 Mercury Reduction and Education Act
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Chapter 25 Pesticide Control
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Chapter 25.1 Hazardous Pesticides, Insecticides, Fungicides, Herbicides, and Rodenticides [Repealed.]
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Chapter 25.2 Pesticide Relief Fund
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Chapter 25.3 Marine Tributyltin Antifoulant Paints
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Chapter 25.4 Utilization of Unused Prescription Drugs Act
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Chapter 25.5 The Return or Exchange of Drugs Act
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Chapter 25.6 Pharmaceutical Redistribution Program Act
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Chapter 26 Bedding and Upholstered Furniture
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Chapter 27 Building Regulation Generally [Repealed.]
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Chapter 27.1 Safety Glazing [Repealed.]
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Chapter 27.2 State Building Code [Repealed.]
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Chapter 27.3 State Building Code
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Chapter 27.4 Interstate Compact on Industrialized/Modular Buildings [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28 Fire Prevention and Investigation [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.01 Comprehensive Fire Safety Act
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Chapter 28.1 Fire Safety Code — General Provisions
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Chapter 28.10 Health Care Facilities [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.11 Fireworks and Pyrotechnics
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Chapter 28.13 Boarding Homes
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Chapter 28.14 Rooming Houses [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.15 Child Day Care Centers
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Chapter 28.16 Apartment Houses [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.17 Industrial, Mercantile, Business, and Storage Buildings [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.18 Theatres [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.19 Tents — Grandstands — Air-Supported Structures
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Chapter 28.2 Office of State Fire Marshal
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Chapter 28.20 Storage and Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gas
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Chapter 28.21 Fuel Oil Installations [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.22 Flammable and Combustible Liquids
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Chapter 28.23 Exit Signs [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.24 Emergency Lighting [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.25 Fire Alarm Systems
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Chapter 28.26 Dip Tanks Containing Flammable or Combustible Liquid [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.27 Spray Application Using Flammable or Combustible Material [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.28 Explosives
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Chapter 28.29 Model Rocket Engines [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.3 Fire Safety Code Board of Appeal and Review
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Chapter 28.30 Community Residences for the Mentally Retarded, Mentally Ill, Drug Abusers, and Alcoholics [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.31 Horse Stables [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.32 Sales or Leasing and Servicing of Portable Fire Extinguishers and Fixed Fire Extinguishing Systems [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.33 Storage and Handling of Liquefied Natural Gas [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.34 Fire and Carbon Monoxide Detection Systems [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.35 Fire Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Systems in Existing Residential Occupancies [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.36 Notification of Fire Fighters, Police Officers and Emergency Medical Technicians After Exposure to Infectious Diseases
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Chapter 28.37 Vaccination of Firefighters to Prevent Hepatitis B
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Chapter 28.38 Detention and Correctional Occupancies [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.39 Housing for the Elderly — Emergency Generators Required [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.4 Safety and Health Programs for Fire Departments
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Chapter 28.5 Inspection of Buildings
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Chapter 28.6 Places of Assembly
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Chapter 28.7 Hotels and Motels [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.8 Fire Escapes — Outside Stairways [Repealed.]
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Chapter 28.9 Heating and Cooking Facilities [Repealed.]
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Chapter 29 Fire Regulations in Places of Public Assembly [Repealed.]
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Chapter 29.1 Rehabilitation Building and Fire Code for Existing Buildings and Structures
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Chapter 30 Fire Escapes and Stairways [Repealed.]
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Chapter 31 Automatic Sprinkler Systems [Repealed.]
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Chapter 32 Inspection of Buildings [Repealed.]
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Chapter 33 Elevators, Escalators, and Dumbwaiters
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Chapter 34 Amusement Ride Inspection and Insurance Act [Repealed.]
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Chapter 34.1 Amusement Ride Safety Act
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Chapter 35 Motion Picture Projectors [Repealed.]
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Chapter 36 Inspection and Handling of Inflammable Substances
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Chapter 37 Powers of Fire Companies
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Chapter 38 Degradable Connectors and Non-Detachable Metal Openers for Beverage Containers
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Chapter 38.1 Hazardous Substances
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Chapter 38.2 Poison Prevention Packaging
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Chapter 38.3 Flammable Fabrics
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Chapter 39 Respiratory Care Act
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Chapter 40 New England Health Services and Facilities Compact
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Chapter 41 Hazardous Pesticides, Insecticides, Fungicides, Herbicides and Rodenticides
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Chapter 41.1 Pesticide Control
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Chapter 42 Disposition of Bodies to Be Buried with Public Funds
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Chapter 43 Office of Mental Retardation
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Chapter 43.1 Retardation Law
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Chapter 43.2 Parental Succession — Retarded Persons
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Chapter 43.3 Licensing of Facilities and Programs for the Alcoholic, Drug Abuser, Mentally ILL and the Mentally Retarded
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Chapter 44 New England Compact on Radiological Health Protection
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Chapter 45 Rodent Control and Eradication
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Chapter 46 Refuse Disposal
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Chapter 46.1 Solid Waste Management Corporation
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Chapter 46.2 Hazardous Waste Management
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Chapter 47 Anatomical Gifts
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Chapter 48 Sanitarians
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Chapter 49 Septage, Industrial Wastes and Waste Oil Pumping, Cleaning and Transportation
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Chapter 50 Blood Bank Services
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Chapter 51 Consent to Medical and Surgical Care
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Chapter 52 Emergency Medical Transportation Services
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Chapter 53 Special Packaging of Poisonous Substances
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Chapter 54 Choke-Saving Devices
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Chapter 55 Percolation Tests and Water Table Elevation Determinations
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Chapter 56 Smoking in Public Places
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Chapter 57 Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
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Chapter 58 Massage Parlors
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Chapter 59 Continuing Care Provider Registration and Disclosure
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Chapter 60 Battery Deposit and Control
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Chapter 60.1 Dry Cell Battery Control
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Chapter 61 Radon Control
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Chapter 62 Truth in Food Disclosure Law
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Chapter 63 Vehicle Tire Storage and Recycling
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Chapter 64 Minority Health Promotion Act
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Chapter 64.1 Commission for Health Advocacy and Equity
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Chapter 65 Board of Certification of Operators of Public Water Supply Facilities
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Chapter 66 Comprehensive Health Risk Assessments
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Chapter 67 The Rhode Island Research and Treatment Fund for Uninsured and Underinsured Women Stricken with Cancer
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Chapter 68 Tanning Facility Safety Standards Act
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Chapter 69 New England Compact on Involuntary Detention for Tuberculosis Control
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Chapter 70 Osteoporosis
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Chapter 71 Tobacco Product Manufacturers’ Escrow Funds
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Chapter 72 Mercury in Fish Products
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Chapter 73 Latex Gloves Safety Act
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Chapter 74 Unlicensed Health Care Practices
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Chapter 75 Children’s Product Safety Act
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Chapter 76 Vaccine Shortage Protection Act
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Chapter 77 Healthcare Information Technology and Infrastructure Development Fund
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Chapter 78 The Stroke Task Force
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Chapter 78.1 Stroke Prevention and Treatment Act of 2009
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Chapter 79 The Rhode Island Autism Spectrum Disorder Evaluation and Treatment Act [Repealed.]
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Chapter 80 Safe Patient Handling Act of 2006
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Chapter 81 Rhode Island Coordinated Health Planning Act of 2006
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Chapter 82 Implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Act
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Chapter 83 The Umbilical Cord Blood Donation Notification Act
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Chapter 84 The Rhode Island Climate Risk Reduction Act of 2010
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Chapter 85 Green Economy Roundtable [Expired.]
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Chapter 86 Women’s Cardiovascular Screening and Risk Reduction Pilot Program [Repealed.]
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Chapter 87 The Rhode Island Lupus Education and Awareness Plan
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CHAPTER 87.1 Rare Disease Advisory Council
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Chapter 88 Code Consistency Council
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Chapter 89 The Rhode Island Palliative Care and Quality of Life Act
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Chapter 90 Responsible Recycling, Reuse and Disposal of Mattresses
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Chapter 91 Service Member Licensure
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Chapter 92 Military Spouse Licensure
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Chapter 93 Rhode Island Access to Medical Technology Innovation Act
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Chapter 94 Prevention of Conversion Therapy for Children
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Chapter 95 Nondiscrimination in Access to Anatomical Gifts and Organ Transplants Act (Isaac’s Law)
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Chapter 96 Prohibited Release of Balloons
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Chapter 97 Consumer Protection in Eye Care Act
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Chapter 98 Sexual Assault Evidence Kits
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Chapter 99 The Rhode Island Life Science Hub Act
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Chapter 100 Rhode Island Healthcare Workforce Data Collection Act
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Chapter 101 Healthcare Provider Shield
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Chapter 102 Behavioral Health Education, Training, and Coordination Fund
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Chapter 103 Disclosure of Prices — Medical Facility Items
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Chapter 104 The Rhode Island Clinician Wellness and Support Act
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CHAPTER 105 Medical Spas Safety Act