The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Rhode Island
- Level
- State
- Authority
- R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 23, ch. 8
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Quarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Rhode Island DUT-RI
Operative words
Any person who is confined by the director or his or her authorized agent under the provision of § 23-8-4 and who violates that confinement shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) or by imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days, or both.
Penalty
fine to $50 or imprisonment to ninety days, or both
What it required
Violation of a quarantine or isolation confinement ordered under § 23-8-4 is a crime punishable by up to ninety days' imprisonment.
Retrieval noteCompanion penalties read on the Legislature's site and not saved: § 23-8-19 (during a declared quarantine 'all vehicles and modes of conveyance of passengers, baggage, and freight, shall observe and comply with the rules and regulations made by the director of health'; knowing violation, fine to $50 or imprisonment to two years); § 23-8-21 (knowing violation of the director's quarantine rules during a gubernatorial proclamation, fine to $50 or imprisonment to two years; city and town councils 'shall' require their officers to enforce them).