§ 23-1-3 - Maintenance of laboratories.
SECTION 23-1-3
§ 23-1-3 Maintenance of laboratories.– (a) The director of health shall maintain pathological, bacteriological, andchemical laboratories and shall select in accordance with law qualified personsto conduct and supervise the pathological, bacteriological, and chemicalresearches made in those laboratories.
(b) The director of health is authorized to establish andmodify fees by regulation for all laboratory services provided by thedepartment of health laboratory. The fees as established by the director shallbe related to the costs incurred in operating the laboratory and may includeadministrative, personnel, equipment, supplies, overhead, and other relatedcosts necessary to develop and provide laboratory services. All fees collectedunder this section, except those fees in subsections (f) through (h) shall bedeposited as general revenues.
(c) The testing program for clinical tests designated by thedirector in regulation shall be a covered benefit and shall be reimbursable byall health insurers, as defined in § 27-38.2-2(1), providing healthinsurance coverage in Rhode Island except for supplemental policies which onlyprovide coverage for specific diseases, hospital indemnity Medicaresupplements, or other supplemental policies. The charges for those testingprograms shall be borne by the hospitals or other licensed health careproviders and facilities in the absence of a third-party payor.
(d) All funds received under chapter 16.2 of this title shallbe deposited as general revenues.
(e) The provisions of §§ 45-13-7 through 45-13-10shall not apply to this section.
(f) In addition to any other fine, assessment, penalty orforfeiture provided by law, the traffic tribunal shall collect an assessment ofone hundred dollars ($100) from each defendant who is required to attend aspecial course on driver retraining, except from those who are ordered toattend a special course on driving while intoxicated, described in §31-27-2, by the traffic tribunal.
(g) In addition to any other fine, assessment, penalty, orforfeiture provided by law, the court or tribunal shall collect the sum of onehundred and eighteen dollars ($118) for each drug-related charge from everydefendant who is convicted after trial, or who enters a plea of guilty or ofnolo contendere, with respect to violations of the following chapters and/orsections of the Rhode Island General Laws, which shall include but not belimited to: chapter 15 of title 7, 11-23-2, 11-23-6, 11-25-23, chapter 28 oftitle 21, 21-28-4.01, 21-28-4.01.1, 21-28-4.01.2, 21-28-4.02, 21-28-4.03,21-28-4.04, 21-28-4.05, 21-28-4.06, 21-28-4.07, 21-28-4.07.1, 21-28-4.09,21-28-4.10, 21-28-4.11, 21-28-4.14, 21-28-4.15, 21-28-4.16, 21-28-4.17,21-28-4.17.1, 21-28-4.19, 31-27-1.1, 31-27-2.2, 31-27-2.4, 31-27-2.6, chapter22.2 of title 46, 46-22.2-3, 46-22.2-4, and 46-22.2-5.
(h) In addition to any other fine, assessment, penalty, orforfeiture provided by law, the court or tribunal shall collect the sum of onehundred dollars ($100) for each charge from every defendant who is convictedafter trial, or who enters a plea of guilty or of nolo contendere, with respectto violations of the following chapters and/or sections of the Rhode IslandGeneral Laws, which shall include but not be limited to: 11-5-1, 11-5-2,11-5-2.1, 11-5-4, 11-5-5, 11-5-6, 11-5-7, 11-5-8, 11-5-10, 11-5-10.1,11-5-10.2, 11-5-10.3, 11-5-10.4, 11-5-11, 11-5-14, 11-5-14.1, 11-8-1, 11-8-2.1,11-8-2.2, 11-8-2.3, 11-8-2.4, 11-8-3, 11-8-4, 11-8-9, 11-23-1, 11-23-2.1,11-23-3, 11-25-2, 11-25-3, 11-25-4, 11-26-1, 11-26-1.4, 11-29-1, 11-37-2,11-37-4, 11-37-6, 11-37-8.1, 11-37-8.3, and 11-39-1.
(i) All fees collected in subsections (f) through (h) shallbe placed in the general fund.