Title 23
Health and Safety

Chapter 19.12
Generation — Transportation — Storage — Treatment — Management and Disposal of Regulated Medical Waste

R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-19.12-10

§ 23-19.12-10. License.

(a) No person or legal entity shall engage in the storage, treatment and/or destruction of regulated medical waste unless that person or legal entity has received a license issued by the director of the department of environmental management. This license is a special category of license issued to solid waste management facilities.

(b) However, storage by a generator before regulated medical waste is treated and/or destroyed on-site, or offered for transport does not constitute a practice requiring licensure under this section. Nor does the treatment and/or destruction of regulated medical waste by the generator of that waste constitute a practice requiring licensure under this section if the treatment and/or destruction is carried out at a generating facility owned and operated by the generator of the medical waste and if the treatment and/or destruction process does not include waste generated by any other person or legal entity.

History of Section.
P.L. 1992, ch. 497, § 1.