Title 23
Health and Safety

Chapter 83
The Umbilical Cord Blood Donation Notification Act

R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-83-6

§ 23-83-6. Hospitals required to facilitate donations.

Unless it is medically inadvisable, each hospital or other obstetrical facility in the state shall cooperate with the collection staff of a cord blood bank designated by a patient to facilitate the donation of the blood extracted from the umbilical cord of the patient’s newborn child to a cord blood bank.

History of Section.
P.L. 2008, ch. 101, § 1; P.L. 2008, ch. 153, § 1.