In order to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare; to protect the public from incompetent, unscrupulous, and unauthorized persons; to ensure the highest degree of professional conduct on the part of occupational therapists and to ensure the availability of occupational therapy services of high quality to persons in need of these services; it is the purpose of this chapter to provide for the regulation of persons offering occupational therapy services.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-40.1-2
Declaration of purpose
Known as the Rhode Island Occupational Therapy Practice Act
The act spans §§ 5-40.1-1 to 5-40.1-9 (21 sections).
P.L. 1984, ch. 356, § 1.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.