{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-23-19.12-10","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-19.12-10","heading":"License.","body":"(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.\n(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.","path":["Title 23 Health and Safety","Chapter 19.12 Generation — Transportation — Storage — Treatment — Management and Disposal of Regulated Medical Waste"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE23/23-19.12/23-19.12-10.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T19:56:53Z","sha256":"9d401110f834e2a6659a8545af1e6e96ff15e76314fcc02632ec9d4ceedd2a2a","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-23-19.12-9","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-23-19.12-11"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}