Section 11-60-3 Prevention of assisted suicide.

RI Gen L § 11-60-3 (2019) (N/A)
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§ 11-60-3. Prevention of assisted suicide. An individual or licensed health care practitioner who with the purpose of assisting another person to commit suicide knowingly:

(1) Provides the physical means by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide; or

(2) Participates in a physical act by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide is guilty of a felony and upon conviction may be punished by imprisonment for up to ten (10) years, by a fine of up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or both.

History of Section. (P.L. 1996, ch. 181, § 1; P.L. 1996, ch. 183, § 1.)