California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 3.01 - Residential Care Facilities for Persons With Chronic Life-Threatening Illness

Section 1568.01.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:(a) “Activities of daily living” means housework, meals, laundry, taking medication, money management, appropriate transportation, correspondence, telephoning,...
Section 1568.02.
(a) (1) The department shall license residential care facilities for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness under a separate category.(2) A residential care facility for persons with chronic, life-threatening...
Section 1568.021.
(a) If the applicant for a license for a residential care facility handles or will handle any money of a resident of the facility, the...
Section 1568.03.
(a) No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation within the state and no state or local public agency shall operate, establish, manage, conduct, or maintain a...
Section 1568.04.
Any person desiring issuance of a license for a residential care facility under this chapter shall file with the department, pursuant to regulations adopted by...
Section 1568.041.
(a) The department shall designate at least one person in each region to be responsible for all activities pertaining to license application as well as...
Section 1568.042.
(a) A corporation that applies for licensure with the department shall list the facilities that any member of the board of directors, the executive director,...
Section 1568.043.
A residential care facility for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness shall have one or more carbon monoxide detectors in the facility that meet the standards...
Section 1568.05.
(a) (1) An application fee adjusted by facility and capacity, shall be charged by the department for a license to operate a residential care facility for persons...
Section 1568.06.
(a) Upon initial application for licensure, residential care facilities shall be provided a printed copy of all applicable regulations for the operation of these facilities...
Section 1568.061.
A license shall be forfeited by operation of law prior to its expiration date when any of the following occurs:(a) The licensee sells or otherwise...
Section 1568.062.
(a) Upon the filing of the application for issuance of a license and substantial compliance with this chapter and the rules and regulations of the...
Section 1568.063.
Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license, the department shall notify the applicant in writing. Within 15 days after the department mails...
Section 1568.064.
(a) When a licensee dies, an adult relative who has control of the property may continue operation of the facility if the following conditions are...
Section 1568.065.
(a) Proceedings for the suspension, revocation, or denial of a license under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section...
Section 1568.0651.
(a) The administrative law judge conducting a hearing under this article may permit the testimony of a child witness, or a similarly vulnerable witness, including...
Section 1568.0652.
(a) (1) An out-of-court statement made by a minor under 12 years of age who is the subject or victim of an allegation at issue...
Section 1568.067.
(a) No license issued pursuant to this chapter shall have any property value for sale or exchange purposes and no person, including any owner, agent,...
Section 1568.068.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 1568.061, in the event of a sale of a licensed residential care for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness facility where the sale...
Section 1568.07.
(a) (1) Within 90 days after a facility accepts its first resident for placement following its initial licensure, the department shall conduct an unannounced inspection of...
Section 1568.071.
(a) Any person may request an inspection of any residential care facility in accordance with this chapter by transmitting to the department notice of an...
Section 1568.0715.
(a) The department shall ensure that the licensee’s plan of correction is verifiable and measurable. The plan of correction shall specify what evidence is acceptable to...
Section 1568.072.
(a) The department shall adopt, amend, and repeal, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...
Section 1568.073.
(a) (1) The department may order the licensee to remove a resident who has a health condition which cannot be cared for within the limits...
Section 1568.075.
On and after January 1, 1999, no security window bars may be installed or maintained on any residential care facility unless the security window bars...
Section 1568.08.
Each facility required to be licensed under this chapter shall keep a current record of all of the following:(a) Residents in the facility, including...
Section 1568.081.
(a) A placement agency shall place individuals only in licensed residential care facilities or facilities which are exempt from licensure under subdivision (c) of Section...
Section 1568.082.
(a) The department may suspend or revoke any license issued under this chapter upon any of the following grounds and in the manner provided in...
Section 1568.0821.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any person who violates Section 1568.03 shall be assessed by the department an immediate civil penalty in...
Section 1568.0822.
(a) In addition to the suspension, temporary suspension, or revocation of a license issued under this chapter, the department shall levy civil penalties as follows:(b) (1) The amount...
Section 1568.0823.
(a) Any person who violates this chapter, or who willfully or repeatedly violates any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor...
Section 1568.0824.
A person who, without lawful authorization from a duly authorized officer, employee, or agent of the department, informs an owner, operator, employee, agent, or resident...
Section 1568.0825.
(a) The department shall conduct an unannounced visit to a facility within 30 days after the effective date of a temporary suspension of a license in...
Section 1568.083.
(a) The department, State Fire Marshal, or local fire officials shall not make a de facto determination of a resident’s ambulatory or nonambulatory status based...
Section 1568.0831.
(a) (1) Whether or not unrelated persons are living together, a residential care facility that serves six or fewer persons shall be considered a residential use of...
Section 1568.0832.
(a) (1) For purposes of this section, “bedridden” means requiring assistance in turning and repositioning in bed or being unable to independently transfer to and from...
Section 1568.09.
It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to require the electronic fingerprint images of those individuals whose contact with residents of...
Section 1568.092.
(a) The department may prohibit any person from being a member of the board of directors, an executive director, or an officer of a licensee or...
Section 1568.093.
(a) (1) If the department determines that a person was issued a license under this chapter or under Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1200), Chapter...
Section 1568.094.
The department shall conduct an unannounced visit to a facility within 30 days after the department serves an order of immediate exclusion from the facility...

Last modified: October 22, 2018