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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 63. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

  § 63-1-890.6. Application of act - Bans on admission - Penalties.  

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  • A.  The Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act shall not apply to residential care homes, adult companion homes, domiciliary care units operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the private residences of persons with developmental disabilities receiving services provided by the Developmental Disabilities Services Division of the Department of Human Services or through the Home- and Community-Based Waiver or the Alternative Disposition Plan Waiver of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, or to hotels, motels, boardinghouses, rooming houses, a home or facility approved and annually reviewed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a medical foster home in which care is provided exclusively to three or fewer veterans, or other places that furnish board or room to their residents.  The Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act shall not apply to facilities not charging or receiving periodic compensation for services rendered and not receiving any county, state or federal assistance.

    B.  The State Commissioner of Health may ban admissions to, or deny, suspend, refuse to renew or revoke the license of, any continuum of care facility or assisted living center which fails to comply with the Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act or rules promulgated by the State Board of Health.

    C.  Any person who has been determined by the Commissioner to have violated any provision of the Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act or any rule promulgated hereunder shall be liable for an administrative penalty of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each day that the violation occurs.

    D.  If a continuum of care facility's failure to comply with the Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act or rules involves nursing care services, the Commissioner shall have authority to exercise additional remedies provided under the Nursing Home Care Act.  If a continuum of care facility's failure to comply with the Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act or rules involves adult day care services, then the Commissioner shall have authority to exercise additional remedies provided under the Adult Day Care Act.

    E.  In taking any action to deny, suspend, deny renewal, or revoke a license, or to impose an administrative fee, the Commissioner shall comply with requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 223, § 6, eff. July 1, 1998.  Amended by Laws 1999, c. 214, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2012, c. 12, § 2, emerg. eff. April 5, 2012.