Any person who, without lawful authorization from a duly authorized officer, employee, or agent of the department, informs an owner, operator, employee, agent, or resident of a residential care facility for the elderly of an impending and unannounced site visit to that facility by personnel of the department, except for a site visit prior to licensing the facility, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 180 days, or by both a fine and imprisonment.
(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 888, Sec. 9.)