39-3512. APPLICATION OF PROVISIONS. (1) Any individual providing care and housing commercially to the elderly, or individuals with mental illness, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities shall at a minimum, meet the requirements of this chapter or other provision of law governing care and housing for the elderly, individuals with mental illness, developmental disabilities or physical disabilities if those provisions are more restrictive.
(2) Medical foster homes are exempt from the certification requirements under this chapter if the home provides care only to veterans who are not medicaid recipients and who are approved by the department of veterans affairs to receive care in the home.
(3) Homes that provide care to nonveterans as well as veterans shall not be exempt from the certification requirements of this chapter.
History:
[(39-3512) 39-3580, added 1996, ch. 207, sec. 49, p. 658; am. 2000, ch. 274, sec. 117, p. 855; am. and redesig. 2005, ch. 280, sec. 57, p. 912; am. 2015, ch. 47, sec. 2, p. 101.]