A. In addition to the standards for treatment services and rules of operation required by Section 3-416 of this title, the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall establish physical facility standards, fire safety standards and such other health and safety standards for halfway houses and transitional living facilities as necessary.
B. The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall ensure that the standards required by Section 3-415 of this title include specific physical facility standards providing for facilities that provide substance abuse treatment services to pregnant women and women with children when the children also reside at the facility.
Added by Laws 1974, c. 137, § 10, emerg. eff. May 3, 1974. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 134, § 10, eff. July 1, 1983; Laws 1986, c. 103, § 44, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Renumbered from § 2117 of Title 63 by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 104, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Amended by Laws 1987, c. 225, § 44, eff. Nov. 1, 1987; Laws 1990, c. 295, § 1, operative July 1, 1990; Laws 1994, c. 327, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 2002, c. 230, § 18, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.