(a) Transactions constituting a change in ownership include, but are not limited to, the following:
- (1) Sale or donation of the facility's legal title;
- (2) Lease of the entire facility's real and personal property;
- (3) A sole proprietor becomes a member of a partnership or corporation, succeeding him or her as the new operator;
- (4) A partnership dissolves;
- (5) One partnership is replaced by another through the removal, addition, or substitution of a partner;
- (6) Two (2) or more corporations merge and the originally-licensed corporation does not survive;
- (7) Corporations consolidate; and
- (8) A nonprofit corporation becomes a general corporation, or a for-profit corporation becomes nonprofit.
(b) Transactions that do not constitute a change of ownership include, but are not limited to, the following:
- (1) Changes in the membership of a corporate board of directors or board of trustees;
- (2) Two (2) or more corporations merge and the originally licensed corporation survives; and
- (3) Changes in the membership of a nonprofit corporation.