This chapter applies to any person, whether public or private, operating a facility that:

1. A. Provides health-related services on a regular basis to individuals:

   1. (1) Who do not require hospital care; and

   2. (2) Whose mental or physical condition requires services that:

      1. (a) Are above the level of room and board; and
      2. (b) Can be made available only through institutional facilities; and
2. B. Has as its primary purpose the provision of health rehabilitative services for individuals with an intellectual disability or related conditions.

Authority: Health-General Article, §§19-318, 19-320, and 19-323, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: December 28, 1987 (14:26 Md. R. 2747)

(COMAR 10.07.20 amended and transferred from COMAR 10.22.04 Public and Private Residential Care Facilities Serving the Mentally Retarded (ICF-MR))

Regulation .01B amended effective January 20, 2014 (41:1 Md. R. 13)

Regulation .02 amended effective January 20, 2014 (41:1 Md. R. 13)

Regulation .03B amended effective January 20, 2014 (41:1 Md. R. 13)

Regulation .04B, E amended effective March 13, 2017 (44:5 Md. R. 292)

Regulation .05A amended effective February 20, 1989 (16:3 Md. R. 342)

Regulation .05E adopted effective December 17, 2007 (34:25 Md. R. 2210)