(a) The licensee shall comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, codes, and ordinances for:
- (1) Building;
- (2) Health, including waste disposal and water;
- (3) Fire; and
- (4) Zoning.
- (b) The CMA shall keep all entrances and exits to the licensed premises accessible at all times during hours of operation.
- (c) The CMA shall be clean, maintained in a safe manner and good repair, and kept free of hazards.
(d) Each licensee shall develop a written emergency plan that covers any situation that prevents the CMA from safely providing client services and which:
- (1) Includes site-specific plans for the protection of all persons on-site in their licensed premises in the event of fire, natural disaster, severe weather, and human-caused emergencies to include, but not be limited to, a bomb threat;
- (2) Is available to all personnel;
- (3) Is based on realistic conceptual events;
(4) Includes the CMA's response to both short-term and long-term interruptions in the availability of utility service for the licensed premises during the disaster or emergency, including establishing contingency plans for continuum of care:
- a. Electricity;
- b. Water;
- c. Ventilation;
- d. Fire protection systems;
- e. Fuel sources; and
- f. Communications systems;
- (5) Includes a plan for alerting and managing personnel in a disaster;
- (6) Includes a policy detailing the responsibilities of personnel for responding to an emergency during provision of case management services;
- (7) Includes an educational, competency-based program for personnel to provide an overview of the components of the emergency management program and the personnel’s specific duties and responsibilities; and
- (8) If the CMA is located within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant and is part of the New Hampshire Radiological Emergency Response Plan (RERP), includes the required elements of the RERP.
- (e) Each licensee shall annually review and revise, as needed, its emergency plan.
Source. #13709, eff 8-1-23