1. (a) Documents given to residents and prospective residents, including contracts with residents and disclosure statements, shall:

   1. (1) Use language that a person of average intelligence and education can read and understand;
   2. (2) Present information in a logical sequence and in a clear and direct fashion;
   3. (3) Avoid complex and compound sentences;
   4. (4) Use words in a manner which shall convey their commonly understood meanings;
   5. (5) Include definitions for words or terms which cannot properly be explained or qualified in the text;
   6. (6) Capitalize a defined word in any contract or disclosure statement;
   7. (7) Use frequent section headings to permit ease in locating provisions;
   8. (8) Be printed in easily legible typeface; and
   9. (9) Contain an index, which shall be either the first page of the document or whose location shall be noted on the first page of the document, which lists all section headings used in the document if the document is more than one page in length.

2. (b) If pre-existing conditions are excluded from the medical care and services available from the CCRC, but are available at an additional charge or are limited as to coverage, the term pre-existing condition shall not limit coverage beyond that stated in the following:

   "A pre-existing condition is a disease, illness, sickness or physical condition for which medical care, advice or treatment was recommended by or received from a physician within the 2 year period preceding the date the CCRC committed itself to accept the individual as a resident."

Source. #7014, eff 7-1-99; EXPIRED: 7-1-07 New. #8991, eff 10-1-07; ss by #10944, eff 10-8-15