(b) Applications to the council shall contain information and data as applicable with reference to:

1. (1) the public need for the existence of the licensed home care service agency or proposed agency at the time and place and under the circumstances proposed as outlined in section 765-1.16 of this Subpart;

2. (2) the character, experience, competence and standing in the community of the proposed persons, incorporators, directors, controlling persons, officers, principal stockholders, sponsors, governmental subdivisions, individual operators or partners of the applicant or of any parent or health-related subsidiary corporation as applicable. The application shall include copies of personal qualifying and disclosure information, as appropriate, as may be required by the council with regard to any such individual or organization;

   1. (i) Disclosure information shall include, but not be limited to, a list of health care, adult care or mental health facilities, programs or agencies controlled or operated in the United States by an individual or organization specified in this subdivision; the name and address of each such facility, program or agency; and the dates of control or operation of each such facility, program or agency.
   2. (ii) In the event that any such health care, adult care or mental health facility, program or agency, while under the control or operation of an individual or organization specified in this subdivision, has been subjected to financial penalties, or suspension or revocation of its operating certificate, license or certification because of a failure to comply with provisions governing the conduct and operation of the facility, program or agency, then information must be provided which describes the nature of the violation, the agency or body enforcing the violation (including its name and mailing address), the steps taken by the facility, program or agency to remedy the violation or violations, and an indication of whether the suspension, revocation or accreditation has since been restored.

3. (3) the financial resources of the proposed licensed home care service agency and its projections of revenues and expenses. The standards of this review will require, at a minimum:

   1. (i) an examination of the sources of available working capital that the proposed licensed home care services agency operators have, with a minimum requirement equal to at least two months of estimated operating expenses of the agency;
   2. (ii) that the application passes a reasonableness test with respect to the financial capability of the agency or sources for start-up funding; and
   3. (iii) an examination of the financial feasibility of the agency or projections indicating that the agency’s revenues, including but not limited to operating revenue, will be equal to or greater than projected expenditures over time;
4. (4) any other information that the commissioner shall deem pertinent for inclusion in the application.

(c) The following documents shall be filed as attachments to the application:

1. (1) where the applicant will be operating the licensed home care services agency under an assumed name, a photocopy of the applicant's existing or executed proposed certificate of doing business;

2. (2) where the applicant is a partnership, full and true copies of all partnership agreements, which shall include the following language:

   “By signing this agreement, each member of the partnership created by the terms of this agreement acknowledges that the partnership and each member thereof has a duty to report to the New York State Department of Health any proposed changes in the membership of the partnership. The partners also acknowledge that the prior written approval of the Public Health and Health Planning Council is necessary for such change before such change is made, except that a change resulting from an emergency caused by the severe illness, incompetency or death of a member of the partnership shall require immediate notification to the New York State Department of Health of such fact, and application shall be made for the approval by the Public Health and Health Planning Council of such change within 30 days of the commencement of such emergency. The partners also acknowledge that they shall be individually and severally liable for failure to make the aforementioned reports and/or applications.”

3. (3) where the applicant or licensed operator has or proposes to have a controlling person or a parent corporation, or is affiliated with a health-related subsidiary corporation, full and true copies of any such corporation's bylaws, certificate of incorporation and any existing or proposed amendments thereto, all agreements between the applicant and any such controlling person or parent corporation relating to the manner and mechanisms by which any such controlling person or parent corporation controls or will control the applicant and/or all agreements by which the applicant is affiliated with any health-related subsidiary corporation, and a detailed description of such control or affiliation relationship;
4. (4) where an applicant corporation is formed pursuant to the requirements of section 3611 of the Public Health Law, documentation demonstrating the designation of an agent for service of process pursuant to section 305 of the Business Corporation Law or section 305 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, as applicable; and
5. (5) such additional pertinent information or documents necessary for the council's consideration, as requested.