Montana Code Annotated 2003

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     37-9-203. Duties of board. The board shall:
     (1) develop, impose, and enforce standards that must be met by individuals in order to register and receive a license as a nursing home administrator, designed to ensure that nursing home administrators are individuals of good character and otherwise suitable and, by training or experience in the field of institutional administration, are qualified to serve as nursing home administrators;
     (2) develop and apply appropriate techniques, including examination and investigation, for determining whether individuals meet the standards;
     (3) authorize the department to register and issue licenses to individuals, after application of the techniques, determined to meet the standards;
     (4) establish and implement procedures designed to ensure that individuals registered and licensed as nursing home administrators will, during the period that they serve, comply with the requirements of the standards;
     (5) conduct a continuing study and investigation of nursing home administrators within the state with a view to the improvement of the standards imposed for the licensing of administrators and of procedures and methods for the enforcement of the standards with respect to nursing home administrators.

     History: En. Sec. 9, Ch. 363, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 483, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 310, Ch. 350, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 66-3109(part); amd. Sec. 44, Ch. 429, L. 1995.

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