Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
3.1. In order to protect the health and safety of children, the Secretary shall conduct a survey of facilities to determine if they are subject to licensure as residential child care facilities, behavioral health centers, or both, because they are providing residential child care or behavioral health services to children.3.2. To help identify facilities, the Secretary may solicit the cooperation of social service agencies, child care and behavioral health care providers, the State Superintendent of Schools, county Superintendents of Schools and others.3.3. The survey instrument is the Questionnaire appearing as Appendix 69-5 A of this rule.3.4. Recipients of the Questionnaire shall complete and return it to the Secretary at the designated address on the Questionnaire. 3.4.1. Recipients shall return the Questionnaire no later than thirty (30) days after receipt- If a request for extension of the thirty (30) days is received by the Secretary before the thirty (30) days have expired, the Secretary may grant an extension of time for returning the survey.3.4.2. A Questionnaire returned Incomplete or unsigned shall be considered as non-responsive to this rule.3.5. For any responses on the Questionnaire that are unclear to the Secretary or for which the Secretary needs further information: 3.5.1. The Secretary may make further inquiries to the person submitting the Questionnaire, and the inquiries shall be answered by that person or another authorized representative of the facility; and3.5.2. The Secretary may make an inspection and investigation of the facility to determine if the information the Secretary has regarding the facility is correct and to gather further information.3.6. Nothing in this rule shall be interpreted as limiting the authority of the Secretary to conduct inspections and investigations as authorized before this rule existed.