2013 District of Columbia Code
Division VIII — GENERAL LAWS
Title 44 — CHARITABLE AND CURATIVE INSTITUTIONS
Subtitle I — HEALTH RELATED INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 10 — NURSING HOMES AND COMMUNITY RESIDENCE FACILITIES PROTECTIONS
Subchapter II — RECEIVERSHIPS
Section 44-1002.02 — Grounds for receivership.

A receiver may be appointed under this subchapter on one or more of the following grounds:
(1) The facility is unlawfully operating without a current District license;
(2) The licensee has abandoned the facility;
(3) The facility is closing within 30 calendar days and cannot offer verifiable evidence that adequate arrangements, designed to minimize transfer trauma, have been made to relocate its residents;
(4) A condition or practice in the facility poses a serious, widespread danger, either immediate or recurring, to the health, safety, or welfare of the residents;
(5) Violations of residents' rights, established pursuant to § 44-504(a)(4), are chronic, substantial, and widespread;
(6) Insolvency of an owner or the licensee has placed the continued operation of the facility in serious jeopardy; or
(7) The facility has been issued a restricted or provisional license by the Department of Health.

History
(Apr. 18, 1986, D.C. Law 6-108, § 202, 33 DCR 1510; Apr. 29, 2010, D.C. Law 18-145, § 4(a), 57 DCR 1834.)

Annotations
Section References. This section is referenced in § 44-1002.03, § 44-1002.05, and § 44-1002.10.

Prior Codifications. 1981 Ed., § 32-1412.

Effect of Amendments. D.C. Law 18-145 deleted "or" from the end of par. (5); substituted "; or" for a period at the end of par. (6); and added par. (7).

Legislative History of Law 6-108. For legislative history of D.C. Law 6-108, see Historical and Statutory Notes following § 44-1001.01.

Legislative History of Law 18-145. For Law 18-145, see notes following § 44-504.