2005 Idaho Code - 54-1604 — FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF BOARD -- FEE FOR LICENSE APPLICANTS -- RULES

                                  TITLE  54
                    PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
                                  CHAPTER 16
                         NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS
    54-1604.  FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF BOARD -- FEE FOR LICENSE APPLICANTS --
RULES. (1) It shall be the functions and duties of such board to:
    (a)  Develop, impose, and enforce standards consistent with this act which
    shall be met by individuals in order to receive and retain a license as a
    nursing home administrator which standard shall be designed to insure that
    nursing home administrators will be individuals who are of good character
    and are otherwise suitable, and who, by training or experience in the
    field of institutional administration, are qualified to serve as nursing
    home administrators;
    (b)  Develop and apply appropriate techniques, including examinations and
    investigations, for determining whether an individual meets such
    standards;
    (c)  Issue licenses to individuals determined, after application of such
    techniques,  to meet such standards, and revoke or suspend licenses
    previously issued by the board in any case where the individual holding
    any such license is determined substantially to have failed to conform to
    the requirements of such standards;
    (d)  Establish and carry out procedures designated to insure that
    individuals licensed as nursing home administrators will, during any
    period that they serve as such, comply with the requirements of such
    standards;
    (e)  Receive, investigate, and take appropriate action with respect to any
    charge or complaint filed with the board charging that any individual
    licensed as a nursing home administrator has failed to comply with the
    requirements of such standards;
    (f)  Conduct a continuing study and investigation of administrators of
    nursing homes within the state with a view to the improvement of the
    standards imposed for the licensing of such administrators and of
    procedures and methods for the enforcement of such standards with respect
    to administrators of nursing homes who have been licensed as such;
    (g)  The fee to be paid for any application, license, renewal, permit or
    registration shall be set by board rule in an amount not to exceed two
    hundred dollars ($200).
    (2)  The board or any committee or member thereof or any hearing officer
designated by such board, acting in an official capacity, shall have powers
and duties as provided by law.
    Such board shall not be bound by the strict rules of evidence in the
conduct of its proceedings but any determinations made shall be founded upon
sufficient legal evidence to sustain them.
    (3)  The board shall also have the authority to make rules not
inconsistent with law as may be necessary for the proper performance of its
duties, and to take such other actions as may be necessary to enable the state
to meet the requirements set forth in section 1908 of the "social security
act," the federal rules promulgated thereunder, and other pertinent federal
requirements.
    (4)  The board shall have the authority to collect from the state
association representing nursing homes in Idaho an amount as is necessary to
fully reimburse the board for all expenses relating to prelitigation panels
conducted pursuant to chapter 23, title 6, Idaho Code. Funds collected by the
board pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited into the occupational
licenses fund.