Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-3502

  • Administrator: means the individual directly responsible for planning, organizing, directing and controlling the operation of an adult care home. See Kansas Statutes 65-3501
  • Adult care home: means nursing facility, nursing facilities for mental health, intermediate care facilities for people with intellectual disability, assisted living facility licensed for more than 60 residents and residential health care facility licensed for more than 60 residents as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 65-3501
  • Board: means the board of adult care home administrators established by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 65-3501
  • Person: means an individual and does not include the term firm, corporation, association, partnership, institution, public body, joint stock association or any group of individuals. See Kansas Statutes 65-3501
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

From and after the effective date of this act, no adult care home in the state shall be operated unless it is under the supervision of an administrator who holds a currently valid adult care home administrator’s license issued pursuant to this act. No person shall practice or offer to practice adult care home administration in this state or use any title, sign, card or device to indicate that the person is an adult care home administrator, unless such person shall have been duly licensed as an adult care home administrator as required by this act. The board may authorize, by rules and regulations, the issuance of a temporary license as an adult care home administrator in the event of an emergency to be effective for a period of 60 days. The temporary license fee shall be fixed by rules and regulations. Such temporary license may be extended for two consecutive sixty-day periods of time, but in no case shall a temporary license be maintained in effect for a period of time greater than 180 days.