The board shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 to develop, impose, and enforce standards which shall be met by persons in order to receive a license as a nursing facility administrator. The standards shall ensure that nursing facility administrators are persons who, by training and experience in the field of institutional administration, are qualified to serve as nursing facility administrators.

Source: SL 1969, ch 113, § 11 (1); SDCL Supp, § 34-12A-9; SL 1996, ch 239, § 2; SL 2000, ch 199, § 2.