231B.14 - CIVIL PENALTIES.

        231B.14  CIVIL PENALTIES.
         The department may establish by rule, in accordance with chapter
      17A, civil penalties for the following violations by an elder group
      home:
         1.  Noncompliance with any regulatory requirements which presents
      an imminent danger or a substantial probability of resultant death or
      physical harm to a tenant.
         2.  Following receipt of notice from the department, continued
      failure or refusal to comply within a prescribed time frame with
      regulatory requirements that have a direct relationship to the
      health, safety, or security of elder group home tenants.
         3.  Preventing or interfering with or attempting to impede in any
      way any duly authorized representative of the department in the
      lawful enforcement of this chapter or of the rules adopted pursuant
      to this chapter.  As used in this subsection, "lawful
      enforcement" includes but is not limited to:
         a.  Contacting or interviewing any tenant of an elder group
      home in private at any reasonable hour and without advance notice.
         b.  Examining any relevant records of an elder group home.
         c.  Preserving evidence of any violation of this chapter or of
      the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2005 Acts, ch 62, §14; 2007 Acts, ch 215, §155, 156