Section 22-B3407. RESIDENTS’ PERSONAL PROPERTY

 

3407.1A community residence facility shall take appropriate measures to safeguard and account for personal articles of residents that are brought to the community residence facility, including providing each resident with a cabinet, designated drawer, or other place in which he or she can keep and lock small items and personal papers.

 

3407.2Safe storage of and assistance in managing modest cash resources of residents for use in meeting their personal incidental expenses is an appropriate service that shall be provided by a community residence facility if the service is requested in writing by the resident, if competent, or by the sponsor of the resident, if any.

 

3407.3The community residence facility shall provide the resident or his or her sponsor, if any, with a receipt for all personal property received by it for safekeeping.

 

3407.4Provisions shall be made for residents who desire to bring personal possessions and furnishings to their living quarters in the community residence facility unless the community residence facility can demonstrate that it is not practical, feasible, or safe.

 

3407.5A separate and accurate record shall be kept of all funds and personal property deposited for safekeeping with or received to be managed by the community residence facility for the benefit of the resident. That record shall include the following:

 

(a)The date and amount of any money received;

 

(b)The date and amount of each withdrawal by the resident or disbursement by the community residence facility for the resident’s benefit;

 

(c)The items or purposes for which disbursements were made by the community residence facility; and

 

(d)The current balance.

 

3407.6A copy of the record required in § 3407.5 shall be made available to the resident or his or her sponsor, if any, at any time upon demand, and shall be presented to the resident or his or her sponsor, if any, semi-annually and upon the resident’s transfer or discharge from the community residence facility.

 

3407.7Residents shall be encouraged and allowed to wear their own clothing.

 

3407.8If clothing is provided by the community residence facility, it shall be appropriate, clean, and well-fitting.

 

3407.9No Residence Director shall require, in consideration for the admission of a resident or in consideration for continuing to care for a resident, that the resident give, transfer, or assign to the Residence Director an interest in or title to any property owned by the resident, nor shall the Residence Director accept any such gift, transfer, or assignment.

 

3407.10Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as prohibiting a Residence Director from requiring a resident to pay, at periodic intervals, the sum of money that has been agreed in writing shall be paid for the care given the resident, nor shall anything in this section be construed as prohibiting a resident from selling property to a Residence Director, if the price received is the reasonable market value of the property at the time of the sale.

 

source

Regulation No. 74-15 (June 14, 1974); as amended by the Community Residence Facilities Act of 1977 § 101(e), D.C. Law 2-35, 24 DCR 1458, 1478 (August 19, 1977); as amended by ERRATA published at 51 DCR 9308 (October 1, 2004).