Section 22-B3700. SCOPE AND PURPOSES

 

3700.1The Mayor shall establish a Central Referral Bureau which shall have the functions provided under this chapter.

 

3700.2The Central Referral Bureau shall keep and make available to the public an accurate and current listing of all licensed skilled care, intermediate care, and community residence facilities in the District, indexed according to their classification, location, size, admission restrictions, the ratings assigned them by the Central Referral Bureau, and their most recent occupancy reports.

 

3700.3The Central Referral Bureau shall develop, in cooperation with District medical associations, nurses' associations, pharmaceutical associations, associations of nursing home directors and community residence facility residence directors, mental health associations, associations for retarded persons, senior citizens' associations, and any other interested community associations, criteria and a monitoring system for rating licensed facilities based on the excellence with which they perform their recognized functions.

 

3700.4The Central Referral Bureau shall not be responsible for any assessments that are normally the responsibility of District licensing authorities.

 

authority

Sections 402(4), 402(5), 402(134) and 402(391) of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967, effective February 29, 1892, 27 Stat. 394; D.C. Code §§1-319, 1-322, 6-117, 33-505, and 47-2842 (1981).

source

Council Regulation No. 74-15 effective June 14, 1977, as amended by §401 of the Community Residence Facilities Licensure Act of 1977, D.C. Law 2-35, 24 DCR 1458, 1517 (August 19, 1977).