[§321-16.5]  Special treatment facilities. 
(a)  All special treatment facilities shall be licensed to ensure the health,
safety, and welfare of the individuals placed therein.



(b)  The director shall adopt rules, in
accordance with chapter 91, regarding special treatment facilities that shall
be designed to:



(1)  Provide a therapeutic residential program for
care, diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation for socially or emotionally
distressed persons, mentally ill persons, persons suffering from substance
abuse, and developmentally disabled persons.  Special treatment facilities
shall include a short-term crisis residential program or a long-term
residential treatment program;



(2)  Comply with applicable federal laws and
regulations; and



(3)  Provide penalties for the failure to comply with
any rule.



(c)  For the purposes of this section:



"Long-term residential" means a
residential treatment program for persons whose duration of stay is thirty days
or longer.



"Short-term crisis residential" means
a residential treatment program for persons who are in crisis and whose
duration of stay is less than thirty days.



"Socially or emotionally distressed
person" means an individual who is experiencing psychiatric symptomatology
that may be acute or chronic in nature, which requires therapeutic or
rehabilitative services. [L 2005, c 139, pt of §2]