[§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, inaccordance with chapter 91, regarding special treatment facilities that shallbe designed to:

(1)  Provide a therapeutic residential program forcare, diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation for socially or emotionallydistressed persons, mentally ill persons, persons suffering from substanceabuse, and developmentally disabled persons.  Special treatment facilitiesshall include a short-term crisis residential program or a long-termresidential treatment program;

(2)  Comply with applicable federal laws andregulations; and

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

(c)  For the purposes of this section:

"Long-term residential" means aresidential treatment program for persons whose duration of stay is thirty daysor longer.

"Short-term crisis residential" meansa residential treatment program for persons who are in crisis and whoseduration of stay is less than thirty days.

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