79434463.2-1732Virginia Decodedhttps://vacode.org2016Welfare (social Services)LicensureLicensure And Registration ProceduresRegulations And Interdepartmental CooperationRegulations for assisted living facilitiesCode 1950, § 63-223; 1954, c. 259; 1968, c. 578, § 63.1-174; 1973, c. 227; 1991, c. 532; 1993, cc. 957, 993; 1995, c. 649; 1997, c. 397; 2000, cc. 804, 808, 845; 2001, c. 161; 2002, c. 747; 2004, c. 673; 2005, cc. 610, 924; 2007, cc. 119, 164.The Board shall have the authority to adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the provisions of this subtitle and to protect the health, safety, welfare and individual rights of residents of assisted living facilities and to promote their highest level of functioning. Such regulations shall take into consideration cost constraints of smaller operations in complying with such regulations and shall provide a procedure whereby a licensee or applicant may request, and the Commissioner may grant, an allowable variance to a regulation pursuant to § 63.2-1703.sectionAA1Regulations shall require all licensed assisted living facilities with six or more residents to be able to connect by July 1, 2007, to a temporary emergency electrical power source for the provision of electricity during an interruption of the normal electric power supply. The installation shall be in compliance with the Uniform Statewide Building Code.sectionDD1Regulations for medical procedures in assisted living facilities shall be developed in consultation with the State Board of Health and adopted by the Board, and compliance with these regulations shall be determined by Department of Health or Department inspectors as provided by an interagency agreement between the Department and the Department of Health.sectionEE1In developing regulations to determine the number of assisted living facilities for which an assisted living facility administrator may serve as administrator of record, the Board shall consider (i) the number of residents in each of the facilities, (ii) the travel time between each of the facilities, and (iii) the qualifications of the on-site manager under the supervision of the administrator of record.sectionFF1Regulations shall require that each assisted living facility register with the Department of State Police to receive notice of the registration or reregistration of any sex offender within the same or a contiguous zip code area in which the facility is located, pursuant to § 9.1-914.sectionGG1Regulations shall require that each assisted living facility ascertain, prior to admission, whether a potential resident is a registered sex offender, if the facility anticipates the potential resident will have a length of stay greater than three days or in fact stays longer than three days.sectionHH1http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/63.2-1732/63.2-1703Variances/63.2-1703/63.2-1709Enforcement and sanctions; assisted living facilities and adult day care centers; interim administration; receivership, revocation, denial, summary suspension/63.2-1709/63.2-1709.2Enforcement and sanctions; special orders; civil penalties/63.2-1709.2/9.1-914Automatic notification of registration to certain entities; electronic notification to requesting persons/9.1-914//63.2-1732/63.2/IV/17/5/63.2-1732