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MN Stat § 144.9507 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.9507 — Lead-related Funding.

144.9507 LEAD-RELATED FUNDING. Subdivision 1. Lead education strategy contracts. The commissioner shall, within available federal or state appropriations, contract with: (1) community health boards to provide funds for lead education as provided for in sections 144.9503 and 144.9504; and (2) swab team workers and community-based advocacy groups to provide funds for lead education for primary prevention of toxic lead exposure in areas at high risk for toxic lead exposure. Subd. 2. Lead risk assessment contracts. The commissioner shall, within available federal or state appropriations, contract with community health boards to conduct lead risk assessments to determine sources of lead contamination and to issue and enforce lead orders according to section 144.9504. Subd. 3. Temporary lead-safe housing contracts. The commissioner shall, within the limits of available appropriations, contract with community health boards for temporary housing, to be used in meeting relocation requirements in section 144.9504, and award grants to community health boards for the purposes of paying housing and relocation costs under section 144.9504. The commissioner may use up to 15 percent of the available appropriations to provide temporary lead-safe housing in areas of the state in which the commissioner has the duty under section 144.9504 to perform secondary prevention. Subd. 4.  [Repealed, 1999 c 245 art 2 s 45] Subd. 5. Federal lead-related funds. To the extent practicable under federal guidelines, the commissioner of health may use federal funding to contract with community health boards for purposes specified in this section, but only to the extent that the federal funds do not replace existing funding for these lead services. Subd. 6. Medical assistance. Medical assistance reimbursement for lead risk assessment services under section 256B.0625, subdivision 52, shall not be used to replace or decrease existing state or local funding for lead services and lead-related activities. History:  1995 c 213 art 1 s 9; 1998 c 407 art 2 s 71-73; 2001 c 205 art 1 s 34; 2007 c 147 art 16 s 8; 2015 c 21 art 1 s 109
MN Stat § 144.9509 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.9509 — Enforcement.

144.9509 ENFORCEMENT. Subdivision 1. Enforcement. When the commissioner exercises authority for enforcement, the provisions of sections 144.9501 to 144.9512 shall be enforced under the provisions of sections 144.989 to 144.993. Community health boards shall enforce a lead order issued under section 144.9504 under a local ordinance or as a public health nuisance under chapter 145A. Subd. 2. Discrimination. A person who discriminates against or otherwise sanctions an employee who complains to or cooperates with the assessing agency in administering sections 144.9501 to 144.9512 is guilty of a petty misdemeanor. Subd. 3. Enforcement and status report. The commissioner shall examine compliance with Minnesota's existing lead standards and rules and report to the legislature biennially, beginning February 15, 1997, including an evaluation of current lead program activities by the state and community health boards, the need for any additional enforcement procedures, recommendations on developing a method to enforce compliance with lead standards, and cost estimates for any proposed enforcement procedure. The report shall also include a summary of lead surveillance data collected by the commissioner. History:  1995 c 213 art 1 s 11; 1998 c 407 art 2 s 78; 2001 c 205 art 1 s 40,41; 2007 c 147 art 16 s 20; 2015 c 21 art 1 s 109
MN Stat § 144.97 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.97 — Definitions.

144.97 DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Scope. The definitions in this section apply to section 144.98. Subd. 2. Accreditation. "Accreditation" means written acknowledgment that a laboratory has the policies, procedures, equipment, and practices to produce reliable data in the analysis of environmental samples. Subd. 3. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of health. Subd. 4. Commercial laboratory. "Commercial laboratory" means a laboratory that performs tests on samples on a contract or fee-for-service basis. Subd. 5. Environmental sample. "Environmental sample" means a substance derived from a nonhuman source and collected for the purpose of analysis. Subd. 5a. Field of testing. "Field of testing" means the combination of analyte, method, matrix, and test category for which a laboratory may hold accreditation. Subd. 6. Laboratory. "Laboratory" means the state, a person, corporation, or other entity, including governmental, that examines, analyzes, or tests samples in a specified physical location. Subd. 7. Sample. "Sample" means a substance derived from a nonhuman source and collected for the purpose of analysis, or a tissue, blood, excretion, or other bodily fluid specimen obtained from a human for the detection of a chemical, etiologic agent, or histologic abnormality. Subd. 8. Test category. "Test category" means the combination of program and category as provided by section 144.98, subdivisions 3, paragraph (b), clauses (1) to (10), and 3a, paragraph (a), clauses (1) to (5). History:  1988 c 689 art 2 s 33; 2009 c 79 art 10 s 19-23
MN Stat § 144.989 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.989 — Title; Citation.

144.989 TITLE; CITATION. Sections 144.989 to 144.993 may be cited as the "Health Enforcement Consolidation Act of 1993." History:   1993 c 206 s 7
MN Stat § 144.992 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.992 — False Information.

144.992 FALSE INFORMATION. A person subject to any of the requirements listed in section 144.99, subdivision 1, may not make a false material statement, representation, or certification in; omit material information from; or alter, conceal, or fail to file or maintain a notice, application, record, report, plan, or other document required under the statutes, rules, or other actions listed in section 144.99, subdivision 1. History:   1993 c 206 s 10
MN Stat § 144.993 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.993 — Recovery Of Litigation Costs And Expenses.

144.993 RECOVERY OF LITIGATION COSTS AND EXPENSES. In any judicial action brought by the attorney general for civil penalties, injunctive relief, or an action to compel performance pursuant to the authority cited in section 144.99, subdivision 1, if the state finally prevails, and if the proven violation was willful, the state, in addition to other penalties provided by law, may be allowed an amount determined by the court to be the reasonable value of all or part of the litigation expenses incurred by the state. In determining the amount of the litigation expenses to be allowed, the court shall give consideration to the economic circumstances of the defendant. History:   1993 c 206 s 11
MN Stat § 144.995 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.995 — Definitions; Environmental Health Tracking And Biomonitoring.

144.995 DEFINITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRACKING AND BIOMONITORING. (a) For purposes of sections 144.995 to 144.998, the terms in this section have the meanings given. (b) "Advisory panel" means the Environmental Health Tracking and Biomonitoring Advisory Panel established under section 144.998. (c) "Biomonitoring" means the process by which chemicals and their metabolites are identified and measured within a biospecimen. (d) "Biospecimen" means a sample of human fluid, serum, or tissue that is reasonably available as a medium to measure the presence and concentration of chemicals or their metabolites in a human body. (e) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Health. (f) "Community" means geographically or nongeographically based populations that may participate in the biomonitoring program. A "nongeographical community" includes, but is not limited to, populations that may share a common chemical exposure through similar occupations, populations experiencing a common health outcome that may be linked to chemical exposures, populations that may experience similar chemical exposures because of comparable consumption, lifestyle, product use, and subpopulations that share ethnicity, age, or gender. (g) "Department" means the Department of Health. (h) "Designated chemicals" means those chemicals that are known to, or strongly suspected of, adversely impacting human health or development, based upon scientific, peer-reviewed animal, human, or in vitro studies, and baseline human exposure data, and consists of chemical families or metabolites that are included in the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies that are known collectively as the National Reports on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals Program and any substances specified by the commissioner after receiving recommendations under section 144.998, subdivision 3, clause (6). (i) "Environmental hazard" means a chemical or other substance for which scientific, peer-reviewed studies of humans, animals, or cells have demonstrated that the chemical is known or reasonably anticipated to adversely impact human health. (j) "Environmental health tracking" means collection, integration, analysis, and dissemination of data on human exposures to chemicals in the environment and on diseases potentially caused or aggravated by those chemicals. History:   2007 c 57 art 1 s 143
MN Stat § 144A.02 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144A — Nursing Homes And Home Care|Section 144A.02 — Licensure; Penalty.

144A.02 LICENSURE; PENALTY. Subdivision 1. License required. No facility shall be used as a nursing home to provide nursing care unless the facility has been licensed as a nursing home. The commissioner of health may license a facility as a nursing home if the facility meets the criteria established by sections 144A.02 to 144A.10, and the rules promulgated thereunder. A license shall describe the facility to be licensed by address and by legal property description. The license shall specify the location and square footage of the floor space constituting the facility and shall incorporate by reference the plans and specifications of the facility, which plans and specifications shall be kept on file with the commissioner of health. The license may also specify the level or levels of nursing care which the facility is licensed to provide and shall state any conditions or limitations imposed on the facility in accordance with the rules of the commissioner of health. Subd. 2. Penalty. A controlling person of a nursing home in violation of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any controlling person who had no legal authority to affect or change decisions related to the operation of the nursing home. History:  1976 c 173 s 2; 1977 c 305 s 45
MN Stat § 144A.03 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144A — Nursing Homes And Home Care|Section 144A.03 — License Application.

144A.03 LICENSE APPLICATION. Subdivision 1. Form; requirements. The commissioner of health by rule shall establish forms and procedures for the processing of nursing home license applications. An application for a nursing home license shall include the following information: (1) the names and addresses of all controlling persons and managerial employees of the facility to be licensed; (2) the address and legal property description of the facility; (3) a copy of the architectural and engineering plans and specifications of the facility as prepared and certified by an architect or engineer registered to practice in this state; and (4) any other relevant information which the commissioner of health by rule or otherwise may determine is necessary to properly evaluate an application for license. A controlling person which is a corporation shall submit copies of its articles of incorporation and bylaws and any amendments thereto as they occur, together with the names and addresses of its officers and directors. A controlling person which is a foreign corporation shall furnish the commissioner of health with a copy of its certificate of authority to do business in this state. An application on behalf of a controlling person which is a corporation, association or a governmental unit or instrumentality shall be signed by at least two officers or managing agents of that entity. Subd. 2. Agents. Each application for a nursing home license or for renewal of a nursing home license shall specify one or more controlling persons or managerial employees as agents: (1) who shall be responsible for dealing with the commissioner of health on all matters provided for in sections 144A.01 to 144A.155; and (2) on whom personal service of all notices and orders shall be made, and who shall be authorized to accept service on behalf of all of the controlling persons of the facility, in proceedings under sections 144A.06; 144A.10, subdivisions 4, 5, and 7; 144A.11, subdivision 3; and 144A.15. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, personal service on the designated person or persons named in an application shall be deemed to be service on all of the controlling persons or managerial employee of the facility, and it shall not be a defense to any action arising under sections 144A.06; 144A.10, subdivisions 4, 5 and 7; 144A.11, subdivision 3; and 144A.15, that personal service was not made on each controlling person or managerial employee of the facility. The designation of one or more controlling persons or managerial employees pursuant to this subdivision shall not affect the legal responsibility of any other controlling person or managerial employee under sections 144A.01 to 144A.155. History:  1976 c 173 s 3; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 5 s 40
MN Stat § 144A.05 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144A — Nursing Homes And Home Care|Section 144A.05 — License Renewal.

144A.05 LICENSE RENEWAL. Unless the license expires in accordance with section 144A.06 or is suspended or revoked in accordance with section 144A.11, a nursing home license shall remain effective for a period of one year from the date of its issuance. The commissioner of health by rule shall establish forms and procedures for the processing of license renewals. The commissioner of health shall approve a license renewal application if the facility continues to satisfy the requirements, standards and conditions prescribed by sections 144A.01 to 144A.155 and the rules promulgated thereunder. The commissioner shall not approve the renewal of a license for a nursing home bed in a resident room with more than four beds. Except as provided in section 144A.08, a facility shall not be required to submit with each application for a license renewal additional copies of the architectural and engineering plans and specifications of the facility. Before approving a license renewal, the commissioner of health shall determine that the facility's most recent balance sheet and its most recent statement of revenues and expenses, as audited by the state auditor, by a certified public accountant licensed in accordance with chapter 326A or by a public accountant as defined in section 412.222, have been received by the Department of Human Services. History:  1976 c 173 s 5; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1977 c 326 s 3; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1; 1987 c 403 art 4 s 2; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 5 s 40; 2010 c 191 s 4
MN Stat § 144A.06 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144A — Nursing Homes And Home Care|Section 144A.06 — Transfer Of Interests.

144A.06 TRANSFER OF INTERESTS. Subdivision 1. Notice; expiration of license. Any controlling person who makes any transfer of a beneficial interest in a nursing home shall notify the commissioner of health of the transfer within 14 days of its occurrence. The notification shall identify by name and address the transferor and transferee and shall specify the nature and amount of the transferred interest. On determining that the transferred beneficial interest exceeds ten percent of the total beneficial interest in the nursing home facility, the structure in which the facility is located, or the land upon which the structure is located, the commissioner may, and on determining that the transferred beneficial interest exceeds 50 percent of the total beneficial interest in the facility, the structure in which the facility is located, or the land upon which the structure is located, the commissioner shall require that the license of the nursing home expire 90 days after the date of transfer. The commissioner of health shall notify the nursing home by certified mail of the expiration of the license at least 60 days prior to the date of expiration. Subd. 2. Relicensure. The commissioner of health by rule shall prescribe procedures for relicensure under this section. The commissioner of health shall relicense a nursing home if the facility satisfies the requirements for license renewal established by section 144A.05. A facility shall not be relicensed by the commissioner if at the time of transfer there are any uncorrected violations. The commissioner of health may temporarily waive correction of one or more violations if the commissioner determines that: (1) temporary noncorrection of the violation will not create an imminent risk of harm to a nursing home resident; and (2) a controlling person on behalf of all other controlling persons: (i) has entered into a contract to obtain the materials or labor necessary to correct the violation, but the supplier or other contractor has failed to perform the terms of the contract and the inability of the nursing home to correct the violation is due solely to that failure; or (ii) is otherwise making a diligent good faith effort to correct the violation. History:  1976 c 173 s 6; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 144A.07 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144A — Nursing Homes And Home Care|Section 144A.07 — Fees.

144A.07 FEES. Each application for a license to operate a nursing home, or for a renewal of license, except an application by the Minnesota Veterans Home or the commissioner of human services for the licensing of state institutions, shall be accompanied by a fee to be prescribed by the commissioner of health pursuant to section 144.122. No fee shall be refunded. History:  1976 c 173 s 7; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58
MN Stat § 144A.08 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144A — Nursing Homes And Home Care|Section 144A.08 — Physical Standards; Penalty.

144A.08 PHYSICAL STANDARDS; PENALTY. Subdivision 1. Establishment. The commissioner of health by rule shall establish minimum standards for the construction, maintenance, equipping and operation of nursing homes. The rules shall to the extent possible assure the health, treatment, comfort, safety and well being of nursing home residents. Subd. 1a. Corridor doors. Nothing in the rules of the commissioner of health shall require that each door entering a sleeping room from a corridor in a nursing home with an approved complete standard automatic fire extinguishing system be constructed or maintained as self-closing or automatically closing. Subd. 1b. Summer temperature and humidity. A nursing home, or part of a nursing home that includes resident-occupied space, constructed after June 30, 1988, must meet the interior summer design temperature and humidity recommendations in chapter 7 of the 1982 applications of the handbook published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc., as amended. Subd. 2. Report. The controlling persons of a nursing home shall, in accordance with rules established by the commissioner of health, within 14 days of the occurrence, notify the commissioner of health of any change in the physical structure of a nursing home, which change would affect compliance with the rules of the commissioner of health or with sections 144A.01 to 144A.155. Subd. 3. Penalty. Any controlling person who establishes, conducts, manages or operates a nursing home which incurs the following number of uncorrected or repeated violations, in any two-year period: (1) two or more uncorrected violations or one or more repeated violations which created an imminent risk to direct resident care or safety; or (2) four or more uncorrected violations or two or more repeated violations of any nature for which the fines are in the four highest daily fine categories prescribed in rule, is guilty of a misdemeanor. The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any controlling person who had no legal authority to affect or change decisions as to the operation of the nursing home which incurred the uncorrected or repeated violations. History:  1976 c 173 s 8; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1981 c 360 art 2 s 5; 1982 c 633 s 4; 1Sp1985 c 3 s 13; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1; 1988 c 689 art 2 s 40; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 5 s 40
MN Stat § 144A.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144A — Nursing Homes And Home Care|Section 144A.09 — Facilities Excluded.

144A.09 FACILITIES EXCLUDED. Subdivision 1. Spiritual means for healing. Sections 144A.04, subdivision 5, and 144A.18 to 144A.27, and rules adopted under sections 144A.01 to 144A.155 other than a rule relating to sanitation and safety of premises, to cleanliness of operation, or to physical equipment do not apply to a nursing home conducted by and for the adherents of any recognized church or religious denomination for the purpose of providing care and treatment for those who select and depend upon spiritual means through prayer alone, in lieu of medical care, for healing. Subd. 2. Religious society or order. The provisions of sections 144A.01 to 144A.27 shall not apply to a facility operated by a religious society or order to provide nursing care to 20 or fewer nonlay members of the order or society. History:  1976 c 173 s 9; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1; 1996 c 451 art 4 s 22; 1998 c 407 art 3 s 3; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 5 s 40