Washington Administrative Code › Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of › AGING AND ADULT SERVICES › Chapter 388-76 - TANF/SFA five-year time limit › GRANTING OR DENYING A LICENSE › Section 388-76-10120 - License-Must be denied

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The adult family home license will not be granted
					 if:
(1) The applicant has not
				  successfully completed a department-approved adult family home administration
				  and business planning class except as provided in WAC
				  388-76-10064;
(2) It has been less than twenty years since
				  the applicant surrendered or relinquished an adult family home license after
				  receiving notice of the department's initiation of a denial, suspension,
				  nonrenewal or revocation of the license; or
(3)
				   The applicant, the spouse or domestic partner of an applicant who
				  is a sole proprietor, the spouse or domestic partner of an entity
				  representative with an ownership interest in the business, or any partner,
				  officer, director, managerial employee or majority owner of the applying
				  entity:
(a) Has a history of significant
				  noncompliance with federal or state laws or regulations in the provision of
				  care or services to children or vulnerable adults;
(b) Has prior violations of federal or state
				  laws or regulations relating to residential care facilities resulting in
				  revocation, suspension, or nonrenewal of a license or contract with the
				  department within the past ten years;
(c)
				   Has a conviction or pending criminal charge for a crime that is
				  automatically disqualifying under chapter 388-113 WAC; or
(d) Has one or more of the following
				  disqualifying negative actions:
(i) A court
				  has issued a permanent restraining order or order of protection, either active
				  or expired, against the person that was based upon abuse, neglect, financial
				  exploitation, or mistreatment of a child or vulnerable adult;
(ii) The person is a registered sex
				  offender;
(iii) The person is on a
				  registry based upon a final finding of abuse, neglect or financial exploitation
				  of a vulnerable adult, unless the finding was made by adult protective services
				  prior to October 2003;
(iv) A
				  founded finding of abuse or neglect of a child was made against the person,
				  unless the finding was made by child protective services prior to October 1,
				  1998;
(v) The individual was found
				  in any dependency action to have sexually assaulted or exploited any child or
				  to have physically abused any child;
(vi)
				   The individual was found by a court in a domestic relations
				  proceeding under Title 26 RCW, or under any comparable state or federal law, to
				  have sexually abused or exploited any child or to have physically abused any
				  child;
(vii) The individual has had
				  a contract or license denied, terminated, revoked, or suspended due to abuse,
				  neglect, financial exploitation, or mistreatment of a child or vulnerable
				  adult; or
(viii) The individual has
				  relinquished a license or terminated a contract because an agency was taking an
				  action against the individual related to alleged abuse, neglect, financial
				  exploitation or mistreatment of a child or vulnerable adult.