{"data":{"id":"us-mt/52-3-410","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"52-3-410","heading":"Achieving accountability.","body":"(1) The department shall achieve accountability in providing quality services in a cost-effective manner by:\n(a) establishing goals, responsibilities, and performance expectations for goals in providing services to older adults and to older Montanans as provided in Title 52, chapter 3, parts 1, 4, and 5;\n(b) requiring periodic reporting of performance or progress toward stated goals by departmental programs for aging services and area agencies on aging;\n(c) establishing a continual process for the evaluation of all functions, the review of the evaluations, and the followup required to correct any deficiencies; and\n(d) providing for feedback on the accountability process.\n(2) The department shall adopt rules only as necessary to implement the goals, responsibilities, performance expectations, reporting periods, and evaluation process to be followed.","path":["TITLE 52. FAMILY SERVICES","CHAPTER 3. ADULT SERVICES","Part 4. State Plan on Aging"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0520/chapter_0030/part_0040/section_0100/0520-0030-0040-0100.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:56:51Z","sha256":"0773284b9ae6ed07ae16dccad42692b95767e8c3b73f221082aacd00ce5fe242","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/52-3-407","next":"us-mt/52-3-501"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}