{"data":{"id":"us-mt/52-4-203","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"52-4-203","heading":"Licensing.","body":"(1) A person may not operate a community home for persons with severe disabilities, also called a facility, unless the facility is licensed by the department.\n(2) A community home for persons with severe disabilities must be inspected and licensed annually by the department of public health and human services.\n(3) A license may not be sold, assigned, or transferred. Upon discontinuance of the operation or upon transfer of ownership of a facility, the license must be returned to the department or destroyed by the owners.\n(4) A facility shall display its license in a conspicuous place near its admitting office.\n(5) If a facility is the subject of substantiated claims of abuse, neglect, or exploitation, or if a facility does not meet the minimum standards for operating a community home for people with severe disabilities, the department may reduce the facility's license to, or issue the facility, a provisional license for less than 1 year if operation or continued operation of the facility will not result in undue hazards to its residents.\n(6) The department may inspect a licensed community home for people with severe disabilities whenever it considers necessary. The entire premises of a licensed facility must be open to inspection, and access to all records must be granted at all reasonable times.","path":["TITLE 52. FAMILY SERVICES","CHAPTER 4. SERVICES TO THE DISABLED","Part 2. Physically Disabled -- Community Home Licensing"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0520/chapter_0040/part_0020/section_0030/0520-0040-0020-0030.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:56:53Z","sha256":"b2323cbbace6babd3b019c5e64092098aa22663c6c82f28988fd7174bf43b8ad","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/52-4-202","next":"us-mt/52-4-204"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}