65-3504. Qualifications for admission to examination.
65-3504
65-3504. Qualifications for admission to examination.(a) The board shall admit to examination for licensure as an adult carehome administrator any candidate who pays a licensure and examinationfee, if required, to the department of health and environment to be fixedby rules andregulations; submits evidence thatsuchcandidate is at least 18 years old; has completed preliminaryeducationsatisfactory to the board as prescribed in rules and regulations; and hasmet board established standards of good character, training and experience.
(b) Nothing in the provisions of article 35 of chapter 65 of theKansas Statutes Annotated or acts amendatory of the provisions thereof orsupplemental thereto or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant theretoshall prohibit a candidate for licensure as an adult care homeadministrator who is a member of a recognized church or religiousdenomination whose religious teachings prohibit the acquisition of formaleducation which would qualify such candidate for examination as required bythe board under subsection (a) from being admitted to examination undersubsection (a) so long as such candidate otherwise meets the qualificationsfor admission to examination under subsection (a). A candidate forlicensure as an adult care home administrator who qualifies to take theexamination for licensure under this subsection (b), who passes theexamination and who is licensed as an adult care home administrator shallengage in the practice of adult care home administration only in an adultcare home which is owned and operated by such recognized church orreligious denomination.
History: L. 1970, ch. 265, § 4; L. 1975, ch. 328, § 5; L. 1981,ch. 252, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 230, § 2;L. 1993, ch. 64, § 3;L. 2003, ch. 71, § 2; July 1.