California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 4689.6

WIC § 4689.6 Effective Sep 29, 1994Div. 4.5 · Ch. 6 · Art. 4

Statute text

(a)The State Department of Developmental Services may prohibit a vendor from employing, or continuing the employment of, or allowing in a family home, or allowing contact with any adult with a developmental disability placed in a family home by, any employee or prospective employee, who has been denied an exemption to work or to be present in a facility, when that person has been convicted of a crime, except a minor traffic violation.

(b)The employee or prospective employee, and the vendor shall be given written notice of the basis of the department’s action and of the employee’s or prospective employee’s right to a hearing. The notice shall be served either by personal service or by registered mail. Within 15 days after the department serves the notice, the employee or prospective employee may file with the department a written request for a hearing. If the employee or prospective employee fails to file a written request for a hearing within the prescribed time, the department’s action shall be final.

(c)(1) The department may require the immediate exclusion of an employee or prospective employee from a family home agency or family home pending a final decision of the matter, when, in the opinion of the director, the action is necessary to protect any adult with a developmental disability placed in the family home from physical or mental abuse, abandonment, or any other substantial threat to his or her health and safety.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1095, Sec. 12. Effective September 29, 1994.