Title 47 — Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions
34 chapters · 745 sections in this title.
AS 47.80.010 Rights of persons with disabilities.
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Persons with disabilities have the same legal rights and responsibilities guaranteed all other persons by the Constitution of the United States and federal laws and by the constitution and laws of the state. An otherwise qualified person may not be excluded, by reason of having a…
AS 47.80.020 Protection and advocacy of rights.
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Article 2. Programs and Plans. The department shall establish a system to protect and advocate rights of persons with disabilities. The system (1) has the authority to pursue legal, administrative, and other appropriate remedies to assure the protection of the rights of persons w…
AS 47.80.100 Programs for persons with disabilities.
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(a) The Department of Health, the Department of Education and Early Development, and other departments of the state as appropriate, shall, in coordination, plan, develop, and implement a comprehensive system of services and facilities for persons with disabilities that is consist…
AS 47.80.110 Program principles.
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The system of services and facilities required under AS 47.80.100 shall accord with the principles that service providers shall (1) make services available at times and locations that enable residents of the provider's service area to obtain services readily; (2) ensure each clie…
AS 47.80.120 Habilitation plans.
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A state agency, contractor, or grantee who is directly responsible for providing services to persons with disabilities shall develop an individual habilitation plan for each person whose program of services utilizes state funds. The plan shall be completed in writing and furnishe…
AS 47.80.130 Powers and duties of the department.
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(a) The department shall (1) develop budgets and receive and distribute appropriations and funds under this section; (2) adopt regulations regarding standards of services and facilities for persons with disabilities and the quality of services and the process by which services ar…
AS 47.80.135 Gainful employment of persons with disabilities.
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(a) When carrying out duties under AS 47.80.130 related to the provision of services to a person with a disability, the department's primary objective and preferred outcome is to help the person become gainfully employed in the general workforce of the public or private sector in…
AS 47.80.140 Licensing and certificates of need.
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(a) A person may not establish or operate a residential facility until the facility has been licensed under AS 47.32. (b) A certificate of need is required as a prerequisite for the licensing of a residential facility established after July 1, 1978, and not otherwise provided for…
AS 47.80.150 Liability for expense of services.
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(a) A person with a disability or the person's legal representative acting in a representative capacity, the person's spouse, or the person's parents if the person is a minor shall pay or contribute to the payment of the charges for the care or treatment in accordance with the fe…
AS 47.80.160 Transportation.
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When an individual is to be treated under this chapter, the department shall arrange, upon the request of a person having a proper interest in the individual's treatment, and may pay for the individual's transportation to the designated facility, with appropriate medical or nursi…
AS 47.80.170 Provision for personal needs upon discharge.
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The department shall make arrangements which are necessary to ensure that (1) no patient is discharged or placed on convalescent status from a designated facility without suitable clothing; and (2) an indigent patient discharged or placed on convalescent status is furnished suita…
AS 47.80.200 Secs. 47.80.200 — 47.80.290. Self-sufficiency trust fund. [Repealed, § 12 ch 42 SLA 1997.]
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Article 3. Teachers Who Teach the Use of Certain Aids or Devices for the Blind or Visually Impaired.
AS 47.80.400 Qualifications for teaching the use of certain aids or devices for the blind or visually impaired.
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Article 4. Traumatic or Acquired Brain Injury. (a) A person who is employed to teach the use of orientation and mobility aids or assistive technology devices to students who are 16 years of age or older and who are blind or visually impaired may not receive payment from the state…
AS 47.80.500 Statewide traumatic or acquired brain injury program.
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(a) A statewide traumatic or acquired brain injury program is established in the department for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness and availability of information and services for the prevention and treatment of traumatic or acquired brain injury in the state. The depart…
AS 47.80.529 Definition.
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Article 5. General Provisions. In AS 47.80.500 — 47.80.529, “traumatic or acquired brain injury” means an insult from physical force or internal damage to the brain or its coverings, not of a degenerative or congenital nature, that produces an altered mental state and that result…
AS 47.80.900 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) “council” means the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education created by AS 44.29.600; (2) “department” means the Department of Health; (3) “facilities for persons with disabilities” means publicly or privately operated facilities, or specified…