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facility or the percentage of the facility's occupied beds
excludes all beds that the facility has removed from service
for all or part of the relevant fiscal period in accordance
with section 333. If the excluded beds are converted to
residential care beds or another program for which the
department provides reimbursement, nothing in this paragraph
precludes the department from including those beds for
purposes of any occupancy standard applicable to the
residential care or other program pursuant to duly adopted
rules of the department; and

 
Sec. F-5. 22 MRSA §1715, sub-§1, ķA, as corrected by RR 2001, c. 2, Pt.
A, §34, is amended to read:

 
A. Is either a direct provider of major ambulatory service,
as defined in section 382, subsection 8-A, or is or has been
required to obtain a certificate of need under former
section 329 or former section 304 or 304-A;

 
Sec. F-6. 22 MRSA §2061, sub-§2, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 2, §71,
is repealed.

 
Sec. F-7. 24-A MRSA §4204, sub-§1, ķA, as amended by PL 2003, c. 510,
Pt. A, §20, is repealed.

 
Sec. F-8. 24-A MRSA §4204, sub-§2-A, ķA, as amended by PL 2003, c. 510,
Pt. A, §21 and c. 689, Pt. B, §7, is repealed.

 
Sec. F-9. 24-A MRSA §6203, sub-§1, ķA, as amended by PL 2003, c. 510,
Pt. A, §22, is repealed.

 
Sec. F-10. 24-A MRSA §6203, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2003, c. 155, §1,
is further amended to read:

 
6. Provision of services to nonresidents. The final
certificate of authority must state whether any skilled nursing
facility that is part of a life-care community or a continuing
care retirement community may provide services to persons who
have not been bona fide residents of the community prior to
admission to the skilled nursing facility. If the life-care
community or the continuing care retirement community admits to
its skilled nursing facility only persons who have been bona fide
residents of the community prior to admission to the skilled
nursing facility, then the community is exempt from the
provisions of Title 22, chapter 103-A, but is subject to the
licensing provisions of Title 22, chapter 405, and is entitled to
only one skilled nursing facility bed for every 4 residential
units in the community. Any community exempted under former
Title 22, chapter 103-A may admit nonresidents of the community
to its skilled nursing facility only during the first 3
years of


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