California Health and Safety Code 1599.62 – (a) Contracts of admission shall not include unlawful waivers …
(a) Contracts of admission shall not include unlawful waivers of facility liability for the health and safety or personal property of residents. No contract of admission shall include any provision which the facility knows or should know to be deceptive or unlawful under state or federal law.
(b) Violation of this chapter shall result in a Class B citation or a deficiency from the department. For purposes of this section, the admission agreement shall be viewed as a whole and shall result in only one citation.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1599.62
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the State Department of Health Services or its designee. See California Health and Safety Code 1599.60
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
(c) Unless otherwise expressly provided, the remedies or penalties provided by this chapter do not preclude a resident from seeking any other remedy and penalties available under all other laws of this state.
(Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 625, Sec. 1.)