Sec. 10. (a) Licensure inspections of an institution or agency shall be made regularly in accordance with rules adopted under this chapter. The state department shall make all health and sanitation inspections, including inspections in response to an alleged breach of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter. The department of homeland security shall make all fire safety inspections.

     (b) An employee of the state department who knowingly or intentionally informs an institution or agency of the exact date of an unannounced inspection shall be suspended without pay for five (5) days for a first offense and shall be dismissed for a subsequent offense.

     (c) Reports of all inspections must be in writing and sent to the institution or agency.

     (d) The report of an inspection and records relating to the inspection may not be released to the public until the conditions set forth in IC 16-19-3-25 are satisfied.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-1-13.1.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.190-1995, SEC.4; P.L.1-2006, SEC.295; P.L.141-2014, SEC.5; P.L.187-2021, SEC.53.