4. a. Upon notification of a violation or license suspension pursuant to paragraph (3) of subsection b. of section 12 of P.L.1971, c.136 (C. 26:2H-12) concerning residential health care facilities or section 9 of P.L.1979, c.496 (C. 55:13B-9) concerning rooming or boarding houses, the Commissioner of Human Services, or the commissioner’s designee, shall advise the chief executive officer, or the officer’s designee, of a psychiatric facility and special psychiatric hospital, as those terms are defined in section 2 of P.L.1987, c.116 (C. 30:4-27.2), a general hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C. 26:2H-1 et seq.) which has a psychiatric unit, and a State developmental center, of a serious health and safety violation in, or the suspension of a license of, a residential health care facility or rooming or boarding house.

b. An individual who is discharged or transferred, as applicable, from a psychiatric facility, special psychiatric hospital, psychiatric unit of a general hospital, or State developmental center shall not be placed in a residential health care facility or rooming or boarding house for which the inspection report for that facility or rooming or boarding house, as appropriate, reveals a serious health and safety violation, until such time as the violation has been corrected and any suspension of a license, if applicable, has been lifted.

L.2015, c.6, s.4.