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(b) A facility shall provide for positive reinforcement, redirection, and the setting of realistic expectations and clear and consistent limits. (c) A facility may not use discipline or a behavior management technique that is cruel, humiliating, or otherwise damaging to the child. (d) A child in care may not be

(1) removed from the other children for more than 10 minutes if the child is a young child, except as provided in (e) of this section;

(2) disciplined in association with food or rest;

(3) punished for bedwetting or actions in regard to toileting or toilet training;

(4) subjected to discipline administered by another child;

(5) deprived of family contacts, mail, clothing, medical care, therapeutic activities designated in the child’s plan of care, or contact with the child’s placement worker or legal representative;

(6) subjected to verbal abuse, to derogatory remarks about the child or members of the child’s family, or to threats to expel the child from the facility;

(7) placed in a locked room;

(8) physically restrained, except when necessary to protect a young child from accident, to protect persons on the premises from physical injury, or to protect property from serious damage; and then only passive physical restraint may be used;

(9) mechanically restrained, except for a protective device such as a seatbelt; or

(10) chemically restrained, except on the order of a physician and subject to the provisions of 7 AAC 50.440. (e) Deleted 7/1/2000. (f) Corporal punishment may not be used on a child in care. (g) A residential child care facility shall set out rules to help children develop self control and conform to acceptable patterns of behavior, and give a copy of the rules to a child upon the child’s admission. (h) A residential child care facility may not isolate a child for more than one hour unless the facility has established an isolation procedure as part of the facility’s behavior guidance policy required by 7 AAC 50.425(a) that

(1) includes the provisions under (i) of this section;

(2) addresses the provision of (j) of this section, if applicable;