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7 AAC 50.790. Safety precautions 7 AAC 50.700. Applicability. (a) Except as otherwise provided in 7 AAC 50.700 — 7 AAC 50.790, the provisions of 7 AAC 50.700 — 7 AAC 50.790 apply to maternity homes for persons of any age. (b) In addition to the standards for maternity care set out in 7 AAC 50.700 — 7 AAC 50.790, a maternity home shall comply with the standards for care of children in a residential child care facility prescribed by this chapter. The standards for care of children in a residential child care facility do not apply to adult clients in a maternity home. (Eff. 3/1/98, Register 145) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 44.29.020 AS 47.32.030 Editor’s note: Effective July 1, 2022, Executive Order 121 split the former Department of Health and Social Services into the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services. As of Register 242 (July 2022), the regulations attorney made a conforming technical revision under sec. 138, E.O. 121 and AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation that follows 7 AAC 50.700, by substituting a reference to AS 47.32.030 (centralized licensing) for the reference to AS 47.35.010(a)(3), a statute that was repealed in 2005. 7 AAC 50.710. Short term prematernal care. (a) A maternity home that specializes in short term prematernal care and occasional short term care to mothers and infants is exempt from the requirements of

(1) 7 AAC 50.110(d); however, the facility shall designate an adult caregiver or associate administrator to act on behalf of the administrator in the absence of the administrator from the facility;

(2) 7 AAC 50.300; however, notwithstanding the exemption of this paragraph, the provisions of 7 AAC 50.300(a) apply with regard to an adolescent client;

(3) 7 AAC 50.330;

(4) 7 AAC 50.340;