Community integrated health-care service agency license required - rules - civil and criminal penalties - liability insurance

(1) On or after July 1, 2018, a person shall not operate or maintain a community integrated health-care service agency unless the person has submitted to the department a completed application for licensure as a community integrated health-care service agency. On or after December 31, 2018, a person shall not operate or maintain an agency without a community integrated health-care service agency license issued by the department. (2) (a) A person who violates subsection (1) of this section: (I) Is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars; and (II) May be subject to a civil penalty assessed by the department, after conducting a hearing in accordance with section 24-4-105, C.R.S., of up to ten thousand dollars for each violation of this section. The department shall transmit all fines collected pursuant to this subparagraph (II) to the state treasurer, who shall credit the moneys to the general fund. (b) An owner, manager, or administrator of an agency is subject to the penalties in this subsection (2) for any violation of subsection (1) of this section. (3) A license applicant shall submit to the department, in the manner determined by the board by rule, proof that the agency and any staff that it employs or contracts is covered by general liability insurance in an amount determined by the board by rule, but not less than the amount calculated in accordance with section 24-10-114 (1)(a)(I) and (1)(b), C.R.S.