65-176. Inspections; rules and regulations; reports; terms "sanitary conditions" and "health supervision" construed. The secretary of health and environment shall at intervals of not less than six (6) months inspect or cause to be inspected all state children's institutions. Such inspections shall be made under rules and regulations duly promulgated and adopted by the secretary of health and environment and shall be made sufficiently often to insure proper sanitary conditions and adequate health supervision at such institutions. The secretary shall prepare and submit findings and recommendations as to proper sanitary conditions and health supervision to the superintendent or officer in charge of such institutions and to the agency in charge of such institutions.
Said secretary shall prepare and submit to the governor and the legislature reports concerning such inspections, findings and recommendations as authorized and required by K.S.A. 75-3044. The terms "sanitary conditions" and "health supervision" shall be construed to include only those conditions and circumstances which pertain proximately and immediately to the physical health and well being of the persons residing in said institutions, and shall in no wise include matters pertaining to administrative policy and procedures, education, recreation, rehabilitation and psychiatric treatment programs, except insofar as the physical well being of said persons residing therein may be directly affected thereby.
History: L. 1949, ch. 422, § 1; L. 1951, ch. 356, § 1; L. 1965, ch. 369, § 1; L. 1974, ch. 352, § 45; L. 1975, ch. 312, § 5; July 1.
Cross References to Related Sections:
Juvenile correctional facilities, 76-2101 et seq., 76-2201 et seq.
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