65-3504. Qualifications for admission to examination. (a) The board shall admit to examination for licensure as an adult care home administrator any candidate who pays a licensure and examination fee, if required, to the department for aging and disability services to be fixed by rules and regulations; submits evidence that such candidate is at least 18 years old; has completed preliminary education satisfactory to the board as prescribed in rules and regulations; and has met board established standards of good character, training and experience.

(b) Nothing in the provisions of article 35 of chapter 65 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall prohibit a candidate for licensure as an adult care home administrator who is a member of a recognized church or religious denomination whose religious teachings prohibit the acquisition of formal education which would qualify such candidate for examination as required by the board under subsection (a) from being admitted to examination under subsection (a) so long as such candidate otherwise meets the qualifications for admission to examination under subsection (a). A candidate for licensure as an adult care home administrator who qualifies to take the examination for licensure under this subsection (b), who passes the examination and who is licensed as an adult care home administrator shall engage in the practice of adult care home administration only in an adult care home which is owned and operated by such recognized church or religious denomination.

History: L. 1970, ch. 265, § 4; L. 1975, ch. 328, § 5; L. 1981, ch. 252, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 230, § 2; L. 1993, ch. 64, § 3; L. 2003, ch. 71, § 2; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 262; July 1.