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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="10-440" title_number="10" title_name="Department of Aging" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Continuing Care">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A provider may not remove a record or asset of the provider related to the operation of a facility or the provision of services under a continuing care agreement from the State unless the Department consents in writing.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Consent shall be based on the provider’s submission of satisfactory evidence that the removal:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>will facilitate and make the operations of the provider more economical; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>will not diminish the service or protection to be given to the provider’s subscribers in the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
