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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="8-805" title_number="8" title_name="Children, Youth, and Families" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Residential Child Care Programs -- Corporate Responsibility and Governance">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A corporation shall have a board of directors that consists of at least five individuals with an interest in or knowledge of the needs of children and their families.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Of the members of the board of directors:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>at least one shall be a resident of the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at least one shall have demonstrated experience in or knowledge of the field of human services; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>at least one shall have demonstrated knowledge in the fields of accounting, business, or financial management.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>An employee, or an immediate family member of an employee, of a corporation or residential child care program may not serve on the corporation’s board of directors.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A person who is compensated by a corporation for providing goods or services may not serve on the corporation’s board of directors.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A corporation shall have a chief financial officer.</text>
  </level>
</section>
