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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="8-806" title_number="8" title_name="Children, Youth, and Families" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Residential Child Care Programs -- Corporate Responsibility and Governance">
  <text>A corporation shall adopt written bylaws that require the corporation’s board of directors to be responsible for:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>overseeing the management and operation of the residential child care program operated by the corporation;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>ensuring that the residential child care program operates in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>approving the residential child care program’s mission statement, long-term goals, policies, procedures, and annual budget;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>defining and prohibiting circumstances that would create a financial or personal conflict of interest for members of the board of directors, corporate officers, employees, agents, assigns, and volunteers;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>ensuring that the residential child care program responds to all requests from the licensing agency in a timely manner;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>approving the residential child care program’s service plan and ensuring that services are provided in accordance with the plan;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>if the corporation is a nonprofit corporation, reviewing annually whether the corporation is satisfying its charitable mission;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>ensuring that the corporation has liability insurance;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>requiring that members of the board of directors have training in their responsibilities regarding the governance of the residential child care program; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="10">
    <text>establishing committees or member assignments to periodically review as warranted, but not less than annually:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>compensation of officers and staff of the corporation and the residential child care program;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>quality of services provided to clients, including all incidents harming or potentially harming clients;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>financial problems and concerns relating to the residential child care program;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iv">
      <text>performance of key staff;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="v">
      <text>nominations of new members of the board of directors; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="vi">
      <text>potential conflicts of interest.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
