(210 ILCS 135/10) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1710)
Sec. 10.
State plan.
(a) Community integrated living arrangements
shall be located so as to enable residents to participate in and be
integrated into their community or neighborhood. The location of such
arrangements shall promote community integration of persons with mental
disabilities. The Department shall adopt a plan ("State plan") for the
distribution of community living arrangements throughout the State,
considering the need for such arrangements in the various locations in
which they are to be used. Each agency licensed under this Act must define
the process of obtaining community acceptance of community living
arrangements. The State plan shall include guidelines regarding the
location of community integrated living arrangements within the geographic
areas to be served by the agencies, and the availability of support
services within those areas for residents under such arrangements. The
Department shall promulgate such guidelines as rules pursuant to The
Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
The Department shall require any agency licensed under this Act to establish
procedures for assuring compliance with such criteria, including annual
review and comment by representatives of local governmental authorities,
community mental health and developmental disabilities planning and service
agencies, and other interested civil organizations, regarding the impact on
their community areas of any living arrangements, programs or services to
be certified by such agency. The Department shall give consideration to
the comments of such community representatives in determinations of
compliance with the State plan under this Section, and the Department may
modify, suspend or withhold funding of such programs and services subject
to this Act until such times as assurance is achieved.
(b) Beginning January 1, 1990, no Department of State government, as
defined in The Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois, shall place any person in or utilize any
services of a community-integrated living arrangement which is not
certified by an agency under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-922.)
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