Date of Adoption: May 31, 2002.

     Purpose: The rule is no longer necessary because it is redundant of Department of Social and Health Services rule, WAC 388-97-160(4).

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 246-843-015.

     Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 18.52.061.

      Adopted under notice filed as WSR 02-06-116 on March 6, 2002.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
     Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

May 31, 2002

James K. Bennett, Chair

Board of Nursing

Home Administrators

OTS-5176.1

REPEALER

     The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:

WAC 246-843-015

Nursing homes temporarily without an administrator.

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