Section 22-50-17 Certificate or license required to operate facility for care or treatment of mental or emotional illness or services to mentally retarded. - Alabama Statutes

Section 22-50-17

Certificate or license required to operate facility for care or treatment of mental or emotional illness or services to mentally retarded.

No person, partnership, corporation, or association of persons shall operate a facility or institution for the care or treatment of any kind of mental or emotional illness or services to the mentally retarded as defined in this chapter, without being certified by the department or licensed by the State Board of Health; provided that nothing in this section shall be construed so as to require a duly authorized physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker or Christian Science practitioner to obtain a license for treatment of patients in his private office, unless he keeps two or more patients in his office for continuous periods of 24 hours or more in one week.

(Acts 1965, No. 881, p. 1649, §12; Acts 1984, No. 84-242, p. 365, §1.)