The SHPDA may impose a moratorium for up to 120 days on the issuance of certificates of need for any specific type of new institutional health service, if the SHPDA requires additional time to develop and adopt criteria and standards for a new institutional health service. A moratorium may not apply to a certificate of need application which is pending before the SHPDA at the time of the imposition of the moratorium. A particular institutional health services may not be the subject of a moratorium more than once within any 12-month period.
(Apr. 9, 1997, D.C. Law 11-191, § 19, 43 DCR 4535.)
1981 Ed., § 32-368.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 44 - Charitable and Curative Institutions
Chapter 4 - Health Services Planning
§ 44–402. State Health Planning and Development Agency; establishment and responsibilities
§ 44–403. Statewide Health Coordinating Council; establishment and responsibilities
§ 44–404. Health systems plan; development, publication, updating, and implementation
§ 44–406. Certificate of need requirements
§ 44–407. Activities exempt from certificate of need review
§ 44–408. Activities subject to expedited administrative certificate of need reviews
§ 44–410. Criteria for review and required findings
§ 44–411. Duration, modification, sale, or transfer of a certificate of need
§ 44–412. Reconsideration of review decisions
§ 44–413. Administrative appeal
§ 44–414. Judicial review of certificate of need decisions
§ 44–415. Certificate of need mandatory condition precedent
§ 44–416. Violations and penalties for noncompliance
§ 44–417. Immunity from civil liability
§ 44–418. Moratorium on applications
§ 44–420.01. Establishment of State Health Planning and Development Fund