Indiana Administrative Code
Title 455 - DIVISION OF AGING
Article 1 - AGING
Rule 2 - Adult Protective Services
Section 2-1 - Purpose

Universal Citation: 455 IN Admin Code 2-1
Current through September 18, 2024

Authority: IC 12-9.1-2-3

Affected: IC 12-10-3; IC 35-42-2-1; IC 35-46-1-13

Sec. 1.

The purpose of the adult protective services program is to provide a legal basis for intervention to protect endangered adults within the state of Indiana by receiving reports regarding adults who may be endangered, investigating those reports and providing a coordinated and proper local response to individual cases as they are substantiated. Responsibility for investigating reports of neglect, battery, or exploitation of endangered adults, as well as for securing the appropriate social, medical, and legal intervention, shall rest with adult protective services units, designated by the division of disability, aging, and rehabilitative services.

Transferred from the Department on Aging and Community Services ( 450 IAC 1-2-1) to the Division of Aging and Rehabilitative Services ( 460 IAC 1-2-1) by P.L. 41-1987, SECTION 23, effective July 1, 1987.

Transferred from the Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services ( 460 IAC 1-2-1) to the Division of Aging ( 455 IAC 1-2-1) by P.L. 153-2011, SECTION 21, effective July 1, 2011.

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