Section 2. Scope

All residential treatment services that provide children and adolescent mental health services as specified in these regulations. A. These regulations apply to the following: (1) public or private, profit or nonprofit residential facilities providing services as outlined by these regulations; (2) any facility providing services as outlined by these regulations which by state or federal law or regulation must be licensed by the state of New Mexico. B. These regulations do not apply to the following: (1) offices and treatment room of licensed private practitioners; (2) agencies providing treatment foster care services which are licensed by the protective services division of the department; (3) room and board facilities in public or private schools accredited or supervised by the New Mexico state department of education and inspected for fire and safety by the New Mexico state fire marshals office; (4) children/adolescent crisis shelters which provide short term emergency 24-hour-a-day, living accommodations to children, which are licensed by the child care bureau of the department; (5) any facility licensed as a community home or a multi-service agency.