Montana Historical Society Library and Archives
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PO Box 201201
Helena MT 59620-1201
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RS 465_RS 495
Montana. Department of Social
and Rehabilitation Services
Montana Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services,
Office of Legal Affairs records
1970-1995
12 linear ft
This collection is a sub-subgroup (Former
Office/Unit) of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services records.
The Office of Legal Affairs operated within the Centralized Services Division of the Department
of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS). In 1995, the Department of Health and
Environmental Sciences merged with parts of SRS to form the Department of Public Health and
Human Services. Please see the primary finding aid for more Montana Department of
Public Health and Human Services records. These Office of Legal Affairs records
consist of correspondence, Administrative Rules Review files, case files, legislative files;
and subject files.
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English
The Legislature established the Department of Public Welfare in 1937, consolidating state
welfare activities. The Department was responsible for the administration of all forms of
public assistance, including general relief programs and supervision of institutions caring
for the dependent, delinquent, or mentally or physically handicapped. In 1971 the Department
of Public Welfare was abolished and its functions assumed by the newly created Department of
Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS). The SRS assumed the functions of various state
agencies, including functions pertaining to vocational rehabilitation and education; the
Commission on Aging; and the Council on Human Resources. The SRS administered all forms of
public assistance, child protection, and child welfare; gave consultant service to private
institutions providing care for the needy, indigent, handicapped, or dependent; developed
provisions for services to the blind; supervised county boards of public welfare; and
administered all funds allotted for public welfare activities. State government
reorganization in 1995 combined the SRS with portions of the Department of Health and
Environmental Sciences to form the Department of Public Health and Human Services.
These records of the Office of Legal Affairs of SRS are comprised of correspondence (organized by
creator); Administrative Rules Review files relevant to a wide variety of Social and
Rehabilitation Services functions; case files regarding licensure and revocations of
licenses for eateries, hotels, health care facilities, and residential buildings, as well as
cases related to Medicaid reimbursement of medical professionals; legislative files; and
subject files regarding individual facilities and businesses, as well as information on SRS
divisions and policies.
This collection is arranged by series.
Collection is open for research.
The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Library & Archives and
makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission
must be obtained from the Library & Archives before any reproduction use. The Society does not
necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases,
permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
In 2024, the various collections of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human
Services were integrated under one collection identifier, RS 495, in order to help
facilitate access, reduce redundancy in the Montana Historical Society catalog, and to
follow best archival practices.
Collections from Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services' various Divisions
and Bureaus that were previously treated as separate entities are now integrated into this collection, RS 495. Rather than reprocessing over 100 linear feet
of DPHHS materials, MTHS staff decided to keep the past arrangement of those
collections/finding aids, and provide access to them via links through the central finding
aid. This decision has allowed the MTHS archival staff to maintain intellectual control over
the collection, while removing the need to reprocess it. It also keeps State Agency finding
aids at manageable sizes. Please read the scope and content note carefully to determine if
this subgroup/sub-subgroup pertains to your research needs.
Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers.
Montana Historical Society Library & Archives, Helena, Montana.
Acquisition information available upon request
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Montana Historical Society
Archives catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places
should search under these terms.
Adult day care centers
Alcoholism
Ambulance service
Children with disabilities
Day care centers
Drug addiction
Food industry and trade--standards
Group homes
Immunization of children
Mental health facilities
Nursing homes
Psychiatric hospitals
Quarantine
Wild animals as pets
Montana
Medicine and
Health
Mental
Health
Detailed Description of the Collection
Correspondence
1 / 1-2
Eleanor (Ellie) Parker, DHES Counsel
1994
1 / 3
Dayna Shepherd
1994
1 / 4-5
Cynthia (Cindy) Brooks
1994
1 / 6-7
Eleanor (Ellie) Parker
1993
1 / 8-9
Eleanor (Ellie) Parker
1992
1 / 10-11
Eleanor (Ellie) Parker
1991
Administrative Rules Reviews
1 / 12
Daycare Use of Child Diapers
1991
1 / 13
Handicapped Children’s Services Federal Poverty
Guidelines
1991
1 / 14
Handicapped Children’s Services Program
1990
1 / 15-18
Specialized Mental Health Facilities
1991
2 / 1
Fee Increase for Birth, Death, or Fetal Death
Certificates
1991
2 / 2
End-Stage Renal Disease
1991
2 / 3
Licensure and Requirements for Laboratory
Microbiological Analysis
1991
2 / 4
Laboratory and Analyses Fees, Increase of
1991
2 / 5
Certificate of Need: Long-Term Care
1984
2 / 6
Certificate of Need: Psychiatric Hospitals
1983
2 / 7
Certificate of Need: Forms
1983
2 / 8
Certificate of Need: Health Care
Facilities
1983
2 / 9
Certificate of Need: AMD
1982
2 / 10
Chemical Dependency Treatment Centers
1984
2 / 11
Personal Care, Adult Day Care, Intermediate
Care
1984
2 / 12
Hospice Licensure Standards
1983
2 / 13
MAC – Abortion Rule
1974
2 / 14
MAC – Miscellaneous
1975
2 / 15
MAC – Alcohol Services
1974
2 / 16
ARM Ambulance Licensing Regulations
1972
2 / 17
ARM Annual Review
1976
2 / 18
MAC Community Homes, Licensing
1973
2 / 19
MAC Community Homes for the Developmentally
Disabled
1975
2 / 20
MAC Disinterment Permit Rule
1973
2 / 21
MAC Disposition, Transit of Dead Bodies
1974
2 / 22
MAC Food, Consumer Safety
1973
2 / 23
MAC Food Processing Establishments
1973
2 / 24
MAC Food Service Establishments
1974
2 / 25
MAC Group Homes, Halfway Houses
1976
2 / 26
MAC Hospital, Constructions – Licensing
Rules
1974
2 / 27
MAC Infant Screening – Inborn Metabolic
Errors
1974
2 / 28
ARM Records and Statistics Forms
1977
2 / 29
MAC School District Immunization
1973
2 / 30
MAC Vital Statistics Changes
1973
2 / 31
ARM Communicable Diseases
1980
2 / 32-35
Immunization Schools
1978-1981
2 / 36
Measles Quarantine
1979
2 / 37
Reportable Diseases
1980
2 / 38
Reportable Diseases – Category D
1981
2 / 39
School Immunization
1982
2 / 40
Schools/Daycare Facilities – TB Test
1981
2 / 41-42
Recodification Preparation – Chapter 22
undated
2 / 43
Recodification Preparation – Chapter 28 Communicable
Disease Control
1980
2 / 44
Recodification Preparation – Chapter 30 Emergency
Medical Services
undated
2 / 45
Recodification Preparation – Chapter 32 Healthcare
Facilities
1979
2 / 46
Recodification Preparation – Chapter 38
Laboratories
undated
2 / 47
Recodification Preparation – Chapter 6 Records and
Statistics
1979
2 / 48, 3 / 1
Recodification Preparation – Chapter 10 Food and
Consumer Safety
undated
3 / 2
Schools Immunization
1983
9 / 1
Immunization in Schools
1980
3 / 3
Tumor Registry, New Rules
1981
3 / 4
Fees for Copies/Research
1983
3 / 5-6
Records and Statistics
1981
3 / 7
Records and Statistics/Abortion Reports
1981
3 / 8
Vital Statistics Records, Access to
1983
3 / 9
Ambulance Licenses
1983
3 / 10
Ambulance Service Licensing
1977
3 / 11
Dance Halls and Pleasure Resorts
1979
3 / 12
Food Drug and Cosmetic Act
1979
3 / 13-14
Food Service Establishments
1979
3 / 15
Hotels, Motels, Rooming houses
1981
3 / 16
Meat standards
1980
3 / 17
Nuisances
1979
3 / 18
Railway Stations and Cars
1980
3 / 19
Rummage and Second-hand Clothing
1979
3 / 20-21
Tourist Campgrounds
1982
3 / 22
Trailer Courts/Tourist Campgrounds
1981
3 / 23
Nursing Bureau
1979
3 / 24
Funds, Distribution to Local Health
Services
1980
3 / 25
Child Nutrition Program – State Plan
1980
3 / 26
Day Care Centers
1981
3 / 27
Day Care Centers – Health Care
Requirements
1981
3 / 28
Day Care Centers, Standards for
Certification
1980
3 / 29
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) State
Plan
1980
3 / 30
Fees for Analysis of Private Household Water
Supplies
1981
3 / 31
Laboratory Fees/Tests: Air,
Microbiological
1983
3 / 32
Laboratory Fees – Drinking Water
1983
3 / 33
Premarital Serological Tests
1983
3 / 34
Health Care Facility
Licensing/Consultation
1980
3 / 35
Certification of Need
1979
3 / 36
Certificate of Needs – Nursing Home Beds
1977
3 / 37
Alder Steak House and Trailer Court
1978
3 / 38
Delayed Birth Records
1986
3 / 39
Death Certificate, Court Order
1985
3 / 40
Communicable Diseases, AIDS Emergency and Permanent
Rules
1985
3 / 41
Certificate of Need: Review Forms
1985
3 / 42
Certificate of Need: Review, Emergency
Rules
1985
9 / 2
Certificate of Need: Swing Beds, Long-Term
Care
1985
3 / 43
Minimum Standards, Hospital Records
1986
3 / 44
Tumor Registry, Laboratory Reports
1985
3 / 45
Premarital Serological Tests
1983
3 / 46
Campgrounds, Private
1985
3 / 47
Food Service Establishments
1985
3 / 48
Hotels, Motels, Rooming Houses
1985
3 / 49
Schools
1985
3 / 50
Work Camps
1985
3 / 51
Youth Camps
1985
3 / 52
Laboratory Fees
1985
3 / 53
Laboratory Fees: Air, Water
1984
9 / 3
Certificate of Need (procedures)
1985
9 / 4
Certificate of Need
1982
9 / 5
Certificate of Need
1979
Case Files
3 / 54
Adams, George (unsanitary conditions, goats at
large)
1972
3 / 55
Andrus Hotel (Dillon)
1975
3 / 56
Blains Mobile Home Court F and CS
1977-1978
3 / 57
Calvert Hotel (Lewistown)
1975
3 / 58
Chester Trading Company (Meat Market)
1974
3 / 59
Condor Hotel (Anaconda)
1974
3 / 60
Conrad Hotel (Conrad)
1970-1977
3 / 61
Fairmont Hot Springs (Gregson)
1975
3 / 62
F and C.S.B. General
1972-1977
3 / 63
Food Purveyor’s License
1979-1980
3 / 64
Hagerty Hotel (Browning)
1972-1976
3 / 65
Harris Apartments (Great Falls)
1973
3 / 66
Hotel Matters
1972
3 / 67
Johnny’s House of Fine Foods
1976
3 / 68
LaSalle Hotel (Butte)
1975
3 / 69-70
Licensing - Food and Consumer Safety
Bureau
1975
3 / 71
Licensing – Food and Consumer Safety – Seasonal
Operators
1975
3 / 72
Licensing – Food Service Establishments
1978
3 / 73
Licensing – Hotels, Motels
1978
3 / 74
Licensing – Trailer Courts, Campgrounds
1978
3 / 75
Lockwood School District No. 26 Declaratory
Ruling
1978
3 / 76
Masher, Inc. Merlin Fjarli, owner
1976
4 / 1
Meat Processing Plants
1979
4 / 2
Montana Mosquito Control Association
(FCSB)
1978
4 / 3
Mosquito Control Districts
1972-1977
4 / 4
New Elk Café and Bar
1972
4 / 5
1001 Outlet Store F and CS Bureau
1979
4 / 6
Palace Rooms (Havre)
1974
4 / 7
Perry’s Rooms (Chinook)
1975
4 / 8
Rescue Mission (Great Falls)
1975
4 / 9
Rogers Motor Inn (Malta)
1972
4 / 10
Roosevelt Hotel (Glasgow)
1975-1976
4 / 1
Sanders County Jail
undated
4 / 12
Siderius, Henry
1972-1974
4 / 13
Rainbow Hotel (Great Falls)
1972-1975
4 / 14
Range Riders Ledge (Silver Gate)
1972-1976
4 / 15
United Campground, West Yellowstone F and
CS
1979
4 / 16
VFW Rimrock Post 8952 Sunburst, MT
1976
4 / 17
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) State
Plans
1979
4 / 18
Child Nutrition Program State Plans
1980
4 / 19-20
Trauma System
1995
4 / 21-24
Tribal Contracts
1993-1995
9 / 6
Independent Home Health/Westmont (Jefferson
County)
1986
4 / 25-28
Linder vs. Missoula County vs. State of Montana –
Liability for Failure to Inform Potentially Exposed Persons to tuberculosis
(RESTRICTED)
1990
4 / 29
Clark Fork Valley Hospital (Swing Beds)
1986
4 / 30
Con-Legal Reviews
1990
4 / 31
Thunderchild Treatment Center, Crow Agency, Indian
Jurisdiction Issue
1989
4 / 32
Great Falls Day Care Association Misuse of
Funds
1989
4 / 33-34
Hardin vs. Missoula County vs. DHES (Tuberculosis)
(RESTRICTED)
1986
9 / 7
Hardin v. Missoula County v. DHES Part II
(RESTRICTED)
1989 January 3
5 / 1-5
St. Vincent (Cardiac Surgery) Reconsideration Hearing
Part III Exhibits
1988
5 / 6-9
St. Vincent (Cardiac Surgery) Reconsideration Hearing
Part IV Deaconess Brief, Testimony, Transcript
1988
5 / 10-13
Missoula Nursing Home Batch Transcripts
1987
5 / 14 – 6 / 7
Missoula Nursing Home Batch – Applications, Exhibits,
Pre and Post-Hearing Documents
1987
6 / 8
Broadwater Hospital – Townsend, MT
1980
6 / 9
Cat Scannes
1980
6 / 10
Legal Review
1989
6 / 11
Rimrock Foundation vs. DHES – Correspondence
Melby
1990
6 / 12
Rimrock Foundation vs. DHES – Research,
Mandamus
1990
6 / 13
Rimrock Foundation vs. DHES – Opinions
1990
6 / 14
Rimrock Foundation vs. DHES – Scratch Notes of K.
Orr
1990
6 / 15
Rimrock Foundation vs. DHES – Melby Settlement
Offers
1990
6 / 16
Rimrock Foundation vs. DHES – (label lost)
1990
6 / 17
Rimrock Foundation vs. DHES – Rimrock
1990
6 / 18
Rimrock Foundation vs. DHES – Mandamus
1990
6 / 19-20
Immanuel Lutheran Home, Kalispell (reconsideration
hearing part I)
1988
6 / 21-22
Immanuel Lutheran Home (answer to requests for
admissions, part II)
1988
9 / 8
Trailer Courts and Campgrounds
1972
9 / 9
General
1979-1983
9 / 10
Hughes v. Coomber, Mandamus, Death
Certificate
1980
9 / 11
Congregate Family Style Homes (Mike Hamilton and
Dianne Ryker)
1988
9 / 12 – 10 / 1
Plains Ambulance Service
1984
10 / 2-7
Helena Nursing Home
1985
10 / 8
Helena Nursing Home (partial transcript)
1985
10 / 9-14
Helena Nursing Home (reconsideration
hearing)
1986
10 / 15-18, 11 / 1-2
Shodair/Great Falls Deaconess hearing (application for
certificate of need to establish a chemical dependency unit in Billings, MT by
Deaconess Medical Center of Great Falls and Shodair Children’s Hospital of
Helena)
1986
6 / 23-27
Shodair/Great Falls Deaconess hearing (application for
certificate of need to establish a chemical dependency unit in Billings, MT by
Deaconess Medical Center of Great Falls and Shodair Children’s Hospital of
Helena)
1986
6 / 8 – 7 / 7
Shodair/Great Falls Deaconess hearing (application for
certificate of need to establish a chemical dependency unit in Billings, MT by
Deaconess Medical Center of Great Falls and Shodair Children’s Hospital of
Helena)
1986
11 / 3-14
West-Mont Community Care, Inc. v. Board of Health and
Environmental Sciences; Department of Health and Environmental Sciences; Jean K. Comac
and Marjorie M. Anderson, d/b/a Independent Home Health Care, Inc.
1984-1985
11 / 15-25
Valley Nursing Home v. Board of Health and
Environmental Sciences and Parkview Convalescent Center
1982-1986
11 / 26 – 12 / 1
Montana Health Systems Agency, Inc. and Montana
Nursing Home Association v. Montana Board of Health and Missoula General
Hospital
1983-1984
12 / 2
Alcohol Facilities (rules)
undated
12 / 3
Wheel Estates
1983
12 / 4
ACLU v. DHES
1982
13 / 1-3
Stewart et al. v. Region II, Child and Family
Services
1989
13 / 4
Fair hearing of Thelmer Berland
1984-1985
13 / 5
Fair hearing of Steven Wagner
1983
13 / 6
Wagner et al. v. SRS (deposition of Thomas
Fritch)
1984
13 / 7
Wagner et al. v. SRS (Discovery/provider
response)
1984
13 / 8
Wagner et al. v. SRS (Discover/state
response)
1984
14 / 1
Wagner et al. v. SRS (exhibits)
1984
14 / 2-5
Wagner et al. v. SRS (F.H.P. #84-582)
1984-1985
14 / 6-9
Wagner v. SRS (no. 88-318)
1987-1990
14 / 10-11
Stephen Wagner v. SRS (discovery)
(RESTRICTED)
1987-1990
Legislative Files
7 / 8
Wild Pets, Restricting Possession of 1991
Session
1991
7 / 9
Miscellaneous Bills of Interest, Records and
Statistics
1991
12 / 5
Emergency Medical Services Bill drafts
1987
7 / 10
Clean Indoor Air Act
1987
7 / 11
Miscellaneous Bills of Interest to FO
1987
7 / 12
Statutory Appropriation – Local Board Inspection
Fund
1986
7 / 13
Certification of Need
1986
7 / 14
Health Information Center Deletion
1986
7 / 15
Miscellaneous Bills of Intent to Licensing and
Certification
1987
12 / 6
General
1972-1979
7 / 16
Adulterated/Misbranded Articles, Detainer
of
1980
7 / 17
Foreign Meat Labeling
1980
7 / 18
Hamburger Standards/Menu Labeling
1980
7 / 19
Jails, Rulemaking Authority
1980
7 / 20
License Fee Monies Earmarked
1980
7 / 21
Trailer Court/Definition
1980
7 / 22
Environmental Chemistry
Laboratories/Licensure
1980
7 / 23
Marriage Certificate (Examination
Requirement)
1980
7 / 24
Rabies, Wild Animal Possession,
Prohibition
1980
12 / 7-8
Certificate of Need
1980
12 / 9
Certificate of Need (samples, other state
laws)
1981
12 / 10
Tumor Registry
1980
12 / 11
Vital Statistics, Certificates, Family
1980
Subject Files
7 / 25-26
Alcohol and Drug Dependence
1973-1975
7 / 27
Ambulance Service – Variance
Hoeruer-Waldorf
1972
7 / 28
Anaconda Company Ambulance Service
1977
7 / 29
Appeal – Re-construction of a Long-Term Care Facility,
Livingston
1973
7 / 30
B and T Management
1974
7 / 31
Blackfeet Nursing Home (license
revocation)
1977
7 / 32
Boehm, Edward 122 Review
1975
7 / 33
Building Code Council
1973
7 / 34
Centralized Services
1975
12 / 12
Clark Fork Valley Hospital
1978
7 / 35
Columbus and Deaconess Hospitals (Great
Falls)
1975
8 / 1
Flor-Haven Rest Home
1972
8 / 2
Friendship Villa
1977
8 / 3
Glasgow AFB
1974
8 / 4
Grace Rest Home
1974
8 / 5
Public Health Services, County, City-County,
“district” Public Health Departments
1973
8 / 6
Halfway House
1972
8 / 7
Hauck, Herman
1974
12 / 13
Health Planning and Resource Division
1976
8 / 8
Helfrich, Richards (Human Rights
Commission)
1978
8 / 9
Hobson Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance
Service
1976
8 / 10
Hospitals - Information
1971-1975
8 / 11-12
Hospital-Medical Facilities
1972-1979
8 / 13
Koski, Charles H.
1975
8 / 14-19
Laboratory
1972-1978
8 / 20-21
Maternal and Child Health Services
1976-1978
8 / 22
Mineral County vs. Department of Health and
Environmental Sciences
1973
8 / 23
Missoula General Hospital
1975
8 / 24
Mountain View Rest Haven
1980
8 / 25
Outpatient Surgical Centers
1974
8 / 26
Park Place Nursing Home (Great Falls)
1978
8 / 27
Park Place Nursing Home Wrongful Death Action (Great
Falls)
1980
8 / 28
Parkside Manor, Helena Hospital and Medical
Facilities
1978
8 / 29-34
Records and Statistics
1972-1978
8 / 35
SRS Petitions for Access to Vital
Statistics
1976
8 / 36
Royal Manor Rest Home
1976
8 / 37
St. James Community Hospital (lawsuit)
1975
8 / 38
Sanders County Memorial Hospital
1974
8 / 39
Sangrey, Minnie vs. Director of Department of
Health
1973
8 / 40
Revocation of License: Silver Bow Annex
1972
8 / 41
Uncompensated (medical) services “Free
Care”
1972
8 / 42
Valle Vista Manor – Lewistown
1976
8 / 43
Wibaux Nursing Home
1973