30:5B-9 - Denial, suspension, revocation or refusal to renew licenses

30:5B-9.  Denial, suspension, revocation or refusal to renew licenses    The department may deny, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a license for good cause, including, but not limited to:

    a.  Failure of a child care center or its sponsor to comply with the provisions of this act;

    b.  Violation of the terms and conditions of a license by a child care center or its sponsor;

    c.  Use of fraud or misrepresentation by a child care center or its sponsor  in obtaining a license or in the subsequent operation of the center;

    d.  Refusal by a center or its sponsor to furnish the department with required files, reports or records;

    e.  Refusal by a center or its sponsor to permit an inspection by an authorized representative of the department during normal operating hours;

    f.  Any conduct, engaged in or permitted, which adversely affects or presents a serious hazard to the education, health, safety and general well-being and physical and intellectual development of a child attending the child care center, or which otherwise demonstrates unfitness to operate a child  care center; 

    g.  Failure to provide a developmental or age-appropriate program that meets  the physical, social, emotional and cognitive needs of the children in the  center as set forth by regulation; or
 
h.Failure of a child care center or its sponsor to comply with the provisions of section 1 of P.L.1998, c.35 (C.30:5B-5.3).

     L.1983, c. 492, s. 9; amended 1998,c.35,s.2..