Chapter 06 - Children's Homes And Welfare Agencies
- Section 26-6-1 - Agencies and institutions defined as child welfare agencies--Department ofSocial Services.
- Section 26-6-1.1 - Chapter not applicable to day care services provided by school board forchildren of enrolled students.
- Sections 26-6-2 to 26-6-6 - Repealed
- Section 26-6-6.1 - Continuing foster care to age twenty-one.
- Section 26-6-7 - Repealed.
- Section 26-6-8 - License required to place child for adoption--Relatives and guardian excepted.
- Section 26-6-9 - License or registration required for child care or placement by public orprivate agency--Waiver violation as misdemeanor.
- Section 26-6-10 - Repealed.
- Section 26-6-11 - Application for license--Investigation--Issuance--Conditions--Records--Publicinspection.
- Section 26-6-12 - Provisional license authorized.
- Section 26-6-13 - Duration of licenses--Suspension or revocation--Assignment prohibited--Display or availability for inspection.
- Section 26-6-14 - Categories of child welfare agency licenses.
- Section 26-6-14.1 - Family day care defined--Number of children allowed.
- Section 26-6-14.2 - Registration of family day care homes--Rules--Exemption--Investigation--Duration of registration--Assignment prohibited.
- Section 26-6-14.3 - Issuance of child welfare license--Criminal record of applicant to be secured--Waiver by applicant--When application denied.
- Section 26-6-14.4 - Persons to whom criminal record requirement applies.
- Section 26-6-14.5 - Waiver, fingerprinting, and declaration as condition of employment--Time--Immediate termination of employee.
- Section 26-6-14.6 - Meaning of conviction--Evidence of conviction.
- Section 26-6-14.7 - Transfer of criminal record clearance when changing employment.
- Section 26-6-14.8 - Unregistered family day care defined--Number of children allowed.
- Section 26-6-14.9 - Submission of employees' names to department--Central registry backgroundchecks--Notification to provider--Issuance of certificate.
- Section 26-6-14.10 - Prohibition of licensure, registration, or operation by person convicted of childabuse or other felony, or whose name appears on registry--Failure to report asmisdemeanor.
- Section 26-6-14.11 - Prohibition of child care by person convicted of child abuse, sex offense, orother felony, or whose name appears on registry--Violation as misdemeanor.
- Section 26-6-14.12 - Before and after school day care exempt from zoning, uniform building, andsafety provisions.
- Section 26-6-14.13 - Information from another state's central registry or national crime database tobe used only for background check for approval of foster or adoptiveplacement.
- Section 26-6-15 - Specification in licenses and registration certificates of work authorized.
- Section 26-6-15.1 - Additional number of children in day care--Staff-to-child ratios.
- Section 26-6-15.2 - Additional number of children in day care center operating preschool program.
- Section 26-6-16 - Rules for child care by licensed or registered agencies promulgated bydepartment--Matters included in rules.
- Section 26-6-17 - Repealed.
- Sections 26-6-18, 26-6-18.1 - Department to cooperate with child welfare agencies--Assistance and advice. Establishment and support of day care centers by counties and municipalities
- Section 26-6-18.2 - Repealed.
- Section 26-6-18.3 - Appropriation for day care centers.
- Section 26-6-18.4 - Approved programs required for payments to nonprofit organizations--Records and periodic audit.
- Section 26-6-18.5 - Exemption of program from zoning, building and fire and life safety codes.
- Section 26-6-19 - Department of Health visitations and inspections.
- Section 26-6-20 - Records and reports on children in care of agencies--Information confidential.
- Section 26-6-20.1 - Definition of terms.
- Section 26-6-20.2 - Separation of residents' moneys required of homes and centers.
- Section 26-6-20.3 - Demand trust account deposit of moneys not kept in center--Deposit with statetreasurer by public agency.
- Section 26-6-20.4 - Deposit of all moneys over specified amount for any resident.
- Section 26-6-20.5 - Surety bond required of facility handling more than specified monthly amount--Bond amount.
- Section 26-6-20.6 - Safeguards and records required of facilities.
- Section 26-6-20.7 - Public audit of records.
- Section 26-6-20.8 - Violation of moneys provisions as cause for revocation of facility's license.
- Section 26-6-20.9 - Surrender of moneys and funds upon discharge of resident--Receipt--Deposited funds.
- Section 26-6-20.10 - Escheat of unclaimed property under specified value after death of resident--Notice to relatives--Time--Disposition of property or money.
- Section 26-6-21 - Placement of children for adoption--Consent by agency to adoption.
- Section 26-6-21.1 - Repealed.
- Section 26-6-22 - Notice to remove child from child welfare agency.
- Section 26-6-23 - Grounds for revocation or refusal to issue or renew child welfare agencylicense or registration.
- Section 26-6-23.1 - Revocation or refusal to issue or renew license or registration for child abuseor violence.
- Section 26-6-23.2 - Central registry background checks on employees.
- Section 26-6-24 - Notice of intended revocation or refusal of renewal of license or registration--Hearing on protest--Temporary suspension.
- Section 26-6-25 - Investigation by department of unlicensed and unregistered operations--Further action by department.
- Section 26-6-26 - Repealed.
- Section 26-6-27 - Educational and incidental activities exempt from chapter--State institutions.
- Section 26-6-28 - Reduction of number of children in foster care.
- Section 26-6-29 - Shelters for battered spouses exempt.
- Sections 26-6-30 to 26-6-34 - Repealed