Chapter7. CHILD CARE.  


§ 38-7-1. Short title.
§ 38-7-2. Definitions.
§ 38-7-3. License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Required; exemption for church preschool programs; filing of notices, maintaining records, etc.; form for affidavits by parents or guardians; investigation of complaints by district attorney.
§ 38-7-4. License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Application; investigation; application to operate foster family home may be made to licensed child-placing agency.
§ 38-7-5. License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Issuance and term; temporary permits; provisional approval of home; preferential treatment of family members concerning placement of children.
§ 38-7-6. License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Renewal; reexamination; renewal of approval of boarding home.
§ 38-7-7. License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Department to establish minimum standards for licensing; factors to be considered; children in need of special treatment; department to offer consultation.
§ 38-7-8. License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Revocation or refusal to renew license - Grounds.
§ 38-7-9. License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Revocation or refusal to renew license - Aggrieved party entitled to hearing; review of final decision or action of department; bond; when decision may be set aside; section not applicable to boarding homes and free homes.
§ 38-7-10. License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Investigation of operation without license; report to attorney general for prosecution.
§ 38-7-11. Inspection of facilities.
§ 38-7-12. Advertisements.
§ 38-7-13. Records to be kept by child-care facility; use and disclosure of information.
§ 38-7-14. Reports by child-care facility.
§ 38-7-15. Conditions precedent to bringing child into state for purposes of adoption or placement in child-care facility.
§ 38-7-16. Penalties; burden of proof of relationship.
§ 38-7-17. Duty of district attorney to enforce chapter or prosecute violations.
§ 38-7-18. Mandatory state subsidized child day-care services program.
§ 38-7-19. Powers of department as to transitional living facilities.