Code of Alabama - Title 38: Public Welfare - Chapter 7 - Child Care

• Section 38-7-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Child Care Act of 1971.
• Section 38-7-2 Definitions
  Terms used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. When not inconsistent with the context,...
• Section 38-7-3 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Requirements; recordkeeping; parental notifications, etc.; affidavits; inspections and investigations
  (a) No person, group of persons, or corporation may operate or conduct any facility for child care, as defined in this chapter, without being licensed...
• Section 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
  Any person, group of persons or corporation who or which receives children or arranges for care or placement of one or more children unrelated to...
• Section 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
  (a) Licenses or approvals shall be issued in such form and manner as prescribed by the department and are valid for two years from the...
• Section 38-7-6 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Renewal; reexamination; renewal of approval of boarding home
  (a) A licensed or approved child-care facility operating under this chapter shall apply for renewal of its license or approval, the application to be made...
• Section 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
  (a) The department shall prescribe and publish minimum standards for licensing and for approving all child-care facilities, as defined in this chapter. In establishing such...
• Section 38-7-8 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Revocation or refusal to renew license - Grounds
  The department may revoke or refuse to renew the license or the approval of any child-care facility or refuse to issue a full license to...
• Section 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
  In the event a party or an applicant for a license or a licensee is denied a license or a renewal of a license or...
• Section 38-7-10 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Investigation of operation without license; report to attorney general for prosecution
  Whenever the department is advised or has reason to believe that any person, group of persons or corporation is operating a child-care facility without a...
• Section 38-7-11 Inspection of facilities
  The department shall have the right and its authorized representatives shall be afforded reasonable opportunity, to inspect any child-care facility seeking a license or an...
• Section 38-7-12 Advertisements
  A child-care facility licensed or approved or operating under a six-month permit issued by the department may publish advertisements of the services for which it...
• Section 38-7-13 Records to be kept by child-care facility; use and disclosure of information
  Every child-care facility shall keep and maintain such records as the department may prescribe pertaining to the admission, progress, health and discharge of children under...
• Section 38-7-14 Reports by child-care facility
  Every child-care facility shall make reports to the department on forms prescribed by the department and at times required by the department, giving information pertaining...
• Section 38-7-14.1 Educational information on influenza disease and vaccine
  (a) Not later than September 1, annually, each day care center shall provide educational information on influenza disease to the parent or legal guardian of...
• Section 38-7-15 Conditions precedent to bringing child into state for purposes of adoption or placement in child-care facility
  (a) No person or agency shall bring or send any child into the State of Alabama for the purpose of placing him or procuring his...
• Section 38-7-16 Penalties; burden of proof of relationship
  Any person, group of persons, association or corporation who: (1) Conducts, operates or acts as a child-care facility without a license, or a six-month permit...
• Section 38-7-17 Duty of district attorney to enforce chapter or prosecute violations
  It shall be the duty of every district attorney or assistant district attorney within the circuit, county or other territory for which he is elected...
• Section 38-7-18 Mandatory state subsidized child day-care services program
  (a) There is hereby provided a mandatory state subsidized child day-care services program within the Department of Human Resources for a minimum average of 6,500...
• Section 38-7-19 Powers of department as to transitional living facilities
  The Department of Human Resources may contract for utility services, purchase real or personal property, or enter into lease agreements for and may operate residences...
• Section 38-7-20 Employment in day care center of individual under 19 years of age with certain credentials
  Nothing in this chapter shall preclude an individual under the age of 19 years who has graduated from a high school with a Child Development...
• Section 38-7-21 Licensing of church, religious nonprofit entity, or religious nonprofit school to operate as licensed day care center
  A church, religious nonprofit entity, or religious nonprofit school that has been operating a day care center or preschool program without a license prior to...

Last modified: May 3, 2021