Arkansas Code Title 20, Subtitle 5, Chapter 78, Subchapter 2 - Child Care Facility Licensing Act

• § 20-78-201 - Title.
  This subchapter shall be known and cited as the "Child Care Facility Licensing Act".
• § 20-78-202 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) (A) "Child Care Appeal Review Panel" or "panel" means an eleven-member body under...
• § 20-78-203 - Penalties.
  (a) (1) Any person violating any provisions of this subchapter and any person assisting any partnership, group, corporation, organization, or association in violating any...
• § 20-78-204 - Injunction.
  When any person, partnership, group, corporation, organization, or association shall operate or assist in the operation of a child care facility which has not...
• § 20-78-205 - Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education.
  (a) (1) There is created the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education within the Department of Human Services. In creating the division,...
• § 20-78-206 - Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education -- Rules and Regulations.
  (a) (1) (A) The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services, with the approval of the Arkansas...
• § 20-78-207 - Declaratory Judgments on Licensing Rules or Regulations.
  Any rule or regulation promulgated by the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services under authority of...
• § 20-78-208 - Unlicensed Child Care Facility Unlawful.
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, group, corporation, organization, or association to operate or assist in the operation of a child...
• § 20-78-209 - License -- Religious Exception.
  (a) Any church or group of churches exempt from the state income tax levied by the Income Tax Act of 1929, § 26-51-101 et...
• § 20-78-210 - License -- Application and Issuance.
  (a) Any person, partnership, group, corporation, organization, or association desiring to operate a child care facility shall first make application for a license for...
• § 20-78-211 - License -- Provisional.
  (a) If the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services finds that an applicant for a child...
• § 20-78-212 - License -- Nontransferability.
  (a) A license for a child care facility shall apply only to the address and location stated on the application and license issued, and...
• § 20-78-213 - License -- Denial, Revocation, or Suspension.
  (a) The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services shall have the power to deny, revoke, or...
• § 20-78-214 - Inspections and Investigations of Child Care Facilities and Personnel -- Child Abuse.
  (a) The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services or any other agency of the State of...
• § 20-78-215 - Child Sexual Abuse -- Federal Funds -- Legislative Intent.
  (a) (1) By the enactment of this section, it is the specific intent of the General Assembly to ensure that the State of Arkansas...
• § 20-78-216 - Records and Reports.
  The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services may by published rules and regulations require that a...
• § 20-78-217 - Smoking Prohibited -- Legislative Intent.
  (a) Whereas, health authorities have established that smoking is not conducive to good health and that children exposed to smoking face a potential health...
• § 20-78-218 - Administration of Subchapter.
  The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services shall continue to be the administrative agency to administer...
• § 20-78-219 - Fines and Penalties -- Disposition of Funds.
  (a) If any licensee fails to pay any monetary fine imposed as a civil penalty within sixty (60) days of the Division of Child...
• § 20-78-220 - Persons or Facilities Abusing Juveniles in Their Custody.
  (a) If a juvenile is found to be abused or neglected due to the acts or omissions of a person other than the parent...
• § 20-78-221 - Voluntary Registration.
  (a) Registry. There shall be created a voluntary registry of day care family homes that are not required by this subchapter to be licensed...
• § 20-78-222 - Continuing Education.
  (a) (1) All persons employed by a child care facility who work directly with children shall receive at least ten (10) hours per year...
• § 20-78-223 - License Fees -- Disposition.
  (a) The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services shall not issue or maintain a license to...
• § 20-78-224 - Child Care Fund.
  (a) There is established on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State,...
• § 20-78-225 - Child Safety Alarm Devices.
  (a) All agencies or child care facilities licensed by the Department of Human Services under this subchapter or § 9-28-401 et seq. that transport...
• § 20-78-226 - Violation.
  (a) It shall be unlawful to transport children in a vehicle that is required to have an approved child safety alarm device as provided...
• § 20-78-227 - General Liability Insurance Coverage Required.
  (a) The purpose of this section is to enhance safe and responsible passenger transportation of children in child care by requiring appropriate liability insurance...
• § 20-78-228 - Child Care Facility Floor Plan on File With Emergency Management Coordinator.
  (a) (1) As used in this section, "floor plan" means a document containing: (A) A schematic drawing of facilities and property used by the...

Last modified: November 15, 2016