§ 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 provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than one hundred […]
§ 20-78-204. Injunction
When any person, partnership, group, corporation, organization, or association shall operate or assist in the operation of a childcare facility which has not been licensed by the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services or has had the license denied, suspended, or revoked and has been ordered to […]
§ 20-78-205. Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education
(a) There is created the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education within the Department of Human Services. In creating the division, the General Assembly intends for the following to be maintained and enhanced: (1) Coordination of existing early childhood education and childcare programs; (2) Placement of children in quality early childhood programs which […]
§ 20-78-206. Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education — Rules
(a) (1) (A) The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education shall promulgate and publish rules setting minimum standards governing the granting, revocation, refusal, and suspension of licenses for a childcare facility and the operation of a childcare facility. (B) In developing proposed rules, the division shall consult with the Secretary of the Department […]
§ 20-78-207. Declaratory judgments on licensing rules
Any rule promulgated by the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education under authority of § 20-78-206 or under any other childcare facility licensing law shall, at the suit of any interested person instituted in the Pulaski County Circuit Court, be subject to remedies provided by law for obtaining declaratory judgments. However, the division […]
§ 20-78-208. Unlicensed childcare 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 childcare facility which has not been licensed by the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to […]
§ 20-78-209. License — Religious exception — Definitions
(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 seq., when operating a childcare facility shall be exempt from obtaining a license to operate the childcare facility upon the receipt by the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education […]
§ 20-78-210. License — Application and issuance
(a) Any person, partnership, group, corporation, organization, or association desiring to operate a childcare facility shall first make application for a license for a childcare facility to the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education on the application forms furnished for this purpose by the division. (b) The division shall act on any application […]