§ 20-1A-35. Provisional Employees; Receipt of Satisfactory Determination; Revocation of License, Commission, or Permit for Violations
Where there is need for a provisional employee to work at a licensed, commissioned, or permitted early care and education program facility, such early care and education program may utilize an individual as a provisional employee only after the individual receives a satisfactory determination pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the department in accordance […]
§ 20-1A-36. Certain Offenders Prohibited as Employees of Facilities
No licensed, commissioned, or permitted facility operated as an early care and education program or similar facility or any operator of such a facility shall allow any person who has been convicted of or who has entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any offense specified in Code Section 16-12-1.1 to be present […]
§ 20-1A-37. Director or Employee Residing in Family Child Care Learning Home or at Certain Programs; Comprehensive Records Check Requirements
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, a director or employee who resides in a family child care learning home, as defined by Code Section 20-1A-2, or at any program as determined by the department and allowed under federal law to receive, either directly or indirectly, federal funds through the department for the care of […]
§ 20-1A-38. Change of Directors; Records Check Requirements
If the director of a licensed, commissioned, or permitted early care and education program ceases to be the director of that early care and education program, the license holder, commission holder, or permit holder shall thereupon designate a new director. After such change, the license holder, commission holder, or permit holder of that early care […]
§ 20-1A-39. Potential Employees; Current Employees and Directors; Comprehensive Records Check Requirements; Satisfactory Determination; Liability for Hiring Ineligible Employee
Before a person may become an employee of any early care and education program after that early care and education program has received a license or commission, that early care and education program shall require that person to obtain a comprehensive records check determination that is satisfactory. All potential employees, excluding students currently enrolled in […]
§ 20-1A-40. Cooperation With Gcic and Other Law Enforcement Agencies; Fees; Penalty for Misuse of Information
GCIC and law enforcement agencies which have access to GCIC information shall cooperate with the department in performing preliminary and fingerprint records check determinations required under this article and shall provide such information so required for such records checks notwithstanding any other law to the contrary and may charge reasonable fees therefor. Any person who […]
§ 20-1A-41. Liability for Information or Determinations Made Based Upon Records Check
Neither GCIC, the department, any law enforcement agency, nor the employees of any such entities shall be responsible for the accuracy of information nor have any liability for defamation, invasion of privacy, negligence, or any other claim in connection with any dissemination of information or determination based thereon pursuant to this article. An early care […]
§ 20-1A-42. Construction With Article 1
The requirements of this article are supplemental to any requirements for a license imposed by Article 1 of this chapter. History. Code 1981, § 20-1A-42 , enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 645, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 285, § 2/HB 350; Ga. L. 2015, p. 965, § 2/HB 401. Editor’s notes. Ga. L. […]
§ 20-1A-43. Contested Case Procedure Following Rejection or Other Suspension of License or Application
A determination by the department regarding preliminary or fingerprint records checks under this article, or any action by the department revoking, suspending, or refusing to grant or renew a license based upon such determination, shall constitute a contested case for purposes of Chapter 13 of Title 50, the “Georgia Administrative Procedure Act,” except that any […]
§ 20-1A-44. Regulatory Authority
The board is authorized to provide by regulation for the administration of this article. History. Code 1981, § 20-1A-44 , enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 645, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 285, § 2/HB 350; Ga. L. 2015, p. 965, § 2/HB 401. Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2015, p. 965, § 2/HB 401, […]