§ 49-5-7. Development and Administration of Public Child Welfare and Youth Services
The department is designated the exclusive state agency: For development and administration of a comprehensive state plan and program providing public child welfare and youth services provided for in Title IV, Part B, of the federal Social Security Act; For administering, supervising, and discharging all duties required by any other act of Congress and any […]
§ 49-5-8. Powers and Duties of Department
The Department of Human Services is authorized and empowered, through its own programs and the programs of county or district departments of family and children services, to establish, maintain, extend, and improve throughout the state, within the limits of funds appropriated therefor, programs that will provide: Preventive services as follows: Collecting and disseminating information about […]
§ 49-5-8.1. Short-Term Babysitting of Child in Foster Care; Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard
As used in this Code section, the term: “Caregiver” means a foster parent with whom a child in foster care has been placed. “Occasional” means once per week or less on varying days and not exceeding twice per month. “Short-term” means no more than 72 consecutive hours. A caregiver may arrange for occasional short-term babysitting […]
§ 49-5-9. Use of Public and Private Institutions and Agencies; Inspections; Examination and Control of Children Not in Department’s Facilities
The department is authorized to make use of law enforcement detention, supervisory, medical, educational, and other public or private facilities, institutions, and agencies within the state for the purposes of this article; provided, however, that this shall not give the department authority to transfer any child or youth under its custody and control to any […]
§ 49-5-12. Licensing and Inspection of Child Welfare Agencies; Standards; Revocation or Refusal of License; Penalties; Violations
As used in this Code section, the term “child welfare agency” means any child-caring institution, child-placing agency, children’s transition care center, or maternity home. All child welfare agencies shall be licensed or commissioned annually by the department in accordance with procedures, standards, rules, and regulations to be established by the board. The board shall develop […]
§ 49-4A-18. Prohibited Possession of Certain Goods by Youth
As used in this Code section, the term: “Director” means the commissioner or any director of a juvenile detention center or his or her designee, or any other person who is responsible for the overall management and operation of a center. “Juvenile detention center” means a regional youth detention center or youth development center operated […]
§ 49-5-12.1. Penalties for Violation of Child Welfare Agency Laws and Regulations
Unless otherwise provided in subsection (r) of Code Section 49-5-12, any person who violates the provisions of Code Section 49-5-12 or who hinders, obstructs, or otherwise interferes with any representative of the department in the discharge of that person’s official duties in making inspections as provided in Code Section 49-5-12 or in investigating complaints as […]
§ 49-4B-1. Short Title
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Interstate Compact for Juveniles.” History. Code 1981, § 49-4B-1 , enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 763, § 2-1/HB 898.
§ 49-5-12.2. Immunity From Liability
Any caregiver or other entity under contract with the department shall be immune from civil liability as a result of a caregiver’s approval of the participation of a child, who is in the custody of the department, in an age or developmentally appropriate activity, so long as such caregiver or other entity under contract with […]
§ 49-4B-2. Compact
The Governor of this state is authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of Georgia with any of the United States legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: