2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 199 PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN - ADOPTION 199.380 Boarding and lodging homes for children under sixteen in counties containing city of second class -- Authority to operate -- Investigation -- Revocation of authority.
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199.380 Boarding and lodging homes for children under sixteen in counties
containing city of second class -- Authority to operate -- Investigation -Revocation of authority.
No person or persons shall board or lodge children under the age of sixteen (16) years, or
in any manner conduct a boarding home or boarding house for children under the age of
sixteen (16) years, unless authorized and empowered so to do, in writing, by the health
officer of the county in which such boarding home or boarding house is conducted.
Before authorizing or empowering any person or persons to board or lodge children under
the age of sixteen (16) years, or in any manner to conduct a boarding house or boarding
home for such children, the health officer to whom an application is made for such
authority or power shall make or cause to be made, an investigation to determine whether
such person or persons have made suitable, sanitary and satisfactory arrangements for the
health of such children. When such authority and power have been granted by a health
officer the same may be revoked at any time, in the discretion of said health officer, when
he shall determine that arrangements for the health of the children boarded or lodged in
such boarding home or boarding house are unsuitable and unsatisfactory, and in no event
shall such authority and power be effective for a longer period than one (1) year following
the granting of same. Whenever the health officer of any county shall be notified by the
juvenile session of District Court of such county, or notified by the probation officer
thereof, that the person or persons operating a boarding home or boarding house for
children under the age of sixteen (16) years are not making suitable and satisfactory
arrangements for the health of the children being boarded or lodged therein, he shall make
or cause to be made an investigation to determine whether or not the power and authority
of such person or persons to operate such home shall be revoked. Any person who boards
or lodges a child under the age of sixteen (16) years without having the permit provided
for herein shall be guilty of an offense and punished as provided in subsection (3) of KRS
199.990.
Effective: July 15, 1980
History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 152, effective July 15, 1980. -Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 62. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 13, sec. 1.
Note: This section was amended by 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 280, sec. 141, which was to have
become effective July 1, 1982. Thereafter, 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 284 changed the
effective date of that act to July 15, 1984. Then, 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 184 repealed both
1980 Ky. Acts ch. 280, and 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 284.
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