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2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 43 - PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 15 - Child Welfare.
- 43-15-1 - Title of article.
- 43-15-3 - Powers and duties of Department of Human Services; appeal to Director of Division of Family and Children's Services for denial of foster care and/or adoption assistance.
- 43-15-5 - Administration of child welfare services.
- 43-15-6 - Criminal background checks and child abuse registry checks for providers of children's services in residential setting; authority to exclude certain crimes as disqualifying from providing child care; penalties; administrative immunity.
- 43-15-7 - County department authorized to provide protective services; appropriation of funds.
- 43-15-9 - Article inapplicable to orphans' homes, etc.
- 43-15-11 - Expenditure of county and municipal moneys for support and maintenance of homeless and destitute children.
- 43-15-13 - Foster care placement program; objectives; system of individualized plans and reviews; training program for persons who provide foster care and relative care; placement priorities and goals; changes in placement; notice to families; rights and responsibilities of persons who provide foster care and relative care.
- 43-15-15 - Registry of children in custody of State Department of Public Welfare and public or private agencies.
- 43-15-17 - Payments for supportive services; relative care payments.
- 43-15-19 - Adoption resource exchange registry.
- 43-15-21 - Penalty for releasing confidential information.
- 43-15-23 - "Placing Out"; defined.
- 43-15-25 - Elected officials as foster parents; payments on behalf of foster child.
- 43-15-51 - Formation of multidisciplinary child protection teams to evaluate and investigate reports of child abuse and neglect; membership; order of Youth Court prerequisite to formation of teams; participation by experts and child advocacy centers; disclosure of information obtained from task force meetings prohibited.
- 43-15-101 - Purpose.
- 43-15-103 - Definitions.
- 43-15-105 - Division of Family and Children's Services to be licensing authority; duties.
- 43-15-107 - Licensure requirements.
- 43-15-109 - Information on application for license; information received through reports, complaints, investigations and inspections classified as "public".
- 43-15-111 - Exemptions from licensure requirements.
- 43-15-113 - Reinstatement of license following revocation.
- 43-15-115 - Inspections of facilities.
- 43-15-117 - General restrictions; advertising restrictions; no licensing requirement for attorney providing legal services in connection with adoption; regulation of fees; written disclosure of fees and charges.
- 43-15-119 - Disciplinary proceedings.
- 43-15-121 - Injunctions.
- 43-15-123 - Criminal penalties.
- 43-15-125 - Immunity for Department of Human Services and its employees.
- 43-15-201 - Emergency medical services provider to take possession of certain abandoned children.
- 43-15-203 - Notification to Department of Human Services that provider has taken possession of abandoned child; department to assume care, control, and custody of child upon receipt of notification.
- 43-15-205 - Affirmative defense to crime of child abandonment.
- 43-15-207 - Definition of "emergency medical services provider".
- 43-15-209 - Immunity from liability.
- 43-15-301 - Definitions.
- 43-15-303 - Operators of child care service prohibited from employing registered sex offenders; penalties for violations.
- 43-15-305 - Registered sex offenders prohibited from owning or operating child care services; penalties for violations.
- 43-15-307 - Registered sex offenders prohibited from working for or volunteering at child care services; penalties for violations.
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