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2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 43 - PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 20 - Child Care Facilities.
- 43-20-1 - Title.
- 43-20-3 - Declaration of purpose.
- 43-20-5 - Definitions.
- 43-20-7 - Advisory council.
- 43-20-8 - Powers and duties of licensing agency; parental access to facilities; obtaining criminal records and child abuse registry records of current and prospective caregivers; authority to exclude certain crimes or findings as disqualifying for licensure; immunity; fee for background check; immunization against invasive pneumococcal disease.
- 43-20-9 - License required.
- 43-20-11 - Application for and issuance of license.
- 43-20-12 - Fees and penalties to be deposited in special fund.
- 43-20-13 - Renewal of license.
- 43-20-14 - Denial, suspension, or revocation of license; hearing; appeal.
- 43-20-15 - Inspections.
- 43-20-17 - Information confidential; authority to release findings of investigations into allegations of abuse.
- 43-20-19 - Penalty.
- 43-20-21 - Injunctive relief.
- 43-20-31 - Department of Health to promulgate regulations for child care facilities to promote breast-feeding by mothers of children being cared for in facility.
- 43-20-51 - Legislative purpose.
- 43-20-53 - Definitions.
- 43-20-55 - Development of regulations and standards; compensation of advisory council members.
- 43-20-57 - Persons prohibited from working or residing in family child care home; resident with disability counted as child in care; access to records of workers and volunteers in home.
- 43-20-59 - Registration.
- 43-20-61 - Denial, revocation, or refusal to renew certificate of registration; hearing.
- 43-20-63 - Suspension of certificate of registration; grounds.
- 43-20-65 - Information confidential; hearings may be closed.
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