1. (a) The department may impose a sanction under 7 AAC 39.050 upon a participating child care facility for one or more of the program violations set out in (b) of this section. The department will impose a level of sanction necessary to ensure benefits are being paid in accordance with AS 47.25.071 and this chapter.

2. (b) A facility is subject to sanction under this chapter for

   1. (1) providing false or misleading information or withholding information in order to participate or receive payments under the child care grant program;
   2. (2) failing to maintain records concerning the program as required by 7 AAC 39.040(b) and 7 AAC 39.070;
   3. (3) failing to cooperate with a review or investigation by the department, including a refusal to allow inspection of the facility and its records during scheduled business hours for purposes of determining whether there has been a violation of the child care grant program;
   4. (4) failing to comply with requirements related to allowable expenditures under 7 AAC 39.040;
   5. (5) falsifying attendance records to reflect higher amounts of time that a child was in care than actually occurred; or
   6. (6) failing to submit a complete and timely response to a monitoring report under 7 AAC 39.065, or to achieve compliance in accordance with that response.

(Eff. 6/23/2006, Register 178)

Authority: AS 47.25.001, AS 47.25.071