- (a) A childcare family home shall be assessed a license fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per year.
- (b) Upon review and determination by the childcare licensing specialist of a licensing recommendation to be presented to the Office of Early Childhood, the childcare licensing specialist shall issue a Notice of License Fee Due to the home.
- (c) The office shall not issue a license unless the required license fee has been paid.
- (d) A copy of the license fee notice shall be submitted at the time of licensure recommendation.
(e)
- (1) A second Notice of License Fee Due will be sent to homes failing to submit the required license fee (Notice of License Fee Past Due).
- (2) This notice will be sent twenty (20) days after the initial notice of fee due.
- (3) Failure to submit a license fee within twenty (20) days of the receipt of the past due notice will result in action to suspend the license until such time as the fee is paid.
(f)
- (1) Refunds of license fees paid are made only when the office does not approve issuance of a license.
- (2) There shall be no refunds of license fees paid upon office action to revoke or suspend a license or for closure of a facility.