(a)
- (1) Each facility shall submit an annual license fee as long as the facility is in compliance with this part.
(2) A facility license fee is determined by combining the maximum license capacity of all licenses located within the same premises:
- (A) Facilities serving up to seventeen (17) participants, fifteen dollars ($15.00) per year;
- (B) Facilities serving seventeen (17) to ninety-nine (99) participants, fifty dollars ($50.00) per year; or
- (C) Facilities serving one hundred (100) or more participants, one hundred dollars ($100) per year.
- (b) Upon review and determination of a licensing recommendation by the childcare licensing specialist, the childcare licensing specialist shall issue a Notice of License Fee Due to the facility.
- (c) The Office of Early Childhood shall not issue a license unless the required license fee has been paid.
- (d) A copy of the license fee notice shall be submitted, licensure recommendation.
(e) The fee schedule shall apply to all out-of-school time facility recommendations for licensure as follows:
(1)
- (A) New provisional license.
- (B) Provisional license for new operation to be issued for a period of twelve (12) months.
- (C) A one-year license fee shall be paid prior to the issuance of a provisional license;
(2)
- (A) New regular license or conversion from provisional to regular status.
- (B) A license fee shall be paid prior to the issuance of a new license; and
(3)
- (A) Conversion to provisional status.
- (B) No license fee is due for licenses converted to provisional status during the term of a regular license.
(f)
- (1) A second notice of license fee due will be sent to facilities 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 receipt of the past due notice will result in action to suspend the license until such time as the fee is paid.
(g)
- (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 for:
- (A) Voluntary closure of a facility; or
- (B) Office action to revoke or suspend a license.
(h)
- (1) All license fees paid to the office shall be deposited in a special childcare provider’s fund.
- (2) This fund shall be used to meet the cost of conducting statewide criminal record checks, with the remaining money used for training or materials to be loaned to childcare providers.