1. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall be licensed by the Administration as a child placement agency before the person may engage in the placement of minor children in homes or with individuals.

2. (b) A license is not required:

   1. (1) for a person to place a child with an individual related to the child by blood or marriage within 4 degrees of consanguinity or affinity under the civil law rule;
   2. (2) except as provided in § 5-3B-12 of this title, for a parent or grandparent of a child to place the child directly, without the intervention of any other person except the recipient of the child; or
   3. (3) for a lawyer to prepare pleadings necessary to accomplish the adoption of a child or to perform any other function associated with the normal practice of law.

Added by Acts 1984, c. 296, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1984. Amended by Acts 2005, c. 464, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2005, c. 464, § 3, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.

Formerly Art. 88A, § 20.