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State Responsibilities for Children.
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49-2-101
Authorization and responsibility; Bureau for Social Services.
49-2-102
Staffing Allocation for Child Protective Services Workers.
49-2-103
Proceedings by the state department.
49-2-104
Education of the public.
49-2-105
Administrative and judicial review.
49-2-106
Department responsibility for foster care homes.
49-2-107
Foster-home care; minimum standards; certificate of operation; inspection.
49-2-108
Visits and inspections; records.
49-2-109
Placing children from other states in private homes of state.
49-2-110
Development of standards of child care.
49-2-110a
Bureau of Social Service authority to hire and employ workers who are not social workers in geographical areas of critical shortage.
49-2-111
Supervision of child welfare agencies by the department; records and reports.
49-2-111a
Performance based contracting for child placing agencies.
49-2-111b
Study of kinship foster care families.
49-2-111c
Priorities for use of funds.
49-2-112
Family homes; approval of incorporation by Secretary of State; approval of articles of incorporation.
49-2-113
Residential child-care centers; licensure, certification, approval, and registration; requirements.
49-2-114
Application for license or approval.
49-2-115
Conditions of licensure, approval and registration.
49-2-115a
Head Start program licenses.
49-2-116
Investigative authority; evaluation; complaint.
49-2-117
Revocation; provisional licensure and approval.
49-2-118
Closing of facilities by the secretary; placement of children.
49-2-119
Supervision; consultation; State Fire Marshall to cooperate.
49-2-120
Penalties; injunctions; venue.
49-2-121
Rule-making.
49-2-122
Waivers and variances to rules.
49-2-123
Annual reports; directory; licensing reports and recommendations.
49-2-124
Certificate of need not required; conditions; review.
49-2-125
Commission to Study Residential Placement of Children; findings; requirements; reports; recommendations.
49-2-125a
Right to education for residential placement of foster children.
49-2-126
The Foster Child Bill of Rights.
49-2-127
The Foster and Kinship Parent Bill of Rights.
49-2-127a
Foster and kinship parent duties; foster parent and kinship parent agreements.
49-2-127b
Temporary increase in kinship payment subsidy.
49-2-128
Reasonable and prudent foster parent standard.
49-2-129
Transitional living services, scattered-site living arrangements, and supervised group settings; eligibility criteria.
49-2-130
Limitation of liability; mandatory errors and omissions insurance.
49-2-131
Caseworker services pilot program.
49-2-201
Findings and purpose.
49-2-202
When family preservation services required.
49-2-203
Caseload limits for home-based preservation services.
49-2-204
Situational criteria requiring service.
49-2-205
Service delivery through service contracts; accountability.
49-2-206
Special services to be provided.
49-2-207
Development of home-based family preservation services.
49-2-301
Findings and intent; advisory council.
49-2-302
Creation of statewide quality rating system; rule-making; minimum requirements.
49-2-303
Statewide quality improvement system; financial plan; staffing requirements; public awareness campaign; management information system; financial assistance for child care programs; program staff; child care consumers.
49-2-304
Quality rating and improvement system pilot projects; independent third-party evaluation; modification of proposed rule and financial plan; report to Legislature; limitations on implementation.
49-2-401
Continuation, transfer and renaming of trust fund; funding.
49-2-501
Children to whom article applies; intent.
49-2-502
Powers of the secretary.
49-2-503
Report of birth of special health care needs child.
49-2-504
Assistance by other agencies.
49-2-505
Cost of treatment.
49-2-601
Findings; intent.
49-2-602
Family support services; responsibilities; funds; case management; outreach; differential fees.
49-2-603
Eligibility; primary focus.
49-2-604
Program administration; implementation; procedures; annual evaluation; coordination; plans; grievances; reports.
49-2-605
Regional and state family support councils; membership; meetings; reimbursement of expenses.
49-2-701
Caregiver consent for minor's health care; treatment.
49-2-702
Duty of health care facility or practitioner.
49-2-703
Affidavit of caregiver consent; requirements.
49-2-704
Revocation and termination of consent; written notice; validity.
49-2-705
Good faith reliance on affidavit; applicability.
49-2-706
Exceptions to applicability.
49-2-707
Penalty for false statement.
49-2-708
Rule-making authority.
49-2-801
Purpose.
49-2-802
Establishment of child protective services; general duties and powers; administrative procedure; immunity from civil liability; cooperation of other state agencies.
49-2-802a
Information to be provided at the outset of a child protective services investigation.
49-2-803
Persons mandated to report suspected abuse and neglect; requirements.
49-2-804
Notification of disposition of reports.
49-2-805
Educational programs; requirements.
49-2-806
Mandatory reporting of suspected animal cruelty by child protective service workers.
49-2-807
Mandatory reporting to medical examiner or coroner; postmortem investigation.
49-2-808
Photographs and X rays.
49-2-809
Reporting procedures.
49-2-810
Immunity from liability.
49-2-811
Abrogation of privileged communications; exception.
49-2-812
Failure to report; penalty.
49-2-813
Statistical index; reports.
49-2-814
Task Force on Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children.
49-2-815
Pilot program for the use of technology in child abuse and neglect investigations.
49-2-901
Policy; cooperation.
49-2-902
Division of Juvenile Services; transfer of functions; juvenile placement.
49-2-903
Powers and duties; comprehensive strategy; cooperation.
49-2-904
Rules for specialized training for juvenile corrections officers and detention center employees.
49-2-905
Juvenile detention and corrections facility personnel.
49-2-906
Medical and other treatment of juveniles in custody of the division; consent; service providers; medical care; pregnant inmates; claims processing and administration by the department; authorization of cooperative agreements.
49-2-907
Examination, diagnosis classification and treatment; period of custody.
49-2-908
Educational services for juveniles placed in predispositional and postdispositional facilities; authorization; cooperation; rule-making.
49-2-909
Arrest authority of juvenile correctional and detention officers.
49-2-910
Juvenile trustee accounts and funds, earnings and personal property of juveniles; return of property; reports;
49-2-911
Juvenile benefit funds; uses; reports.
49-2-912
Youth reporting centers.
49-2-913
Juvenile Justice Reform Oversight Committee.
49-2-1001
Purpose; intent.
49-2-1002
Responsibilities of the Department of Human Services and Division of Juvenile Services of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety; programs and services; rehabilitation; cooperative agreements.
49-2-1003
Rehabilitative facilities for status offenders; requirements; educational instruction.
49-2-1004
The Juvenile Services Reimbursement Offender Fund; use; expenditures.
49-2-1005
Legal custody; law-enforcement agencies.
49-2-1006
Reporting requirements; cataloguing of services.