Kentucky Statutes 199.650 – Authorized activities of child-caring facilities or child-placing agencies — Child-caring facility to designate on-site official to apply reasonable and prudent parent standard
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(1) Any licensed child-caring facility or child-placing agency may contract to provide care, maintenance, and services for a child in accordance with the terms of its license.
(2) Any licensed child-caring facility or child-placing agency may receive children committed to its custody and provide care and services for the child until the child is discharged from custody pursuant to law.
(3) Each licensed child-caring facility shall designate an on-site official who is trained and authorized to apply the reasonable and prudent parent standard as defined in KRS § 199.011 in accordance with 42 U.S.C. § 671.
Effective: July 15, 2016
History: Amended 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2016. — Amended
1972 Ky. Acts ch. 153, sec. 3. — Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 28.
(2) Any licensed child-caring facility or child-placing agency may receive children committed to its custody and provide care and services for the child until the child is discharged from custody pursuant to law.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 199.650
- Child: means any person who has not reached his eighteenth birthday. See Kentucky Statutes 199.011
- Child-caring facility: means any institution or group home, including institutions and group homes that are publicly operated, providing residential care on a twenty-four (24) hour basis to children, not related by blood, adoption, or marriage to the person maintaining the facility, other than an institution or group home certified by an appropriate agency as operated primarily for educational or medical purposes, or a residential program operated or contracted by the Department of Juvenile Justice that maintains accreditation, or obtains accreditation within two (2) years of opening from a nationally recognized accrediting organization. See Kentucky Statutes 199.011
- Child-placing agency: means any agency licensed by the cabinet, which supervises the placement of children in foster family homes or child-caring facilities, or which places children for adoption. See Kentucky Statutes 199.011
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
(3) Each licensed child-caring facility shall designate an on-site official who is trained and authorized to apply the reasonable and prudent parent standard as defined in KRS § 199.011 in accordance with 42 U.S.C. § 671.
Effective: July 15, 2016
History: Amended 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2016. — Amended
1972 Ky. Acts ch. 153, sec. 3. — Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 28.