The department may revoke or refuse to issue or renew the license or registration certificate of any child welfare agency if the owner or operator of the agency, a staff member, a member of the facility owner’s family residing at the facility, or any other resident of the facility has been found guilty of an offense involving abuse or neglect of a child or violence against a person or who has a substantiated report of abuse or neglect as defined by the department by rule or whose name appears on a report from any other state’s central registry of abuse or neglect.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 26-6-23.1

  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

Source: SL 1988, ch 211, § 2; SL 1989, ch 225; SL 1991, ch 217, § 172; SL 1992, ch 181.