The department shall have the right and its authorized representatives shall be afforded reasonable opportunity, to inspect any child-care facility seeking a license or an approval or a six-month permit pursuant to this chapter, any child-care facility seeking a renewal of a license or an approval or a six-month permit pursuant to this chapter and any child-care facility which is operating under a license or an approval or a six-month permit issued pursuant to this chapter. Such inspection shall include, but not be limited to, premises, services, personnel, program, accounts and records, interviews with agents and employees of the child-care facility being inspected and interviews with any child or other person within the custody or control of said child-care facility. Such inspection shall be made at any reasonable time, without prior notice, and as often as necessary to enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter. It shall be the duty of the department, through its agents, to conduct the inspections authorized hereinabove. If any such inspection of a licensed or approved child-care facility discloses any condition, deficiency, dereliction or abuse which is, or could be, hazardous to the health, the safety or the physical, moral or mental well-being of the children in the care of the child-care facility being inspected, the same shall at once be brought to the attention of the department, and the department shall have the power to revoke without notice the license or approval or six-month permit of such child-care facility. In this event, the child-care facility shall not operate during the pendency of any proceeding for fair hearing or judicial review, except under court order.
Structure Code of Alabama
Section 38-7-11 - Inspection of Facilities.
Section 38-7-12 - Advertisements.
Section 38-7-13 - Records to Be Kept by Child-Care Facility; Use and Disclosure of Information.
Section 38-7-14 - Reports by Child-Care Facility.
Section 38-7-14.1 - Educational Information on Influenza Disease and Vaccine.
Section 38-7-16 - Penalties; Burden of Proof of Relationship.
Section 38-7-17 - Duty of District Attorney to Enforce Chapter or Prosecute Violations.
Section 38-7-18 - Mandatory State Subsidized Child Day-Care Services Program.
Section 38-7-19 - Powers of Department as to Transitional Living Facilities.