Title 722, CHILDREN

Sec. 9. (1) A licensee, adult member of the household, licensee designee, chief administrator, or program director of a child care organization shall not be present in a child care organization if he or she has been convicted of either of the following: (a) Child abuse under sect…

Sec. 10. (1) The department may investigate, inspect, and examine conditions of a child care organization and may investigate and examine the licensee's books and records. The licensee must cooperate with the department's investigation, inspection, and examination by doing all of…

Sec. 10a. (1) A child placing agency shall not solicit or accept a contribution from a prospective adoptive parent unless the contribution is equivalent in value to the cost of, and tendered as payment for, an adoption service actually performed for the prospective adoptive paren…

Sec. 11. (1) An original license shall not be granted under this act if issuing the license would substantially contribute to an excessive concentration of community residential facilities within a city, village, township, or county of this state. (2) The department may deny, rev…

Sec. 11a. The director of the department shall notify the clerk of the city, village, or township and the legislature of the location of new and existing licensed child caring institution or foster family group home within the boundaries of the cities, villages, and townships in …

Sec. 11b. (1) The department shall establish and maintain a database of child care centers, family child care homes, and group child care homes. The database must include, at a minimum, all of the following information: (a) The name, address, and telephone number of the child car…

Sec. 11c. (1) In the case of a disaster, a child care center, group child care home, or family child care home may temporarily operate at an unlicensed location under this section. The requirements to temporarily operate at an unlicensed location under this section are as follows…

Sec. 12. A person aggrieved by the decision of the director following a hearing under section 7a or 11 may appeal as provided in chapter 6 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.301 to 24.306.

Sec. 13. (1) The department may bring an action for injunctive relief in the circuit court for the county in which the person resides or in the circuit court for Ingham County, to enjoin a violation or threatened violation of this act or a rule promulgated under this act. An affi…

Sec. 13a. (1) In the case of a child in foster care who is placed in a qualified residential treatment program, the following requirements apply: (a) Within 30 days after the start of each placement in a qualified residential treatment program, a qualified individual must do all …

Sec. 14. Only a parent, guardian of the person of a child, a person related to a child by blood, marriage, or adoption, a child placing agency, or a governmental unit may place a child in the control and care of a person. This section does not prevent foster parents from placing …

Sec. 14a. (1) A probate court, a child placing agency, or the department may consent to routine, nonsurgical medical care, or emergency medical and surgical treatment of a minor child placed in out-of-home care under the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.1 to 400.119b, the…

Sec. 14b. As used in this section and sections 14c and 14d: (a) "Adoption attorney" means that term as defined in section 22 of the Michigan adoption code, MCL 710.22. (b) "Adoption facilitator" means a child placing agency or an adoption attorney who assists biological parents o…

Sec. 14c. (1) Not later than 10 days after the entry of an order of adoption under section 56 of the Michigan adoption code, MCL 710.56, the primary adoption facilitator for that adoption shall file with the probate court a completed public information form setting forth informat…

Sec. 14d. (1) The department shall develop a public information form for the reporting of the following nonconfidential information: (a) The name and address of the primary adoption facilitator. (b) The type of adoption, as follows: (i) Direct placement or agency placement. (ii) …

Sec. 14e. (1) The legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) When it is necessary for a child in this state to be placed with an adoptive or foster family, placing the child in a safe, loving, and supportive home is a paramount goal of this state. (b) As of Septembe…

Sec. 14f. (1) If the department makes a referral to a child placing agency for foster care case management or adoption services under a contract with the child placing agency, the child placing agency may decide not to accept the referral if the services would conflict with the c…

Sec. 15. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person, child care organization, agency, or representative or officer of a firm, a corporation, an association, or an organization who violates this act is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by the following: (a) A fine of not …

Sec. 16. The department shall provide continuous education to the public in regard to the requirements of this act through the ongoing use of mass media and other methods as are considered appropriate.

Sec. 17. Nothing in the rules adopted pursuant to this act shall authorize or require medical examination, immunization, or treatment for any child whose parent objects thereto on religious grounds.

Sec. 17a. (1) If the conditions prescribed in subsection (2) are met, notwithstanding any children's camp policy to the contrary, a minor child may possess and use 1 or more of the following at the children's camp, on camp-sponsored transportation, or at any activity, event, or p…

Sec. 18. Act No. 47 of the Public Acts of 1944, being sections 722.101 to 722.108 of the Compiled Laws of 1970, is repealed.