A. All specialized providers, including facilities owned or operated by any governmental, profit, nonprofit, private, or church agency, shall be licensed.  Specialized provider licenses shall be of two types: Type I and Type IV.

B.  Child-placing agencies within the Department of Children and Family Services shall be exempt from the provisions of this Chapter.  The department is authorized and mandated to perform its child-placing functions in accordance with the standards promulgated by the department for licensed child-placing agencies.

Acts 1985, No. 286, §1; Acts 2004, No. 915, §1; Acts 2009, No. 400, §2, eff. July 7, 2009; Acts 2010, No. 64, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 2010; Acts 2010, No. 877, §3, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2013, No. 179, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 868, §5, eff. Oct. 1, 2014.