Terms Used In Michigan Laws 722.125

  • Child care organization: means a governmental or nongovernmental organization having as its principal function receiving minor children for care, maintenance, training, and supervision, notwithstanding that educational instruction may be given. See Michigan Laws 722.111
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Conviction: means a final conviction, the payment of a fine, a plea of guilty or nolo contendere if accepted by the court, a finding of guilt for a criminal law violation or a juvenile adjudication or disposition by the juvenile division of probate court or family division of circuit court for a violation that if committed by an adult would be a crime, or a conviction in a tribal court or a military court. See Michigan Laws 722.111
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Department: means the department of health and human services and the department of licensing and regulatory affairs or a successor agency or department responsible for licensure under this act. See Michigan Laws 722.111
  • Family child care home: means a private home in which 1 but fewer than 7 minor children are received for care and supervision for compensation for periods of less than 24 hours a day, unattended by a parent or legal guardian, except children related to an adult member of the household. See Michigan Laws 722.111
  • Group child care home: means a private home in which more than 6 but not more than 12 minor children are given care and supervision for periods of less than 24 hours a day unattended by a parent or legal guardian, except children related to an adult member of the household. See Michigan Laws 722.111
  • Licensee: means a person, legal entity organized under a law of this state, state or local government, or trust that has been issued a license under this act to operate a child care organization. See Michigan Laws 722.111
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  (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 less than $100.00 or more than $1,000.00 for a violation of section 3b, 3c, or 3d.
  (b) For a violation not described in either subdivision (a) or subsection (2), a fine of not less than $100.00 or more than $1,000.00, or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both.
  (2) If a person, family child care home, group child care home, agency, or representative or officer of a firm, a corporation, an association, or an organization intentionally violates a licensing rule for family and group child care homes promulgated under this act and in effect on January 1, 2017, and that violation causes the death of a child, the person, family child care home, group child care home, agency, or representative or officer of a firm, a corporation, an association, or an organization is guilty of second degree child abuse described in section 136b of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.136b, and punishable as provided in that section. In addition to any other penalty imposed, its license shall be permanently revoked.
  (3) If a person, child care organization, agency, or representative or officer of a firm, a corporation, an association, or an organization is convicted under this act, the conviction is sufficient ground for the revocation of its license, and the person, child care organization, agency, or representative or officer of a firm, a corporation, an association, or an organization convicted shall not be granted a license, or be permitted to be connected, directly or indirectly, with a licensee or a registrant for a period of not less than 5 years after the conviction, except as provided in subsection (2).
  (4) A person, child care organization, agency, or representative or officer of a firm, a corporation, an association, or an organization who has a license or certificate of registration revoked, application denied, renewal refused, or, before the effective date of the 2017 amendatory act that amended this subsection, certificate of registration revoked or refused renewal or application denied may be refused a license, or be prohibited from being connected, directly or indirectly, with a licensee for a period of not less than 5 years after the revocation, denial, or refusal to renew. The department, in its discretion, is not required to accept an application from a person, child care organization, agency, or representative or officer of a firm, a corporation, an association, or an organization described in this subsection. The department may reject the application on its face without taking further action after notifying the applicant of the rejection and the reason for the rejection.
  (5) As used in this section, “certificate of registration” means the written document issued previously under this act to a family child care home through registration.