Chapter
Child Welfare
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-1— Title of article
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-3— Powers and duties of Department of Human Services; appeal to Director of Division of Family and Children’s Services for denial of foster care and/or adoption assistance
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-5— Administration of child welfare services
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-6— Criminal background checks and child abuse registry checks for providers of children’s services in residential setting; authority to exclude certain crimes as disqualifying from providing child care; penalties; administrative immunity
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-7— County department authorized to provide protective services; appropriation of funds
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-9— Article inapplicable to orphans’ homes, etc
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-11— Expenditure of county and municipal moneys for support and maintenance of homeless and destitute children
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-13— Foster care placement program; objectives; system of individualized plans and reviews; training program for persons who provide foster care and relative care; placement priorities and goals; changes in placement; notice to families; rights and responsibilities of persons who provide foster care and relative care
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-14— Emergency placement of children in home care; performance of federal name-based criminal history records check of all adults residing in placement home
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-15— Registry of children in custody of State Department of Public Welfare and public or private agencies
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-17— Payments for supportive services; relative care payments
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-19— Adoption resource exchange registry
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-21— Penalty for releasing confidential information
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-23— “Placing Out”; defined
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-25— Elected officials as foster parents; payments on behalf of foster child
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-51— Formation of multidisciplinary child protection teams to evaluate and investigate reports of commercial sexual exploitation, human trafficking, child abuse and neglect; membership; order of Youth Court prerequisite to formation of teams; participation by experts and child advocacy centers; disclosure of information obtained from task force meetings prohibited
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-101— Purpose
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-103— Definitions
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-105— Division of Family and Children’s Services to be licensing authority; duties
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-107— Licensure requirements
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-109— Information on application for license; information received through reports, complaints, investigations and inspections classified as “public”
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-111— Exemptions from licensure requirements
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-113— Reinstatement of license following revocation
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-115— Inspections of facilities
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-117— General restrictions; advertising restrictions; no licensing requirement for attorney providing legal services in connection with adoption; regulation of fees; written disclosure of fees and charges
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-119— Disciplinary proceedings
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-121— Injunctions
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-123— Criminal penalties
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-125— Immunity for Department of Human Services and its employees
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-201— Emergency medical services provider to take possession of certain abandoned children; guarantee of anonymity of parent surrendering baby under baby drop-off law
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-203— Notification to Department of Human Services that provider has taken possession of abandoned child; department to assume care, control, and custody of child upon receipt of notification
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-205— Affirmative defense to crime of child abandonment
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-207— Definition of “emergency medical services provider.”
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-209— Immunity from liability
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-301— Definitions
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-303— Operators of child care service prohibited from employing registered sex offenders; penalties for violations
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-305— Registered sex offenders prohibited from owning or operating child care services; penalties for violations
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-307— Registered sex offenders prohibited from working for or volunteering at child care services; penalties for violations
- Miss. Code Ann. § 43-15-401— Investigation of missing children; policies; procedures