(a)
The registration of a child care home may be revoked by the department of community
& human services if it is determined that the home is in violation of applicable fire
or building codes, that any person providing or assisting in the provision of child
care services or an adult living in the home has been convicted of a barrier crime
or offense described in section 63.2-1719 of the Virginia Code (1950) as amended,
or any person living in the home, age 14 or older, has been the subject of a founded
case of child abuse or neglect, that the home has served more children than the maximum
number listed in its registration, that permission to inspect the home during any
time the home is scheduled to provide child care has been denied, that the home has
represented its registration as constituting official city approval of the child care
services it is providing, that the applicant has misrepresented or provided false
information on or in conjunction with the application for the home, that the home
is not complying with all requirements imposed by the regulations issued pursuant
to section 12-3-4, or that the home is not being operated in a manner consistent with the health, safety
and welfare of the children it is serving.
(b)
No registration may be revoked without 10 days written notice to the operator, at
the address listed on the registration, which shall contain a statement of the reasons
why the registration is being revoked. Unless the health, safety and welfare of the
children being served by the home is immediately threatened, the notice shall inform
the applicant-operator that he or she has 10 days within which to remove the reasons
for the revocation or to establish that such reasons either do not exist or do not
warrant the revocation of the registration. The notice shall also inform the applicant-operator
that, prior to the expiration of this 10-day period, he or she may meet with the director
of the department of community & human services, or a designee, in order to present
reasons why the registration should not be revoked. In the event that the reasons
for the revocation have not been removed or negated within the 10-day period, the
department shall revoke the registration. (Ord. No. 3493, 1/12/91, Sec. 4; Ord. No.
4559, 9/13/08, Sec. 2; Ord. No. 5022, 6/18/16, Sec. 9)
