7 AAC 56.070. Application for license

(a) If an orientation and pre-service training program is available in the community, the licensing representative may require an applicant for a license to operate an agency under this chapter to attend the program. If the applicant does not complete any required program, the licensing representative shall suspend processing the application, until the requirement is met.

(b) An applicant for a license to operate an agency under this chapter shall

(1) submit the application on forms provided by the division, including the release forms specified in (4) of this subsection;

(2) comply with statutes and regulations setting out division procedures;

(3) initiate the application in the name of the individual or legal entity responsible for the operation of the agency; and

(4) submit release forms completed by the administrator or candidate to be the administrator of the agency; the release forms shall authorize the licensing representative to

(A) review criminal justice information;

(B) review protective service records;

(D) request a health, probation, or mental health evaluation, if considered necessary by the division to evaluate whether the administrator or candidate to be the administrator of the agency meets the requirements of AS 47.35 and this chapter; and

(E) share this information with the applicant for a license or licensee, to the extent permitted by state or federal law.

(c) An application for a license to operate an agency must contain the following items, as applicable to each type of child placement:

(1) information required by AS 47.35.017 (b);

(2) a copy of enabling legislation, charter, partnership agreement, constitution, or articles of incorporation for the applicant, if the applicant is a legal entity;

(3) the phone number and electronic mail address, if any, of the agency and of the applicant, including each person who has an ownership or management interest in the agency;

(4) the name, address, phone number, electronic mail address, if any, and title of the chief executive officer of the unit or subunit of government, if the applicant is a government unit;

(5) names, phone numbers, electronic mail addresses, if any, and mailing addresses of four references for the applicant;

(6) fingerprint cards for the administrator of an agency and other persons as required to submit under AS 47.35.017 (b) and 7 AAC 56.210(f) ;

(7) each type of child placement the agency will perform, such as foster care, guardianship, adoption, or residential child care placement;

(8) the number of anticipated child placements per year for each type of child placement;

(9) the number of foster, adoptive, and guardianship homes the agency anticipates evaluating per year;

(10) a request for a variance of this chapter, if applicable;

(11) the plan of operation for the agency, including an organization chart, staffing and other plans, policies, rules, program descriptions, schedules, forms, evaluation criteria, and similar material required by AS 47.35 and this chapter;

(12) other information required by the division on the application to enable the division to determine if the applicant meets the requirements of AS 47.35 and this chapter.

(d) An applicant for a provisional or a biennial license under AS 47.35 shall provide the information specified under (c) of this section as applicable to the type of child placements the agency performs.

(e) An application for a license must include a signed declaration by the applicant, or by a person authorized to submit the application on behalf of an applicant that is not an individual, certifying that the contents of the application and the information provided with it are true, accurate, and complete.

(f) An application is not complete unless it provides all of the information required by AS 47.35.017 (b) and this section, unless it is an application for biennial renewal of a license. If the application is an application for biennial renewal of a license, only the attachments to the application for the license that require updating must be submitted with the application for renewal.

(g) In this section, "management interest" includes membership on a governing board or body of the agency.

History: Eff. 1/1/2001, Register 156

Authority: AS 44.29.020

AS 47.35.010

AS 47.35.017

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