Georgia § 20-1A-36 - Certain offenders prohibited as employees of facilities.
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§ 20-1A-36. Certain offenders prohibited as employees of facilities.
No licensed, commissioned, or permitted facility operated as an early care and education program or similar facility or any operator of such a facility shall allow any person who has been convicted of or who has entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any offense specified in Code Section 16-12-1.1 to be present at a facility while children are present for care or allow any such person to reside in or be domiciled at such facility in violation of Code Section 16-12-1.1. The department shall either deny the issuance of or revoke the license, commission, or registration of any such facility violating the provisions of this Code section. The powers and duties set forth in this Code section are cumulative and not intended to limit the powers and duties set forth throughout this article. (Code 1981, § 20-1A-36 , enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 645, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 285, § 2/HB 350; Ga. L. 2015, p. 965, § 2/HB 401; Ga. L. 2018, p. 1101, § 8/HB 494.) The 2015 amendment, effective January 1, 2016, in the first sentence, inserted "licensed, commissioned, or permitted" at the beginning, substituted "allow" for "employ" near the beginning, and inserted "to reside in an early care and education program or be present at an early care and education program while children are present for care" near the middle. The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, in the first sentence, substituted "be present at a facility" for "reside in an early care and education program or be present at an early care and education program" and substituted "reside in" for "reside at".
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