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TN Code § 37-5-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-307. Commissioner — Powers and Duties

  The commissioner has the duty and responsibility to:  Promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the commissioner's responsibilities under this part;   Review and approve plans of operation submitted in accordance with § 37-5-310, with the concurrence of the comptroller of the treasury;   Enter into such contracts, subject to applicable rules and regulations and procedures, as necessary to carry out this part;   Appoint an executive director for each agency with such appointment subject to the approval of the agency board. Nothing in this subdivision (a)(4) shall prohibit a board from submitting recommendations to the commissioner for the appointment of an executive director;   Require each agency to submit annual reports on each preceding fiscal year to reflect the nature and extent of all financial transactions and to assure financial integrity; and   Perform other acts necessary or convenient to exercise the powers granted or reasonably implied in this part.     All rules concerning community service agencies promulgated by the commissioner of children's services prior to July 1, 2005, and in effect on March 12, 2014, shall remain in full force and effect and shall be administered by the department of finance and administration until duly amended, repealed, expired, modified or suspended.
TN Code § 37-5-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-308. Executive Director — Employees and Expenses

 The executive director, subject to approval of the board and approval of the plan of operation pursuant to § 37-5-310, has the authority to hire such employees and incur such expenses as may be necessary for proper discharge of the duties of the agency.
TN Code § 37-5-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-309. Contracts for Provisions of Health Care — Termination

  The agency shall, to the maximum extent possible, contract with private providers, clinics and local governments for the provision of services for the citizens of the state.   The agency shall terminate a contract under the following conditions:  Fraud or misappropriation of funds;   Delivery of services under the contract in a manner not consistent with the appropriate standard of care; or   Other reasons provided under the law and rules and regulations of the commissioner promulgated pursuant to this part.     Additionally, the agency shall have authority to terminate a contract for cause.
TN Code § 37-5-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-310. Plan of Operation

  At least ninety (90) days prior to the beginning of each state fiscal year, the board shall submit a plan of operation for review and approval to the commissioner and the comptroller of the treasury. The plan of operation shall be in such form as may be required by the department and shall include, but not be limited to, the following:  A budget for operating and capital expenditure;   Contracts for services;   Appropriate policies and procedures adopted by the board to govern the expenditures of funds; and   Other items as required by the department through rules and regulations.     The plan of operation may be amended during the fiscal year with the written approval of the commissioner and the comptroller of the treasury.
TN Code § 37-5-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-311. Disposition of Funds

  The executive director of each agency shall deposit with the state treasurer funds received from the United States treasury and other funds earned, given or granted to the agency, including state funds.   Such funds may be invested in the local government investment pool pursuant to title 9, chapter 4, part 7.   The board may establish such bank accounts pursuant to § 9-4-302, as are necessary for the efficient management of the agency.
TN Code § 37-5-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-312. Annual Reports

  Each board shall make an annual report to the governor and to the commissioner.   This report shall contain an accounting for all money received and expended, statistics on persons served during the year, recommendations and such other matters as the board deems pertinent.
TN Code § 37-5-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-313. Annual Audit — Accounting Records

  The comptroller of the treasury shall make an annual audit of the program established by this part as part of the comptroller's annual audit pursuant to § 9-3-211.   The community services agencies shall maintain all books and records in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and any additional accounting and reporting requirements published by the comptroller of the treasury. Such records shall be made available for inspection to the department and the comptroller of the treasury, upon request.
TN Code § 37-5-314 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-314. State Employees

 Employees of the community services agencies shall be considered “state employees” for purposes of § 9-8-307. Designated volunteers providing services under this part shall also be considered “state employees” for purposes of § 9-8-307; provided, that designated volunteers who are medical professionals providing direct health care pursuant to this part shall be considered “state employees” solely for the category of “professional liability” pursuant to § 9-8-307.
TN Code § 37-5-315 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-315. Construction — Generally

 This part shall be given the following construction:   This part shall be construed as remedial legislation and shall be given liberal construction to effectuate its purpose;   This part shall not be construed as creating an employer-employee relationship between the department, the community services agencies or their contractors; and   If any provision of this part or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the part that can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications, and to that end the provisions of this part are declared to be severable.
TN Code § 37-5-316 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-316. Participation in Retirement System

  Community services agencies shall be eligible to be participating employers in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system.   All liabilities owed by a community health agency and all assets of whatever kind and nature and wherever located, including, but not limited to, real property, personal property, cash, equipment and fund balances held in the name of a community health agency shall be transferred to the appropriate community services agency.   The employees of a community health agency shall be transferred to the appropriate community services agency, and such transfer shall not constitute a break in service for such employees.   No action taken pursuant to this act shall be deemed to change the structure of the organization, formerly known as a community health agency, for federal tax reporting purposes, nor reduce employees' benefit-related plans including, but not limited to, retirement plans, deferred compensation plans, cafeteria plans and health plans.   Contracts or leases entered into prior to May 21, 1996, by and between a community health agency and any entity shall continue in full force and effect as to all essential provisions in accordance with the terms and conditions of such contracts or leases as if such contracts or leases had originally been entered into by and between such entities and the appropriate community services agency, unless and until such contracts or leases are amended or modified by the parties thereto or until the expiration of such contracts or leases.
TN Code § 37-5-317 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-317. Transfer of Career Service Employees From Community Services Agencies to the Department of Children's Services or the Department of Health in Certain Communities

  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, including § 8-30-309, and recognizing the years of faithful and dedicated service to the state of Tennessee by the employees of the community services agencies, community services agency employees who serve in jobs that would be classified as career service, as formerly defined in § 8-30-208 [repealed and reenacted], had they been employed in the state service, and whose functions and positions are transferred to either the department of children's services or the department of health by each department's respective commissioner on or before June 30, 2006, shall be transferred into the department of children's services or the department of health. Such employees shall receive the benefits and protection of career service status and shall be eligible for participation in the state health insurance plan without further examination or competition.   All community service agency employees transferred to the department of children's services or the department of health, pursuant to this part, shall be subject to a minimum probationary period of six (6) months, beginning on the first day of service with the respective department, pursuant to §§ 8-30-312 and 8-30-314, unless the transferred community service agency employee has previously served the minimum six-month probationary period.   All such transfers shall take place no later than June 30, 2006.   Transfers of employees from the community services agencies to the department of children's services or the department of health, pursuant to this section, shall not result in any diminution, impairment or interruption of current salary, accrued sick and annual leave, seniority, participation in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or amounts already accrued under a deferred compensation plan; however, this shall not impair the department's authority, through establishing policies and procedures, to correct salary disparities through the promotional process.   Any employee so transferred shall be eligible for promotion pursuant to the provisions of title 8, chapter 30, after the transfer takes effect.   This section shall not apply to a county having a metropolitan form of government whose employees provide services for the community service agencies pursuant to § 37-5-304 .
TN Code § 37-5-318 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 3 - Community Services Agency Act of 1996|§ 37-5-318. Transfer of Employees From Community Services Agencies to the Department of Children's Services in Counties With a Metropolitan Form of Government

  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, including § 8-30-309, any county having a metropolitan form of government whose employees provide services for the community services agency, pursuant to § 37-5-304, and who serve in positions funded by the department of children's services may be transferred to the department of children's services by the commissioner, on or before June 30, 2006. Such employees shall receive the benefits and protection of career service status and shall be eligible for participation in the state health insurance plan without further examination or competition. Salaries of transferred employees of a county having a metropolitan form of government shall be within the appropriate salary range for state job classifications and shall be at least equal to, but not less than, the median salary of department of children's services employees in the county having a metropolitan form of government.   All employees of a county having a metropolitan form of government who provide services for the community services agency, pursuant to § 37-5-304, and who are transferred to the department of children's services, pursuant to this section, shall be subject to a minimum probationary period of six (6) months beginning on the first day of service with the department, pursuant to §§ 8-30-312 and 8-30-314, unless the transferred employee has previously served the minimum six-month probationary period.   All such transfers shall take place no later than June 30, 2006.
TN Code § 37-5-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 4 - Trafficking in Children|§ 37-5-401. Consent Required for Importation of Child

 No person, agency, association, institution or corporation shall bring or send into this state any child for the purpose of giving the child's custody to some person, institution, corporation or agency in the state, or procuring its adoption by some person in the state without first obtaining the written consent of the department of human services.   Williams, § 4727.1; impl. am. Acts 1975, ch. 219, § 1 (a, b); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 14-505, 14-9-201; T.C.A., § 71-3-401; Acts 1996, ch. 1079, § 157.   Law Reviews.   Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking and Forced Labor: Why Current Theories of Corporate Liability Do Not Work, 43 U. Mem. L. Rev. 1047 (2013).   Prosecuting Demand as a Crime of Human Trafficking: The Eighth Circuit Decision in United States v. Jungers, 43 U. Mem. L. Rev. 917 (2013).   Using Commercial Driver Licensing Authority to Combat Human Trafficking Related Crimes on America's Highways, 43 U. Mem. L. Rev. 969 (2013).
TN Code § 37-5-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 4 - Trafficking in Children|§ 37-5-402. Placement of Imported Child

  The person, agency or corporation with whom a child is placed for either of the purposes set out in § 37-5-401 shall be responsible for the child's proper care and training.   The department of human services, through its agents, shall permit the placing of such child only with a licensed child-caring or child-placing agency or maternity home or in a family home that has been studied and approved by the department's own agent.
TN Code § 37-5-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 4 - Trafficking in Children|§ 37-5-403. Bond on Importation of Child

  The department may in its discretion require of a person, agency, association, institution or corporation that brings or sends a child into the state, with the written consent of the department, as provided in § 37-5-401, a continuing bond in a sum not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000), nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), with such condition as may be prescribed and such sureties as may be approved by the department.   Such bond shall be made in favor of, and filed with, the department, with the premium prepaid by the person, agency, association, institution or corporation desiring to place such child in the state.
TN Code § 37-5-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 4 - Trafficking in Children|§ 37-5-404. Consent to Take Child Out of State

  No child shall be taken or sent out of the state for the purpose of placing the child in a foster home or in a child-caring institution without first obtaining the written consent of the department of human services.   All out-of-state placements shall be cleared with the proper authorities of the receiving state by the department.   The foster home or child-caring institution in which the child is placed shall report to the department at such times and through such agency and in such form as the department may direct as to the location and well-being of such child.   A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 37-5-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 4 - Trafficking in Children|§ 37-5-405. Penalty for Violations

 Every person acting for that person or for any agency who violates any of the provisions of this part, or any agency or corporation that, through its agents, violates any of the provisions of this part, or any person or agency that makes any false statements to the department of human services regarding the placement of such child, as herein set out, commits a Class A misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200), or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or by both fine and imprisonment.
TN Code § 37-5-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 4 - Trafficking in Children|§ 37-5-406. Exemption of Relatives of Child

 None of the provisions of this part shall apply when a child is brought into, or sent into, or taken out of, or sent out of the state, by a parent, stepparent, grandparent or other natural or legal guardian of the child.
TN Code § 37-5-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 5 - Child Care Agencies|§ 37-5-503. Program and Facilities Exempt From Licensing

 The following entities, facilities or programs are excluded from licensing or approval as child care agencies pursuant to this part:   All child care regulated by the departments of education or human services;   Public or private summer day camps or overnight camps such as those operated by the Boy or Girl Scouts, the YMCA or YWCA, by church or religious organizations or by organizations representing disabled children that operate less than ninety (90) days per year and other similar businesses or programs as determined by the department;   Entities or persons licensed or otherwise regulated by other agencies of the state or federal governments providing health, psychiatric or psychological care or treatment or mental health care or counseling for children while the entity or person is engaged in such licensed or regulated activity;   Schools and educational programs and facilities, the primary purpose of which is to provide a regular course of study necessary for advancement to a higher educational level or completion of a prescribed course of study, and that may, incident to such educational purpose, provide boarding facilities to the students of such programs; provided, that boarding schools that provide services intended to correct or ameliorate behaviors of youth that prevent or inhibit their ability to function normally in their home, community, or school, or agencies serving children as an alternative to their remaining in a dysfunctional or harmful home environment, shall not be exempted from licensure as a child care agency under this part; and   Orphanages or other similarly designated homes affiliated with, funded, and operated by a church or religious organization, which homes receive their principal financial support from such church or religious affiliation in counties having a population of not less than twelve thousand three hundred (12,300) nor more than twelve thousand three hundred fifty (12,350), according to the 1970 federal census.
TN Code § 37-5-504 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 5 - Child Care Agencies|§ 37-5-504. Preexisting Agencies Subject to Chapter

 All child caring institutions, child placing agencies and maternity homes chartered in this state prior to July 1, 2000, shall be subject to all of its requirements.
TN Code § 37-5-505 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 5 - Child Care Agencies|§ 37-5-505. Receiving Children

 Child caring institutions, and child placing agencies, family boarding homes, group care homes or foster homes, when licensed in accordance with this part, may receive needy or dependent children from their parents or legal guardians for special, temporary or continued care. The parents or guardians may sign releases or agreements giving to such institutions or agencies custody and control of the persons of such children during the period of such care, which may be extended until the children arrive at legal age, or they may surrender such children to a licensed child placing agency for purposes of adoption, such surrender to be in conformity with the provisions of the law governing the surrender of children for adoption.
TN Code § 37-5-506 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 5 - Child Care Agencies|§ 37-5-506. Selection and Supervision of Foster Homes

  Child placing agencies, in placing children in private families, shall safeguard their welfare by a thorough investigation of each applicant and its home and its environment, carefully select the home in which the child is placed, and personally and adequately supervise each home and child until the child is legally adopted or released.   All children placed in private families shall be, as far as it is practicable, placed with those of the same religious faith as the children themselves, or their parents.
TN Code § 37-5-507 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 5 - Child Care Agencies|§ 37-5-507. Unlicensed Placement of Children for Care or Adoption

  Private individuals, including midwives, physicians, nurses, hospital officials, lawyers and the officials of any nonchartered or nonlicensed child caring institution, child placing agency, or maternity home, are forbidden to engage in placing children for temporary care or for adoption.   A violation of this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
TN Code § 37-5-508 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 5 - Department of Children's Services|Part 5 - Child Care Agencies|§ 37-5-508. Injunctions Against Unlicensed Operations

  The department may, in accordance with the laws of the state of Tennessee governing injunctions, maintain an action in the name of the state of Tennessee to enjoin any person, partnership, association, corporation or other entity from establishing, conducting, managing or operating any place or facility providing services to children without having a license as required by law, or from continuing to operate any such place or facility following suspension of a license or following the effective date of the denial or revocation of a license.   In charging any defendant in a complaint for such injunction, it shall be sufficient to charge that such defendant did, upon a certain day and in a certain county, establish, conduct, manage or operate a place, home or facility of any kind that is a child care agency as defined in this part or to charge that the defendant is about to do so without having in effect a license as required by law, or that the defendant continues to operate any such place or facility following suspension of a license, or following the effective date of the denial or revocation of a license, without averring any further or more particular facts concerning the case. Refusal to obey the inspection order may be punished as contempt.