Arizona Administrative Code › Title 6 - ECONOMIC SECURITY › Chapter 5 - DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC SECURITY - SOCIAL SERVICES › Article 75 - APPEAL AND HEARING PROCEDURES FOR ADVERSE ACTION AGAINST FAMILY FOSTER HOMES, ADOPTION AGENCIES, FAMILY CHILD CARE HOME PROVIDERS, AND PERSONS LISTED ON THE CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL SYSTEM › Section R6-5-7501 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply in this Article.
1. "Adverse action" means:
a. Denial, suspension, or revocation of a child care
				  provider's certification, an adoption agency license, or a foster home license;
				  and
b. Exclusion from the child care resource and referral system
				  described in A.R.S. §
									41-1967.
2. "Administration" means the Department organizational unit
				  responsible for taking adverse action which is the subject of an appeal.
				  "Administration" includes the Division of Children, Youth, and Families and the
				  Child Care Administration.
3. "Adoption agency" has the meaning ascribed to "agency" in
				  A.R.S. §
									8-101(2).
4. "Appeals Board" means the Department's independent,
				  quasi-judicial, administrative appellate body, established under A.R.S. §
									23-672,
				  and authorized to review administrative decisions issued by hearing officers as
				  prescribed in A.R.S. §
									41-1992(D).
5. "Appellant" means a person who seeks a hearing with the
				  Office of Appeals to challenge adverse action taken by the Department.
6. "Child Care Administration" means the administrative unit
				  within the Department which is responsible for certification and supervision of
				  family child care home providers and administration of the Child Care Resource
				  and Referral System.
7. "Child Care Resource and Referral System," which is
				  sometimes referred to as "CCR&R," means the child care provider information
				  system which the Department administers under A.R.S. §
									41-1967.
8. "Department" means the Arizona Department of Economic
				  Security.
9. "Division of Children, Youth, and Families" means the
				  administrative unit in the Department responsible for licensing foster homes
				  and adoption agencies.
10. "Family child care home provider" has the meaning
				  prescribed in
				  R6-5-5201(29).
11. "Foster parent" has the meaning prescribed in A.R.S. §
									8-501(A)(5).
12. "Hearing officer" means an individual appointed by the
				  Department Director under A.R.S. §
									41-1992(A)
				   to conduct hearings when an appellant
				  challenges adverse action.
13. "Licensee" means a person:
a. Applying for a license as, or currently licensed as, a
				  foster parent or an adoption agency;
b. Applying for certification as, or certified as, a family
				  child care home provider; or
c. Listed on the Child Care Resource and Referral
				  System.
14. "Office of Appeals" means the Department's independent,
				  quasi-judicial, administrative hearing body which includes hearing officers
				  appointed under A.R.S. §
									41-1992(A).
15. "Person" means a natural person, partnership, joint
				  venture, company, corporation, firm, association, society, or
				  institution.