§ 5-507. License for child placement agency

   (a) Required. -- Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall be licensed by the Administration as a child placement agency before the person may engage in the placement of minor children in homes or with individuals.

(b) Exceptions. -- A license is not required:

   (1) for a person to place a child with an individual related to the child by blood or marriage within 4 degrees of consanguinity or affinity under the civil law rule;

   (2) except as provided in § 5-3B-12 of this title, for a parent or grandparent of a child to place the child directly, without the intervention of any other person except the recipient of the child; or

   (3) for a lawyer to prepare pleadings necessary to accomplish the adoption of a child or to perform any other function associated with the normal practice of law.

(c) Limitation. -- Repealed by Acts 2005, ch. 464, § 2, effective January 1, 2006.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 88A, § 20; 1984, ch. 296, § 2; 2005, ch. 464, § 2, 3.