A license or approval may be denied or its renewal refused whenever the commissioner is satisfied that the family child care provider or staff fails to substantially comply with the regulations prescribed by the commissioner or conducts, operates or maintains a family child care home in a manner which endangers the health, safety and welfare of the children receiving family child care services.
Summary suspension of a family child care home license or approval, pending proceedings for revocation or other action, including the completion of a Department of Children and Families investigation, may be ordered pursuant to subsection (c) of section 4-182 of the Connecticut General Statutes, whenever the commissioner finds that the health, safety, or welfare of children in care requires emergency action and incorporates a finding to that effect in his order.
The provider or staff may, not more than thirty days after receipt of a notice of proposed agency action by the commissioner, send a written request to the commissioner requesting a hearing and setting forth the reasons why the provider or staff claims to be aggrieved. The Office's hearing procedures are governed by applicable provisions of the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act and applicable Rules of Practice. In the absence of a timely request for a hearing one or more disciplinary actions under subsection (a) of this section shall be imposed by the commissioner.
In all cases where a summary suspension order of a license or approval has been issued in conjunction with a notice of proposed agency action, the provider shall so notify the parents of all children who would be expected to use the family child care home during the period of suspension. Such notification shall also be required when so ordered by the commissioner in any notice of proposed agency action, which does not contain a summary suspension order. The notification described in this section shall be given not later than twenty-four hours after receipt by the provider of the notice of proposed agency action. Nothing in this section shall prevent the Office from directly notifying parents of children in care.
Any person or officer of an association, organization or corporation who shall establish, conduct, maintain or operate a family child care home without a current and valid license or in violation of sections 19a-87b-1 to 19a-87b-18, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies is subject to a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars per day for each day that such family child care home is operated without a license or is in violation of sections 19a-87b-1 to 19a-87b-18, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies pursuant to sections 19a-79(b) and 19a-87c of the Connecticut General Statutes.
When evidence indicates that the provider is operating a family child care home without a valid license or in violation of sections 19a-87b-1 to 19a-87b-18, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the commissioner may request the Attorney General to bring an action in the Superior Court for the judicial district in which the family child care home is located, to enjoin the provider from maintaining the family child care home without a license or in violation of sections 19a-87b-1 to 19a-87b-18, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies pursuant to section 19a-87d of the Connecticut General Statutes.
Conn. Agencies Regs. § 19a-87b-15