Section 43-15-111 - Exemptions from licensure requirementsThe provisions of this article do not apply to:
(a) A facility or program owned or operated by an agency of the State of Mississippi or United States government;(b) A facility or program operated by or under an exclusive contract with the Department of Corrections;(c) 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 which may, incident to such educational purposes, provide boarding facilities to the students of such programs.(d) Any residential child-caring agency and/or child-placing agency operated or conducted under the auspices of a religious institution and meeting the requirements or conditions of this section shall be exempt from the licensure requirements of this article under the following conditions: (i) such religious institution must have a tax-exempt status as a nonprofit religious institution in accordance with Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, or the real property owned and exclusively occupied by the religious institution must be exempt from location taxation, and (ii) the agency or institution must be in compliance with the requirements of the Child Residential Home Notification Act, Section 43-16-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, and must not be in violation of Section 43-16-21(c) regarding the abuse and/or neglect of any child served by such home who has been adjudicated by the youth court as an abused and/or neglected child. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit a residential child-caring agency or child-placing agency operated by or conducted under the auspices of a religious institution from obtaining a license pursuant to this article.(e) Placement of custody under a power of attorney executed under Section 93-31-1 et seq. Laws, 2000, ch. 379, § 6, eff. 7/1/2000.Amended by Laws, 2016, ch. 501, SB 2493, 5, eff. 7/1/2016.Amended by Laws, 2016, ch. 494, SB 2179, 2, eff. 7/1/2016.