{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-4-1402","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 4-1402","heading":"“Child-placing agency” defined; license required.","body":"(a)\nAny person, firm, corporation, association, or public agency that receives or accepts a child under 16 years of age and places or offers to place such child for temporary or permanent care in a family home other than that of a relative within the third degree shall be deemed to be maintaining a child-placing agency. No child-placing agency shall be maintained in the District of Columbia without a license issued by the Mayor of the District of Columbia; provided, that notwithstanding any provisions of § 4-1404 such a license shall be issued forthwith to any corporation or association chartered by special act of Congress and having under its charter the purposes or powers of a child-placing agency as herein defined.\n\n(b)\nAny license issued pursuant to this section shall be issued as a Public Health: Child Health and Welfare endorsement to a basic business license under the basic business license system as set forth in subchapter I-A of Chapter 28 of Title 47.","path":["Title 4. Public Care Systems.","Chapter 14. Placement of Children in Family Homes.","Subchapter I. General."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/4-1402","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"7b759580345ddd0208042ffe4a49e5f4e09d8bd765866f7520e7f54e2c5b3044","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-4-1401","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-4-1403"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}