Section 1502.6 Of Article 1. General Provisions From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 1.
1502.6
. The department shall deny a private adoption agency a
license, or revoke an existing private adoption agency license,
unless the applicant or licensee demonstrates that it currently and
continuously employs either an executive director or a supervisor who
has had at least five years of full-time social work employment in
the field of child welfare as described in Chapter 5 (commencing with
Section 16500) of Part 4 of Division 9 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code or Division 13 (commencing with Section 8500) of
the Family Code, two years of which shall have been spent performing
adoption social work services in either the department or a licensed
California adoption agency.