Chapter 65: Public Health

Article 5: Maternity Centers And Child Care Facilities

Statute 65-517: Family day care home defined. (a) "Family day care home" means a place maintained for the purpose of providing children with food or lodging, or both, away from such children's home or homes, for less than 24 hours a day, if:

      (1)   Not more than six of the children cared for at such place are less than 16 years of age; and

      (2)   not more than three of the children cared for at such place are less than 18 months of age.

      (b)   Any child of a person maintaining a place referred to in subsection (a) shall count toward the limitations of subsection (a) if such child is less than 12 years of age and is cared for at such place.

      (c)   A person shall not be considered to be maintaining a family day care home as defined in subsection (a), if only children who are related by blood, marriage or legal adoption to such person are cared for.

      History:   L. 1980, ch. 184, § 3; L. 1994, ch. 279, § 16; July 1.