Title: Mecklenburg County Health OrdinanceRules Governing Child Day Care Homes
Headings: Mecklenburg County Health OrdinanceRules Governing Child Day Care Homes
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Mecklenburg County Health OrdinanceRules Governing Child Day Care Homes
SECTION 1: PURPOSE
SECTION 2: DEFINITIONS
SECTION 3: REGISTRATION/OPERATION PERMIT
SECTION 4: BUILDING CODE REQUIREMENTS
SECTION 5: ZONING REQUIREMENTS
SECTION 6: FOOD SUPPLIES AND PROTECTION
SECTION 7: PROVIDERS
SECTION 8: FOOD SERVICE UTENSILS AND EQUIPMENT
SECTION 9: WATER SUPPLIES
SECTION 10: LIQUID WASTES
SECTION 12: TOILETS
SECTION 13: LAVATORIES
SECTION 14: DIAPERING AND DIAPER CHANGING FACILITIES
SECTION 15: ANIMAL & VERMIN CONTROL: PREMISES
SECTION 16: STORAGE; MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 17: BEDS, LINEN, AND FURNITURE
SECTION 18: FLOORS, WALLS, AND CEILINGS
SECTION 19: SWIMMING AND WADING POOLS
SECTION 20: INSPECTIONS AND COMPLIANCE
SECTION 21: FALSE INFORMATION
SECTION 22: PENALTIES AND REMEDIES
SECTION 23: SEVERABILITY
SECTION 24: PRIOR RULES REPEALED
SECTION 25: EFFECTIVE DATE
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Content: DEFINITIONS
(a) "Approved" means determined by the Director to be in compliance with this Ordinance. (b) "Board of Health" or "Board" means the Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners acting as the Board of Health pursuant to North Carolina General Statute 153A-77. (c) "Child Day Care" means any child care facility, except seasonal recreational programs operated for less than four consecutive months in a year, wherein three or more children less than 13 years old receive care away from their own home by persons other than their parents, step parents, grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, great aunts, great uncles, brothers, sisters, first cousins, guardians, or full-time custodians, or in the child's own home where other unrelated children are in care. Child day care does not include facilities that provide only drop-in or short-term child care for parents participating in activities that are not employment related and where the parents are on the premises or otherwise easily accessible, such as drop-in or short-term child care offered in health spas, bowling alleys, shopping malls, resort hotels, and churches. (d) "Child Day Care Home" means any day care program or child care facility wherein any person not excluded in Section 2 (c) provides day care on a regular basis of at least once per week for more than four hours per day for more than two children under 13 years of age but not to exceed a maximum of eight children at any one time, wherever operated, and whether or not operated for profit. Of the children present at any one time, no more than five children shall be pre-school aged. The four hour time limit applies regardless of the time of day and regardless of whether the same or different children attend. Cooperative arrangements among parents to provide care for their own children as a convenience rather than for employment are not included. To determine whether a child care facility is a child day care home, all children shall be counted except the operator's own school-aged children and school-aged children who reside at the location of the child day care home. (e) "Director" means the Health Director for Mecklenburg County.