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SECTION 24: PRIOR RULES REPEALED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: SECTION 1: PURPOSE
The following rules are enacted for the purpose of protecting the health and safety of children receiving child care away from their own homes in Mecklenburg County. This is accomplished by establishing minimum health and safety standards to be met by individuals providing care for up to 5 children in residential settings. The information contained in the inspection reports will also be useful to parents seeking to make informed decisions about new childcare arrangements. SECTION 2: 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.