GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1213

Short Title:  Neighbor Child Care Law.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Brawley; Grady and Decker.
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Referred to:  Human Resources.
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April 12, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE AN EXEMPTION FROM ALL CHILD DAY CARE HOME REGULATION FOR NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS WITH CHILD CARE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 110-86(4) reads as rewritten:
  	" (4)	‘Child Day Care Home' means any day care program or child care arrangement wherein any person not excluded in G.S. 110-86(2) 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 and fewer than six children at any one time, wherever operated, and whether or not operated for profit.  The four hour 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 arrangement 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 day care home.  Notwithstanding the limitation to five children prescribed above, the day care home operator may care for three additional school-aged children.
	Notwithstanding the above, no State registration or regulation is required of neighbors who keep four or fewer children in their homes, not including their own, if the people whose children they are keeping approve of the method used for care of their children, and if the neighbors keeping the children do not apply for or receive any State assistance to enable them to maintain their child caring."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.