California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions

Section 1596.70.
This chapter and Chapters 3.5 (commencing with Section 1596.90) and 3.6 (commencing with 1597.30) may be cited as the California Child Day Care Facilities Act.(Amended...
Section 1596.71.
This chapter applies to Chapters 3.5 (commencing with Section 1596.90) and 3.6 (commencing with Section 1597.30). This chapter also applies to Chapter 3.65 (commencing with...
Section 1596.72.
The Legislature finds all of the following:(a) That child day care facilities can contribute positively to a child’s emotional, cognitive, and educational development. (b) That...
Section 1596.73.
The purposes of this act are to:(a) Streamline the administration of child care licensing and thereby increase the efficiency and effectiveness of this system. (b)...
Section 1596.74.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this chapter and Chapters 3.5 (commencing with Section 1596.90) and...
Section 1596.75.
“Child” means a person who is under 18 years of age who is being provided care and supervision in a child day care facility, except...
Section 1596.750.a.
“Child day care facility” means a facility that provides nonmedical care to children under 18 years of age in need of personal services, supervision, or...
Section 1596.76.
“Day care center” means any child day care facility other than a family day care home, and includes infant centers, preschools, extended day care facilities,...
Section 1596.77.
“Department” means the State Department of Social Services.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1615, Sec. 9.)
Section 1596.770.a.
“Director” means the Director of Social Services.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1615, Sec. 9.)
Section 1596.771.
“Employer-sponsored child care center” means any child day care facility at the employer’s site of business operated directly or through a provider contract by any...
Section 1596.773.
(a) “Probation” means the period of time that a licensed child day care facility is required to comply with specific terms and conditions set forth by...
Section 1596.775.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) There is a severe shortage of child care for schoolage children throughout California, with many schoolage...
Section 1596.78.
(a) “Family day care home” means a home that regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for 14 or fewer children, in the provider’s own home,...
Section 1596.785.
“Nonminor student” means a person 18 years of age or older who qualifies as an individual with exceptional needs, as defined in Section 56026 of...
Section 1596.79.
“Person” means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or governmental entity, such as the state, a county, city, special district, school district, community...
Section 1596.790.a.
“Planning agency” means the agency designated pursuant to Section 65100 of the Government Code.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1615, Sec. 9.)
Section 1596.791.
“Provider” means a person who operates a child day care facility and is licensed pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1596.90) or 3.6 (commencing...
Section 1596.7915.
“Schoolage child care center” means a day care center or part of a day care center that provides nonmedical care and supervision, personal services, or...
Section 1596.792.
This chapter, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1596.90), and Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1597.30) do not apply to any of the following:(a) Any health facility,...
Section 1596.793.
This chapter and Chapters 3.5 (commencing with Section 1596.90) and 3.6 (commencing with Section 1597.30) do not apply to recreation programs conducted for children by...
Section 1596.794.
The department shall serve as the liaison to child day care facilities for the purposes of Sections 17608 to 17613, inclusive, of the Education Code.(Added...
Section 1596.795.
(a) The smoking of a tobacco product in a private residence that is licensed as a family day care home shall be prohibited in the home...
Section 1596.796.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, payments are not required to be made to any person who provides child care services and is exempt from...
Section 1596.797.
(a) Blood glucose testing for the purposes of monitoring a minor child diagnosed with diabetes may be performed in a child day care facility in...
Section 1596.798.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, licensees and staff of a child day care facility may administer inhaled medication to a child if all...
Section 1596.799.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 1597.05 or any other provision of law, any day care center that exclusively offers a program of services for which there is...
Section 1596.7995.
(a) (1) Commencing September 1, 2016, a person shall not be employed or volunteer at a day care center if he or she has not been immunized...

Last modified: October 22, 2018