Ohio Revised Code Search

... representatives on or before the first day of January of each year, beginning in 1999.

...(A) All type A family child care homes and licensed type B family child care homes shall procure and maintain one of the following: (1) Liability insurance issued by an insurer authorized to do business in this state under Chapter 3905. of the Revised Code insuring the type A or type B family child care home against liability arising out of, or in connection with, the operation of the family child care home. The i...

...(A) The department of children and youth may suspend, without a prior hearing, the license of a child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home if any of the following occur: (1) A child dies or suffers a serious injury while receiving child care in the center, type A home, or licensed type B home. (2) A public children services agency receives a report pursuant to se...

...parents not later than fifteen business days after the department informs the licensee of the department's determination. If the licensee requests a review of the department's determination, the licensee shall notify caretaker parents not later than five business days after the department has completed its review. (2) The notice shall include a statement informing each caretaker parent of the web site maintained b...

...(A) The director of children and youth shall issue a license or provisional license for the operation of a child care center, if the director finds, after investigation of the applicant and inspection of the center, that other requirements of this chapter, rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter, and the following requirements are met: (1) The buildings in which the center is housed, subsequent to any major mod...

...(A)(1) The department of commerce is responsible for the inspections of child care centers as required by division (A)(1) of section 5104.05 of the Revised Code. Where there is a municipal, township, or county building department certified under section 3781.10 of the Revised Code to exercise enforcement authority with respect to the category of building occupancy which includes child care centers, all inspections re...

...The director of children and youth, in cooperation with the fire marshal pursuant to section 3737.22 of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules regarding fire prevention and fire safety in licensed type B family child care homes. In accordance with those rules, the director shall inspect each type B home that applies to be licensed that is providing or is to provide publicly funded child care.

...As a precondition of approval by the department of education and workforce pursuant to section 3313.813 of the Revised Code for receipt of United States department of agriculture child and adult care food program funds established under the "National School Lunch Act," 60 Stat. 230 (1946), 42 U.S.C. 1751, as amended, the provider of child care in a type B family child care home that is not licensed by the director of...

...Any type B family child care home, whether licensed or not licensed by the director of children and youth, shall be considered to be a residential use of property for purposes of municipal, county, and township zoning and shall be a permitted use in all zoning districts in which residential uses are permitted. No municipal, county, or township zoning regulations shall require a conditional use permit or any other spe...

...(A) The director of children and youth shall provide consultation, technical assistance, and training to child care centers, type A family child care homes, and type B family child care homes to improve programs and facilities providing child care. As part of these activities, the director shall provide assistance in meeting the requirements of this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter and shall furnish...

...(A) The director of children and youth may prescribe additional requirements for licensing child care centers or type A family child care homes that provide publicly funded child care pursuant to this chapter and any rules adopted under it. The director shall develop standards as required by federal laws and regulations for child care programs supported by federal funds. (B)(1) The department of children and youth...

...The department of children and youth shall employ at least one senior-level, full-time employee who shall manage and oversee all child care functions under the authority of the department.

...licensed type B home, or approved child day camp upon the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, or national origin.

...No employer shall discharge, demote, suspend, or threaten to discharge, demote, suspend, or in any manner discriminate against any employee based solely on the employee taking any of the following actions: (A) Making any good faith oral or written complaint to the director of children and youth or other agency responsible for enforcing Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code regarding a violation of this chapter or the ...

...(A)(1) A county director of job and family services may certify in-home aides to provide publicly funded child care pursuant to this chapter and any rules adopted under it. Any in-home aide who receives a certificate pursuant to this section to provide publicly funded child care is an independent contractor and is not an employee of the county department of job and family services that issues the certificate. (2) ...

...The department of children and youth shall prepare a guide describing the state statutes and rules governing the licensure of type B family child care homes. The department may publish the guide electronically or otherwise and shall do so in a manner that the guide is accessible to the public, including type B home providers.

...All materials that are supplied by the department of children and youth to type A family child care home providers, type B family child care home providers, in-home aides, persons seeking to be type A family child care home providers, type B family child care home providers, or in-home aides, and caretaker parents shall be written at no higher than the sixth grade reading level. The department may employ a readabilit...

...children and youth shall register child day camps and enforce this section and sections 5104.211 and 5104.22 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to those sections. No person, firm, organization, institution, or agency shall operate a child day camp without annually registering with the department. (B) A person, firm, institution, organization, or agency operating any of the following programs is exe...

...ally conduct a random sampling of child day camps to determine compliance with section 5104.013 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No child day camp shall fail to comply with section 5104.013 of the Revised Code in regards to a person it appoints or employs. (2) If the director determines that a camp has violated division (B)(1) of this section, the director shall do both of the following: (a) Consider imposing a c...

...and standards for the approval of child day camps that will enable an approved child day camp to receive public moneys pursuant to sections 5104.30 to 5104.39 of the Revised Code. The department of children and youth may charge a reasonable fee to inspect a child day camp to determine whether that child day camp meets the standards set forth in this section or in the rules adopted under this section. The department s...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, no child care center shall permit any person to smoke in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the center. The administrator of a child care center shall post in a conspicuous place at the main entrance of the center a notice stating that smoking is prohibited in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the center, except under the conditio...

...(A) As used in this section, "early learning and development program" has the same meaning as "licensed child care program" as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby created in the department of children and youth the step up to quality program, under which the department of children and youth, in cooperation with the department of education and workforce, shall develop a tiered qualit...

...(A) This section establishes standards and conditions for rating the following early learning and development programs in the step up to quality program: (1) A licensed child care center operating a head start or early head start program; (2) A licensed child care center accredited by the national association for the education of young children, or its successor organization; (3) A licensed type A or type B fam...

...ded child care not later than the first day of July in each odd-numbered year; (b) A procedure for reimbursing and paying providers of publicly funded child care. (2) In establishing reimbursement rates under division (E)(1)(a) of this section, the director shall do all of the following: (a) Use the information obtained in accordance with 45 C.F.R. 98.45; (b) Establish an enhanced reimbursement rate for p...

...A county department of job and family services may establish a program to encourage the organization of parent cooperative child care centers and parent cooperative type A family child care homes for recipients of publicly funded child care. A program established under this section may include any of the following: (A) Recruitment of parents interested in organizing a parent cooperative child care center or parent...