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Department 1400 - Department of Early ChildhoodDivision 1402 - Division of Early Learning, Licensing, and AdministrationRule 8 CCR 1402-1 - CHILD CARE FACILITY LICENSING RULES AND REGULATIONS
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Section 8 CCR 1402-1-2.204 - DEFINITIONS

8 Colo. Code Regs. § 1402-1-2.204

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Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 11, June 10, 2024
Section 8 CCR 1402-1-2.204 - DEFINITIONS
A. Child care centers that provide less than 24-hour care (referred to as "centers") provide comprehensive care for children when the parents or guardians are employed or otherwise unavailable to care for the children. Child care centers may operate twenty-four (24) hours a day, but the children are cared for at the center fewer than twenty-four (24) hours a day.
B. Child care centers that provide less than 24-hour programs of care include the following types of facilities:
1. A "large child care center" provides care for sixteen (16) or more children between the ages six (6) weeks and eighteen (18) years.
2. A "small child care center" provides care for up to fifteen (15) children between the ages of two (2) and eighteen (18) years.
3. An "infant program" provides care for children between the ages of six (6) weeks and eighteen (18) months.
4. A "toddler program" provides care for children between the ages of twelve (12) months (when walking independently or with a health care provider's statement indicating developmental appropriateness of placement in a toddler program) and thirty-six (36) months.
5. A "preschool" is a child care program for five (5) or more children between the ages of two and one-half (2 1/2) and seven (7) years.
6. A "mobile part-day preschool program" is a program with a mobile classroom that uses no permanent building on a regular basis, for children three (3) to seven (7) years of age, with no more than (8) eight children at any given time. Each class session must not exceed five (5) hours.
7. A "kindergarten program" provides a program for children the year before they enter the first grade. Only private kindergarten programs not regulated by the Colorado Department of Education are required to be licensed.
8. A "full day program" enrolls children for five (5) or more hours per day.
9. A "part-day program" enrolls children for a maximum of up to five (5) hours per day. Individual children shall not attend more than one (1), five (5) hour sessions per day.
10. A "drop-in child care center" provides occasional care for forty (40) or fewer children between the ages of twelve (12) months and thirteen (13) years of age for short periods of time not to exceed six (6) hours in any 24-hour period of time or fifteen (15) hours in any seven (7) day period of time.
11. A "teen parent program" provides care for children fourteen (14) days old to thirty-six (36) months and is operated by an accredited public school system on school premises. Infants between seven (7) and thirteen (13) days old may be accepted for care with written approval from a health care provider.
C. "Staff" and all references to staff or staff positions include paid staff, equally qualified volunteers, and substitutes under rule sections 2.212-2.217.

8 CCR 1402-1-2.204

46 CR 22, November 25, 2023, effective 12/15/2023