Rhode Island § 42-12.5-4 § 42-12.5-4. License required.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 42-12.5-4 — § 42-12.5-4. License required.

Rhode Island § 42-12.5-4

Title 42State Affairs and Government

Ch. 42-12.5Licensing and Monitoring of Child Daycare Providers

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-12.5-4 (2026).

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§ 42-12.5-4. License required.
(a) No person shall receive or place children in child daycare services, including daycare
            arrangements, without a license issued pursuant to this chapter. This requirement
            does not apply to a person related by blood, marriage, guardianship, or adoption to
            the child, unless that arrangement is for the purposes of day care.
         
(b) The licensing requirement does not apply to shelter operations for parents with children,
            boarding schools, recreation camps, nursing homes, hospitals, maternity residences,
            and centers for developmentally disabled children.
         
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§ 42-12.5-4. License required.

(a) No person shall receive or place children in child daycare services, including daycare arrangements, without a license issued pursuant to this chapter. This requirement does not apply to a person related by blood, marriage, guardianship, or adoption to the child, unless that arrangement is for the purposes of day care.

(b) The licensing requirement does not apply to shelter operations for parents with children, boarding schools, recreation camps, nursing homes, hospitals, maternity residences, and centers for developmentally disabled children.

(c) No person, firm, corporation, association, or agency shall operate a family daycare home without a registration certificate issued by the department, unless they hold an unexpired registration certificate issued by the department of children, youth and families prior to January 1, 2020.

(d) No state, county, city, or political subdivision shall operate a child daycare agency or center, program, or facility without a license issued pursuant to this chapter.

(e) No person shall be exempt from a required license by reason of public or private, sectarian, non-sectarian, child daycare program, for profit or nonprofit status, or by any other reason of funding, sponsorship, or affiliation.