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7 AAC 50.410. Supervision of children; child-to-caregiver ratios in residential child care facilities. (a) A caregiver shall be on duty in a residential child care facility whenever one or more children are present. (b) Except as provided in (c) of this section, the caregiver-to-child ratio in a facility must be as follows:

(1) one caregiver for every six children during any time children are awake and engaged in activity outside their sleeping quarters; and

(2) one caregiver for every 12 children during sleeping hours. (c) The caregiver-to-child ratio when there are infants or toddlers in care must be one caregiver for every

(1) three infants and toddlers in care during waking hours; and

(2) five infants and toddlers in care during sleeping hours. (d) The administrator may be counted as a caregiver for the purposes of (b) and (c) of this section only if the facility serves 12 or fewer children. (Eff. 1/1/96, Register 136; am 3/1/98, Register 145) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 44.29.020 AS 47.32.030 Editor’s note: Effective July 1, 2022, Executive Order 121 split the former Department of Health and Social Services into the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services. As of Register 242 (July 2022), the regulations attorney made conforming a technical revision under sec. 138, E.O. 121 and AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation that follows 7 AAC 50.410, by substituting a reference to AS 47.32.030 (centralized licensing) for the reference to AS 47.35.010, a statute that was repealed in 2005. 7 AAC 50.415. Supervision of children in foster homes. Repealed.