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7 AAC 57.015. Exemptions from licensure requirements. (a) The following facilities or programs are exempt from the licensure requirements of AS 47.32 and this chapter:

(1) a facility in which child care is regularly provided and each child’s parent is on the premises within reasonable proximity and accessibility to the child;

(2) a facility located on a United States Department of Defense or United States Coast Guard installation that is located on federal property, or a facility certified as a family child care provider by a branch of the United States Department of Defense or by the United States Coast Guard;

(3) a recreational program that allows children to attend but that does not assume responsibility for care of the children;

(4) a daytime therapeutic program of supervised, educational, and rehabilitative services for children with special needs as described in 7 AAC 57.940, or with behavioral problems;

(5) a program whose primary function is educational and that

(A) is certified as a pre-elementary school under AS 14.07.020 and 4 AAC 60;

(B) serves children ages three through five years and, under 4 AAC 60.020, is exempt from 4 AAC 60; or

(C) is operated as a Head Start preschool program required to meet standards established under 42 U.S.C. 9836a;

(6) a temporary facility that provides care for one specific one-time occurrence scheduled for less than five weeks in any 12-month period, including a conference or weekend seminar; for purposes of this paragraph, a temporary facility does not include a day camp or similar facility or program described in (11) of this subsection;

(7) a facility that regularly provides care to four or fewer children who are not relatives of the caregiver; “regularly provides care” means that a child is enrolled for regular care, regardless of whether that child receives full-time or part-time care;

(8) a facility in which the caregiver is a relative of all of the children;

(9) a facility in which the caregiver is caring for a child in the child’s own home, regardless of whether the caregiver is a relative of the child;

(10) a public or private elementary school program, kindergarten through grade six, lasting seven or fewer hours each day; the exemption in this paragraph does not apply to child