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ARTICLE 5 LICENSING SUBARTICLE 1 DAY CARE FACILITIES (Statutory Authority: 1976 Code §§ 43–1–80 and 63–13–180) REGULATIONS FOR THE LICENSING OF CHILD CARE CENTERS 114–500. General Provisions. A. Purpose (1) The purpose of these regulations is to establish standards that protect the health, safety and well-being of children receiving care in child care facilities, through the formulation, application and enforcement of these regulations. B. Applicability (1) These regulations apply to child care centers as defined in section 114–501.A.(9) relating to definitions for profit and private child care centers. (2) These regulations apply equally to profit, not for profit and private child care centers. (3) These regulations do not apply to the following: (a) Educational facilities, whether private or public, which operate solely for educational purposes in grade one or above; (b) Five-year-old kindergarten programs; (c) Kindergartens or nursery schools or other daytime programs, with or without stated educational purposes, operating no more than four hours a day and receiving children younger than lawful school age; (d) Facilities operating for more than four hours a day in connection with a shopping center or service or other similar facility, where the same children are cared for less than four hours a day and not on a regular basis while parents or custodians of the children are occupied on the premises or are in the immediate vicinity and immediately available; however, these facilities must meet local fire and sanitation requirements and maintain documentation of these requirements on file at the facility available for public inspection; (e) School vacation or school holiday day camps for children operating in distinct sessions running less than three weeks per session, unless the day camp permits children to enroll in successive sessions so that their total attendance may exceed three consecutive weeks; (f) Summer resident camps for children; (g) Bible schools normally conducted during vacation periods; (h) Facilities for persons with intellectual disability provided in Chapter 21, Title 44, Code of Laws of South Carolina; (i) Facilities for the mentally ill as provided for in Chapter 17, Title 44, Code of Laws of South Carolina; and (j) Child care centers owned and operated by a local church congregation or an established religious denomination or a religious college or university which does not receive state or federal financial assistance for child care services; however, these facilities must comply with the provisions of Code of Laws of South Carolina; Sections 63–13–1010 through 63–13–1080; 63–13–60 and 63–13–110 and that these facilities voluntarily may elect to become licensed according to the process as set forth in Code of Laws of South Carolina; Sections 63–13–10 through 63–13–40; 63–13–70 through 63–13–100; 63–13–120, 63–13–140, 63–13–160, 63–13–180; 63–13–410 through 63–13–460 and 63–13–1210 through 63–13–1240.