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FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES (PROVIDE CARE FOR NO MORE THAN SIX CHILDREN) 114–530. Family Child Care Homes. A. Definitions. Terms used in South Carolina Regulations, Chapter 114, Article 5, Part A, shall be all definitions cited in Section 63–13–20 et seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina in addition to the definitions which follow: (1) Application: An original or a renewed request for registration or license of a family child care home requiring a completed Department application form, completed Department inspection study, current criminal history background checks on all required persons, and other related information deemed necessary by the Department to make a determination of issuance or non-issuance of a new or current registration or license. (2) Caregiver: The operator of a family child care home and any person, including household members, whose duties include direct care, supervision, and guidance of children in a family child care home. (3) Central Registry of Child Abuse and Neglect: An automated, computerized listing, maintained by the Department containing the name(s), address(es), birth date(s), identifying characteristics and other information about an individual(s) who has been listed on the registry due to the determina- tion of perpetrating abuse or neglect upon a child. (4) Child: An individual, from birth through twelve (12) years of age (chronologically), receiving care in a family child care home, or up to eighteen (18) years of age if the child qualifies as special needs. (5) Child with special needs: A child with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity, a history of such an impairment, or a perception by others of such an impairment. (6) Complaint: A written statement reporting unsatisfactory conditions in a family child care home. (7) Corrective Action Plan: A contract between the operator and the Department wherein the operator agrees to follow a plan of action to correct deficiencies where the Department determined the operator failed to meet South Carolina child care licensing laws or regulations. (8) Department: The Department of Social Services. (9) Emergency Person. An individual not regularly employed by the facility who is immediately available to serve as staff in the facility during emergency situations. (10) Family Child Care Home: A facility within a residence occupied by the operator in which child care is regularly provided for no more than six children, unattended by a parent or legal guardian, including those children living in the home and children received for child care who are related to the resident caregiver. However, an occupied residence in which child care is provided only for a child or children related to the resident caregiver or only for the child or children of one unrelated family or only for a combination of these children is not a family child care home. (11) Household member: A person who resides in a family child care home, maintains clothing and personal effects at the household address, and/or eats or sleeps at the household address on a regular basis. (12) Infant: A child age twelve (12) months or younger. (13) Injunctive Action: Proceedings initiated with the appropriate court of law requesting the court to order a person to do or cease a specific action. (14) License: A written notice issued by the Department for a two-year period to a family child care home approving the commencement of operations of a family child care home in accordance with the provisions of these regulations and Suggested Guidelines for Operators of Family Child Care Homes.