7 AAC 57.210 - Administrator

(a) The governing body or owner of a child care facility shall designate an administrator qualified under 7 AAC 57.300. The administrator may be the same individual who owns or is otherwise legally responsible for operating the facility.

(b) During a period when the administrator is absent from the facility for 30 or fewer consecutive days, the governing body, owner, or administrator of a child care facility with one or more employees shall designate an onsite adult caregiver to act on the administrator's behalf during the administrator's absence who meets the age and qualification requirements of 7 AAC 57.300(a) and 7 AAC 57.300(b)(1) - (3) and has at least one year of child care experience. If the administrator is absent for more than 30 consecutive days, the child care facility governing body, owner, or administrator shall designate an administrator designee who is qualified under 7 AAC 57.300 to act on behalf of the administrator.

(c) The administrator may not be responsible for more than two child care facilities and must be onsite during daytime hours while the facility is providing child care as follows:

(1) at least 20 hours per week for a full-day or 24-hour child care facility;

(2) at least 10 hours per week for a program that provides child care during daytime hours only, and that provides child care for five or fewer hours per day.

(d) The governing body or owner of a child care facility may not operate an additional business on the premises during the hours the facility provides child care services, if customers of the additional business would have access to the child care facility or would interrupt the supervision of children in care.

(e) In this section, "daytime hours" means the hours between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.

Notes

7 AAC 57.210

Eff. 6/23/2006, Register 178; am 10/9/2024, Register 252, January 2025

Authority: AS 44.29.020

AS 47.32.010

AS 47.32.030