(a) "Provider" shall have the same meaning as set forth in Section 1149.18 of the Codified Ordinances.
(b) The provider shall be at least eighteen years of age with a minimum of six months experience in caring for children fourteen years of age or younger. Such experience may be obtained either as a parent, from employment, day care center observation, volunteer service, eighteen hours of in-service training or from some other similar activity.
(c) The provider shall have available for review by parents, guardians or person in loco parentis a letter dated and signed by a licensed physician attesting that the provider is in good physical and mental health and is able, from the perspective of the physician to care for children. The letter shall also indicate that the provider is free from all communicable diseases. Any other person eighteen years of age or older who will have regular contact with the children shall also make available a physician's letter providing the same information as that required of the provider. The medical letters required by this subsection shall be updated at least once every three years, unless medical conditions then existing require closer monitoring.
(d) The provider or other member of the premises present where children are being cared for shall attest that they have never been convicted of a felony, child abuse, child neglect, child endangerment or found by a court to be the cause of a child needing protective custody, and shall also consent to a record check by the Division of Police.
(e) The provider shall attest that the provider and any other persons visiting, assisting or residing on the premises shall not ingest alcohol or medicine while providing child day care service in anyway that impairs the ability to provide child day care service. The provider shall also attest that neither the provider or any person residing on the premises has an alcohol or drug of abuse addiction.
(f) The provider shall not practice any form of discrimination against families or children on account of race, creed, national origin, religion or sex.
(Ord. 89-98. Passed 10-1-90.)