Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 414 - DEPARTMENT OF EARLY LEARNING AND CARE › Division 205 - REGISTERED FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES › Section 414-205-0100 - Health

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) All caregivers
			 shall take appropriate precautions to prevent shaken baby syndrome and abusive
			 head trauma.
(2) The home must be a
			 healthy environment for children.
(a) No
			 person shall smoke or carry any lighted smoking instrument, including an
			 e-cigarette or vaporizer in the family child care home or within ten feet of
			 any entrance, exit, or window that opens or any ventilation intake that serves
			 an enclosed area, during child care hours or when child care children are
			 present. No person shall use smokeless tobacco in the family child care home
			 during child care hours or when child care children are present. No person
			 shall smoke, carry any lighted smoking instrument, including an e-cigarette, or
			 vaporizer or use smokeless tobacco in motor vehicles while child care children
			 are passengers.
(b) No one shall
			 consume alcohol on the family child care home premises during child care hours
			 or when child care children are present. No one shall be under the influence of
			 alcohol on the family child care home premises during child care hours or when
			 child care children are present.
(c) Notwithstanding OAR 414-205-0000(5), no
			 one shall possess, use or store illegal controlled substances on the family
			 child care home premises. No one shall be under the influence of illegal
			 controlled substances on the family child care home premises.
(d) Notwithstanding OAR 414-205-0000(5), no
			 one shall grow or distribute marijuana on the premises of the registered family
			 child care home. No adults shall use marijuana on the registered family child
			 care home premises during child care hours or when child care children are
			 present.
(e) No adult under the
			 influence of marijuana shall have contact with child care children.
(f) Notwithstanding OAR 414-205-0000(5),
			 marijuana plants shall not be grown or kept on the registered family child care
			 home premises.
(g) All medical
			 marijuana must be kept in its original container if purchased from a dispensary
			 and stored under child safety lock. All medical marijuana derivatives and
			 associated paraphernalia must be stored under child safety lock.
(h) Effective July 1, 2015, all marijuana,
			 marijuana derivatives and associated paraphernalia must be stored under child
			 safety lock.
(i) There must be at
			 least one flush toilet and one hand-washing sink available to children. Steps
			 or blocks must be available to ensure children can use the toilet and sink
			 without assistance. Drinking water for preparing food, infant formula, drinking
			 or cooking shall not be obtained from bathroom sinks or diaper changing
			 sinks.
(j) The room temperature
			 must be at least 68°F during the hours the child care business is
			 conducted.
(k) Rooms occupied by
			 children must have a combination of natural and artificial lighting.
(l) Floors must be free of splinters, large
			 unsealed cracks, sliding rugs and other hazards.