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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="9.5-305" title_number="9.5" title_name="Division of Early Childhood Development" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Family Child Care Homes and Large Family Child Care Homes">
  <level label="a">
    <text>For purposes of this subtitle, a child care provider’s own children under the age of 2 years shall be counted as children served.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In a family child care home:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>There may not be more than:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>8 children in care at any given time; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>4 children under the age of 2 years; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>There shall be an adult to child ratio of at least 1 adult to every 2 children under the age of 2 years.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In a large family child care home:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>There may not be more than 12 children in care at any given time; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>There shall be a limit on the number of children under the age of 2 years and an adult to child ratio that comply with regulations adopted by the Department under § 9.5–303 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If the Department determines that the group size provisions of subsection (b) of this section are unsuitable for a particular family child care home or large family child care home, the Department may decrease the number of children permitted to be in care at that family child care home or large family child care home.</text>
  </level>
</section>
