# Education (GED)

## Title 9.5. Division of Early Childhood Development

### Subtitle 4. Child Care Centers

#### Section 9.5-408

(a)

  (1) A license authorizes the licensee to operate a child care center while the license is effective.

  (2) A license authorizes the licensee to operate a child care center that offers or provides child care regardless of the time of day.

(b) Unless the Department first approves the change, a licensee may not make any substantial addition to or other change in a building or plant of the child care center or a change in its facilities that could affect materially any condition under which the license was issued.

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Md. Code Ann., Educ. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)