237.4  License required--exceptions.

An individual or an agency, as defined in section 237.1, shall not provide child foster care unless the individual or agency obtains a license issued by the administrator under this chapter. However, a license is not required of the following:

1.  An individual providing child foster care for a total of not more than twenty days in one calendar year.

2.  A residential care facility licensed under chapter 135C which is approved for the care of children.

3.  A hospital licensed under chapter 135B.

4.  A health care facility licensed under chapter 135C.

5.  A juvenile detention home or juvenile shelter care home approved under section 232.142.

6.  An institution listed in section 218.1.

7.  A facility licensed under chapter 125.

8.  An individual providing child care as a babysitter at the request of a parent, guardian or relative having lawful custody of the child.

Section History: Early form

  [C27, 31, 35, § 3661-a49; C39, § 3661.063; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, § 237.8; C81, § 237.4; 82 Acts, ch 1016, § 2]

Section History: Recent form

  84 Acts, ch 1050, § 1; 87 Acts, ch 44, § 2

Internal References

  Referred to in §709.16


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