North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 15A - Environmental Quality
Chapter 18 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Subchapter A - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Section .2800 - SANITATION OF CHILD CARE CENTERS
Section 18A .2802 - APPROVAL OF CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION PLANS

(a) Construction plans drawn to scale and specifications for a new child care center that is not a chain or franchise child care center shall be submitted by the operator or the operator's designee to the local health department that serves the county in which the child care center is located for review and approval prior to initiating construction. Plans drawn to scale and specifications for changes to building dimensions, kitchen specifications, or other modifications to existing child care centers, including chain or franchise child care centers, shall also be submitted to the local health department for review and approval prior to initiating construction. Construction plans drawn to scale and specifications for prototype chain or franchise child care centers shall be submitted to DHHS, Division of Public Health, Environmental Health Section by mail at 5605 Six Forks Road, 1632 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1632. When requested by an operator of a child care center or by the Secretary of the Department, the local health department shall visit or inspect an existing or proposed center, within 30 days of the request, to determine compliance with this Section.

(b) The local health department or the DHHS, Division of Public Health, Environmental Health Section, as applicable, shall approve plans described in Paragraph (a) of this Rule when the plans meet the requirements of the rules of this Section that pertain to the construction or renovation of child care centers.

(c) Construction and modifications shall comply with the plans approved pursuant to this Rule.