§ 12-860. Release of child.

(a)

The child care center shall maintain a register for the signature of persons to whom children are released. Daily signatures shall not be required by this article for authorized persons to whom children are regularly released. However, the child care center may require such signature of any persons at its discretion. A recent picture taken within the last six months of each child attending the child care center shall be maintained in the center's files.

(b)

Any enrollment agreement required upon admission of any child to the child care center shall include a statement that the child will be released only to a parent or a person named by the parent, and a statement that persons bringing the child or picking up the child will ensure that a staff member is aware of the child's arrival or departure. School age children who leave the facility to go to classes or other approved activities shall have written permission from their parents; parents shall specify the activity, time and method of transportation. The child care center shall maintain a record of parents and other persons to whom the child is authorized for release. Each parent shall provide the child care center with the final four digits of their social security account number, for purposes of security in emergency conditions as identified in subsection (c) of this section. In the case of a divorce after a child has been enrolled, it shall be the responsibility of the one who is granted custody of the child (being the one with whom the child lives) to provide the child care center with a copy of the custody decree or agreement, and request that the authorization records for release of the child be changed.

(c)

When emergency conditions require that a child be released to a person not identified in the release authorization records, the child care center shall require the parent's prior approval, which may be submitted by telephone. The parent, identified for security by the four-digit social security number, shall designate the person to whom the child is to be released. The person to whom the child is to be released must in turn provide the parent's four-digit number as identification, and shall be photographed by the child care center and provide a signature on the photograph, which shall be retained by the child care center for at least three months.

(Code 1982, § 15-211; Ord. No. 85-18, § XXI, 4-1-1985)