(1) This part 1 does not apply to:

(a) Special schools or classes operated primarily for religious instruction or for a single skill-building purpose;

(b) A child care facility which is approved, certified, or licensed by any other state agency, or by a federal government department or agency, which has standards for operation of the facility and inspects or monitors the facility;

(c) Facilities operated in connection with a church, shopping center, or business where children are cared for during short periods of time while parents, persons in charge of such children, or employees of the church, shopping center, or business whose children are being cared for at such location are attending church services at such location or shopping, patronizing, or working on the premises of any such business;

(d) Occasional care of children that has no apparent pattern and occurs with or without compensation;

(e) The care of a child by a person in his or her private residence when the parent, guardian, or other person having legal custody of such child gives his consent to such care and when the person giving such care is not regularly engaged in the business of giving such care;

(f) Juvenile courts;

(g) Repealed.

(h) Nursing homes which have children as residents.

(i) An individual who provides less than twenty-four-hour child care in a place of residence when one of the following conditions is met:

(I) (A) The children being cared for are related, as defined in sections 26-6-102 (31) and 26-6-102 (32), to the caregiver, are children who are related to each other from a single family that is unrelated to the caregiver, or a combination of such children; or

(B) There are no more than four children being cared for, with no more than two children under two years of age from multiple families, regardless of the children's relation to the caregiver.

(II) This subsection (1)(i) is repealed, effective September 1, 2020.

(2) For purposes of this section, "short periods of time" means fewer than three hours in any twenty-four-hour period.

(3) A facility that has received a negative licensing action as defined in section 26-6-102 (25) is prohibited from operating pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.

(4) Repealed.