Child care institution

"Child care institution" means a child care facility where more than 7 children are received and maintained for the purpose of providing them with care or training or both. The term "child care institution" includes residential schools, primarily serving ambulatory handicapped children, and those operating a full calendar year, but does not include:

· any State-operated institution for child care established by legislative action;

· any juvenile detention or shelter care home established and operated by any county or child protection district established under the "Child Protection Act";

· any institution, home, place or facility operating under a license pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act [210 ILCS 45];

· any bona fide boarding school in which children are primarily taught branches of education corresponding to those taught in public schools, grades one through 12, or taught in public elementary schools, high schools or both elementary and high schools, and which operates on a regular academic school year basis; or

· any facility licensed as a "group home" as defined in the Child Care Act of 1969. (Section 2.06 of the Child Care Act of 1969 [225 ILCS 10/2.06]) (R 376, 404)