[§346-176]  Family child care system. 
The department shall authorize the establishment and operation of a family
child care system under which a sponsoring agency contracts family child care
homes to provide care and assumes administrative tasks for the homes and
providers; provided that the department shall register each of the family child
care homes individually in accordance with this subpart and establish no rule
or requirement which jeopardizes the status of the providers of care in family
child care homes as independent contractors of the sponsoring agency.  The
department may establish rules defining the administrative tasks which may be
performed and minimum requirements, including provision of training to
providers which must be complied with by the sponsoring agency, but shall not
require the sponsoring agency to register or obtain a license or registration
as a child care facility unless the sponsoring agency provides care to children
on the sponsoring agency's premises. [L 1985, c 208, pt of §2]