To encourage and facilitate the establishment of employer-sponsored child day care centers, the department shall allow for reasonable waivers of those regulations presenting difficulties to small businesses for licensure, provided that the health and safety of all children is maintained and that the applicant has agreed to alternative methods of meeting the purpose and intent of any regulation waived.

(Added by renumbering Section 1571.71 by Stats. 2009, Ch. 140, Sec. 104. (AB 1164) Effective January 1, 2010.)