CA Health & Safety Code Section 1597.09

(a)

Each licensed child day care center shall be subject to unannounced inspections by the department. The department shall inspect these facilities as often as necessary to ensure the quality of care provided.

(b)

The department shall conduct an annual unannounced inspection of a licensed child day care center under any of the following circumstances:

(1)

When a license is on probation.

(2)

When the terms of agreement in a facility compliance plan require an annual inspection.

(3)

When an accusation against a licensee is pending.

(4)

In order to verify that a person who has been ordered out of a child day care center by the department is no longer at the facility.

(c)

(1)The department shall conduct an annual unannounced inspection of no less than 30 percent of facilities not subject to an evaluation under subdivision (b).

(2)

These unannounced inspections shall be conducted based on a random sampling methodology developed by the department.

(d)

The department shall inspect a licensed child day care center at least once every three years.

(e)

This section shall become operative on January 1, 2017.