Rock Island County, IL Building Safety: Childcare Center Rules (2026)

passed 2-18-2014) adopts Appendix M, Home Daycare R-3 Occupancy, alongside the pool, patio-cover, sound-transmission, and vehicular-gate appendices in the same list. Appendix M classifies a licensed home daycare under the IRC's R-3 residential occupancy group, which carries its own egress, smoke-separation, and life-safety expectations beyond what an ordinary single-family home has to meet, on top of the county's other 2012 IRC amendments covering things like carbon monoxide alarms and GFCI wiring. 172(A) lists a "Daycare home licensed by the state and with occupancy permit" as a permitted accessory use in the R-1 District, tying the building-code occupancy classification to the state daycare license and a local occupancy permit before a home can operate as a daycare.

01(A)(1) requires an application to the Director of Zoning and Building and a permit before a structure's occupancy is changed, and the Building Official enforces the adopted codes, including Appendix M, through that same office. 99.