Missouri Home Daycare Licensing and Six-Child Exemption

210.211. License required — exceptions — written notice of licensure status, when — exemptions from maximum children. — 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, maintain or operate a child care facility for children, or to advertise or hold himself or herself out as being able to perform any of the services as defined in section 210.201 , without having in effect a written license granted by the department of elementary and secondary education; except that nothing in sections 210.203 to 210.245 shall apply to: (1) Any person who is caring for six or fewer children, including a maximum of three children under the age of two, at the same physical address. For purposes of this subdivision, children who live in the caregiver's home and who are eligible for enrollment in a public kindergarten, elementary, or high school shall not be considered in the total number of children being cared for; (2) Any person who receives free of charge, and not as a business, for periods not exceeding ninety consecutive days, as bona fide, occasional and personal guests the child or children of personal friends of such person, and who receives custody of no other unrelated child or children; (3) Any graded boarding school that is conducted in good faith primarily to provide education; (4) Any summer or day camp that is conducted in good faith primarily to provide recreation;