{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-237.4","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 237.4","heading":"License required — exceptions.","body":"An individual or an agency shall not provide child foster care unless the individual or agency is a licensee. However, a license under this chapter is not required of the following:\n1. An individual providing child foster care for a total of not more than twenty days in one calendar year.\n2. A residential care facility licensed under chapter 135C which is approved for the care of children.\n3. A hospital licensed under chapter 135B.\n4. A health care facility licensed under chapter 135C.\n5. A juvenile detention home or juvenile shelter care home approved under section 232.142.\n6. An institution listed in section 218.1.\n7. A facility licensed under chapter 125.\n8. An individual providing child care as a babysitter at the request of a parent, guardian, fictive kin, or relative having lawful custody of the child.","path":["Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES (Ch. 216 - 255A)","Chapter 237 - CHILD FOSTER CARE FACILITIES","Subchapter I - CHILD FOSTER CARE"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/237.4.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:06Z","sha256":"0f5e0b29efc8051fce0e9995227ad8f5808199c9d1c5490c03da39b65b769f89","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-237.3","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-237.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}