b. A center shall be required to comply only with physical facility and life or safety requirements of the department’s regulations and with the requirements for administration and control of medication, environmental sanitation and reporting communicable diseases when a center:

(1) Operates on a seasonal or short-term basis for eight weeks or less and does not offer a continuous program that extends across the three-year period of licensure; or

(2) Was operating on or before May 16, 1984 and was exempt from the licensing provisions because it was operated by an aid society of a properly organized and accredited church.

c. A center certified pursuant to this section shall be exempt from the other rules and regulations for the operation and maintenance of child care centers promulgated pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1983, c.492 (C. 30:5B-5).

d. Nothing shall prevent a center exempted under this section from securing a regular license on a voluntary basis.

L.1992,c.95,s.6.