(a) Child Day Center In addition to general requirements, child day centers, including pre-schools , shall comply with the following standards: (i) Child day centers shall be licensed as a child day center by the state
Read it in the chapter →How this ordinance defines it
The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Portsmouth’s own text settles what this covers.