§47.67(a): Activities and discipline
Either appropriate activities were not provided for the children, or staff used forms of discipline the rules do not allow. The city's wording covers both, and the public record does not say which one was found.
| Health Code section | §47.67(a) |
| Type | Practice |
| How DOHMH classifies it | Serious (100% of its citations) |
| Cited in our records | 130 times at 115 NYC centers |
| Marked open right now | 1 |
The city's wording
Appropriate child activity Not provided by child care service; unacceptable forms of discipline utilized by staff of child care service.
This is the text DOHMH or the state attaches to the citation. It is a template, so it can sound harsher or vaguer than the finding behind it.
Worth asking the center
What is your discipline policy, and how are staff trained in it?
Reading it on a record
Look at whether the citation is marked open or corrected, how long ago it was cited, and whether the same section shows up on several inspections. One corrected citation is common. The same one on visit after visit is worth a direct question. Our guide to checking a daycare and methodology explain the rest.
Look up a center and read its record
Related sections
- §47.23(a): Supervision
- §47.27(b): Daily health check of children
- §47.23(f)(1): Teacher to child ratios
- §47.59(d): Fire drills
- §47.19(h)(3): Unsupervised contact before clearance
Counts are from the inspection records we hold, as of 2026-10-11. The plain-English note was written by NYC Daycare Check from the city's wording; the citation on each center's page is the record.