As used in the Community Residential Living for Persons with Developmental or Physical Disabilities Act:

1. "Commission" means the Commission for Human Services;

2. "Developmental disability" means a severe, chronic disability of a person which:

a.is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments,

b.is manifested before the person attains twenty-two (22) years of age,

c.is likely to continue indefinitely,

d.results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

(1)self-care,

(2)receptive and expressive language,

(3)learning,

(4)mobility,

(5)self-direction,

(6)capacity for independent living, and

(7)economic self-sufficiency, and

e.reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services which are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated;

3. "Physical disability" means a condition which causes the restricted use of extremities by an individual or which limits other bodily functions of an individual and which requires the specialized training, habilitation or rehabilitation services provided by a group home;

4. "Director" means the Director of the Department of Human Services;

5. "Group home" means a community-based residential facility located in a single-family zoning area that admits not more than six persons with developmental or physical disabilities who require specialized living arrangements, and that provides for such persons a home that is subject to the care and supervision of a responsible adult and which is licensed by or which has a contract with the Department of Human Services;

6. "Permitted use" means a use by right which is authorized in all residential zoning districts; and

7. "Political subdivision" means a municipality or county, whichever holds primary jurisdiction.

Added by Laws 1987, c. 169, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1987. Amended by Laws 1989, c. 330, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1996, c. 354, § 43, eff. Nov. 1, 1996.