§ 6400.4. Definitions.

 The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

   Agency—A person or legally constituted organization operating one or more community homes for people with mental retardation serving eight or fewer individuals.

   Community home for people with mental retardation home—A building or separate dwelling unit in which residential care is provided to one or more individuals with mental retardation, except as provided in §  6400.3(f) (relating to applicability). Each apartment unit within an apartment building is considered a separate home. Each part of a duplex, if there is physical separation between the living areas, is considered a separate home.

   Department—The Department of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth.

   Fire safety expert—A local fire department, fire protection engineer, State certified fire protection instructor, college instructor in fire science, county or State fire school, volunteer fire person trained by a county or State fire school or an insurance company loss control representative.

   IPP—Individual program plan.

   Individual—A person with mental retardation who resides, or receives residential respite care, in a home and who is not a relative of the owner of the home.

   Mental retardation—Subaverage general intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period and is associated with impairment of one or more of the following:

     (i)   Maturation.

     (ii)   Learning.

     (iii)   Social adjustment.

   Normalization—A principle designed to ensure for every person with mental retardation and the person’s family the right to live a life as close as possible to that which is typical for the general population.

   Relative—A parent, child, stepparent, stepchild, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew.

   The provisions of this §  6400.4 amended through January 22, 1982, effective March 1, 1982, 12 Pa.B. 384; amended August 9, 1991, effective November 8, 1991, 21 Pa.B. 3595. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (131348).