§ 6500.4. 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 administering one or more family living homes.

   Department—The Department of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth.

   Family living home or home—The private home of an individual or a family in which residential care is provided to one or two individuals with mental retardation, except as provided in §  6500.3(f) (relating to applicability). The term does not include a home if there are more than two individuals, including respite care individuals, living in the home at any one time who are not family members or relatives of the family members. If relatives of the individual live in the home the total number of people living in the home at any one time who are not family members or relatives of the family members may not exceed four.

   IPP—Individual program plan.

   Individual—A person with mental retardation who resides, or receives residential respite care, in a family living home and who is not a relative of the owner of the family members. The term does not include family members.

   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.

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

   Respite care—Temporary family living care not to exceed 31 calendar days for an individual in a calendar year.

   This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §  6500.12 (relating to waivers).