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<br />MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE
<br />LICENSING LAWS
<br />Minn. Laws 1976, ch. 243
<br />Section 1. Purpose. Subdivision 1. The purpose of
<br />care and residential facilities, services and agencies
<br />for mentally retarded, physically handicapped, mentally
<br />disturbed or chemically dependent adults is to regulate
<br />care and services and to assure protection, proper care
<br />tion and rehabilitation necessary to health, safety and
<br />PUBLIC WELFARE LICENSING ACT
<br />Minn. Statutes, 1980
<br />245.781 CITATION
<br />the licensing of day
<br />for all children and
<br />ill, emotionally
<br />the provision of
<br />and the habilita-
<br />development.
<br />Laws 1976, Chapter 243, Sections 2 to 14 shall be known as the "public
<br />welfare licensing act".
<br />History: 1976 c 243 a 2
<br />245.782 DEFINITIONS
<br />Subdivision 1. For the purposes of Laws 1976, Chapter 243, Sections 2
<br />to 14, the following terms shall have the meanings given them:
<br />Subd. 2. "Person" means an adult who is handicapped by reason of men-
<br />tal retardation, mental illness, chemical dependency, or physical handicap
<br />and a child, whether handicapped or not.
<br />Subd. 3. "Child" means anyone who has not reached his eighteenth
<br />birthday.
<br />Subd. 4. "Agency" means any individual, organization, association, or
<br />corporation which for gain or otherwise regularly provides needed social or
<br />counseling services for persons living in their own homes, or receives per-
<br />sons unable to remain in their own homes and places them in residential or
<br />foster care, or places persons in adoptive homes. "Agency" does not include
<br />a local welfare agency or agencies sponsored by community mental health
<br />boards pursuant to section 245.66.
<br />Subd. 5. "Day care facility" means any facility, public or private,
<br />which for gain or otherwise regularly provides one or more persons with
<br />care, training, supervision, habilitation, rehabilitation, or developmental
<br />guidance on a regular basis, for periods of less than 24 hours per day, in a
<br />place other than the person's own home. Day care facilities include, but
<br />are not limited to: family day care homes, group family day care homes, day
<br />care centers, day nurseries, nursery schools, daytime activity centers, day
<br />treatment programs, and day services.
<br />Subd. 6. "Residential facility" means any facility, public or private,
<br />which for gain or otherwise reguarly provides one or more persons with a 24
<br />hour per day substitute for care, food lodging, training, education,
<br />supervision, habilitation, rehabilitation, and treatment they need, but
<br />which for any reason cannot be furnished in the person's own home.
<br />Residential facilities include, but are not limited to: state institutions
<br />under the control of the commissioner of public welfare, foster homes, resi-
<br />dential treatment centers, maternity shelters, group homes, residential
<br />programs, or schools for handicapped children.
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