Terms defined.
Certain words in this section are defined for the purpose thereof
as follows:
COMMUNITY RESIDENCE FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Any community residential facility licensed pursuant to P.L.
1977, c. 448 (N.J.S.A. 30:11B-1 et seq.) providing food, shelter,
and personal guidance, under such supervision as required, to not
more than 15 persons with developmental disabilities or with mental
illnesses, who require assistance, temporarily or permanently, in
order to live in the community, and shall include, but not be limited
to: group homes, halfway houses, intermediate care facilities, supervised
apartment living arrangements, and hostels. Such a residence shall
not be considered a health care facility within the meaning of the
Health Care Facilities Planning Act, P.L. 1971, c. 136 (N.J.S.A. 26:2H-1
et al.). In the case of such a community residence housing persons
with mental illness, the residence shall have been approved for a
purchase of service contract or an affiliation agreement pursuant
to procedures as shall be established by regulation of the Division
of Mental Health and Addiction Services in the Department of Human
Services. As used in P.L. 1978, c. 159 (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-66.1 et seq.),
"person with a developmental disability" means a person with a developmental
disability as defined in Section 2 of P.L. 1977, c. 448 (N.J.S.A.
30:11B-2), and "person with a mental illness" means a person with
a mental illness as defined in Section 2 of P.L. 1987, c. 116 (N.J.S.A.
30:4-27.2), but shall not include a person who has been committed
after having been found not guilty of a criminal offense by reason
of insanity or having been found unfit to be tried on a criminal charge.
COMMUNITY RESIDENCE FOR PERSONS WITH HEAD INJURIES
A community residential facility licensed pursuant to P.L.
1977, c. 448 (N.J.S.A. 30:11B-1 et seq.) providing food, shelter,
and personal guidance, under such supervision as required, to not
more than 15 persons with head injuries, who require assistance, temporarily
or permanently, in order to live in the community, and shall include,
but not be limited to: group homes, halfway houses, supervised apartment
living arrangements, and hostels. Such a residence shall not be considered
a health care facility within the meaning of the Health Care Facilities
Planning Act, P.L. 1971, c. 136 (N.J.S.A. 26:2H-1 et al.).
COMMUNITY RESIDENCE FOR PERSONS WITH TERMINAL ILLNESSES
Any community residential facility operated as a hospice
program providing food, shelter, personal guidance, and health care
services, under such supervision as required, to not more than 15
persons with terminal illnesses.
COMMUNITY SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Any shelter approved for a purchase of service contract and
certified pursuant to standards and procedures established by regulation
of the Department of Human Services pursuant to P.L. 1979, c. 337
(N.J.S.A. 30:14-1 et seq.), providing food, shelter, medical care,
legal assistance, personal guidance, and other services to not more
than 15 persons who have been victims of domestic violence, including
any children of such victims, who temporarily require shelter and
assistance in order to protect their physical or psychological welfare.
DEMENTIA
A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes
due to organic brain disease, for which no curative treatment is available,
and marked by memory disorders, changes in personality, deterioration
in personal care, impaired reasoning ability, and disorientation.
PERSON WITH HEAD INJURY
A person who has sustained an injury, illness, or traumatic
changes to the skull, the brain contents, or its coverings which results
in a temporary or permanent physiobiological decrease of mental, cognitive,
behavioral, social, or physical functioning which causes the person
to have a partial or total disability, but excluding a person with
Alzheimer's disease and related disorders or other forms of dementia.