30:6D-14 - Definitions
30:6D-14 Definitions.
As used in this act:
a."Department" means the Department of Human Services.
b."Community residential facility" means any residential arrangement, public or private, other than an institution, in which one or more developmentally disabled persons reside under the sponsorship of the department. A family home in which all of the developmentally disabled persons residing within are related to the head of the household by blood, marriage or adoption is not a community residential facility.
c."Transfer" means moving a developmentally disabled person from an institution to a community residential facility, from one community residential facility to another, from a community residential facility to an institution, or from receiving self-directed support services as defined in section 3 of P.L.2008, c.128 (C.30:6D-12.3) to a community residential facility as defined in this section or a facility as defined in section 3 of P.L.1977, c.82 (C.30:6D-3). The placement of a person who has never before received services from the department directly into a community residential facility is a transfer.
L.1983, c.524, s.2; amended 2008, c.128, s.7.