This act shall apply to every developmentally disabled person who is receiving services from the department, is not related by reason of blood, marriage or adoption to the operator of the community residential facility, and who has been placed into a community residential facility since October 1, 1976 or who will be placed in a community residential facility after the effective date of this act.

L.1983, c. 524, s. 3, eff. Jan. 17, 1984.