Terms Used In California Codes > Public Contract Code > Division 2 > Part 3 > Chapter 1 > Article 40 - Municipal Water Districts

• Care and supervision: means the facility assumes responsibility for, or provides or promises to provide in the future, ongoing assistance with activities of daily living without which the resident's physical health, mental health, safety, or welfare would be endangered. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Control: means the ability to direct the operation or management of the applicant or licensee and includes the ability to exercise control through intermediary or subsidiary entities. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• Deadly weapon: means any of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 1568.096

• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Department: means the State Department of Social Services. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Director: means the Director of Social Services. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Facility: means a residential care facility for persons with chronic life-threatening illness licensed by the State Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division. See California Health and Safety Code 1568.096
• Firearm: means a device, designed to be used as a weapon, from which is expelled through a barrel, a projectile by the force of an explosion or other form of combustion, including the frame or receiver of the device. See California Health and Safety Code 1568.096
• License: means a basic permit to operate a residential care facility for the elderly. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Personal activities of daily living: means any of the following: dressing, feeding, toileting, bathing, grooming, and mobility and associated tasks. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Personal care: means assistance with personal activities of daily living, to help provide for and maintain physical and psychosocial comfort. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Protective supervision: means observing and assisting confused residents, including persons with dementia, to safeguard them against injury. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Residential care facility for the elderly: means a housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by persons 60 years of age or over, or their authorized representative, where varying levels and intensities of care and supervision, protective supervision, or personal care are provided, based upon their varying needs, as determined in order to be admitted and to remain in the facility. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Supportive services: means resources available to the resident in the community that help to maintain their functional ability and meet their needs as identified in the individual resident assessment. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2