Licensed Residential Care Community

Description:

A Residential Care Community is defined as any group of 17 or more residential apartments, however name, which are part of a larger independent living community, for the express or implied purpose of providing residential accommodation, personal assistance and supervision on a monthly basis to 17 or more persons who are or may be dependent upon the services of other by reason of physical or mental impairment or who may require limited and intermittent nursing care, but who are capable of self preservation and are not bedfast. Each apartment in a residential care community shall be at least three hundred square feet in size, have doors capable of being locked and contain at least: (1) One bedroom; (2) one kitchenette that includes a sink and a refrigerator; and (3) one full bathroom that includes a bathing area, toilet and sink. Services utilizing equipment which requires auxiliary electrical power in the event of a power failure may not be used unless the residential care community has a backup power generator.

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