§ 15.1-34-01 — Definitions

As used in this chapter:
1. "Boarding home care for a student with disabilities" means the provision of food,
shelter, security, and safety, on a twenty-four-hour basis, to an individual who has
reached the age of three years but who has not reached the age of twenty-one before
September first of the year in which the individual turns twenty-one and who because
of mental, physical, emotional, or learning characteristics requires regular or special
education and related services designed to meet the individual's educational needs.
2. "Department" means the department of health and human services.
3. "Family boarding home" means a private residence at which boarding home care is
regularly provided by the owner or lessee to no more than four students with
disabilities. The limit of four students may be exceeded if all the students boarding at
the home are related to each other by blood or marriage.
4. "Registration" means the process by which the department maintains a record of all
family boarding homes, prescribes standards and adopts rules under section
15.1-34-14, and requires the operator of a home to certify that the operator has
complied with the prescribed standards and adopted rules.
5. "Registration certificate" means a document issued by the department to provide
public notice that the certificate holder is in compliance with this chapter and the
applicable rules and standards prescribed by the department.
6. "Relative" means a grandparent, brother, sister, stepparent, stepsister, stepbrother,
uncle, or aunt of the student by marriage, blood, or adoption.