(A) CHAPTER 1 SCOPE AND ADMINISTRATION is amended as follows:
(1) Section 101.1 of the 2018 International Fire Code is amended to read, in its entirety, as follows:
101.1 Title. These regulations shall be known as the Apache Junction Fire Code, hereinafter referred to as “this code.”
(2) Sections 101.2 through 113.1 inclusive are deleted in their entirety. See Vol. I, Chapter 7, Article 7-1, Division of Building Safety and Inspection Administrative Code.
(B) CHAPTER 2 DEFINITIONS is amended as follows:
The following definitions have been added or amended to read as follows:
ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE FACILITY (A.R.S. § 36-401). A facility that provides adult day health services during a portion of a continuous twenty-four-hour period for compensation on a regular basis for five or more adults who are not related to the proprietor. (added)
ADULT DAY HEALTH SERVICES (A.R.S. § 36-401). A program that provides planned care supervision and activities, personal care, personal living skills training, meals and health monitoring in a group setting during a portion of a continuous twenty-four-hour period. Adult day health services may also include preventive, therapeutic and restorative health-related services that do not include behavioral health services. (added)
ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL HOME (A.R.S. § 36-551). A residential setting in a family home in which the care, physical custody and supervision of the adult client are the responsibility, under a twenty-four-hour care model, of the licensee who, in that capacity, is not an employee of the division or of a service provider and the home provides the following services for a group of siblings or up to three adults with developmental disabilities- room and board, habilitation, appropriate personal care and appropriate supervision. (added)
ADULT FOSTER CARE HOME (A.R.S. § 36-401). A residential setting that provides room and board and adult foster care services for at least one and no more than four adults who are participants in the Arizona long-term care system pursuant to chapter 29, article 2 of this title or contracts for services with the United States department of veterans affairs and in which the sponsor or the manager resides with the residents and integrates the residents who are receiving adult foster care into that person’s family. (added)
ADULT FOSTER CARE SERVICES (A.R.S. § 36-401). Supervision, assistance with eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, self-medication and other routines of daily living or services authorized by rules adopted pursuant to A.R.S. § 36-405 and A.R.S. § 36-2939C. (added)
ASSISTED LIVING CENTER (A.R.S. § 36-401). An assisted living facility that provides resident rooms or residential units to eleven or more residents. (added)
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY (A.R.S. § 36-401). A residential care institution, including an adult foster care home, that provides or contracts to provide supervisory care services, personal care services or directed care services on a continuous basis. (added)
ASSISTED LIVING HOME (A.R.S. § 36-401). An assisted living facility that provides resident rooms to ten or fewer residents. (added)
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES. Services that pertain to mental health and substance use disorders.
COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL SETTING (A.R.S. § 36-551). A residential setting in which persons with developmental disabilities live and are provided with appropriate supervision by the service provider responsible for the operation of the residential setting. Community residential setting includes a child developmental home or an adult developmental home operated or contracted by the Department or the Department’s contracted vendor or a group home operated or contracted by the Department. (added)
DIRECTED CARE SERVICE (A.R.S. § 36-401). Programs and services, including supervisory and personal care services that are provided to persons who are incapable of recognizing danger, summoning assistance, expressing need, or making basic care decisions. (added)
EXISTING BUILDING. See definition in Vol. I, § 7-1-2(F). (delete and replace)
EXISTING STRUCTURE. A structure in existence prior to 1985, or constructed 1985 or later under an issued building permit, which has passed all required inspections. (delete and replace)
GROUP HOME (A.R.S. § 36-551). A community residential setting for not more than six persons with developmental disabilities that is operated by a service provider under contract with the Department and that provides room and board and daily habilitation, and other assessed medically necessary services and supports to meet the needs of each person. Group home does not include an adult developmental home, a child developmental home or an intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability. (delete and replace)
GROUP TREATMENT HOME. A facility for social rehabilitation, substance abuse or mental health problems that contains a group housing arrangement that provides custodial care but does not provide medical care. (amended)
HEALTH CARE INSTITUTION (A.R.S. § 36-401). Every place, institution, building or agency, whether organized for profit or not, that provides facilities with medical services, nursing services, behavioral health services, health screening services, other health-related services, supervisory care services, personal care services or directed care services and includes home health agencies as defined in A.R.S. § 36-151, outdoor behavioral health care programs and hospice service agencies. Health care institution does not include a community residential setting as defined in A.R.S. § 36-551. (added)
INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITY FOR PERSONS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (A.R.S. § 36-551). A facility that primarily provides health and rehabilitative services to persons with developmental disabilities that are above the service level of room and board or supervisory care services or personal care services as defined in A.R.S. § 36-401 but that are less intensive than skilled nursing services. (added)
LICENSED CAPACITY (A.R.S. § 36-401). The total number of persons for whom the health care institution is authorized by the Department to provide services as required pursuant to this chapter if the person is expected to stay in the health care institution for more than twenty-four hours. (added)
NURSING CARE INSTITUTION (A.R.S. § 36-401). A health care institution that provides inpatient beds or resident beds and nursing services to persons who need continuous nursing services but who do not require hospital care or direct daily care from a physician.
NURSING HOMES. See Nursing Care Institution.
PERSONAL CARE SERVICE. Assistance with activities of daily living that can be performed by persons without professional skills or professional training and includes the coordination or provision of intermittent nursing services and the administration of medications and treatments by a nurse who is licensed pursuant to A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 15 or as otherwise provided by law. (delete and replace)
RESIDENTIAL CARE INSTITUTION. A health care institution other than a hospital or a nursing care institution that provides resident beds or residential units, supervisory care services, personal care services, behavioral health services, directed care services or health-related services for persons who do not need continuous nursing services. (Added)
SUPERVISORY CARE SERVICE. General supervision, including daily awareness of resident functioning and continuing needs, the ability to intervene in a crisis and assistance in the self-administration of prescribed medications. (added)
(Am. Ord. 1273, passed 9-5-2006; Am. Ord. 1475, passed 6-19-2019)