As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:
(a) "Abused child" means a child as defined in Ohio R.C. 2151.031.
(b) "Child" means a person under eighteen years of age or still attending high school.
(c) "Dependent child" means a child as defined in Ohio R.C. 2151.04.
(d) "Developmentally disabled" means a person who has a disability that originated before the attainment of eighteen years of age and which can be expected to continue indefinitely; that constitutes a handicap to the person's ability to function normally in society; and that is attributable to mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism or any other condition resulting in similar impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior or requires similar treatment and/or services.
(e) "Elderly" means a person sixty years of age or older.
(f) "Group home" means a State or County licensed or State certified home that provides residential care and supervision for individuals who are unrelated to the resident house parents or supervisors, and who are the elderly; abused, neglected, dependent or unruly children; or juvenile offenders as defined herein; or who are developmentally disabled, mentally retarded, mentally ill or physically handicapped.
(g) "Licensee" means the public agency or nonprofit institution that receives a special permit from the Village to operate a group home.
(h) "Mentally retarded" means a person whose intellectual and social capacity is below normal for his chronological age to such an extent that he/she lacks sufficient control, judgment and/or discretion to manage himself/herself and his/her affairs, and who by reason of that deficiency requires supervision, guidance or control for his/her own welfare or for the welfare of others in the community.
(i) “Neglected child” means a child as defined in Ohio R.C. 2152.03.
(j) "Unrelated" means an individual who is not related as a parent, stepparent, grandparent, child, stepchild, grandchild, brother, stepbrother, sister, stepsister, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle or as the child of an aunt or uncle, to the resident house parents or supervisors of a group home.
(k) "Unruly child" means a child as defined in Ohio R.C. 2151.022.
(Ord. 84-28C. Passed 7-17-84.)