As used in this chapter:
(a) "Aged" means any person sixty-five years of age or over.
(b) "Applicant" means a person who submits to the Mayor an application for a license or the renewal of a license to conduct, operate or maintain a nursing home under this chapter.
(c) "Health Department" means the Department of Health of the City or of the County.
(d) "Licensee" means a person having a City license in full force and effect issued hereunder for a nursing home.
(e) "Nursing home" means any nursing home, convalescent home, institution, home, place or facility for the accommodation, care, hospitalization, treatment or boarding of one or more aged,sick, infirm, convalescent or invalid persons, for whom varying degrees of accommodation, care, . treatment, boarding or hospitalization are needed and to whom a charge is made or from whom compensation is required or expected, whether by fee or gift. However, the accommodation, care, treatment, hospitalization or boarding in a household or family, for compensation or otherwise, of a person related by blood to the head of such household or family, or to his or her spouse, within and including the fourth degree of consanguinity within the law of the State, shall not be deemed to constitute a nursing home within the meaning of this chapter. Further, the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any nursing home, hospital, clinic, treatment center, institution or other facility operated or maintained by or under the jurisdiction of the State, any agency or political subdivision of the State, or any other public body or public entity.
(f) "Resident" means any person accommodated, cared for, treated, hospitalized or boarded in any nursing home.
(Ord. 1986-79. Passed 4-15-87.)