For the purposes of this chapter, certain words and phrases are defined, and certain provisions shall be construed, as set forth in this section unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning is intended:
A. "Children's boarding home" means any institution or establishment providing room and board for the reception and care of one or more children below the age of eighteen years, regardless of sex, unrelated to the caretaker, in the absence of parents or guardian, with or without compensation.
B. "Day nursery" or "day nursery school" means any establishment providing day care for children between the ages of two years and four years six months, inclusive, but shall not include any day nursery or day nursery school maintained by any public school or the federal government. If day care is also provided for children over four years six months of age, as to all children under four years six months of age, the establishment shall be considered as a day nursery or a day nursery school.
C. "Home for the aged" means any institution, boarding home, or other place for the reception or care of one or more aged persons sixty-five years of age or over, except any hospital as defined in the Health and Safety Code of the State of California.
D. "Mental institution" means any hospital, sanitarium, home, or other place receiving or caring for any insane, allegedly insane, mentally ill, mentally retarded or mentally incompetent person, but shall not include any institution or establishment maintained by any public agency.
E. "Private boarding school" means any institution or establishment providing room and board and giving a course of training similar to that given in any grade of public school from kindergarten to the twelfth grade, inclusive, but shall not include any establishment maintained by a public school.
F. "Private day school" shall mean any establishment providing a course of training similar to that given in any grade of public school from kindergarten to the twelfth grade, inclusive, but shall not include any establishment maintained by any public school.
(Prior code §§ 6.08.010--6.08.070 (Ord. 349 § 1, 1951))