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Proposed Definitions
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<br />Institutional use means a place or facility which is designed for use as a place of worship, public
<br />service, education, and for health care facilities for principally inpatient care.
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<br />Educational institution means a public, parochial, or private institution that provides educational
<br />instruction to students.
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<br />Health care facility, inpatient means a facility where a patient receives medical treatment while being
<br />admitted for one or more nights, excluding hospitals.
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<br />Outpatient hHealth care facility, outpatient means a facility where a patient receives medical, dental,
<br />and/or optical treatment without being admitted overnight.
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<br />Hospital means an institution, licensed by the state department of health, providing primary health
<br />services and medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease,
<br />injury, deformity, and other abnormal physical or mental conditions, and including as an integral
<br />part of the institution, related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, or training facilities.
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<br />Medical treatment means a patient receives medical, dental, and/or optical treatment.
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<br />Religious institution means a church or place of worship or religious assembly with related facilities.
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<br />Residential facility means any facility, public or private, which, for gain or otherwise, regularly provides
<br />one or more persons with a 24-hour per day substitute for care, food, lodging, training, education,
<br />supervision, rehabilitation, habilitation, and treatment they need, but which for any reason cannot be
<br />furnished in the person's own home. Residential facilities include, but are not limited to, state
<br />institutions under the control of the state commissioner of public welfare, foster homes, residential
<br />treatment centers, maternity shelters, group homes, residential programs, or schools for handicapped
<br />children, except as specifically excluded in identical exclusions to those set forth in the definition of
<br />"day care facility" in this section, which are incorporated within this definition as though fully set
<br />forth herein. A residential facility does not provide medical treatment as defined in this section.
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