Oklahoma § 60-862

§ 60-862.

Definitions.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 60. Property

As used in the Community Residential Living for Persons with

Developmental or Physical Disabilities Act:

1. "Commission" means the Commission for Human Services;

2. "Developmental disability" means a severe, chronic

disability of a person which:

a.

is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or

combination of mental and physical impairments,

b.

is manifested before the person attains twenty-two

(22) years of age,

c.

is likely to continue indefinitely,

d.

results in substantial functional limitations in three

or more of the following areas of major life activity:

(1) self-care,

(2) receptive and expressive language,

(3) learning,

(4) mobility,

(5) self-direction,

(6) capacity for independent living, and

(7) economic self-sufficiency, and

e.

reflects the person's need for a combination and

sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic

care, treatment, or other services which are of

lifelong or extended duration and are individually

planned and coordinated;

3. "Physical disability" means a condition which causes the

restricted use of extremities by an individual or which limits other

bodily functions of an individual and which requires the specialized

training, habilitation or rehabilitation services provided by a

group home;

4. "Director" means the Director of the Department of Human

Services;

5. "Group home" means a community-based residential facility

located in a single-family zoning area that admits not more than six

persons with developmental or physical disabilities who require

specialized living arrangements, and that provides for such persons

a home that is subject to the care and supervision of a responsible

adult and which is licensed by or which has a contract with the

Department of Human Services;

6. "Permitted use" means a use by right which is authorized in

all residential zoning districts; and

7. "Political subdivision" means a municipality or county,

whichever holds primary jurisdiction.

Added by Laws 1987, c. 169, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1987. Amended by Laws

1989, c. 330, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1996, c. 354, § 43, eff.

Nov. 1, 1996.