Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 33 > Chapter 71 > Subchapter 2 - Licensing of Long-Term Care Facilities

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Assisted living residence: means a program that combines housing, health, and supportive services for the support of resident independence and aging in place. See
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Facility: means a residential care home, nursing home, assisted living residence, home for persons who are terminally ill, or therapeutic community residence licensed or required to be licensed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Home for persons who are terminally ill: means a place providing services specifically for three or more people who are dying, including room, board, personal care, and other assistance for the residents' emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. See
• Licensee: means any person, other than a receiver appointed under this chapter, which is licensed or required to be licensed to operate a facility. See
• Licensing agency: means the Agency of Human Services or the department or division within the Agency as the Secretary of Human Services may designate. See
• Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. See
• Nursing home: means an institution or distinct part of an institution that is primarily engaged in providing to its residents any of the following:

• Owner: means the holder of the title to the property on or in which the facility is maintained. See
• Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Resident: means any person who lives in and receives services or care in a facility. See
• Residential care home: means a place, however named, excluding a licensed foster home, that provides, for profit or otherwise, room, board, and personal care to three or more residents unrelated to the home operator. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• Therapeutic community residence: means a place, however named, excluding hospitals as defined by statute, that provides, for profit or otherwise, transitional individualized treatment to three or more residents with major life adjustment problems, such as a substance use disorder, psychiatric disability, or delinquency. See