Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 33 > Chapter 71 > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• Assisted living residence: means a program that combines housing, health, and supportive services for the support of resident independence and aging in place. See
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• 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
• Insolvent: means :

• 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
• Nursing care: means the performance of services necessary in caring for persons who are sick or injured that require specialized knowledge, judgment, and skill and meet the standards of nursing as defined in 26 V. 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:

• 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
• Psychiatric disability: means an impairment of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that limits one or more major life activities but does not include intellectual disability. See
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• 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