Illinois Statutes Chapter 210. Health Facilities and Regulation § 135/3. Definitions

(a) “Applicant” means a person, group of persons, association, partnership or corporation that applies for a license as a community mental health or developmental services agency under this Act.

(b) “Community mental health or developmental services agency” or “agency” means a public or private agency, association, partnership, corporation or organization which, pursuant to this Act, certifies community-integrated living arrangements for persons with mental illness or persons with a developmental disability.

(c) “Department” means the Department of Human Services (as successor to the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities).

(d) “Community-integrated living arrangement” means a living arrangement certified by a community mental health or developmental services agency under this Act where 8 or fewer recipients with mental illness or recipients with a developmental disability who reside under the supervision of the agency. Examples of community-integrated living arrangements include but are not limited to the following:

(e) “Recipient” means a person who has received, is receiving, or is in need of treatment or habilitation as those terms are defined in the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. 2

(f) “Unrelated” means that persons residing together in programs or placements certified by a community mental health or developmental services agency under this Act do not have any of the following relationships by blood, marriage or adoption: parent, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandparent, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, great grandparent, great uncle, great aunt, stepbrother, stepsister, stepson, stepdaughter, stepparent or first cousin.