Missouri Revised Statutes Title XII. Public Health and Welfare § 192.2200. Definitions

(1)“Abuse”, the infliction of physical, sexual, or emotional injury or harm;

(2)“Adult”, an individual over the age of eighteen;

(3)“Adult day care program”, a group program designed to provide care and supervision to meet the needs of functionally impaired adults for periods of less than twenty-four hours but more than two hours per day in a place other than the adult's own home;

(4)“Adult day care provider”, the person, corporation, partnership, association or organization legally responsible for the overall operation of the adult day care program;

(5)“Department”, the department of health and senior services;

(6)“Functionally impaired adult”, an adult who by reason of age or infirmity requires care and supervision;

(7)“License”, the document issued by the department in accordance with the provisions of sections 192.2200 to 192.2260 to an adult day care program which authorizes the adult day care provider to operate the program in accordance with the provisions of sections 192.2200 to 192.2260 and the applicable rules promulgated pursuant thereto;

(8)“Operator”, any person licensed or required to be licensed under the provisions of sections 192.2200 to 192.2260 in order to establish, conduct, or maintain an adult day care program;

(9)“Participant”, a functionally impaired adult who is enrolled in an adult day care program;

(10)“Person”, any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, agency, or an incorporated or unincorporated organization regardless of the name used;

(11)“Related”, any of the following by blood, marriage or adoption: parent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, stepparent, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, or first cousin;

(12)“Staff participant ratio”, the number of adult care staff required by the department in relation to the number of adults being cared for by such staff;

(13)“Substantial noncompliance”, any violation of a class I or class II standard or twenty or more violations of class III standards.