North Dakota Century Code Title 50. Public Welfare § 50-24.5-01. Definitions

1. “Adult residential facility” means a licensed basic care facility that meets the program and provider requirements of the Medicaid 1915(c) home and community-based services aged and disabled waiver, specializing in the care of individuals eligible for services under a medical assistance home and community-based waiver or similar program with chronic moderate to severe memory loss or significant emotional, behavioral, or cognitive impairment, which provides therapeutic, social, and recreational programming and assistance with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living.

2. “Aged” means at least sixty-five years of age.

3. “Blind” has the same meaning as the term has when used by the social security administration in the supplemental security income program under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 401-434 and 42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.].

4. “Congregate housing” means housing shared by two or more individuals not related to each other which is not provided in an institution.

5. “Department” means the department of health and human services.

6. “Disabled” has the same meaning as the term has when used by the social security administration in the supplemental security income program under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 401-434 and 42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.].

7. “Eligible beneficiary” means a resident of this state who:

8. “Human service zone” means a county or consolidated group of counties administering human services within a designated area in accordance with an agreement or plan approved by the department.

9. “Institution” means a facility licensed under chapter 23-09.3.

10. “Living independently” includes living in congregate housing. The term does not include living in an institution.

11. “Personal needs allowance” means an amount retained by the eligible beneficiary to cover the costs of clothing and other personal needs.

12. “Proprietor” means an individual responsible for day-to-day administration and management of a facility.

13. “Remedial care” means services that produce the maximum reduction of an eligible beneficiary's physical or mental disability and the restoration of an eligible beneficiary to the beneficiary's best possible functional level.

14. “Would be eligible to receive the cash benefits except for income” refers to an individual whose countable income, less the cost of necessary remedial care that may be provided under this chapter, does not exceed an amount equal to the cash benefit under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 401-434 and 42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.] which the individual would receive if the individual had no income, plus the amount allowed as the personal needs allowance.