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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 224

19-301.

(1) (1) "Related institution" means an organized
institution, environment, or home that:

(i) Maintains conditions or facilities and
equipment to provide domiciliary, personal, or nursing care for 2
or more unrelated individuals who are dependent on the
administrator, operator, or proprietor for nursing care or the
subsistence of daily living in a safe, sanitary, and healthful
environment; and

(ii) Admits or retains the individuals for
overnight care.

(2) "Related institution" does not include:

(i) An adult residential environment or home
that is certified by the Department of Human Resources;

(ii) A nursing facility or visiting nurse
service that is conducted only by or for adherents of a bona fide
church or religious organization, in accordance with tenets and
practices that include reliance on treatment by spiritual means
alone for healing; or

(iii) Any sheltered housing  for the elderly, as

defined in Article 70B, § 1 of the Code, that  is certified by the

Office on Aging, unless the housing provides   [for more than 11
15 individuals]:

1.  [In] FOR NOT MORE THAN 16

INDIVIDUALS IN one building that does not have more than one
apartment unit; or

2.  [If] FOR NOT MORE THAN 16

INDIVIDUALS IF there are apartment units in the building, in one
apartment unit; OR .

3. FOR MORE THAN 16 INDIVIDUALS IN A
STRUCTURE THAT IS NOT SUBDIVIDED INTO APARTMENT UNITS.

SECTION 2. AND. BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 8, 1984.