401-05.

DEFINITION: FOSTER HOME, RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME, BOARDING HOUSE, ROOMING HOUSE, AND REST HOME.

Notwithstanding any provision or limitation on the number of occupants to the contrary contained in Title IV of this Code, the terms “foster home, ” “residential care home, ” “boarding house,” “rooming house,” or “rest home,” shall not include a residential facility providing care to children, to the elderly, or for mentally disordered or otherwise handicapped persons, which serves six or fewer persons not including the operator or members of the operator’s family or persons employed as facility staff.

A residential care facility providing care to six or fewer children, elderly, mentally disordered, or otherwise handicapped persons, not counting the operator or members of the operator’s family or persons employed as facility staff, shall be deemed to be a single family residential use.