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SECTION 202
GENERAL DEFINITIONS
AGED HOME OR INSTITUTION, is a facility used for the housing of persons 65 years of age or older in need of care
and supervision. (See definition of “care and supervision”)
ASSEMBLY. The gathering together of 50 or more persons for such purposes as deliberation, education, instruction,
worship, entertainment, amusement, drinking, dining or awaiting transportation.
ASSEMBLY BUILDING is a building or portion of a building used for the gathering together of 50 or more persons for
such purposes as deliberation, education, instruction, worship, entertainment, amusement, drinking or dining, or
awaiting transportation. Any building or structure or portion thereof used or intended to be used for the showing of
motion pictures when an admission fee is charged and when such building or structure is open to the public and has a
capacity of 10 or more persons.
BEDRIDDEN PERSON means a person, requiring assistance in turning and repositioning in bed, or being unable to
independently transfer to and from bed, except in facilities with appropriate and sufficient care staff, mechanical
devices if necessary, and safety precautions as determined in Title 22 regulations, by the Director of Social Services
or his or her designated representative.
The Director of Social Services or his or her designated representative shall make the determination of the bedridden
status of persons with developmental disabilities, in consultation with the Director of Developmental Services or his or
her designated representative.
The Director of Social Services or his or her designated representative shall make the determination of the bedridden
status of all other persons with disabilities who are not developmentally disabled.
BUILDING. is any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.
Note: Building shall have the same meaning as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 17920 and 18908 for the
applications specified in Section 1.11.
CARE AND SUPERVISION means any one or more of the following activities provided by a person or facility to meet
the needs of the clients:
Assistance in dressing, grooming, bathing and other personal hygiene.
Assistance with taking medication.
Central storing and/or distribution of medications.
Arrangement of and assistance with medical and dental care.
Maintenance of house rules for the protection of clients.
Supervision of client schedules and activities.
Maintenance and/or supervision of client cash resources or property.
Monitoring food intake or special diets.
Providing basic services required by applicable law and regulation to be provided by the licensee in order to obtain
and maintain a community-care facility license.
CATASTROPHICALLY INJURED, as termed, means a person whose origin of disability was acquired through
trauma or nondegenerative neurologic illness, for whom it has been determined by the Department of Health Services
Certification and Licensing that active rehabilitation would be beneficial.
CELL is a housing unit in a detention or correctional facility for the confinement of not more than two inmates or
prisoners.
CELL COMPLEX is a cluster or group of cells or dormitories in a jail, prison or other detention facility, together with
rooms used for accessory purposes, all of which open into the cell complex, and are used for functions such as
dining, counseling, exercise, classrooms, sick call, visiting, storage, staff offices, control rooms or similar functions,
and interconnecting corridors all within the cell complex.
Office of the State Fire Marshal 14 of 191 April 30, 2009
2009 Annual Rulemaking Cycle
Express Terms – CCR, Title 24, Part 9
2010 California Fire Code (2009 IFC)