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(3) the drop-in child care program operates in a child care center at the same time as a regularly scheduled ongoing child care program with a stable enrollment but the program’s activities, except for bathroom use and outdoor play, are conducted separately from each other. Subd. 6b. Experience. For purposes of child care centers, “experience” includes paid or unpaid employment serving children as a teacher, assistant teacher, aide, or a student intern in a licensed child care center, in a public or nonpublic school, or in a program licensed as a family day care or group family day care provider. Subd. 6c. Foster care for adults. “Foster care for adults” means a program operating 24 hours a day that provides functionally impaired adults with food, lodging, protection, supervision, and household services in a residence, in addition to services according to the individual service plans under Minnesota Rules, part 9555.5105, subpart 18. Subd. 7. Functional impairment. For the purposes of adult day care, adult day services, family adult day services, or adult foster care, “functional impairment” means: (1) a condition that is characterized by substantial difficulty in carrying out one or more of the essential major activities of daily living, such as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, working; or (2) a disorder of thought or mood that significantly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life and that requires support to maintain independence in the community. Subd. 7a. HIV minimum standards. “HIV minimum standards” means those items approved by the department and contained in the HIV-1 Guidelines for chemical dependency treatment and care programs in Minnesota including HIV education to clients, completion of HIV training by all new and existing staff, provision for referral to individual HIV counseling and services for all clients, and the implementation of written policies and procedures for working with HIV-infected clients. Subd. 7b. [Repealed, 2014 c 262 art 5 s 7] Subd. 8. License. “License” means a certificate issued by the commissioner authorizing the license holder to provide a specified program for a specified period of time and in accordance with the terms of the license and the rules of the commissioner. Subd. 9. License holder. “License holder” means an individual, corporation, partnership, voluntary association, or other organization that is legally responsible for the operation of the program, has been granted a license by the commissioner under this chapter or chapter 245D and the rules of the commissioner, and is a controlling individual. Subd. 10. Nonresidential program. “Nonresidential program” means care, supervision, rehabilitation, training or habilitation of a person provided outside the person’s own home and provided for fewer than 24 hours a day, including adult day care programs; and chemical dependency or chemical abuse programs that are located

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