Section 148-20-1 - DEFINITIONS FOR PURPOSES OF THESE RULES ONLYA. "Department" shall mean the Department of Human Services.B. "Adult" shall mean a person who has attained his 18th birthday.C. "Child" shall mean a person under the age of 18 who is not related by blood or marriage to, or who has not been legally adopted by, the licensee or administrator of any child placing agency.D. "Agency" shall mean any person, partnership, voluntary association or corporation.E. "Child Placing Agency" shall mean any agency which advertises itself or holds itself out as finding homes for or otherwise placing children for respite care only, under the age of 18, in homes where care is provided on the basis of 24 hours a day.F. "Respite Care" shall mean substitute parental care provided within a family on a 24 hour a day basis not to exceed a period of 3 consecutive weeks for each individual child and shall mean the provision of those things necessary to assure safe, healthful living for the child unattended by parent or guardian including but not limited to food, shelter and appropriate supervision. This shall not include placement with blood relatives, relatives by marriage or relatives by adoption.G. "Advertise" shall mean the act of stating in writing that the agency is available and willing to provide an individual with services which will result in the placing or assisting in finding placements for children under eighteen years of age for respite care.H. 'Holding out" shall mean a series of actions or oral statements by a agency which affirmatively communicates the agency's availability and willingness to place or assist in finding homes for children for respite cars.I. "Blood relatives" shall mean mother, father, sister, brother, grandparents, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews and first cousins.J. "Relatives by marriage" shall mean step-mother, step-father, step-brother, step-sister, step-grandparents, and brother or sister of step-parent.K. "Relatives by adoption" shall mean adoptive mother, adoptive father, adoptive grandparents, adoptive sister, or brother or the brother or sister of the adoptive parent.L. "Direct Service" shall mean activities which have as their primary focus the provision of cars, training, education or related activities to clients.M. "Discharge plan" shall mean a plan for a child including expected length of stay and identification of who will remove the child at the end of respite care.10-148 C.M.R. ch. 20, § 1