Sec.17-31z-8. Definitions

(a) Applicant means a municipality or state agency that has submitted a child care facility grant application to the Department of Human Resources.

(b) Child Care Facility means a facility to house a program of supplementary care, primarily for infants and children of employees of municipalities and state agencies, which is licensed by the Connecticut Department of Health Services.

(c) Commissioner means Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Human Resources.

(d) Department means the Connecticut Department of Human Resources.

(e) Grant Action means a Grant Action Request/Program Design and Financing Plan, which once executed, is legally binding on the signatories.

(f) Interagency Agreement means a document which formalizes the programmatic, fiscal and statutory requirements of the contract award among two or more state agencies, and is legally binding upon the signatories.

(g) Municipality means any one of the 169 towns and cities incorporated in the State of Connecticut.

(h) Operator means a person, group of persons, association, organization, corporation, institution or agency, public or private, to whom a Child Day Care License is issued by the Connecticut Department of Health Services.

(i) Primarily means that over a period of a year, at least 51% of the participants in a child care facility shall be the children of the employees of municipalities or state agencies, who have permanent employment status.

(j) State Agency means a department, agency or commission of the executive, judicial or legislative branches of the government of the State of Connecticut.

(Effective May 24, 1988)