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Article 10: Definitions 10 Section 10.1: Definitions Day Care Any child care arrangement under which a child less than 13 years of age receives care away from his own home by persons other than his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters who are not minors, guardians or full time custodians. Day Care Facility Any day care center or child care arrangement that provides day care for more than five children, not including the operator's school age children, under the age of 13, on a regular basis of at least once per week for more than four hours but less than 24 hours per day, and those operating fewer than four hours per day that provide care for more children per adult care giver than would be permitted in an AA State licensed center, regardless of the time of day and regardless of whether the same children attend regularly. The following facilities are not included: a) Public schools; b) Non-public schools whether or not accredited by the State Department of Public Instruction, which regularly and exclusively provide a course of grade school instruction to children who are of public school age; c) Summer camps having children in full-time residence; d) Bible schools conducted for no more than three weeks during vacation periods; and e) Cooperative arrangements among parents who care only for their own children in an arrangement as a matter of convenience rather than to enable any participating parent to be employed. Day Care Home, Large A Day Care Facility located on a public state-maintained road, which provides day care for more than five but fewer than 16 children, within a residence. Dedication A gift, by the owner, of land for a specified purpose, or purposes. Because a transfer of property is entailed, dedication must be made by written instrument and is completed with an acceptance. Designated Public Sewer Service Area An area located within Orange County's Primary Service Area in the Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement, that is currently served by public sewer or is expected to be served by public sewer in the near-term (e.g., 18 months; demonstrated by issuance of an advertisement for bid, or similar device, for construction of public sewer facilities). Detention Pond A engineered stormwater control consisting of a pond constructed and maintained in accordance with Appendix A of this Ordinance, which allows for pollutants to settle and provides for the gradual release of the impounded water. The detention pond is the Best Management Practice which must be used within protected watersheds when engineered stormwater controls are required. (See also, Best Management Practices and Engineered Stormwater Controls) Development Any constructed change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials. Also includes any land-disturbing activity which adds to or changes the amount of impervious or partially impervious cover on a land area or which otherwise decreases the infiltration of precipitation into the soil. Development, Existing In the context of Stormwater provisions of this Ordinance for projects that do not require a State permit, shall be defined as those projects that are built, or those projects that at a minimum have established a vested right under North Carolina zoning law as of the effective date of Orange County's Water Supply Watershed Protection Ordinance, or such earlier time that other Orange County ordinances shall specify, based on at least one of the following criteria: Orange County,North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-6