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Article 10: Definitions 250 <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> Orange County Government. <br /> Custodial Care <br /> A form of care that is primarily for the purpose of assisting a person in the activities of daily living or in <br /> meeting personal rather than medical needs, which is not intended to provide specific therapy as the <br /> result of an illness or injury and does not constitute skilled care. The term shall refer to personal care that <br /> does not require the continuing attention or supervision of trained, medical, or paramedical personnel. <br /> Cutoff Fixture <br /> An outdoor lighting fixture shielded or constructed in such a manner that no more 2.5% of the total light <br /> emitted by the fixture is projected above the horizontal plane of the fixture. <br /> Day Care <br /> Any child care arrangement under which a child less than 13 years of age receives care away from his <br /> own home by persons other than his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters who are <br /> not minors, guardians or full time custodians. <br /> Day Care Facility <br /> Any day care center or child care arrangement that provides day care for more than five children, not <br /> including the operator's school age children, under the age of 13, on a regular basis of at least once per <br /> week for more than four hours but less than 24 hours per day, and those operating fewer than four hours <br /> per day that provide care for more children per adult care giver than would be permitted in an AA State <br /> licensed center, regardless of the time of day and regardless of whether the same children attend <br /> regularly. <br /> The following facilities are not included: <br /> a) Public schools; <br /> b) Non-public schools whether or not accredited by the State Department of Public Instruction, <br /> which regularly and exclusively provide a course of grade school instruction to children who are of <br /> public school age; <br /> c) Summer camps having children in full-time residence; <br /> d) Bible schools conducted for no more than three weeks during vacation periods; and <br /> e) Cooperative arrangements among parents who care only for their own children in an arrangement <br /> as a matter of convenience rather than to enable any participating parent to be employed. <br /> Day (mare Home, La <br /> read, whiGh provides day Gare for more than five <br /> but fewer than 16 children within a resode RGe <br /> Dedication <br /> A gift, by the owner, of land for a specified purpose, or purposes. Because a transfer of property is <br /> entailed, dedication must be made by written instrument and is completed with an acceptance. <br /> Designated Public Sewer Service Area <br /> An area located within Orange County's Primary Service Area in the Water and Sewer Management, <br /> Planning, and Boundary Agreement, that is currently served by public sewer or is expected to be served <br /> by public sewer in the near-term (e.g., 18 months; demonstrated by issuance of an advertisement for bid, <br /> or similar device, for construction of public sewer facilities). <br /> Detention Pond <br /> A engineered stormwater control consisting of a pond constructed and maintained in accordance with <br /> Appendix A of this Ordinance, which allows for pollutants to settle and provides for the gradual release of <br /> the impounded water. The detention pond is the Best Management Practice which must be used within <br /> 282 The term is no longer listed within the Table of Permitted land uses. Staff is recommending we delete the <br /> definition. There are currently opportunities to apply for a Care Facility(i.e. Class B Special Use Permit) in the <br /> majority of residential districts addressing this need. <br /> Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-10 <br />