The Florida Senate

296.02  Definitions.--For the purposes of this part, except where the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1)  "Director" means the executive director of the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

(2)  "Domiciliary care" means shelter, sustenance, and incidental medical care provided on an ambulatory self-care basis to assist eligible veterans who are disabled by age or disease, but who are not in need of hospitalization or nursing home care services.

(3)  "Department" means the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

(4)  "Wartime service" means service as defined in s. 1.01(14).

(5)  "Peacetime service" means service not during a wartime era as defined in subsection (4).

(6)  "Veterans' Domiciliary Home of Florida," hereinafter referred to as the "home," means a home established by the state for veterans who served in wartime or peacetime service, as defined in subsections (4) and (5).

(7)  "Applicant" means a veteran with wartime or peacetime service as defined in subsections (4) and (5), who is not in need of hospitalization or nursing home care.

(8)  "Member" means any eligible veteran admitted to residency in the home.

History.--s. 8, ch. 89-168; s. 5, ch. 92-80.