§ 18.04.140. "M" definitions

"Managed care facility" means any of the following:

A. "Assisted living facility" means a facility providing care on a monthly basis or longer which is the primary residence of the people served. Such facilities provide services to residents such as dining, medical, transportation and recreation. Any commercial services provided are for the exclusive use of the occupants of the facility. Such facilities may be located in more than one building and/or on contiguous parcels within the building site.

B. "Convalescent hospital" means a facility licensed by the California Department of Health Services which provides bed and ambulatory care for seven or more patients with postoperative convalescent, chronic illness or dietary problems and persons unable to care for themselves, including persons undergoing psychiatric care and treatment both as inpatients and outpatients, but not including persons with contagious diseases or affliction. Convalescent hospitals include nursing homes, convalescent homes, rest homes or homes for the aged.

C. "Residential care facility for the elderly" means those facilities as defined in Section 1569.2 of the California Health and Safety Code, including Alzheimer's care facilities.

"Manufactured home" means a factory built, single-family structure that meets the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 54010).

"Medical Marijuana Dispensary" shall include the terms "Dispensing Collective," "Dispensing Cooperative," "Medical Cannabis Collective," "Medical Cannabis Cooperative," "Medical Marijuana Collective," "Medical Marijuana Cooperative," or similar term, and shall mean any association, cooperative, affiliation, or collective of persons where "qualified patients" and/or "primary care givers" are organized to provide education, referral, or network services, and facilitate or assist in the distribution of medical marijuana. "Medical marijuana dispensary" also means any facility or location where the purpose is to dispense, provide, or otherwise make available marijuana, or any facility or location where the purpose is to dispense, provide, or otherwise make available marijuana as a medication that has been recommended by a physician, and where marijuana is made medically available to and/or distributed by or to primary caregivers and/or qualified patients in strict accordance with California Health and Safety Code Sections 11362.5 through 11362.83, inclusive. "Medical Marijuana Dispensary" also includes establishments from which marijuana is delivered to patients who cannot obtain it from a dispensary due to physical or mental disability, for medical purposes in compliance with Health and Safety Code sections 11362.5 through 11362.83, inclusive. For the purposes of this Title, the terms "primary caregiver," "qualified patient," and "person with an identification card" shall be as ascribed in Sections 11362.5 and 11362.7 of the California Health and Safety Code.

"Membership store/warehouse" means a retail or wholesale establishment that sells goods in bulk quantities. Membership stores/warehouses are typically large in size, consisting of 50,000 or more square feet in floor area.

"Mini-warehouse" means any storage facility in which individual units are rented to the public. The term includes "Self storage facility."

"Mobile home" means a movable or transportable vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed as a permanent structure intended for human habitation and having no foundation other than jacks, piers, wheels, or skirtings.

"Mobile home park" means any area or tract of land where two or more mobile home spaces are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to accommodate mobile home used for human habitation.

"Mobile home space" means a plot of ground within a mobile home park designed for the accommodation of one mobile home.

"Motel" means the same as "hotel."

(Ord. 2011-968, § 1, 2011; Ord. 2013-981, § 8, 2013)