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(15) “facility” means the administration, program, and physical plant of a residential child care facility or maternity home and includes other parts of the building housing the facility and adjoining grounds over which the operator of the facility has direct control;

(16) “freestanding” means individually licensed as a residential psychiatric treatment center under this chapter, and independent from administrative or financial control of another facility;

(17) “full-time care facility” means a residential child care facility;

(18) “group home” means a residential group home;

(19) “infant” means a child age birth up to 12 months of age;

(20) “isolation” means the involuntary confinement or seclusion of a resident alone in a locked behavior-management room;

(21) “license” means a permit issued under AS 47.10.392 or a license issued under AS 47.32;

(22) “licensee” has the meaning given “licensed entity” in AS 47.32.900, including an entity to whom a permit has been issued under AS 47.10.392;

(23) “licensing representative” means an employee of the department or an individual or organization responsible for evaluating a facility, and presumes review and approval of the representative’s decisions by the department or organization authorized under 7 AAC 50.040;

(24) “locked behavior-management room” means a room or area in which a child is isolated by locking the door to the room, or by stationing staff in or outside the room or area for the purpose of preventing the child from leaving the room;

(25) “maternity home” has the meaning given in AS 47.32.900;

(26) “mechanical restraint” means a device attached or adjacent to the resident’s body that the resident cannot easily remove and that restricts freedom of movement or normal access by the resident to the resident’s body;

(27) “medically fragile child” means a child who lacks physical or emotional strength and requires frequent medical attention from personnel outside of the facility;

(28) “operator” means the person licensed to operate a facility;

(29) “parent” means a birth or adoptive parent;

(30) “passive physical restraint” means the least amount of direct physical contact by a caregiver, using methods approved by the department, to restrain a child from harming self or others;

(31) “personal restraint” means the application of physical force without the use of any device, for the purpose of restricting the free movement of a resident’s body;