arranges for the provision of food, room, shelter,
clothing, personal care or health care in the residence,
for a period exceeding 24 hours, to fewer than four care-
dependent persons who are not relatives of the owner; and
(ii) that is not required to be licensed as a long-
term care nursing facility, as defined in section 802.1
of the Health Care Facilities Act.
(2) The term does not include:
(i) Domiciliary care as defined in section 2202-A of
the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The
Administrative Code of 1929.
(ii) A facility that provides residential care for
fewer than four care-dependent adults and is regulated by
the Department of Human Services.
Section 2. Title 18 is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 2713.1. Abuse of care-dependent person.
(a) Offense defined.--A caretaker is guilty of abuse of a
care-dependent person if the caretaker:
(1) With the intent to harass, annoy or alarm a care-
dependent person:
(i) strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects or
attempts to subject a care-dependent person to or
threatens a care-dependent person with physical contact;
(ii) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly
commits acts that serve no legitimate purpose;
(iii) communicates to a care-dependent person any
lewd, lascivious, threatening or obscene words, language,
drawings or caricatures; or
(iv) communicates repeatedly with the care-dependent
person at extremely inconvenient hours.
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