Sec. 44-17. Definitions.

For the purposes of this Division, the following words and phrases have the following meanings:

Director; Department: The term "Director" means the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the term "Department" means the Department of Health and Human Services.

License: The term "license" refers to the permission extended by the County to a private educational institution to occupy and use specified buildings and premises for educational purposes upon compliance with this Article.

Private educational institution: The words "private educational institution" shall mean every private school or educational or training institution, however designated, which offers a program of college, professional, preparatory, high school, junior high school, elementary, kindergarten or nursery school instruction, or any combination thereof, or any other program of trade, technical or artistic training; but, such term does not include: (a) Any private educational institution which is under the supervisory jurisdiction of the County Board of Education; or (b) any place other than a two-family dwelling or multi-family dwelling where instruction is carried on by a single teacher or instructor and where not more than 5 students are under instruction at any one time.