Section 73201 - License Required(a) No person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, political subdivision of the State or other governmental agency within the State, shall operate, establish, manage, conduct or maintain an intermediate care facility in this State or claim to operate an intermediate care facility, without first obtaining a license from the Department.(b) The provisions of this article do not apply to the following institutions: (1) Any facility conducted by and for the adherents of any well-recognized church or religious denomination for the purpose of providing facilities for the care or treatment of the sick who depend upon prayer or spiritual means for healing in the practice of the religion of such church or denomination.(2) Hotels or other similar places that furnish only board and room, or either, to their guests.(3) Any house or institutions supplying board and room only, or room only, or board only; provided, that no resident thereof requires any element of medical care as determined by the Department.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 73201