§ 20-48-202 - Definitions.
20-48-202. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Board" means the Board of Developmental Disabilities Services;
(2) "Center" means a human development center;
(3) "Division" means the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services in the Department of Human Services or the appropriate division as determined by the Director of the Department of Human Services;
(4) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Human Services;
(5) "Superintendent" means the chief administrative officer assigned full time to a center;
(6) "Retarded" or "mentally retarded" or "retarded individual" means:
(A) A person with a mental deficit requiring him or her to have special evaluation, treatment, care, education, training, supervision, or control in his or her home or community, or in a state institution for the mentally retarded; or
(B) A functionally retarded person who may not exhibit an intellectual deficit on standard psychological tests, but who, because of other handicaps, functions as a retarded person. Not included is a person whose primary problem is mental illness, emotional disturbance, physical handicap, or sensory defect;
(7) "Individual" means a person without regard to chronological age;
(8) "Mental retardation services" or "services" means all services pertaining to and incidental to the prevention, detection, diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, care, custody, education, training, rehabilitation, or supervision of retarded individuals;
(9) "Region" means a geographical area defined by the division, usually consisting of all or parts of two (2) or more counties, which is created to provide services for retarded individuals when the services cannot be provided feasibly or practically at the local level;
(10) "Locality" means a geographical area defined by the division usually consisting of a municipality or county but not excluding other areas within easy commuting distance;
(11) "Community" means either region or locality;
(12) "Coordinate" means to bring resources to bear in appropriate sequence and relationship to provide the proper services for retarded individuals. "Coordinate" implies a working relationship with, but not administrative authority over, public agencies providing mental retardation services;
(13) "Public agencies" means all agencies, departments, boards, institutions, commissions, officers, officials, political subdivisions and agencies thereof, and school districts of this state; and
(14) "Private organizations" means organizations, persons, firms, individuals, corporations, or associations.