Section 330.2001a - Definitions; C to M.
MENTAL HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 258 of 1974
330.2001a Definitions; C to M.
Sec. 1001a.
(1) “Center for forensic psychiatry program” means that program established by the center for forensic psychiatry to provide services related to all of the following:
(a) Persons who are alleged to be incompetent to stand trial.
(b) Persons who are acquitted of criminal charges by reason of insanity.
(c) Persons who are transferred to the center from places of detention or from other state psychiatric hospitals.
(2) “Corrections mental health program” means that program of the department of corrections that is responsible for the provision of mental health services to certain prisoners under this chapter.
(3) “Hearing committee” means a committee appointed by the corrections mental health program pursuant to section 1003c.
(4) “Mental health services” means the provision of mental health care in a protective environment to prisoners with mental illness or mental retardation, including, but not limited to, chemotherapy and individual and group therapies.
(5) “Mental illness” means a substantial disorder of thought or mood that significantly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life.
(6) “Mentally retarded” means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that originates during the developmental period and is associated with impairment in adaptive behavior.
History: Add. 1978, Act 636, Imd. Eff. Jan. 10, 1979 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 252, Imd. Eff. Nov. 29, 1993