77-15a-102 - "Mentally retarded" defined.
77-15a-102. "Mentally retarded" defined.
As used in this chapter, a defendant is "mentally retarded" if:
(1) the defendant has significant subaverage general intellectual functioning that resultsin and exists concurrently with significant deficiencies in adaptive functioning that existprimarily in the areas of reasoning or impulse control, or in both of these areas; and
(2) the subaverage general intellectual functioning and the significant deficiencies inadaptive functioning under Subsection (1) are both manifested prior to age 22.
Enacted by Chapter 11, 2003 General Session