Indiana Code > Title 12 > Article 24 – State Institutions
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- administrator: means a person who is the administrative head of a hospital, a sanitarium, an institution, an agency, or an instrumentality:
Indiana Code 12-24-17-1
- Allegation: something that someone says happened.
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- fund: refers to the institution clothing fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 12-24-6-1
- fund: refers to the mental health fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 12-24-14-1
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- minor: means a person less than eighteen (18) years of age. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- patient: means an individual who is an inpatient in a state institution. See Indiana Code 12-24-7-1
- patient: means an individual who:
Indiana Code 12-24-17-2
- real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- resident: refers to an individual who has lived continuously in Indiana during the previous year. See Indiana Code 12-24-5-1
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- treatment team: includes physicians, psychologists, therapists, or other state institution staff designated to meet periodically to review a patient's progress. See Indiana Code 12-24-7-2