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- ACT: means a self-contained service with a fixed point of responsibility for providing treatment, rehabilitation and support services to persons with mental illness for whom other community-based treatment approaches have been unsuccessful. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
- active state service: means all military duty performed as a member of the state military forces pursuant to this Title or the United States Code, Title 32. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 101-A
- Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Adult developmental services: means any support or assistance provided, licensed or funded in whole or in part by the department pursuant to chapter 5 or 6 to an adult with an intellectual disability or autism. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 1001
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Designated nonstate mental health institution: means a nonstate mental health institution that is under contract with the department for receipt by the hospital of involuntary patients. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Donee: The recipient of a gift.
- Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Grantee: means the person to whom a freehold estate or interest in land is conveyed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
- Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
- lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Least restrictive form of transportation: means the vehicle used for transportation and any restraining devices that may be used during transportation that impose the least amount of restriction, taking into consideration the stigmatizing impact upon the individual being transported. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
- Likelihood of serious harm: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801Mentally ill person: includes persons suffering effects from the use of drugs, narcotics, hallucinogens or intoxicants, including alcohol. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801 Military forces: means the state military forces, as defined in section 102. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 101-A Nonadverse party: means a person who does not have a substantial beneficial interest in the trust or other property arrangement that would be adversely affected by the exercise or nonexercise of the power that the person possesses respecting the trust or other property arrangement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-201 Patient: means a person under observation, care or treatment in a psychiatric hospital or residential care facility pursuant to this subchapter, a person receiving services from an assertive community treatment team, a person receiving intensive mental health management services from the department or a person being evaluated for emergency admission under section 3863 in a hospital emergency department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801 Person: means an adult with an intellectual disability or autism. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 5001 power of appointment: includes a power to designate the beneficiary of a beneficiary designation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-201 Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC practitioner: means a licensed physician, licensed physician assistant, certified psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner or licensed clinical psychologist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801 Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way. Presently exercisable general power of appointment: means a power of appointment under which, at the time in question, the decedent, whether or not the decedent then had the capacity to exercise the power, held a power to create a present or future interest in the decedent, the decedent's creditors, the decedent's estate or creditors of the decedent's estate, and includes a power to revoke or invade the principal of a trust or other property arrangement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-201 Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law. program: means a program of court-ordered services provided to participants under section 3873?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801 Property: includes values subject to a beneficiary designation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-201 Psychiatric hospital: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners. Right to income: includes a right to payments under a commercial or private annuity, an annuity trust, a unitrust or a similar arrangement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-201 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. Severe and persistent mental illness: means a diagnosis of one or more qualifying mental illnesses or disorders plus a listed disability or functional impairment that has persisted continuously or intermittently or is expected to persist for at least one year as a result of that disease or disorder. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801 State mental health institute: means the Riverview Psychiatric Center or the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801 Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Supportive services: means services to make it possible for an incapacitated person to become rehabilitated or self-sufficient to the maximum extent possible, including but not limited to:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 5001Testate: To die leaving a will. Testify: Answer questions in court. Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.