§ 25-01.2-01 Definitions
§ 25-01.2-02 Appropriate treatment, services, and habilitation – Treatment in least restrictive appropriate setting
§ 25-01.2-03 Presumption of incompetence prohibited – Discrimination prohibited – Deprivation of constitutional, civil, or legal rights prohibited
§ 25-01.2-04 Communication rights
§ 25-01.2-05 Personal property
§ 25-01.2-06 Labor – Wages – Money
§ 25-01.2-07 Medical and dental services – Application to residential institution or facility
§ 25-01.2-08 Medication – Chemical restraints
§ 25-01.2-09 Punishment – Seclusion – Restraints – Psychosurgery – Sterilization – Shock treatment
§ 25-01.2-10 Seclusion or physical restraint – Administrator to be notified
§ 25-01.2-11 Psychosurgery, sterilization, or research – Court order required – Hearing – Right to attorney at public expense
§ 25-01.2-12 Diet
§ 25-01.2-13 Education
§ 25-01.2-14 Individualized habilitation, person-centered service, or individual education plan – Contents
§ 25-01.2-15 Right to refuse services
§ 25-01.2-16 Notice of rights
§ 25-01.2-17 Enforcement of rights
§ 25-01.2-18 Authority to adopt rules

Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 25-01.2 - Developmental Disability

  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • 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.
  • Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Sex: means the biological state of being male or female, based on the individual's nonambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous hormone profiles at birth. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37