Connecticut General Statutes 17a-580 – Definitions
As used in sections 17a-581 to 17a-603, inclusive, and this section:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 17a-580
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- intellectual disability: means a significant limitation in intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior that originated during the developmental period before eighteen years of age. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1g
- 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.
(1) “Acquittee” means any person found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to § 53a-13;
(2) “Board” means the Psychiatric Security Review Board established pursuant to § 17a-581;
(3) “Conditional release” means release of the acquittee from a hospital for psychiatric disabilities to the jurisdiction of the board for supervision and treatment and includes, but is not limited to, the monitoring of mental and physical health treatment;
(4) “Court” means the Superior Court;
(5) “Danger to himself or others” includes danger to the property of others;
(6) “Hospital for psychiatric disabilities” means any public or private hospital, retreat, institution, house or place in which a person with psychiatric disabilities or drug-dependent person is received or detained as a patient, but does not include any correctional institution of the state;
(7) “Psychiatric disability” includes any mental illness in a state of remission when the illness may, with reasonable medical probability, become active. “Psychiatric disability” does not include an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct;
(8) “Intellectual disability” has the same meaning as provided in § 1-1g;
(9) “Person who should be conditionally released” means an acquittee who has psychiatric disabilities or has intellectual disability to the extent that his final discharge would constitute a danger to himself or others but who can be adequately controlled with available supervision and treatment on conditional release;
(10) “Person who should be confined” means an acquittee who has psychiatric disabilities or has intellectual disability to the extent that such acquittee’s discharge or conditional release would constitute a danger to the acquittee or others and who cannot be adequately controlled with available supervision and treatment on conditional release;
(11) “Person who should be discharged” means an acquittee who does not have psychiatric disabilities or does not have intellectual disability to the extent that such acquittee’s discharge would constitute a danger to the acquittee or others;
(12) “Psychiatrist” means a physician specializing in psychiatry and licensed under the provisions of sections 20-9 to 20-12, inclusive;
(13) “Psychologist” means a clinical psychologist licensed under the provisions of sections 20-186 to 20-195, inclusive;
(14) “State’s attorney” means the state’s attorney for the judicial district wherein the acquittee was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to § 53a-13; and
(15) “Superintendent” means any person, body of persons or corporation, or the designee of any such person, body of persons or corporation, which has the immediate supervision, management and control of a hospital for psychiatric disabilities and the patients therein.