§ 0.01 Short title
§ 1 Purpose
§ 2 Definitions; administrative subdivisions
§ 3 In addition to the powers, duties and responsibilities which may be …
§ 4 Supervision of facilities and services; quarterly reports
§ 4.1 Mission statements
§ 4.2 Facility staff
§ 4.3 Site visits and inspections
§ 4.4 Direct support professional credential pilot program
§ 5 The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act are …
§ 5.1 The Department shall develop, by rule, the procedures and standards …
§ 6 To appoint and remove facility directors of the State mental health …
§ 7 To receive and provide the highest possible quality of humane and …
§ 7.1 Individual Care Grants
§ 7.2 No otherwise qualified child with a disability receiving special …
§ 7.3 Health Care Worker Registry; finding of abuse or neglect
§ 8 To control the admission and transfer of recipients or other persons …
§ 9 Reasonable charges, as determined by the Department, shall be imposed …
§ 10 To examine persons admitted to facilities of the Department for …
§ 10.1 Every woman of child-bearing age who is admitted to a facility under …
§ 10.5 Prevention and control of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
§ 11.1 To provide for all recipients living in State mental health …
§ 11.2 To maintain and operate the Bureau for Mentally Ill Children and …
§ 11.3 Transition services; children with disabilities
§ 12 To promote and advance knowledge, through research, in the causes and …
§ 12.1 To establish a distinct operational unit for the purpose of seeking …
§ 12.2 Mental Health Commitment Training
§ 14 Chester Mental Health Center
§ 15 Before any person is released from a facility operated by the State …
§ 15a In placing any child under this Act, the Department shall place such …
§ 15b For recipients awaiting conditional discharge or placement, to …
§ 15c The Department shall, not later than January 1, 1986, enter into a …
§ 15d Before any person is released from a facility operated or licensed by …
§ 15e In order to improve linkage and aftercare for those recipients …
§ 15f Individualized behavioral support plan
§ 15.1 Whenever the Department pays the cost, directly or indirectly, in …
§ 15.2 Quality Assurance for Adult Developmental Training Services
§ 15.3 Quality assurance for community mental health services
§ 15.4 Authorization for nursing delegation to permit direct care staff to administer medications
§ 16 In order to secure for the recipients of the facilities under the …
§ 16.1 At the discretion of the Secretary, to provide recipients under …
§ 17 To make such investigations as may be necessary to the performance of …
§ 18 To receive, hold, distribute and use for indicated purposes and the …
§ 18.2 Integrated system for services for persons with developmental disabilities
§ 18.3 Integrated system for services for the mentally ill
§ 18.4 Community Mental Health Medicaid Trust Fund; reimbursement
§ 18.5 Community Developmental Disability Services Medicaid Trust Fund; reimbursement
§ 18.8 Post-secondary mental health database and resource page
§ 19 To make agreements with any other department, authority or commission …
§ 20 To hold and direct the expenditure of all money which has been or may …
§ 21 To transmit to the State Treasurer monies collected from various …
§ 21.1 The Self-Sufficiency Trust Fund, heretofore created under repealed …
§ 22 To accept and hold in behalf of the State, if for the public …
§ 26 To establish, maintain and operate cemeteries in connection with the …
§ 27 To prescribe and require surety bonds from any officer or employee …
§ 28 To keep, for each facility under the jurisdiction of the Department, …
§ 30 To present to the Governor and the legislature, in such form as …
§ 31 To print publications and distribute documents, reports, statistics, …
§ 31a Computer records
§ 33.1 To make assignments for educational or training purposes to qualified …
§ 33.2 To require of each physician, of whatever specialty, employed by the …
§ 33.3 (a) The Department may develop an annual plan for staff training. The …
§ 34 To make grants-in-aid to community clinics and agencies for …
§ 34.1 To make grants-in-aid not to exceed 30% of the construction and …
§ 34.3 Use of Block Grant Fund
§ 43 To provide habilitation and care for persons with an intellectual …
§ 44 No officer, agent or employee of the Department shall be directly or …
§ 45 The following Acts are repealed: “An Act …
§ 45.5 Eligibility for consideration for participation
§ 46 Separation between the sexes shall be maintained relative to sleeping …
§ 47 The facility director of each facility under the jurisdiction of the …
§ 48.1 The Governor’s Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities shall …
§ 53 The Department shall create a consistent case coordination system for …
§ 54 Establishment of rates for purchase of services
§ 54.5 Community care for persons with developmental disabilities quality workforce initiative
§ 56 The Secretary, upon making a determination based upon information in …
§ 57 The Department of Human Services shall periodically convene a special …
§ 57.5 Autism diagnosis education program
§ 57.6 Adult autism; funding for services
§ 59 The Department may create a Family Assistance and Support Program to …
§ 61 The Department may establish and maintain a trust fund to be known as …
§ 62 The Department shall establish and implement, in conjunction with the …
§ 63 Mental health pilot program
§ 63.5 Data collection standardized format
§ 64 Advisory Committee on Geriatric Services
§ 66 Domestic abuse of adults with disabilities
§ 67 Transfers to community-based residential settings
§ 68 CHOICE demonstration program
§ 69 Joint planning by the Department of Human Services and the Department …
§ 70 Monitoring by closed circuit television
§ 71 Disease management pilot program
§ 71a Community Behavioral Health Care
§ 72 Violent acts against employees of facilities under the Department’s jurisdiction
§ 73 Report; Williams v. Quinn consent decree
§ 74 Rates and reimbursements
§ 75 Rate increase
§ 76 Mental health database and resource page
§ 76.1 First responder mental health database and resource page

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 20 ILCS 1705 - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Circuit clerk: means clerk of the circuit court. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.26
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • decree: is synonymous with the word "judgment". See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.24
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Donor: The person who makes 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.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • 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.
  • Heretofore: means any time previous to the day on which the statute takes effect; and the word "hereafter" at any time after such day. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.17
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" alone, is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.10
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • 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.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.