1. Services. It is the policy of the State to provide education, training and habilitative services to persons with intellectual disabilities or autism who need those services, except that nothing in this chapter may replace or limit the right of any person with an intellectual disability or autism to treatment by spiritual means alone, through prayer, if that treatment is requested by the person or by the person’s next of kin or guardian.

[PL 2011, c. 542, Pt. A, §82 (AMD).]

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 5002

  • 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.
  • Intellectual disability: means a condition of significantly subaverage intellectual functioning resulting in or associated with concurrent impairments in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 5001
  • Person: means an adult with an intellectual disability or autism. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 5001
  • Treatment: means the prevention or amelioration of physical and mental disabilities or illness of a person or any actions or services designed to assist the person to maximize the person's independence and potential. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 5601
2. Setting. It is the policy of the State that the setting for the services described in subsection 1 must, consistent with adequate care and treatment:
A. Impose the fewest possible restrictions on the liberty of persons with intellectual disabilities or autism; and [PL 2011, c. 542, Pt. A, §82 (AMD).]
B. Be as close as possible to the patterns and norms of the mainstream of society. [PL 1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW).]

[PL 2011, c. 542, Pt. A, §82 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW). PL 2011, c. 542, Pt. A, §82 (AMD).
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