Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 34-B > Chapter 11 - Medical Treatment of Psychotic Disorders

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Attending physician: means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 11001
• Chief administrative officer: means the head of a correctional facility or a detention facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Declaration: means a written document voluntarily executed by the declarant in accordance with the requirements of subsection 2 regardless of form. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 11001
• Department: means the Department of Corrections. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
• Detention facility: means the Long Creek Youth Development Center. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
• Health care facility: includes any program, institution, place, building or agency or portion thereof, private or public, whether organized for profit or not, used, operated or designed to provide medical diagnosis, treatment or rehabilitative or preventive care to any person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 11001
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Physician: means an individual licensed to practice medicine. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 11001
• 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}
• Psychotic condition: means any disease, illness or condition commonly referred to by the medical profession according to ordinary standards of current medical practice as any disorder characterized by psychotic tendencies or manic-depressive behavior or schizophrenia or other similar condition that, without the administration of appropriate medical treatment, including the use of psychotropic drugs, would constitute a danger to the patient or to others and would result in a patient being gravely disabled. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 11001