§ 3801 Definitions
§ 3802 Commissioner’s powers
§ 3803 Patient’s rights
§ 3804 Habeas corpus
§ 3805 Prohibited acts; penalty

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 34-B > Chapter 3 > Subchapter 4 > Article 1 - General Provisions

  • ACT: means a self-contained service with a fixed point of responsibility for providing treatment, rehabilitation and support services to persons with mental illness for whom other community-based treatment approaches have been unsuccessful. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Chief administrative officer: means the head of a state institution or the head of any other institution which provides services which fall under the jurisdiction of the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 1001
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the commissioner's designee, except that when the term "commissioner and only the commissioner" is used, the term applies only to the person appointed Commissioner of Health and Human Services and not to any designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 1001
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 1001
  • Designated nonstate mental health institution: means a nonstate mental health institution that is under contract with the department for receipt by the hospital of involuntary patients. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
  • in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Inability to make an informed decision: means being unable to make a responsible decision whether to accept or refuse a recommended treatment as a result of lack of mental capacity to understand sufficiently the benefits and risks of the treatment after a thorough and informative explanation has been given by a qualified mental health professional. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Least restrictive form of transportation: means the vehicle used for transportation and any restraining devices that may be used during transportation that impose the least amount of restriction, taking into consideration the stigmatizing impact upon the individual being transported. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Licensed clinical psychologist: means a person licensed under the laws of the State as a psychologist and who practices clinical psychology. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Licensed physician: means a person licensed under the laws of the State to practice medicine or osteopathy or a medical officer of the Federal Government while in this State in the performance of official duties. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Likelihood of serious harm: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Mentally ill person: includes persons suffering effects from the use of drugs, narcotics, hallucinogens or intoxicants, including alcohol. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Military forces: means the state military forces, as defined in section 102. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 101-A
  • Nonstate mental health institution: means a public institution, a private institution or a mental health center, which is administered by an entity other than the State and which is equipped to provide inpatient care and treatment for the mentally ill. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Patient: means a person under observation, care or treatment in a psychiatric hospital or residential care facility pursuant to this subchapter, a person receiving services from an assertive community treatment team, a person receiving intensive mental health management services from the department or a person being evaluated for emergency admission under section 3863 in a hospital emergency department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • practitioner: means a licensed physician, licensed physician assistant, certified psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner or licensed clinical psychologist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Prescriber: means a licensed health care provider with authority to prescribe, including a licensed physician, certified nurse practitioner or licensed physician assistant who has training or experience in psychopharmacology. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • program: means a program of court-ordered services provided to participants under section 3873?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Psychiatric hospital: means :
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Residential care facility: means a licensed or approved boarding care, nursing care or foster care facility which supplies supportive residential care to individuals due to their mental illness. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Severe and persistent mental illness: means a diagnosis of one or more qualifying mental illnesses or disorders plus a listed disability or functional impairment that has persisted continuously or intermittently or is expected to persist for at least one year as a result of that disease or disorder. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • State mental health institute: means the Riverview Psychiatric Center or the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72