Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes > Chapter 5B - Data Protection for Victims of Violence

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Administration of medication: means providing a medication to a client, and includes the following tasks, performed in the following order:

  (1) checking the client's medication record;

  (2) preparing the medication for administration;

  (3) administering the medication to the client;

  (4) documenting the administration of the medication, or the reason for not administering a medication as prescribed; and

  (5) reporting information to a licensed practitioner or a nurse regarding a problem with the administration of medication or the client's refusal to take the medication, if applicable. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01

• Adolescent: means an individual under 18 years of age. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• 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.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Alcohol and drug counselor: means a person who is qualified according to section 245G. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Applicant: means an individual or organization that is subject to certification under this chapter and that applied for but is not yet granted certification under this chapter. See Minnesota Statutes 245H.01
• Applicant: has the meaning given in section 245A. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• ASAM criteria: has the meaning provided in section 254B. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Authorized agent: means the individual designated by the certification holder who is responsible for communicating with the commissioner of human services regarding all items pursuant to this chapter. See Minnesota Statutes 245H.01
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Capacity management system: means a database maintained by the department to compile and make information available to the public about the waiting list status and current admission capability of each opioid treatment program. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Central registry: means a database maintained by the department to collect identifying information from two or more programs about an individual applying for maintenance treatment or detoxification treatment for opioid addiction to prevent an individual's concurrent enrollment in more than one program. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Certification holder: means the individual or organization that is legally responsible for the operation of the center, and granted certification by the commissioner under this chapter. See Minnesota Statutes 245H.01
• Certified license-exempt child care center: means the commissioner's written authorization for a child care center excluded from licensure under section 245A. See Minnesota Statutes 245H.01
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Client: means an individual accepted by a license holder for assessment or treatment of a substance use disorder. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Co-occurring disorders: means a diagnosis of both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of human services. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Day of service initiation: means the day the license holder begins the provision of a treatment service identified in section 245G. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Department of Human Services. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Direct contact: has the meaning given for "direct contact" in section 245C. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Disinfecting: means the use of a product capable of destroying or inactivating harmful germs, except bacterial spores, consistent with label directions on environmental surfaces including bathroom toilets and floors, diaper-changing surfaces, and surfaces exposed to blood or other bodily fluids. See Minnesota Statutes 245H.01
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Face-to-face: means two-way, real-time, interactive and visual communication between a client and a treatment service provider and includes services delivered in person or via telehealth. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Former student: means a staff person that meets the requirements in section 148F. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Group counseling: means a professionally led psychotherapeutic substance use disorder treatment that is delivered in an interactive group setting. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Guest speaker: means an individual who is not an alcohol and drug counselor qualified according to section 245G. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Holiday: includes New Year's Day, January 1; Martin Luther King's Birthday, the third Monday in January; Washington's and Lincoln's Birthday, the third Monday in February; Memorial Day, the last Monday in May; Juneteenth, June 19; Independence Day, July 4; Labor Day, the first Monday in September; Indigenous Peoples Day, the second Monday in October; Veterans Day, November 11; Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November; and Christmas Day, December 25; provided, when New Year's Day, January 1; or Juneteenth, June 19; or Independence Day, July 4; or Veterans Day, November 11; or Christmas Day, December 25; falls on Sunday, the following day shall be a holiday and, provided, when New Year's Day, January 1; or Juneteenth, June 19; or Independence Day, July 4; or Veterans Day, November 11; or Christmas Day, December 25; falls on Saturday, the preceding day shall be a holiday. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• License: has the meaning given in section 245A. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• License holder: has the meaning given in section 245A. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Licensed practitioner: means an individual who is authorized to prescribe medication as defined in section 151. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Licensed professional in private practice: means an individual who:

  (1) is licensed under chapter 148F, or is exempt from licensure under that chapter but is otherwise licensed to provide alcohol and drug counseling services;

  (2) practices solely within the permissible scope of the individual's license as defined in the law authorizing licensure; and

  (3) does not affiliate with other licensed or unlicensed professionals to provide alcohol and drug counseling services. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01

• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and "year" is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Nurse: means an individual licensed and currently registered to practice professional or practical nursing as defined in section 148. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• OTP: means a program or practitioner engaged in opioid treatment of an individual that provides dispensing of an opioid agonist treatment medication, along with a comprehensive range of medical and rehabilitative services, when clinically necessary, to an individual to alleviate the adverse medical, psychological, or physical effects of an opioid addiction. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Paraprofessional: means an employee, agent, or independent contractor of the license holder who performs tasks to support treatment service. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Person-centered: means a client actively participates in the client's treatment planning of services. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• 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.
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probate: Proving a will
• program operator: means the person exercising supervision or control over the center's or program's operations, planning, and functioning. See Minnesota Statutes 245H.01
• Protective factors: means the actions or efforts a person can take to reduce the negative impact of certain issues, such as substance use disorders, mental health disorders, and risk of suicide. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Public member: means a person who is not, or never was, a member of the profession or occupation being licensed or regulated or the spouse of any such person, or a person who does not have or has never had, a material financial interest in either the providing of the professional service being licensed or regulated, or an activity directly related to the profession or occupation being licensed or regulated. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Skilled treatment services: has the meaning provided in section 254B. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Small business: means a business entity organized for profit, including but not limited to any individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, association or cooperative, which entity:

  (1) is not an affiliate or subsidiary of a business dominant in its field of operation; and

  (2) has 20 or fewer full-time employees; or

  (3) in the preceding fiscal year has not had more than the equivalent of $1,000,000 in annual gross revenues; or

  (4) if the business is a technical or professional service, shall not have had more than the equivalent of $2,500,000 in annual gross revenues in the preceding fiscal year. See Minnesota Statutes 645.445

• staff member: means an individual who works under the direction of the license holder regardless of the individual's employment status including but not limited to an intern, consultant, individual who works part time, or individual who does not provide direct care services. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Staff person: means an employee of a certified center who provides direct contact services to children. See Minnesota Statutes 245H.01
• Student intern: means an individual who is enrolled in a program specializing in alcohol and drug counseling or mental health counseling at an accredited educational institution and is authorized by a licensing board to provide services under supervision of a licensed professional. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Substance: means alcohol, solvents, controlled substances as defined in section 152. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Substance use disorder: has the meaning given in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Substance use disorder treatment: means treatment of a substance use disorder, including the process of assessment of a client's needs, development of planned methods, including interventions or services to address a client's needs, provision of services, facilitation of services provided by other service providers, and ongoing reassessment by a qualified professional when indicated. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Target population: means individuals with a substance use disorder and the specified characteristics that a license holder proposes to serve. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Telehealth: means the delivery of a substance use disorder treatment service while the client is at an originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site via telehealth as defined in section 256B. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Treatment director: means an individual who meets the qualifications specified in section 245G. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Treatment week: means the seven-day period that the program identified in the program's policy and procedure manual as the day of the week that the treatment program week starts and ends for the purpose of identifying the nature and number of treatment services an individual receives weekly. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Volunteer: means an individual who, under the direction of the license holder, provides services or an activity to a client without compensation. See Minnesota Statutes 245G.01