Terms Used In Missouri Laws 630.120

  • Developmental disability: a disability:

    (a) Which is attributable to:

    a. See Missouri Laws 630.005

  • Habilitation: a process of treatment, training, care or specialized attention that seeks to enhance and maximize a person with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability to cope with the environment and to live as determined by the person as much as possible, as is appropriate for the person considering his or her physical and mental condition and financial means. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Incompetent: if used in a section in a context relating to actual occupational ability without reference to a court adjudication of incompetency, means the actual ability of a person to perform in that occupation. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Intellectual disability: significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning which:

    (a) Originates before age eighteen. See Missouri Laws 630.005

  • Mental disorder: any organic, mental or emotional impairment which has substantial adverse effects on a person's cognitive, volitional or emotional function and which constitutes a substantial impairment in a person's ability to participate in activities of normal living. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Mental illness: a state of impaired mental processes, which impairment results in a distortion of a person's capacity to recognize reality due to hallucinations, delusions, faulty perceptions or alterations of mood, and interferes with an individual's ability to reason, understand or exercise conscious control over his actions. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Patient: an individual under observation, care, treatment or rehabilitation by any hospital or other mental health facility or mental health program pursuant to the provisions of chapter 632. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Rehabilitation: a process of restoration of a person's ability to attain or maintain normal or optimum health or constructive activity through care, treatment, training, counseling or specialized attention. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Resident: a person receiving residential services from a facility, other than mental health facility, operated, funded or licensed by the department. See Missouri Laws 630.005

No patient or resident, either voluntary or involuntary, shall be presumed to be incompetent, to forfeit any legal right, responsibility or obligation or to suffer any legal disability as a citizen, unless otherwise prescribed by law, as a consequence of receiving evaluation, care, treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation for a mental disorder, mental illness, intellectual disability, developmental disability, alcohol problem or drug problem.

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