Terms Used In New York Laws > Correction > Article 16 - Provisions Relating to Mentally Ill Incarcerated Individuals

• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Child: shall mean a child conceived through assisted reproduction. See N.Y. Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 4-1.3
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Dower: A widow
• Examining physician: means a physician licensed to practice medicine in the state of New York, but who is not on the staff of the facility where the incarcerated individual is confined. See N.Y. Correction Law 400
• Genetic material: shall mean sperm or ova provided by a genetic parent. See N.Y. Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 4-1.3
• 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.
• Hospital: means a hospital in the department of mental hygiene which is designated as such by the commissioner of mental hygiene for the care and treatment of mentally ill incarcerated individuals. See N.Y. Correction Law 400
• In immediate need of care and treatment: means that the incarcerated individual is apparently mentally ill and is not able to be properly cared for at the place where he or she is confined and is in need of immediate care and treatment in a hospital. See N.Y. Correction Law 400
• In need of care and treatment: means that a person has a mental illness for which in-patient care and treatment in a hospital is necessary. See N.Y. Correction Law 400
• Incarcerated individual: means a person committed to the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision, or a person convicted of a crime and committed to the custody of the sheriff, the county jail, or a local department of correction. See N.Y. Correction Law 400
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Mental illness: means an affliction with a mental disease or mental condition which is manifested by a disorder or disturbance in behavior, feeling, thinking, or judgment to such an extent that the person afflicted requires care and treatment. See N.Y. Correction Law 400
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Superintendent: means a superintendent of a state correctional facility or the person in charge of a local correctional facility by whatever title he may be known. See N.Y. Correction Law 400
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.