Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 40 - Recreational Therapy Practice Act

• Adjudicative proceeding: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Approved: means approval by the division in collaboration with the board when used to refer to a licensing requirement. See Utah Code 58-40-102
• Assessment: includes :

  (i)	a record review;

  (ii)	the implementation of standardized and non-standardized instruments, tests, and measurements; and

  (iii)

  the skilled observation and interview of a person. See Utah Code 58-40-102 Board: means the Board of Recreational Therapy created in Section 58-40-201. See Utah Code 58-40-102 City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Custodial funeral service director: means a funeral service director who: (a)  is employed by a licensed funeral establishment; and (b)  has custody of a dead body. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Dead body: means a human body or parts of a human body from the condition of which it reasonably may be concluded that death occurred. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Dead fetus: means a product of human conception, other than those circumstances described in Subsection 76-7-301(1): (a)  of 20 weeks' gestation or more, calculated from the date the last normal menstrual period began to the date of delivery; and (b)  that was not born alive. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Decedent: means the same as a dead body. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Decedent: A deceased person. Dispositioner: means : (a)  a person designated in a written instrument, under Subsection 58-9-602(1), as having the right and duty to control the disposition of the decedent, if the person voluntarily acts as the dispositioner; or (b)  the next of kin of the decedent, if: (i)  (A)  a person has not been designated as described in Subsection (9)(a); or (B)  the person described in Subsection (9)(a) is unable or unwilling to exercise the right and duty described in Subsection (9)(a); and (ii)  the next of kin voluntarily acts as the dispositioner. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other. Fetal remains: means : (a)  an aborted fetus as that term is defined in Section 26B-2-232; or (b)  a miscarried fetus as that term is defined in Section 26B-2-233. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 File: means the submission of a completed certificate or other similar document, record, or report as provided under this part for registration by the state registrar or a local registrar. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Funeral service director: means the same as that term is defined in Section 58-9-102. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Health care facility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-2-201. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Health care professional: means a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or certified nurse midwife. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Licensed funeral establishment: means : (a)  if located in Utah, a funeral service establishment, as that term is defined in Section 58-9-102, that is licensed under Title 58, Chapter 9, Funeral Services Licensing Act; or (b)  if located in a state, district, or territory of the United States other than Utah, a funeral service establishment that complies with the licensing laws of the jurisdiction where the establishment is located. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Local registrar: means a person appointed under Subsection 26B-8-102(3)(b). See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Practice of recreational therapy: means to engage in the paid performance of providing recreational therapy services according to the therapeutic recreation process to a person with an emotional, social, intellectual, or physical pathology. See Utah Code 58-40-102 Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way. Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents. Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Recreational therapy services: include : (i)  assessing a person's need for recreational therapy treatment or intervention; (ii)  developing an individualized treatment or intervention plan that identifies goals, objectives, and treatment strategies for a person; (iii)  implementing the individualized treatment or intervention plan; (iv)  documenting a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan, including documenting the overall outcome of the person's treatment; (v)  regularly evaluating a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan and modifying the plan when appropriate; (vi)  in collaboration with a person, the person's family, or other team members, developing a discharge or transition plan for the person; (vii)  serving as a resource to help a person find recreation opportunities that will promote the person's physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, or spiritual health and well-being; and (viii)  organizing and managing recreational services according to a written plan of operation as defined by rule of the division. See Utah Code 58-40-102 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State registrar: means the state registrar of vital records appointed under Section 26B-8-102. See Utah Code 26B-8-101 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. therapeutic recreation: means a person-centered process that uses recreation and psychoeducational activities as intervention tools to improve the physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, or spiritual well-being of a person with an illness or a disability. See Utah Code 58-40-102 Treatment or intervention plan: means a written record containing the information required by Section 58-40-602, which is composed for each patient by a person licensed under this chapter as a master therapeutic recreation specialist or a therapeutic recreation specialist. See Utah Code 58-40-102 Unprofessional conduct: is a s defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-40-502. See Utah Code 58-40-102 Vital records: means : (a)  registered certificates or reports of birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment; (b)  amendments to any of the registered certificates or reports described in Subsection (24)(a); (c)  an adoption document; and (d)  other similar documents. See Utah Code 26B-8-101