Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 15 Sec. 636

  • Court: means the court with jurisdiction over the proceeding. See
  • 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.
  • Psychiatric disability: means an impairment of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that limits one or more major life activities but does not include intellectual disability. See

§ 636. Filing certified copies of orders with court which committed party with a mental condition or psychiatric disability

If the party with a mental condition or psychiatric disability was committed by a court of competent jurisdiction, the clerk of the court shall file a certified copy of all orders entered in proceedings brought under these provisions. (Amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 70.)