Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 7304
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 7304
- hospital: shall include a secure residential recovery facility as defined in subsection 7620(e) of this title. 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.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
§ 7304. Persons not hospitalized
The Board shall have general jurisdiction of persons with an intellectual disability or mental illness who have been discharged from a hospital by authority of the Board. It shall also have jurisdiction of persons with a mental illness or intellectual disability of the State not hospitalized, so far as concerns their physical and mental condition and their care, management, and medical treatment, and shall make such orders as each case duly brought to its attention requires. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1977, No. 257 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 102; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 100; 2023, No. 6, § 198, eff. July 1, 2023.)