Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 8912

  • 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

§ 8912. Contracts with nondesignated agencies

The Commissioners may enter into agreements with local community mental health and developmental disability agencies or with any public or private agency for the purpose of establishing specialized services which are needed by persons with a mental condition or psychiatric disability or with developmental disabilities or children and adolescents with a severe emotional disturbance and are not available from designated community mental health agencies. (Added 1979, No. 108 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; amended 1987, No. 264 (Adj. Sess.), § 14; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 47; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 115.)