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210.005 Definitions for chapter.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Individual with an intellectual disability" means a person with significantly
subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in
adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.
(2) "Mental illness" means a diagnostic term that covers many clinical categories,
typically including behavioral or psychological symptoms, or both, along with
impairment of personal and social function, and specifically defined and
clinically interpreted through reference to criteria contained in the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition) and any subsequent
revision thereto, of the American Psychiatric Association.
(3) "Chronic" means that clinically significant symptoms of mental illness have
persisted in the individual for a continuous period of at least two (2) years, or
that the individual has been hospitalized for mental illness more than once in
the last two (2) years, and that the individual is presently significantly impaired
in his ability to function socially or occupationally, or both.
(4) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
(5) "Deaf or hard-of-hearing" means having a hearing impairment so that a person
cannot hear and understand speech clearly through the ear alone, irrespective
of the use of any hearing aid device.
(6) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
Effective:July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 67, effective July 12, 2012. -Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 298, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 243, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1992 Ky.
Acts ch. 340, sec. 2, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 283,
sec. 6, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 428, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 210, sec. 1, effective July
15, 1982. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 332, sec. 23. -- Amended 1972 Ky.
Acts ch. 203, sec. 43. -- Created 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 106, Art. XI, sec. 1.
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