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2019 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 504 - Responsibility
504.060 Definitions for chapter.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 504.060 (2019)
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504.060 Definitions for chapter. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Department" means the Department of Corrections; (2) "Forensic psychiatric facility" means a mental institution or facility, or part thereof, designated by the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the purpose and function of providing inpatient evaluation, care, and treatment for mentally ill persons or individuals with an intellectual disability who have been charged with or convicted of a felony; (3) "Foreseeable future" means not more than three hundred sixty (360) days; (4) "Incompetency to stand trial" means, as a result of mental condition, lack of capacity to appreciate the nature and consequences of the proceedings against one or to participate rationally in one's own defense; (5) "Insanity" means, as a result of mental condition, lack of substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of one's conduct or to conform one's conduct to the requirements of law; (6) "Mental illness" means substantially impaired capacity to use self-control, judgment, or discretion in the conduct of one's affairs and social relations, associated with maladaptive behavior or recognized emotional symptoms where impaired capacity, maladaptive behavior, or emotional symptoms can be related to physiological, psychological, or social factors; (7) "Individual with an intellectual disability" means an individual with significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period and is a condition which may exist concurrently with mental illness or insanity; (8) "Psychiatrist" means a physician licensed pursuant to KRS Chapter 311 who is certified or eligible to apply for certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc.; (9) "Psychologist" means a person licensed at the doctoral level pursuant to KRS Chapter 319 who has been designated by the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology as competent to perform examinations; (10) "Treatment" means medication or counseling, therapy, psychotherapy, and other professional services provided by or at the direction of psychologists or psychiatrists. "Treatment" shall not include electroshock therapy or psychosurgery; and (11) "Treatment facility" means an institution or part thereof, approved by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, which provides evaluation, care, and treatment for insane or mentally ill persons or individuals with an intellectual disability on an inpatient or outpatient basis, or both. Effective: July 12, 2012 History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 121, effective July 12, 2012. -Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 653, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 605, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 131, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 139, sec. 15, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 331, sec. 57, effective July 15, 1986. -- Created 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 113, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982.
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