Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 17a - Social and Human Services and Resources › 581 - General Operations and Procedures › Section 17a-581-2 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) As used in Section
			 17a-581-1
			 through Section
			 17a-581-57
			 inclusive, the following definitions shall apply unless otherwise required by a
			 specific statute.
(1) "PSRB" or "Board" means
			 the Psychiatric Security Review Board of the State of Connecticut established
			 by Sections
			 17a-581
			 of the General Statutes.
(2)
			 "Acquittee" means any person who is found not guilty by reason of mental
			 disease or defect pursuant to Section
			 53a-13
			 of the General Statutes and placed under the jurisdiction of the PSRB by the
			 Court, or any person who was found not guilty by mental disease or defect, or
			 guilty but not criminally responsible, pursuant to Section
			 53a-13
			 of the General Statutes and who, on July 1, 1985, was subject to Court
			 supervision pursuant to Section
			 53a-47 of the General
			 Statutes.
(3) "Court" means the
			 Superior Court.
(4) "Hospital" or
			 "hospital for mental illness" means any public or private hospital, retreat,
			 institution, house, or place in which a mentally ill or drug dependent person
			 is received or detained as an acquittee, but does not include any correctional
			 institution of the state.
(5)
			 "Mental illness" means any mental illness or mental disease as defined by the
			 current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American
			 Psychiatric Association and as may hereafter be amended. This definition
			 includes any mental illness in a state of remission which may become active
			 with reasonable medical probability.
(6) "Danger to self or to others" means the
			 risk of imminent physical injury to others or self, and also includes the risk
			 of loss or destruction of the property of others.
(7) "Temporary leaves" means any period of
			 time authorized by the Board pursuant to Section
			 17a-587
			 of the General Statutes, during which an acquittee is off the grounds of the
			 hospital for therapeutic purposes and is not accompanied by hospital staff or
			 an acquittee is temporarily out of the custody of the Commissioner of Mental
			 Retardation for therapeutic purposes.
(8) "Conditional release" means release from
			 a hospital or custody of the Commissioner of Mental Retardation with
			 supervision and treatment provided on an outpatient basis as designated and
			 ordered by the PSRB. A conditionally released acquittee remains under the
			 jurisdiction of the PSRB.
(9)
			 "Person who should be conditionally released" means an acquittee who is
			 mentally ill or mentally retarded to the extent that his final discharge would
			 constitute a danger to himself or others but who can be adequately controlled
			 with available supervision and treatment on conditional release.
(10) "Person who should be confined" means an
			 acquittee who is mentally ill or mentally retarded to the extent that his
			 discharge or release from the hospital on conditional release would constitute
			 a danger to himself or others, and who cannot be controlled adequately with
			 available supervision and treatment on conditional release.
(11) "Person who should be discharged" means
			 an acquittee who is not mentally ill or mentally retarded to the extent that
			 his discharge would constitute a danger to himself or others.
(12) "Psychiatrist" means a physician
			 specializing in psychiatry and licensed under the provisions of Sections
			 20-9
			 to
			 20-12,
			 inclusive, of the General Statutes.
(13) "Psychologist" means a clinical
			 psychologist licensed under the provisions of Sections
			 20-186 to
			 20-195,
			 inclusive, of the General Statutes.
(14) "State's Attorney" means the State's
			 Attorney for the judicial district wherein the acquittee was found not guilty
			 by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to Section
			 53a-13
			 of the General Statutes.
(15)
			 "Superintendent" means any person, body of persons or corporation, or the
			 designee of any such person, body of persons or corporation, which has the
			 immediate supervision, management and control of a hospital for mental illness
			 and the acquittees therein.
(16)
			 "Quorum" means a majority of Board members.
(17) "Statutory hearing" or "hearing" means a
			 procedure of the Board which is conducted as a contested case pursuant to
			 Chapter 54 of the General Statutes in which an application for temporary leave,
			 conditional release, confinement, modification or revocation of conditional
			 release, discharge, continued confinement or a review of status pursuant to
			 Sections
			 17a-580
			 through
			 17a-602,
			 inclusive, of the General Statutes is heard by the Board.
(18) "Administrative meeting" means any
			 meeting of the Board where a quorum is present for the purpose of considering
			 Board administrative and policy matters.
(19) "Conference" means a process other than
			 a hearing of the Board where a quorum is present and an application for a
			 temporary leave, an application for or motion for consideration of discharge,
			 or a petition for order of continued commitment is considered by the Board.
			 Conference decisions will be based upon the Board's consideration of the
			 administrative records from prior proceedings concerning the particular
			 acquittee, as well as the information contained in the application, motion or
			 petition before the Board.
(20)
			 "Conditional Release Supervisor" means the person or agency designated by the
			 PSRB to supervise and report to the PSRB on the progress of the acquittee and
			 conformance by the acquittee to the conditional release plan.
(21) "Conditional Release Provider" means the
			 person or agency designated by the PSRB to treat the acquittee while on
			 conditional release. This person or agency shall report to the PSRB.
(22)