Alaska Administrative Code › Title 20 - Miscellaneous Boards and Commissions › Chapter 40 - Mental Health Trust Authority › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 20 AAC 40.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this chapter
(1) "approval" means a written agreement or
				permission to proceed, signed by an authorized representative of the authority,
				in response to a written request from the grantee or applicant for approval of a
				proposed action;
(2) "authority"
				means the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority established under
				AS
				47.30.011; "authority" includes, as applicable,
				the board, a duly authorized committee of the board, and a duly authorized member
				of the staff of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority;
(3) "authority grant" means a grant described
				at 20 AAC 40.030(d);
(4) "authority staff" means the officers and
				employees of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority other than the
				board;
(5) "beneficiary" means a
				person described in
				20 AAC 40.510;
(6) "beneficiary group" refers to the
				individual groups of persons in need of mental health services described at
				AS
				47.30.056(b);
(7) "beneficiary-related agency" means a
				planning board or other agency of the state, including the authority, or of a
				political subdivision of the state that has responsibilities for the provision of
				mental health services to persons in one or more beneficiary groups;
(8) "board" means the board of trustees of the
				Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority established under
				AS
				47.30.016;
(9) "client" means a person receiving mental
				health services from a recipient of a grant made by the authority;
(10) "comprehensive program" means the
				integrated comprehensive mental health program described at
				AS
				47.30.056;
(11) "consumer" means a person receiving mental
				health services;
(12) "designated
				agency" means the state agency designated to receive an MHTAAR grant under a
				mental health budget appropriation bill;
(13) "direct cost" means a cost associated with
				a particular cost objective that is identified specifically with the
				grant;
(14) "duly authorized" means
				authorized to perform a particular act by the bylaws of the board, by board
				action, or by this chapter;
(15)
				repealed 5/11/2012;
(16) "fair market
				value" has the meaning given in
				AS
				38.04.910(3);
(17) "fiscal year" means the fiscal year for
				the state as provided in
				AS
				37.05.920;
(18) "grant" means an award of financial or
				direct assistance by the authority under this chapter for a proposed activity or
				service;
(19) "grant income" means
				income earned by a grant project during the grant period; "grant income" includes
				proceeds from the sale of products or services such as testing or computer time,
				payments received for medical or hospital services, fees received for personal
				services, proceeds from the sale of assets of the grant project, and royalties
				from copyrights or publications;
(20)
				"grant period" means the time period for which a grant has been
				awarded;
(21) "grant project" means
				the project for which a grant has been awarded;
(22) "grant project budget" means the financial
				expenditure plan for a grant project approved by the authority; "grant project
				budget" includes money awarded by the authority for the grant project and any
				other financing sources used by the grantee for the grant project;
(23) "grantee" means the legally accountable
				entity that receives a grant;
(24)
				"indirect cost" means a cost that, because it is incurred for common or joint
				objectives, is not readily subject to treatment as a direct cost;
(25) "mental health budget appropriation bill"
				means the bill making appropriations for the state's annual implementation plan
				in support of the comprehensive program enacted for a particular fiscal year
				under AS
				37.14.005;
(26) "mental health service system" means the
				system of governmental boards and agencies, sources of money, and mental health
				service providers through which mental health services are delivered to consumers
				in the state;
(27) "mental health
				service provider" means a person, agency, or other organization that
(A) provides mental health services to
				consumers; and
(B) is recognized by
				one or more beneficiary-related agencies as providing necessary and appropriate
				mental health services to consumers;