Texas Administrative Code › Title 40 - SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE › Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES › Chapter 1 - STATE AUTHORITY RESPONSIBILITIES › Subchapter G - COMMUNITY CENTERS › Section 1.303 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
					 subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
(1) Board of trustees--A
				  body of persons selected and appointed in accordance with Texas Health and
				  Safety Code, Title 7, §
										534.002
				  or §
										534.003,
				  and §534.004, §534.005, and §534.0065, that has responsibility
				  for the effective administration of a community center.
(2) Community center or center--A center
				  established under the Texas Health and Safety Code, Title 7, Chapter 534,
				  Subchapter A.
(3) Current plan--The
				  most recently approved initial or modified plan.
(4) DADS--The Texas Department of Aging and
				  Disability Services.
(5) DSHS--The
				  Texas Department of State Health Services.
(6) Facility--A state hospital, state
				  supported living center, or state center.
(7) Initial plan--The plan developed by a
				  board of trustees to establish a new community center.
(8) Local agency--A county, municipality,
				  hospital district, school district, or any organizational combination of two or
				  more of these which may establish and operate a community center.
(9) Local contribution--Funds or in-kind
				  contribution by each local agency to a community center in the amount approved
				  by DADS and DSHS, which includes local match if the center is a local
				  authority.
(10) Local authority--In
				  accordance with Texas Health and Safety Code, §
										533.035(a),
				  an entity designated as a local mental retardation authority or a local mental
				  health authority by the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services
				  Commission.
(11) Local match--In
				  accordance with the Texas Health and Safety Code, §
										534.066,
				  those funds or in-kind support from a local authority that are required to
				  match some or all of the state funds the local authority receives pursuant to a
				  contract with DADS or DSHS.
(12)
				  Mental health services--All services concerned with research, prevention, and
				  detection of mental disorders and disabilities and all services necessary to
				  treat, care for, supervise, and rehabilitate persons with a severe and
				  persistent mental illness which may be accompanied by chemical dependency or
				  mental retardation.
(13) Mental
				  retardation services--All services concerned with research, prevention, and
				  detection of mental retardation and all services related to the education,
				  training, habilitation, care, treatment, and supervision of persons with mental
				  retardation, except the education of school-age persons that the public
				  educational system is authorized to provide.
(14) Region--The area within the boundaries
				  of the local agencies participating in the operation of a community center
				  established under the Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 534, Subchapter
				  A.