Ohio Code 5123.014 – Reference to department or director and other terms
Whenever the department or director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation is deemed to refer to the department or director of developmental disabilities, as the case may be.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5123.014
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Court: means the probate division of the court of common pleas. See Ohio Code 5123.01
- Intellectual disability: means a disability characterized by having significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficiencies in adaptive behavior, manifested during the developmental period. See Ohio Code 5123.01
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Whenever “mental retardation” or any derivation of that term is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation is deemed to have the same meaning established by or derived from the definition of “intellectual disability” contained in section 5123.01 or 5126.01 of the Revised Code, as the case may be.
Whenever “mentally retarded person subject to institutionalization by court order” or any derivation of that term is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation is deemed to have the same meaning established by or derived from the definition of “person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order” contained in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code, including the definition of “moderate level of intellectual disability” contained in that section.