Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 405 ILCS 80 - Developmental Disability and Mental Disability Services Act

• Adult with a mental disability: means a person over the age of 18 years who lives in his or her own home; who needs home-based services, but does not require 24-hour-a-day supervision; and who has one of the following conditions: severe autism, severe mental illness, a severe or profound intellectual disability, or severe and multiple impairments. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 405 ILCS 80/2-3
• Agency: means an agency or entity licensed by the Department pursuant to this Article or pursuant to the Community Residential Alternatives Licensing Act. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 405 ILCS 80/2-3
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Department: means the Department of Human Services, as successor to the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 405 ILCS 80/2-3
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Home-based services: means services provided to an adult with a mental disability who lives in his or her own home. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 405 ILCS 80/2-3
• Legal guardian: means a person appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to exercise certain powers on behalf of an adult with a mental disability. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 405 ILCS 80/2-3
• own home: means that an adult with a mental disability lives alone; or that an adult with a mental disability is in full-time residence with his or her parents, legal guardian, or other relatives; or that an adult with a mental disability is in full-time residence in a setting not subject to licensure under the Nursing Home Care Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, the ID/DD Community Care Act, the MC/DD Act, or the Child Care Act of 1969, as now or hereafter amended, with 3 or fewer other adults unrelated to the adult with a mental disability who do not provide home-based services to the adult with a mental disability. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 405 ILCS 80/2-3
• Parent: means the biological or adoptive parent of an adult with a mental disability, or a person licensed as a foster parent under the laws of this State who acts as a foster parent to an adult with a mental disability. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 405 ILCS 80/2-3
• Severe and multiple impairments: means the manifestation of all of the following characteristics:
           (1) The evaluation determines the presence of a