Terms Used In Montana Code 53-20-214

• 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
• Comprehensive developmental disability system: means a system of services, including but not limited to the following basic services, with the intention of providing alternatives to institutionalization:

  (a)evaluation services;

  (b)diagnostic services;

  (c)treatment services;

  (d)day-care services;

  (e)training services;

  (f)education services;

  (g)employment services;

  (h)recreation services;

  (i)personal-care services;

  (j)domiciliary-care services;

  (k)special living arrangements services;

  (l)counseling services;

  (m)information and referral services;

  (n)follow-along services;

  (o)protective and other social and sociolegal services, including case management services as defined in 42 C. See Montana Code 53-20-202

• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201