§ 53-20-201 Short title
§ 53-20-202 Definitions
§ 53-20-203 Responsibilities of department
§ 53-20-204 Rules
§ 53-20-205 Community services
§ 53-20-206 Repealed
§ 53-20-207 Repealed
§ 53-20-208 Contributions of counties and municipalities
§ 53-20-209 Eligibility for services
§ 53-20-210 Application to reservation Indians
§ 53-20-211 No effect on existing facilities
§ 53-20-212 Discrimination forbidden
§ 53-20-213 Departments to cooperate
§ 53-20-214 Certain transfers of funds authorized
§ 53-20-215 Regulatory streamlining
§ 53-20-216 Crisis response services — department and provider responsibilities
§ 53-20-220 Terminated
§ 53-20-221 Liability training program and materials for respite care
§ 53-20-222 Respite care and employment responsibilities — liabilities
§ 53-20-223 Military dependents — eligibility and placement determinations
§ 53-20-224 Legislative findings — purpose
§ 53-20-225 Department monitoring of Montana developmental center residents — report to legislature
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Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 53 > Chapter 20 > Part 2 - Community-Based Services

  • 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

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the department of public health and human services. See Montana Code 53-20-202
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Developmental disabilities: means disabilities attributable to intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, or any other neurologically disabling condition closely related to intellectual disability and requiring treatment similar to that required by intellectually disabled individuals if the disability originated before the person attained age 18, has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely, and results in the person having a substantial disability. See Montana Code 53-20-202
  • Developmental disabilities facility: means any service or group of services offering care to persons with developmental disabilities on an inpatient, outpatient, residential, clinical, or other programmatic basis. See Montana Code 53-20-202
  • 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.
  • Legal resident: means a person who maintains Montana as the person's principal establishment, home of record, or permanent home and where, whenever absent due to military obligation, the person intends to return. See Montana Code 53-20-202
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Military dependent: means a child of a military service member. See Montana Code 53-20-202
  • Military service: means service in the armed forces or armed forces reserves or membership in the Montana national guard. See Montana Code 53-20-202
  • Military service member: means a person who is currently in military service or who has separated from military service in the previous 18 months either through retirement or military separation. See Montana Code 53-20-202
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
  • Several: means two or more. See Montana Code 1-1-201
  • 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
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201