Terms Used In Ohio Code 5122.141

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Chief clinical officer: means the medical director of a hospital, community mental health services provider, or board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, or, if there is no medical director, the licensed physician responsible for the treatment provided by a hospital or community mental health services provider. See Ohio Code 5122.01
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Court: means the probate division of the court of common pleas. See Ohio Code 5122.01
• Expunge: means :

  (1) The removal and destruction of court files and records, originals and copies, and the deletion of all index references;

  (2) The reporting to the person of the nature and extent of any information about the person transmitted to any other person by the court;

  (3) Otherwise insuring that any examination of court files and records in question shall show no record whatever with respect to the person;

  (4) That all rights and privileges are restored, and that the person, the court, and any other person may properly reply that no such record exists, as to any matter expunged. See Ohio Code 5122.01

• Hospital: means a hospital or inpatient unit licensed by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119. See Ohio Code 5122.01
• Mental illness: means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life. See Ohio Code 5122.01
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Person with a mental illness subject to court order: means a person with a mental illness who, because of the person's illness:

  (1) Represents a substantial risk of physical harm to self as manifested by evidence of threats of, or attempts at, suicide or serious self-inflicted bodily harm;

  (2) Represents a substantial risk of physical harm to others as manifested by evidence of recent homicidal or other violent behavior, evidence of recent threats that place another in reasonable fear of violent behavior and serious physical harm, or other evidence of present dangerousness;

  (3) Represents a substantial and immediate risk of serious physical impairment or injury to self as manifested by evidence that the person is unable to provide for and is not providing for the person's basic physical needs because of the person's mental illness and that appropriate provision for those needs cannot be made immediately available in the community;

  (4) Would benefit from treatment for the person's mental illness and is in need of such treatment as manifested by evidence of behavior that creates a grave and imminent risk to substantial rights of others or the person;

  (5)(a) Would benefit from treatment as manifested by evidence of behavior that indicates all of the following:

  (i) The person is unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision, based on a clinical determination. See Ohio Code 5122.01

• Respondent: means the person whose detention, commitment, hospitalization, continued hospitalization or commitment, or discharge is being sought in any proceeding under this chapter. See Ohio Code 5122.01