Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 40.1-8.5 - Community Mental Health Services

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Audit: means an annual financial accounting of a center's financial situation, conducted by a certified public accountant, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the end of the center's fiscal year, and that includes, for the year reviewed and the immediate preceding year, full financial disclosure of the center's assets, liabilities, fund balances, revenues, and expenditures by program, and a verification of matchable funds for the year reviewed. See Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-8.5-2
• Board: means the community mental health board created pursuant to this chapter as the governing body of the community mental health center. See Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-8.5-2
• Center: means the community mental health center which is a local, nonprofit entity organized and incorporated pursuant to the laws of the state, governed by a board, and recognized by the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals as the community mental health center for a designated mental health service area. See Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-8.5-2
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the state department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals. See Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-8.5-2
• Director: means the director of the state department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals. See Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-8.5-2
• 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.
• Fiscal year: means the fiscal year used by the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-8.5-2
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Matching grant funds: means state funds in an amount up to and not more than four dollars ($4. See Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-8.5-2
• Mental health services: means those services provided to mentally disabled children and adults and shall include, but not be limited to, psychiatric, medical, nursing, psychological, social, rehabilitative, and support services provided in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of mental disabilities, and in addition, may include those services designed to prevent mental disabilities or be of a consultative, informational, or educational nature about mental disabilities. See Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-8.5-2
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• service area: means the geographical area within the boundaries of cities and towns, as designated by the director. See Rhode Island General Laws 40.1-8.5-2
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8