26 Tex. Admin. Code § 910.51 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) CEO--The superintendent
of a facility.
(2) DADS--The
Department of Aging and Disability Services.
(3) Department--The Department of Aging and
Disability Services.
(4)
Facility--A state mental retardation facility operated by DADS.
(5) Individual--A person receiving services
from a facility.
(6) LAR (legally
authorized representative)--A person authorized by law to act on behalf of an
individual with regard to a matter described in this subchapter and may include
a parent, guardian, or managing conservator of a minor individual, a guardian
of an adult individual, or a personal representative of a deceased
individual.
(7) Mental
retardation--Subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently
with deficits in adaptive behavior and originating during the developmental
period.
(8) Material safety data
sheet--The document provided by a manufacturer that describes a material's or
part's chemical properties along with guidelines for proper use, storage, and
disposal.
(9) Non-commercial
group--A group of people associated with an organization (for example, a civic,
fraternal, religious, social, service, community, or public employee
organization).
(10) Sales
receipt--A written statement issued by the seller that includes the date it was
created and the cost of the item or service.
(11) Trust fund--An account at a financial
institution in a facility's control that contains funds of an
individual.
(12) Unauthorized
departure that may have unusual consequences--The unauthorized departure of an
individual that causes a reasonably prudent staff member who has knowledge of
the individual's condition to believe that harm or injury to the individual or
to others may occur as a result of the unauthorized departure, for example, the
unauthorized departure of an individual whom the treatment staff believes to be
a danger to self or to others or the unauthorized departure of an individual
who requires maintenance medication such as insulin.
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