40 Tex. Admin. Code § 4.153 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) CEO or chief executive
officer--The superintendent of a state MR facility or the executive director of
a mental retardation authority.
(2)
Discharge--The release by TDMHMR of an individual committed or voluntarily
admitted for residential mental retardation services from the custody and care
of a state MR facility and the termination of the individual's assignment to
the state MR facility in the Client Assignment and Registration System
(CARE).
(3) Hearing officer--An
attorney designated to conduct and preside over an administrative hearing held
under this subchapter.
(4)
Individual--A person who is seeking or receiving residential mental retardation
services from a state MR facility or mental retardation services from a mental
retardation authority.
(5) LAR or
legally authorized representative--A person authorized by law to act on behalf
of an individual with regard to a matter in this subchapter, and who may
include a parent, guardian, or managing conservator of a minor individual; a
guardian of an adult.
(6) Mental
retardation authority--An entity designated by the commissioner to which the
Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board delegates its authority and
responsibility for planning, policy development, coordination, and resource
allocation, and resource development for and oversight of mental retardation
services and supports in one or more local service areas.
(7) Party--Each person and the state MR
facility or mental retardation authority named or admitted as a party in an
administrative hearing held under this subchapter.
(8) Preponderance of evidence--Evidence which
is of greater weight or more convincing than the evidence which is offered in
opposition to it.
(9) State MR
facility--A facility operated by TDMHMR that provides residential mental
retardation services to individuals with mental retardation.
(10) Transfer--The reassignment of an
individual from one state MR facility to another state MR facility.
(11) Trial de novo--A new trial, which is
held as if no administrative hearing had been held.
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