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20-48-206. Board of Developmental Disabilities Services — Human development centers — Powers and duties — Admission.
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20-48-206. Board of Developmental Disabilities Services — Human development centers — Powers and duties — Admission.
(a) With regard to the establishing and operating of the human development centers, the Board of Developmental Disabilities Services, in addition to the authorities, rights, and duties granted by this subchapter, shall continue to have all of its authorities, rights, and duties granted by existing law, which shall include, without limitation, the applicable provisions of § 20-48-401 et seq. and § 20-48-501 et seq., save only those instances where there are express inconsistencies, in which event the provisions of this subchapter shall control.
(b)(1) Admissions to the institutional facilities of the human development centers shall be on the basis of a determination by the board that:
(A) The individual involved has an intellectual and developmental disability;
(B) His or her parent or guardian has resided in the state not less than three (3) years before the date of the filing of the petition for his or her admission, or the individual involved is a dependent and a public charge or ward of the state or a political subdivision thereof;
(C) The welfare of the individual involved requires the special care, training, or education provided by institutional facilities of the human development center; and
(D) The board has adequate funds and institutional facilities available for the care, training, or education of the individual.
(2)(A) The determination of whether an individual has an intellectual and developmental disability shall be made after there has been an investigation that includes an examination by an evaluation team appointed by the board.
(B) The team shall be composed of two (2) or more physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, or
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-48-206
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20-48-206. Board of Developmental Disabilities Services — Human development centers — Powers and duties — Admission.
(a) With regard to the establishing and operating of the human development centers, the Board of Developmental Disabilities Services, in addition to the authorities, rights, and duties granted by this subchapter, shall continue to have all of its authorities, rights, and duties granted by existing law, which shall include, without limitation, the applicable provisions of § 20-48-401 et seq. and § 20-48-501 et seq., save only those instances where there are express inconsistencies, in which event the provisions of this subchapter shall control.
(b)(1) Admissions to the institutional facilities of the human development centers shall be on the basis of a determination by the board that:
(A) The individual involved has an intellectual and developmental disability;
(B) His or her parent or guardian has resided in the state not less than three (3) years before the date of the filing of the petition for his or her admission, or the individual involved is a dependent and a public charge or ward of the state or a political subdivision thereof;
(C) The welfare of the individual involved requires the special care, training, or education provided by institutional facilities of the human development center; and
(D) The board has adequate funds and institutional facilities available for the care, training, or education of the individual.
(2)(A) The determination of whether an individual has an intellectual and developmental disability shall be made after there has been an investigation that includes an examination by an evaluation team appointed by the board.
(B) The team shall be composed of two (2) or more physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, or other persons found by the board to be professionally qualified on the basis of training and experience in services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to make a determination as to whether the individual involved has an intellectual and developmental disability.
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20-48-401. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) [Repealed.]
(2) “Center” means a human development center; and
(3) “Superintendent” means the superintendent of a human development center.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-48-401
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20-48-501. Liberal construction — Act supplemental.
(a) This subchapter shall be liberally construed.
(b) The enumeration of any object, purpose, power, manner, method, and thing shall not be deemed to exclude like or similar objects, purposes, powers, manners, methods, or things.
(c) Furthermore, this subchapter shall be construed as being supplementary to any existing purposes and powers authorized to be accomplished and performed by the Board of Developmental Disabilities Services and by the human development centers.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-48-501
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-48-501. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.