36-550 - Arizona Statutes

36-550. Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Community residential treatment system" means a statewide system of community based residential treatment programs for the seriously mentally ill which provides a wide range of services as alternatives to institutionalization and in the least restrictive setting. 2. "Deputy director" means the deputy director of the division of behavioral health in the department of health services. 3. "Division" means the division of behavioral health in the department of health services. 4. "Seriously mentally ill" means persons, who as a result of a mental disorder as defined in section 36-501 exhibit emotional or behavioral functioning which is so impaired as to interfere substantially with their capacity to remain in the community without supportive treatment or services of a long-term or indefinite duration. In these persons mental disability is severe and persistent, resulting in a long-term limitation of their functional capacities for primary activities of daily living such as interpersonal relationships, homemaking, self-care, employment and recreation.