37-33-253 - Definitions. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 37-33-253. Definitions.
 

As used in Sections 37-33-251 through 37-33-263: 
 

(a) "Department" means the State Department of Rehabilitation Services. 

(b) "Rehabilitation center" means a facility which provides intermediate care and stresses rehabilitation for persons with spinal cord injuries or traumatic brain injuries. 

(c) "Transitional living facility" means a facility which provides a temporary, structured residential environment for those individuals with spinal cord injuries or traumatic brain injuries in a training or educational program, in order to prepare such individuals to live independently. 

(d) "Traumatic brain injury" means an insult to the skull, brain, or its covering, resulting from external trauma which produces an altered state of consciousness or anatomic, motor, sensory or cognitive/behavioral deficits. 

(e) "Spinal cord injury" means an acute traumatic insult to the spinal cord, not of a degenerative or congenital nature, but caused by an external trauma resulting in any degree of motor or sensory deficit. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1996, ch. 505, § 2; Laws, 1997, ch. 491, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 1997.