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§ 40.1-8-5 - Purpose of committee.

SECTION 40.1-8-5

   § 40.1-8-5  Purpose of committee. –(a) It shall be the duty of the committee to work in cooperation with thepresident's Committee on Mental Retardation and such other interested federaland state agencies, private organizations, and community groups in promotingthe amelioration of mental retardation through the utilization of whatevercommunity and state resources the committee may deem necessary to accomplishthis.

   (b) The committee shall consider and advise the governor,through the office of mental retardation, and the department of mental health,retardation, and hospitals, on such mental retardation legislation and otherretardation matters as its members, the governor, the director of thedepartment of mental health, retardation, and hospitals, and the assistantdirector for mental retardation may request; including, but not being limitedto, advising and consulting with the office of mental retardation concerningimproving the care, rehabilitation, and the training of mentally retardedpersons, purchase of facilities, plans for construction of mental retardationfacilities and the administration of programs and facilities (private andpublic) which receive state funds for the purpose of ameliorating mentalretardation and/or otherwise providing services for mentally retarded persons.

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