Title 25, Mental and Physical Illness or Disability

The department may request appropriations and resources sufficient to allow for maintenance of the life skills and transition center's accreditation by the accreditation council on services for people with developmental disabilities or certification by the centers for Medicare an…

Subject to approval of the legislative assembly or the budget section if the legislative assembly is not in session, the life skills and transition center may provide any service not otherwise authorized by law under contract with a governmental or nongovernmental person. The lif…

The superintendent of the life skills and transition center must be a skilled administrator with professional training and experience relating to the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities. All employees must be appointed and removed by the superintendent or by the …

1. Subject to this chapter and to any rules adopted by the department, the benefits of the life skills and transition center may be received only by: a. Eligible individuals who may benefit from services provided by the life skills and transition center who, in the opinion of the…

The department shall ensure active program management is maintained for individuals served and noneligible individuals receiving residential services at the life skills and transition center.

1. The superintendent of the life skills and transition center may admit an eligible or noneligible individual to the life skills and transition center for residential services based on consideration of the following factors: a. Ability of the life skills and transition center to…

1. The superintendent of the life skills and transition center shall have the right of temporary transfer of any individual served or noneligible individual, at the life skills and transition center, to an appropriate hospital or other specialized facility when in the superintend…

1. In any proceeding instituted in juvenile court, the court may make an order for assessment of the child by the life skills and transition center for developmental disability determination whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the child involved in the proce…

An individual who receives residential services at the life skills and transition center must be discharged if any one of the following conditions are present: 1. The superintendent of the life skills and transition center, on the basis of a comprehensive evaluation and in consul…

Before discharge the superintendent of the life skills and transition center shall meet with the parent, guardian, legal custodian, or care team of the: 1. Individual served to be discharged, or with the court that ordered the individual served to receive services at the life ski…

If an individual who has no legal residence in this state is subject to admission to the life skills and transition center, by order of a court pursuant to section 25-04-06, such individual must be admitted, at the expense of the county, to the life skills and transition center i…

If an individual who has no legal residence in this state or whose residence is unknown is found to be an eligible individual requiring care, treatment, training, rehabilitation, or supervision from the life skills and transition center, the individual to be served must be admitt…

Nonresident individuals served by the life skills and transition center and nonresident responsible relatives of individuals served are liable for the chargeable costs of care and treatment at the life skills and transition center.

Expenses for care and treatment of each individual served or noneligible individual by the life skills and transition center must, if practicable, be in accordance with the cost of providing care and treatment for the different degrees or conditions of mental and physical health …

The expenses chargeable by the state for the care and treatment of any individual served over twenty-one years of age at the life skills and transition center must be charged against the guardianship estate of such individual, if the individual has such an estate, subject to the …

No statute of limitations or similar statute or the doctrine of laches may bar the recovery of costs of care furnished under this chapter. It is not necessary to bill currently any person for those accounts determined to be inactive, currently uncollectible, or for which it has b…

1. Except with respect to services provided and duties effectuated for persons other than individuals served by the life skills and transition center who are developmentally disabled, and except with respect to services provided and duties effectuated under subsection 2 of sectio…

The department may authorize the reduction or writeoff of an individual served's or noneligible individual's past-due account from the life skills and transition center's financial records upon determining that the account is not collectible. The department, by September first af…

The provisions of this chapter may not be construed to limit or broaden the plaintiff class as defined by order of the United States district court for the district of North Dakota entered on January 13, 1981, in civil number A1-80-141.

Any information, data, report, or record generated by or made available to an internal quality assurance review committee of the life skills and transition center or members thereof is confidential and may be used by the committee and the members thereof only in the exercise of t…