Vermont § 7101 - Definitions As used in this part of this title, the following words, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:

§ 7101. Definitions As used in this part of this title, the following words, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:

• (1) “Board” means the Board of Mental Health. (2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Mental Health. (3) “Custody” means safekeeping, protection, charge, or care. (4) “Designated hospital” means a hospital or other facility designated by the Commissioner
  as adequate to provide appropriate care for the mentally ill patient. (5) “Elopement” means the leaving of a designated hospital or designated program or training
  school without lawful authority. (6) “Head of a hospital” means the administrator or persons in charge at any time. (7) “Hospital” means a public or private hospital or facility or part thereof, equipped
  and otherwise qualified to provide inpatient care and treatment for persons with mental
  conditions or psychiatric disabilities. (8) “Individual” means a resident of or a person in Vermont. (9) “Interested party” means a guardian, spouse, parent, adult child, close adult relative,
  responsible adult friend, or person who has the individual in his or her charge or
  care. It also means a mental health professional, a law enforcement officer, a licensed
  physician, or a head of a hospital. (10) “Law enforcement officer” means a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, municipal police
  officer, or State Police. (11) “Licensed physician” means a physician legally qualified and licensed to practice
  as a physician in Vermont. (12) [Repealed.] (13) “Mental health professional” means a person with professional training, experience,
  and demonstrated competence in the treatment of mental illness, who shall be a physician,
  psychologist, social worker, mental health counselor, nurse, or other qualified person
  designated by the Commissioner. (14) “Mental illness” means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation,
  or memory, any of which grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize
  reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life, but shall not include intellectual
  disability. (15) “Patient” means a resident of or person in Vermont qualified under this title for
  hospitalization or treatment as a person with a mental illness or intellectual disability. (16) “A patient in need of further treatment” means: (A) a person in need of treatment; or (B) a patient who is receiving adequate treatment, and who, if such treatment is discontinued,
  presents a substantial probability that in the near future his or her condition will
  deteriorate and he or she will become a person in need of treatment. (17) “A person in need of treatment” means a person who has a mental illness and, as a
  result of that mental illness, his or her capacity to exercise self-control, judgment,
  or discretion in the conduct of his or her affairs and social relations is so lessened
  that he or she poses a danger of harm to himself, to herself, or to others: (A) A danger of harm to others may be shown by establishing that: