Vermont § 8907 - Designation of agencies to provide mental health and developmental disability services

§ 8907. Designation of agencies to provide mental health and developmental disability services

• (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Commissioners of Mental Health and
  of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living shall, within the limits of funds designated
  by the General Assembly for this purpose, ensure that community services to persons
  with a mental condition or psychiatric disability and persons with a developmental
  disability throughout the State are provided through designated community mental health
  agencies. The Commissioners shall designate public or private nonprofit agencies to
  provide or arrange for the provision of these services. (b) Within the limits of available resources, each designated community mental health
  or developmental disability agency shall plan, develop, and provide or otherwise arrange
  for those community mental health or developmental disability services that are not
  assigned by law to the exclusive jurisdiction of another agency and that are needed
  by and not otherwise available to persons with a mental condition or psychiatric disability
  or a developmental disability or children and adolescents with a severe emotional
  disturbance in accordance with the provisions of 33 V.S.A. chapter 43 who reside within
  the geographic area served by the agency. (Added 1979, No. 108 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; amended 1987, No. 264 (Adj. Sess.), § 11; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 47; 2007, No. 15, § 15; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 115; 2023, No. 6, § 218, eff. July 1, 2023.)