36-550. Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Administration" means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. 2. " Community residential treatment system" means a statewide system of community-based residential treatment programs for the seriously mentally ill that provides a wide range of services as alternatives to institutionalization and in the least restrictive setting. 3. " Director" means the director of the administration. 4. " Seriously mentally ill" means persons who as a result of a mental disorder as defined in section 36-501 exhibit emotional or behavioral functioning that is so impaired as to interfere substantially with their capacity to remain in the community without supportive treatment or services of a long-term or indefinite duration. In these persons mental disability is severe and persistent, resulting in a long-term limitation of their functional capacities for primary activities of daily living such as interpersonal relationships, homemaking, self-care, employment and recreation.
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