The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 8907)
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§ 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.)