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.
Subchapter
001
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COMPACT
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 9002)
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§ 9002. Definitions—Article II
As used in this compact:
(a) “Sending state” shall mean a party state from which a patient is transported pursuant
to the provisions of the compact or from which it is contemplated that a patient may
be so sent.
(b) “Receiving state” shall mean a party state to which a patient is transported pursuant
to the provisions of the compact or to which it is contemplated that a patient may
be so sent.
(c) “Institution” shall mean any hospital or other facility maintained by a party state
or political subdivision thereof for the care and treatment of mental illness or developmental
disability.
(d) “Patient” shall mean any person subject to or eligible as determined by the laws of
the sending state, for institutionalization or other care, treatment, or supervision
pursuant to the provisions of this compact.
(e) “Aftercare” shall mean care, treatment and services provided a patient, as defined
herein, on convalescent status or conditional release.
(f) “Mental illness” shall mean mental disease to such extent that a person so afflicted
requires care and treatment for his or her own welfare, or the welfare of others,
or of the community.
(g) “State” shall mean any state, territory or possession of the United States, the District
of Columbia, and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1977, No. 257 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 48.)