{"data":{"id":"us-az/a.r.s.-36-550","jurisdiction":"us-az","citation":"A.R.S. § 36-550","heading":"Definitions","body":"In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n1. \"Administration\" means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration.\n\n2. \"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.\n\n3. \"Director\" means the director of the administration.\n\n4. \"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.","path":["Title 36 Public Health and Safety"],"source_url":"https://www.azleg.gov/ars/36/00550.htm","current_through":"2026-09-04","vintage":"2026-08-09","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:49:56Z","sha256":"e116d0647eccbd3eeddd372019dfe3fa701508024236cb970876c7358e72b5f7","source_id":"us-az","stale":true,"prev":"us-az/a.r.s.-36-548","next":"us-az/a.r.s.-36-550.01"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}