{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-17a-580","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17a-580","heading":"(Formerly Sec. 17-257a). Definitions.","body":"As used in sections 17a-581 to 17a-603, inclusive, and this section:\n(1) “Acquittee” means any person found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to section 53a-13;\n(2) “Board” means the Psychiatric Security Review Board established pursuant to section 17a-581;\n(3) “Conditional release” means release of the acquittee from a hospital for psychiatric disabilities to the jurisdiction of the board for supervision and treatment and includes, but is not limited to, the monitoring of mental and physical health treatment;\n(4) “Court” means the Superior Court;\n(5) “Danger to himself or others” includes danger to the property of others;\n(6) “Hospital for psychiatric disabilities” means any public or private hospital, retreat, institution, house or place in which a person with psychiatric disabilities or drug-dependent person is received or detained as a patient, but does not include any correctional institution of the state;\n(7) “Psychiatric disability” includes any mental illness in a state of remission when the illness may, with reasonable medical probability, become active. “Psychiatric disability” does not include an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct;\n(8) “Intellectual disability” has the same meaning as provided in section 1-1g;\n(9) “Person who should be conditionally released” means an acquittee who has psychiatric disabilities or has intellectual disability to the extent that his final discharge would constitute a danger to himself or others but who can be adequately controlled with available supervision and treatment on conditional release;\n(10) “Person who should be confined” means an acquittee who has psychiatric disabilities or has intellectual disability to the extent that such acquittee's discharge or conditional release would constitute a danger to the acquittee or others and who cannot be adequately controlled with available supervision and treatment on conditional release;\n(11) “Person who should be discharged” means an acquittee who does not have psychiatric disabilities or does not have intellectual disability to the extent that such acquittee's discharge would constitute a danger to the acquittee or others;\n(12) “Psychiatrist” means a physician specializing in psychiatry and licensed under the provisions of sections 20-9 to 20-12, inclusive;\n(13) “Psychologist” means a clinical psychologist licensed under the provisions of sections 20-186 to 20-195, inclusive;\n(14) “State's attorney” means the state's attorney for the judicial district wherein the acquittee was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to section 53a-13; and\n(15) “Superintendent” means any person, body of persons or corporation, or the designee of any such person, body of persons or corporation, which has the immediate supervision, management and control of a hospital for psychiatric disabilities and the patients therein.","path":["TITLE 17a. SOCIAL AND HUMAN SERVICES AND RESOURCES","CHAPTER 319i*. PERSONS WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES","PART V*. PSYCHIATRIC SECURITY REVIEW BOARD"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_319i.htm#sec_17a-580","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:02Z","sha256":"a4cf8e31c8138bfca676e4ef42b7a4d4e331a5257c1c464ca65bf1ced104bb29","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-17a-577-to-17a-579","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-17a-581"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}