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<section article="gcp" article_name="Criminal Procedure" number="3-101" title_number="3" title_name="Incompetency and Criminal Responsibility in Criminal Cases" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Committed person” means a person committed to the Health Department as not criminally responsible under the test for criminal responsibility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Court” means a court that has criminal jurisdiction.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Health Department” means the Maryland Department of Health.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Hospital warrant” means a legal document issued by a court that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>authorizes any law enforcement officer in the State to apprehend a person who is alleged to have violated an order for conditional release and transport the person to a facility designated by the Health Department; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>requires that the issuance of the warrant is entered in the person’s criminal history record information of the criminal justice information system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Incompetent to stand trial” means not able:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to understand the nature or object of the proceeding; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>to assist in one’s defense.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Mental disorder” means a behavioral or emotional illness that results from a psychiatric or neurological disorder.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Mental disorder” includes a mental illness that so substantially impairs the mental or emotional functioning of a person as to make care or treatment necessary or advisable for the welfare of the person or for the safety of the person or property of another.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Mental disorder” does not include an intellectual disability.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Office” means the Office of Administrative Hearings.</text>
  </level>
</section>
