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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 10.21.15.02" title_num="10" subtitle_num="21" chapter_num="15" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Consultant” means a physician, licensed by the State, who is not a salaried staff member of the emergency facility and who is authorized by the emergency facility to perform an examination of an emergency evaluee.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Department” means the Maryland Department of Health.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Designated emergency facility” means a health care organization currently identified by the Department to perform the functions identified in Health-General Article, §10-624, Annotated Code of Maryland, or this chapter, or both.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Emergency evaluee” means an individual who has been referred to a designated emergency facility on the basis of a petition for emergency evaluation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Emergency service” means the service rendered as a direct result of the execution of a valid petition.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Emergency vehicle” means:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>A vehicle operated by a law enforcement officer; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>An ambulance regulated according to COMAR 14.22.01 — 14.22.12.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Examination” means a face-to-face diagnostic interview and examination by a consultant physician that includes a medical history, an assessment of mental status, a neurological examination, an assessment of dangerousness, and a written report outlining the consultant physician's findings and conclusions.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>“Inpatient facility” means an inpatient institution that provides evaluation, care, or treatment for individuals who have mental disorders.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>“Petition” means a petition for emergency evaluation that is made by an individual who has reason to believe that the emergency evaluee has a mental disorder and that there is danger of the emergency evaluee's doing bodily harm to the petitioner or another individual.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>“Provider” means an individual, an association, a partnership, an incorporated or unincorporated group, or a hospital that renders health care service to an emergency evaluee.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>