Definitions

As used in Sections 45-70g-1a through 45-70g-7, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the following definitions apply: (a) "Available Appropriations" means funds, if any, appropriated by the General Assembly to the Department on Aging to carry out the purposes of Section 45-70g of the Connecticut General Statutes. (b) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department on Aging. (c) "Conservator" means conservator of the estate as defined in Section 45-70a of the Connecticut General Statutes as amended. (d) "Department" means the Department on Aging. (e) "Designee" means any employee of the Department selected by the Commissioner to act on her or his behalf as conservator of the estate under Section 45-70g (b) of the Connecticut General Statutes. (f) "Incapable of managing his or her affairs," "respondent" and "ward" are defined in accordance with Section 45-70a of the Connecticut General Statutes. (g) "Institution" means any state-operated or private residential facility including a chronic disease hospital, general hospital, psychiatric hospital, intermediate care facility for the retarded, hospice or any chronic and convalescent facility or rest home with nursing supervision as defined by Section 19a-521 of the Connecticut General Statutes. (h) "Liquid Assets" means all resources readily convertible into cash, excluding real property, and including but not limited to cash, bank accounts, stocks, certificates of deposit, credit union shares, present interests in estates, the cash value of life insurance, and the cash value of burial insurance in an amount over $1,500. (i) "Real Property" means land property, the natural resources therein, and improvements thereon. For the purposes of Sections 45-70g-1a to 45-70g-4a, inclusive, real property does not include a mobile home unless the mobile home is permanently affixed to real property which is intended to be sold along with the mobile home. (j) "Suitable Conservator" means any person, municipal or state official, or private profit or non-profit corporation, except a hospital or nursing home, as defined in Section 19a-521 of the Connecticut General Statutes found appropriate by the Probate Court.