Intellectual disability defined.

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23A-27A-26.2. Intellectual disability defined.

As used in §§23A-27A-26.1 to 23A-27A-26.7, inclusive, intellectual disability means significant subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with substantial related deficits in applicable adaptive skill areas. An intelligence quotient exceeding seventy on a reliable standardized measure of intelligence is presumptive evidence that the defendant does not have significant subaverage general intellectual functioning.

Source: SL 2000, ch 112, §2; SL 2018, ch 148, §2.


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