77-15a-102. "Mentally retarded" defined.
As used in this chapter, a defendant is "mentally retarded" if:
(1) the defendant has significant subaverage general intellectual functioning that results
in and exists concurrently with significant deficiencies in adaptive functioning that exist
primarily in the areas of reasoning or impulse control, or in both of these areas; and
(2) the subaverage general intellectual functioning and the significant deficiencies in
adaptive functioning under Subsection (1) are both manifested prior to age 22.
Enacted by Chapter 11, 2003 General Session
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