Idaho Code § 73-114 Statutory Terms Defined

• Library: Idaho Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through the 2023 Regular Legislative Session
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Idaho Code § 73-114

(1) Unless otherwise defined for purposes of a specific statute:

(a) Words used in these compiled laws in the present tense, include the future as well as the present;

(b) Words used in the masculine gender, include the feminine and neuter;

(c) The singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular;

(d) The word "person" includes a corporation as well as a natural person;

(e) Writing includes printing;

(f) Oath includes affirmation or declaration, and every mode of oral statement, under oath or affirmation, is embraced by the term "testify," and every written one in the term "depose";

(g) Signature or subscription includes mark, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it, and witnessed by a person who writes his own name as a witness.

(2) The following words have, in the compiled laws, the signification attached to them in this section, unless otherwise apparent from the context:

(a) "Intellectual disability" means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that is accompanied by significant limitations in adaptive functioning in at least two (2) of the following skill areas: communication, self-care, home living, social or interpersonal skills, use of community resources, self-direction, functional academic skills, work, leisure, health and safety. The onset of significantly subaverage general intelligence functioning and significant limitations in adaptive functioning must occur before age eighteen (18) years.