For the purposes of this article, the following words, terms and phrases shall have the following interpretations:
- (1) SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. Services relating to instruction of exceptional children with disabilities.
- (2) EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN. Those children and youth with disabilities determined eligible for special education and related services under existing federal and state laws, rules, regulations and policies governing special education.
- (3) CATASTROPHIC. Those cases where special education and related services which are required for a particular child are unduly expensive, extraordinary and/or beyond the routine and reasonable special education and related services provided by the local education agency.
- (4) LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCY. A county or city school district in the State of Alabama.
(Acts 1991, No. 91-594, p. 1097, §2.)