B.__All services provided should have the goal of maximizing growth, development and social integration into the community.

C.__Providers of all services must acknowledge and enhance the role of the family, as appropriate, as the primary and most natural caregiver.__Family, for the purposes of this section, may be defined individually by each person with mental retardation or autism, and may include, where appropriate, unpaid individuals with whom the person resides.

D.__Community integration is achieved by connecting individuals and families with local and generic supports within the community.

E.__Services provided to persons with mental retardation or autism must enhance each person's opportunity to assume maximum control over that person's life.

F.__Real work for real pay, in settings integrated into the community, must be the cornerstone of all vocational employment services.

G.__Residential services must be small, integrated and community based.__Services designed to support each individual in each individual's own home must be the primary objective of the delivery system.

H.__Connections in other areas of each person's life, such as friends, recreation and spirituality, must be considered in order to promote a high quality of life for each person.

4.__Right to treatment by spiritual means.__Nothing in this chapter may replace or limit the right of any person with mental retardation or autism to treatment by spiritual means alone, through prayer, if that treatment is requested by the person or the person's guardian.

5.__Class members.__Persons identified as class members in Consumer Advisory Board v. Peet, Docket No. CV-91-321-P-C may not be denied services by reason of not meeting the definition of "mental retardation."

Sec. 9. 34-B MRSA §5003, as amended by PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. K, §§41 to 45, is further amended to read: