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Wash. Rev. Code § 13.70.010
Revised Code of Washington
Title
13. Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Offenders
Chapter
13.70. Substitute Care of Children--Review Board System
§ 13.70.010. Definitions
Unless
the context requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply
throughout this chapter.
(1)
"Board" means the local citizen review board established pursuant
to this chapter.
(2)
"Child" means a person less than eighteen years of age.
(3)
"Committee" means a local Indian child welfare advisory committee
established pursuant to WAC 388-70-610, as now existing or hereafter amended
by
the department.
(4)
"Conflict of interest" means that a person appointed to a board
has a personal or pecuniary interest in a case being reviewed by that
board.
(5)
"Court" means the juvenile court.
(6)
"Custodian" means that person who has legal custody of the child.
(7)
"Department" means the department of social and health services.
(8)
"Mature child" means a child who is able to understand and participate
in the decision-making process without excessive anxiety or fear. A child
twelve years old or over shall be rebuttably presumed to be a mature child.
(9)
"Parent" or "parents" means the biological or adoptive
parents of a child unless the legal rights of that person have been terminated
by judicial proceedings.
(10)
"Placement episode" means the period of time that begins with
the date the child was removed from the home of the parent or legal custodian
for the purposes of placement in substitute care and continues until the
child returns home or an adoption decree or guardianship order is entered.
(11)
"Records" means any information in written form, pictures, photographs,
charts, graphs, recordings, or documents pertaining to a case.
(12)
"Resides" or "residence," when used in reference to
the residence of a child, means the place where the child is actually
living and not the legal residence or domicile of the parent or guardian.
(13)
"Substitute care" means an out-of-home placement of a child
for purposes related to the provision of child welfare services in accordance
with chapter 74.13 RCW where the child is in the care, custody, and control
of the department pursuant to a proceeding under chapter 13.34 RCW or
pursuant to the written consent of the child's parent or parents or custodian.
CREDIT(S)
[1991 c 127 § 3;
1989 1st ex.s. c 17 § 3.]
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