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1.31.030 Definitions

(a) "Child" means a person under 18 years of age.

(b) "Foster Child" means a child placed for care in a home required to be licensed under this chapter.

(c) "Foster Home" means a facility operated by a person or persons required to license under this chapter.

(d) "Foster Parent(s)" means a person or persons who operate a facility required to license under this chapter.

(e) "Guardian" means a person, appointed by a court, who has the right to make major decisions affecting the child, including the right to consent to marriage, to enlistment in the armed forces, to major surgery and to make recommendations as to adoption. In the absence of an applicable order "guardian" means the child's natural mother and, if the child is a marital child or if paternity has been established, the child's natural father.

(f) "Legal Custodian" means a person to whom a court has transferred a child's legal custody who has the right to the care, custody and control of a child and the duty to provide food, clothing, shelter, ordinary medical care, education and discipline for a child. In the absence of any applicable order, "legal custodian" means the child's natural mother and, if the child is a marital child or if paternity has been established, the child's natural father.

(g) "Licensee" means a person licensed under this chapter.

Original url: https://law.badriver-nsn.gov/us/nsn/badriver/council/code/1.31.030

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