Mich. Admin. Code R. 400.10 - Definitions
Rule 1.
(a) "Child"
means a person who, by reason of minority, is legally subject to parental,
guardianship, or similar control.
(b) "Department" means the Michigan
department of human services.
(c)
"Foster Care", for purposes of these rules only and defined by Regulation Three
of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, means placement of a
child which includes 24-hour a day care provided by the child's parent or
parents by reason of a court-ordered placement or 24-hour substitute care for
children placed away from their parents or guardians and for whom the state
agency has placement and care responsibility. This includes, but is not limited
to the following:
(i) Placements in foster
family homes.
(ii) Foster homes of
relatives.
(iii) Group
homes.
(iv) Emergency
shelters.
(v) Residential
facilities.
(vi) Child care
institutions.
(vii) Pre-adoptive
homes.
A child is in foster care regardless of any of the following:
(i) The foster care
facility is licensed and payments are made by the state or local agency for the
care of the child.
(ii) Whether
adoption subsidy payments are being made prior to the finalization of an
adoption.
(iii) Whether there is
federal matching of any payments that are made.
(d) "Interstate Compact on the Placement of
Children" or "ICPC" means the compact between states and parties pursuant to
statute that ensures protection and services to children who are placed across
state lines.
(e) "Parent" means a
biological, adoptive parent, or legal guardian as determined by applicable
state law and is responsible for the care, custody, and control of a child or
upon whom there is legal duty for such care.
(f) "Placement" means the arrangement for the
care of a child in a family free or boarding home or in a child-caring agency
or institution, but does not include any institution caring for the mentally
ill, mentally defective, or epileptic, or any institution primarily educational
in character, and any hospital or other medical facility.
(g) "Receiving state" means the state to
which a child is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought, whether by
public authorities or private persons or agencies, and whether for placement
with state or local public authorities or for placement with private agencies
or persons.
(h) "Sending agency"
means a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a subdivision of a party
state, or officer or employee thereof; a court of a party state; a person,
corporation, association, charitable agency, or other entity that sends,
brings, or causes to be sent or brought any child to another party
state.
(i) " State compact
administrator" means an officer in the department who is appointed by the
executive head of each jurisdiction and who acts as general coordinator of
activities under this compact in the officer's jurisdiction to carry out more
effectively the terms and provisions of this compact.
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