- (1) "Agency youth foster home" means a youth foster home licensed by the department after being studied by a child placing agency other than the department.
- (2) "Biological parent" or "birth parent" means the mother and father who conceived and gave birth to the child.
- (3) "Child" or "youth" means any person under the age of 18 years without regard to sex or emancipation.
- (4) "Child-placing agency"
- (agency) means any corporation, partnership, association, firm, agency, institution, or person, other than an attorney or health care provider acting under 52-8-103(2), MCA, who places or who arranges for the placement of any child with any family, person, or facility not related by blood or marriage, either for foster care or for adoption.
- (a) "To arrange for placement" means to act as an intermediary by assisting a parent, guardian or legal custodian to place or plan to place a child with persons other than persons related to the child.
- (5) "Department" means Department of Public Health and Human Services.
Authorizing statute(s): 53-4-111, 53-4-403, MCA
Implementing statute(s): 53-4-113, 53-4-403, MCA
History: NEW, 1985 MAR p. 278, Eff. 3/29/85; TRANS, from Dept. of SRS, 1987 MAR p. 1492, Eff. 7/1/87; TRANS, from DFS, 1998 MAR p. 661; AMD, 2022 MAR p. 537, Eff. 4/16/22.