- (1) "Child and Family Services" means the Division of Child and Family Services.
- (2) "Emergency foster care" means temporary placement of a child in a foster home or crisis placement.
- (3) "Natural parent" means a child's biological or adoptive parent and includes a child's noncustodial parent.
- (4) "Removal" means taking a child from a foster home to place the child in another foster home or facility, or not returning a child who has run from a foster home back to that foster home.
KEY: child welfare, foster care, due process
Date of Last Change: August 15, 2023
Notice of Continuation: August 19, 2021
Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 80-2-302; 80-2-301; 80-2a-304; 63G-4-201; 80-3-502