Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 30:4C-52

  • Department: means the Department of Human Services. See New Jersey Statutes 30:1-1
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
3. As used in P.L.1977, c.424 (C. 30:4C-50 et seq.), unless the context indicates otherwise:

a. “Child” means any person less than 18 years of age;

b. “Child placed outside his home” means a child under the care, custody, or guardianship of the division who resides in a resource family home, group home, residential treatment facility, shelter for the care of abused or neglected children or juveniles considered as juvenile-family crisis cases, or independent living arrangement operated by or approved for payment by the division, or a child who has been placed by the division in the home of a person who is not related to the child and does not receive any payment for the care of the child from the division, or a child placed by the court in juvenile-family crisis cases pursuant to P.L.1982, c.77 (C. 2A:4A-20 et seq.), but does not include a child placed by the court in the home of a person related to the child who does not receive any payment from the division for the care of the child;

c. “County of supervision” means the county in which the division has established responsibility for supervision of the child;

d. “Division” means the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families;

e. “Temporary caretaker” means a resource family parent as defined in section 1 of P.L.1962, c.136 (C. 30:4C-26.4) or a director of a group home or residential treatment facility;

f. “Designated agency” means an agency designated by the court pursuant to P.L.1982, c.80 (C. 2A:4A-76 et seq.) to develop a family services plan.

L.1977, c.424, s.3; amended 1978, c.125, s.1; 1982, c.24, s.1; 1987, c.252, s.1; 1999, c.53, s.38; 2004, c.130, s.83; 2005, c.169, s.13; 2006, c.47, s.141; 2012, c.16, s.107.