Any children under the jurisdiction of the county welfare department, who are dependent children in relative placement, foster home placement, or group home placement, and any child in custody pending the filing of a petition for placement, who are receiving or are eligible to receive services from the county welfare department, shall be deemed to have met the residence requirements for services under this chapter, and no further verification of residence shall be required.

This section shall be implemented only to the extent that full federal financial participation is made available.

Terms Used In California Welfare and Institutions Code 14007.4

  • County: includes "city and county. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14
  • custody: means the legal right to custody of the child unless that right is held jointly by two or more persons, in which case "custody" means the physical custody of the child by one of the persons sharing the right to custody. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 17.1
  • department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14062
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 630, Sec. 1.)

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