Iowa Code 237.15 – Definitions
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For the purposes of this subchapter unless otherwise defined:
1. “Case permanency plan” means the same as defined in section 232.2, subsection 4, except the plan shall also include the following:
a. The efforts to place the child with a relative.
b. The rationale for an out-of-state placement, and the efforts to prevent such placement, if the child has been placed out-of-state.
c. Time frames to meet the stated permanency goal and short-term objectives.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 237.15
- Agency: means a person, as defined in section 4. See Iowa Code 237.1
- Child: means child as defined in section 234. See Iowa Code 237.1
- Court: shall mean and include any court upon which jurisdiction has been conferred to determine the liability of persons for the support of dependents. See Iowa Code 252A.2
- Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 237.1
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Individual: means an individual person or a married couple who provides child foster care in a single-family home environment and which does not meet the definition of an agency in subsection 2. See Iowa Code 237.1
- 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.
- person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. “Child receiving foster care” means a child who is described by any of the following circumstances:
a. The child’s foster care placement is the financial responsibility of the state pursuant to section 234.35.
b. The child is under the guardianship of the department.
c. The child has been involuntarily hospitalized for mental illness pursuant to chapter 229.
d. The child is at-risk of being placed outside the child’s home, the department or court is providing or planning to provide services to the child, and the department or court has requested the involvement of the state or local board.
3. “Court appointed special advocate” means the same as defined in section 232.2.
4. “Family” means the social unit consisting of the child and the biological or adoptive parent, stepparent, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, and grandparent of the child.
5. “Fictive kin” means an adult person who is not a relative of a child but who has an emotionally positive significant relationship with the child or the child’s family.
6. “Local board” means a local citizen foster care review board created pursuant to section 237.19.
7. “Person or court responsible for the child” means the department, including but not limited to the department of human services, agency, or individual who is the guardian of a child by court order issued by the juvenile or district court and has the responsibility of the care of the child, or the court having jurisdiction over the child.
8. “State board” means the child advocacy board created pursuant to section 237.16.