Michigan Laws 333.5871 – Entering home or taking charge of child or youth with special health care needs; power to accept or refuse services
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 333.5871
- Care: includes treatment, control, transportation, confinement, and isolation in a facility or other location. See Michigan Laws 333.5101
- child: means a single or married individual under 21 years of age whose activity is or may become so restricted by disease or specified medical condition as to reduce the individual's normal capacity for education and self-support. See Michigan Laws 333.5801
- 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.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
(1) A department official, agent, or representative shall not enter a home or take charge of a child or youth with special health care needs over the objection of a parent, a guardian, a person in loco parentis, or the person that has custody of the child.
(2) This part does not limit the power of a parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis of the child to accept or refuse the services offered under this part for a child or youth with special health care needs or by an agency employed for that purpose.