Terms Used In Ohio Code 2151.312

• abused child: includes any child who:

  (A) Is the victim of "sexual activity" as defined under Chapter 2907 of the Revised Code, where such activity would constitute an offense under that chapter, except that the court need not find that any person has been convicted of the offense in order to find that the child is an abused child;

  (B) Is endangered as defined in section 2919. See Ohio Code 2151.031

• Adult: means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older. See Ohio Code 2151.011
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Child: means a person who is under eighteen years of age, except that the juvenile court has jurisdiction over any person who is adjudicated an unruly child prior to attaining eighteen years of age until the person attains twenty-one years of age, and, for purposes of that jurisdiction related to that adjudication, a person who is so adjudicated an unruly child shall be deemed a "child" until the person attains twenty-one years of age. See Ohio Code 2151.011
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• dependent child: means any child:

  (A) Who is homeless or destitute or without adequate parental care, through no fault of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian;

  (B) Who lacks adequate parental care by reason of the mental or physical condition of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian;

  (C) Whose condition or environment is such as to warrant the state, in the interests of the child, in assuming the child's guardianship;

  (D) To whom both of the following apply:

  (1) The child is residing in a household in which a parent, guardian, custodian, or other member of the household committed an act that was the basis for an adjudication that a sibling of the child or any other child who resides in the household is an abused, neglected, or dependent child. See Ohio Code 2151.04

• Detention: means the temporary care of children pending court adjudication or disposition, or execution of a court order, in a public or private facility designed to physically restrict the movement and activities of children. See Ohio Code 2151.011
• neglected child: includes any child:

  (1) Who is abandoned by the child's parents, guardian, or custodian;

  (2) Who lacks adequate parental care because of the faults or habits of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian;

  (3) Whose parents, guardian, or custodian neglects the child or refuses to provide proper or necessary subsistence, education, medical or surgical care or treatment, or other care necessary for the child's health, morals, or well being;

  (4) Whose parents, guardian, or custodian neglects the child or refuses to provide the special care made necessary by the child's mental condition;

  (5) Whose parents, legal guardian, or custodian have placed or attempted to place the child in violation of sections 5103. See Ohio Code 2151.03

• Secure correctional facility: means a facility under the direction of the department of youth services that is designed to physically restrict the movement and activities of children and used for the placement of children after adjudication and disposition. See Ohio Code 2151.011
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• unruly child: includes any of the following:

  (A) Any child who does not submit to the reasonable control of the child's parents, teachers, guardian, or custodian, by reason of being wayward or habitually disobedient;

  (B) Any child who is an habitual truant from school;

  (C) Any child who behaves in a manner as to injure or endanger the child's own health or morals or the health or morals of others;

  (D) Any child who violates a law, other than division (C) of section 2907. See Ohio Code 2151.022