Terms Used In Ohio Code 2151.331

• Certified foster home: means a foster home, as defined in section 5103. See Ohio Code 2151.011
• 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
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• 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.
• Private child placing agency: means any association, as defined in section 5103. See Ohio Code 2151.011
• Private noncustodial agency: means any person, organization, association, or society certified by the department of job and family services that does not accept temporary or permanent legal custody of children, that is privately operated in this state, and that does one or more of the following:

  (a) Receives and cares for children for two or more consecutive weeks;

  (b) Participates in the placement of children in certified foster homes;

  (c) Provides adoption services in conjunction with a public children services agency or private child placing agency. See Ohio Code 2151.011

• 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