Terms Used In Ohio Code 2151.3522

• 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
• Commit: means to vest custody as ordered by the court. See Ohio Code 2151.011
• Juvenile court: means whichever of the following is applicable that has jurisdiction under this chapter and Chapter 2152 of the Revised Code:

  (a) The division of the court of common pleas specified in section 2101. 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

• Private child placing agency: means any association, as defined in section 5103. See Ohio Code 2151.011
• Temporary custody: means legal custody of a child who is removed from the child's home, which custody may be terminated at any time at the discretion of the court or, if the legal custody is granted in an agreement for temporary custody, by the person who executed the agreement. See Ohio Code 2151.011