1996 Alaska Statutes
TITLE 47 WELFARE, SOCIAL SERVICES AND INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 47.35. CHILD CARE FACILITIES, CHILD PLACEMENT AGENCIES, AND MATERNITY HOMES
Sec. 47.35.900. Definitions.

In this chapter,

(1) "administrator" means an individual who has general administrative charge and oversight of a facility or agency;

(2) "agency" means a child placement agency;

(3) "child" means an individual under 18 years of age, and includes an individual who is a relative of a care provider, administrator, or foster parent;

(4) "child care" means, care, supervision, and provision of developmental opportunities, with or without compensation, to a child who does not have a parent present;

(5) "child care facility" means a place where child care is regularly provided for children under the age of 12 for periods of time that are less than 24 hours in duration unless nighttime care is authorized by the department;

(6) "child placement agency" means a person who arranges for placement of a child

(A) in a foster home, residential child care facility, or adoptive home; or

(B) for guardianship purposes;

(7) "department" means the Department of Health and Social Services;

(8) "facility" means the administration, program, and physical plant of a foster home, child care facility, residential child care facility, or maternity home;

(9) "foster home" means a place where the adult head of household provides 24-hour care on a continuing basis to one or more children who are apart from their parents;

(10) "home study" means a written report of an investigation of the prospective adoptive or foster parent or parents' ability to care for a child that has been prepared in accordance with AS 25.23.100 (f);

(11) "licensee" means a person to whom a license has been issued under this chapter;

(12) "maternity home" means a place of residence whose primary function, with or without compensation, is to give care to pregnant individuals, regardless of age, before or after the individual gives birth, or that provides care, as needed, to mothers and their newborn infants;

(13) "nonsecure attendant care setting" means an unlocked place that is an alternative to an adult jail or other locked setting, where an employee, adult head of household, or volunteer provides care for one or more children 10 years of age or older who are under arrest and who are apart from their parents;

(14) "parent" means a birth or adoptive parent or a legal guardian;

(15) "recreational camp" means a place that provides recreational opportunities to children who attend with the consent of their parent;

(16) "relative" means an individual who is related to another through any of the following relationships, by blood, adoption, or marriage: parent, grandparent, great grandparent, brother, sister, stepparent, stepsister, stepbrother, cousin, aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle or step-grandparent;

(17) "residential child care facility" means a place, staffed by employees, where one or more children who are apart from their parents receive 24-hour care on a continuing basis;

(18) "runaway minor" has the meaning given in AS 47.10.390 ;

(19) "shelter for runaway minors" or "shelter for runaways" means a private residence whose legal occupant agrees to shelter, with or without compensation, a runaway minor accepted into the residence, subject to the limitations imposed under this chapter and AS 47.10.392 - 47.10.399.