2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 10. Children
§10-600. Definitions

As used in Sections 601.1 through 601.12 of this title:

1. "Children and youth service system" means health, mental health, social, rehabilitative assistance and educational services provided to children and youth by and through the courts and public and private agencies;

2. "Client" means a child or a family member of a child who is receiving services through the children and youth service system;

3. "Commission" means the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth;

4. "Community partnership board" means the local district planning and coordinating body for services to children and youth established pursuant to Section 601.11 of this title;

5. "Community partnership district" means the local planning and coordinating areas within the state established pursuant to Section 601.11 of this title;

6. "Homeless children and youth" means a person twenty-one (21) years of age or younger who is:

• a.unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, and
• b.without shelter where appropriate care and supervision are available, or
• c.without a parent or guardian who is willing and able to provide shelter and care, or
• d.without a fixed, regular, or adequate nighttime residence. For the purposes of this paragraph, "fixed, regular, or adequate nighttime residence" shall not include a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter or institution designed to provide temporary living accommodations, transitional housing arrangements, living in hotels, temporary living arrangements with other people but without an opportunity for permanent residence or a residential lease, or a public or private place not designed for, nor ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;

7. "Runaway" means an unmarried child less than eighteen (18) years of age who is absent from the home of a parent, guardian or other lawful placement without the consent of the parent, guardian or lawful custodian;

8. "State and state-supported services to children and youth" means services to children and youth, offered or provided by a public or private agency or organization, that are supported in whole or in part through state funds or federal funds administered by the state;

9. "State Plan for Services to Children and Youth" means the planning document required by Section 601.9 of this title; and

10. "Youth at risk of homelessness" means a person twenty-one (21) years of age or younger whose status or circumstances indicate a significant danger of experiencing homelessness in the near future, including but not limited to youth exiting out-of-home placements, youth who previously were homeless, youth whose parents or guardians are or were previously homeless, youth who are exposed to abuse and neglect in their homes, youth who experience excessive conflict with their parents and runaways.

Added by Laws 1990, c. 288, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1990. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 302, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2016, c. 227, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.