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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="3-818" title_number="3" title_name="Courts of General Jurisdiction -- Jurisdiction/special Causes of Action" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Juvenile Causes -- Children in Need of Assistance">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, within 1 year after a child’s birth, there is a presumption that a child is not receiving proper care and attention from the parent for purposes of § 3–801(f)(2) of this subtitle if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The child was born exposed to cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, or a derivative of cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine as evidenced by any appropriate tests of the parent or child; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Upon admission to a hospital for delivery of the child, the parent tested positive for cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, or a derivative of cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine as evidenced by any appropriate toxicology test; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Substance use disorder treatment is made available to the parent and the parent refuses the recommended level of substance use disorder treatment, or does not successfully complete the recommended level of substance use disorder treatment.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is a presumption that a child is receiving proper care and attention from the parent for purposes of § 3–801(f)(2) of this subtitle if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The parent is receiving treatment in a residential substance use disorder treatment program with beds or services for patients’ children; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The child is in the presence of the child’s parent for the duration of the child’s parent’s treatment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection may not be construed to prohibit another parent or a guardian, a custodian, a relative, or another person able to provide supervision and care from providing supervision and care for a child for the duration of the child’s parent’s treatment if the other parent, guardian, custodian, relative, or other person agrees to provide supervision and care.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
