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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="8-715" title_number="8" title_name="Children, Youth, and Families" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Residential Child Care Programs -- General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this part the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Residential child care program” includes a facility or program that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>provides a residential environment such as:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a program with a wilderness or outdoor experience, expedition, or intervention;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a boot camp experience or other experience designed to simulate characteristics of basic military training for correctional regimes;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>an educational or therapeutic boarding school; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>a behavioral modification program; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>serves children who have a history of diagnosis of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>an emotional, behavioral, or mental health disorder;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a substance misuse or use disorder, including alcohol misuse or use disorder; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>an intellectual, developmental, physical, or sensory disability.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Residential child care program” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a hospital licensed by the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a detention facility licensed by the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a youth correctional facility;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a substance abuse treatment facility;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a foster family home:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>that provides 24–hour substitute care for children placed away from their parents or guardians;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>for which the State child welfare services agency has placement and care responsibility; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>that is licensed and regulated by the State as a foster family home; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>any other secure facility.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Youth transportation company” means a business that specializes in transporting a child to a residential child care program.</text>
  </level>
</section>
