Arizona Arizona Revised Statutes

§ 8-271 — Definitions

ARS § 8-271Title 8. Child Safety · Ch. 2. JUVENILE COURT · Art. 6. Children's Mental Health Services

Statute text

8-271. Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Dually adjudicated child" means a child who is found to be dependent or temporarily subject to court jurisdiction pending an adjudication of a dependency petition and who is alleged or found to have committed a delinquent or incorrigible act. 2. "Entity" means the department of child safety, the department of juvenile corrections or a child welfare agency that has been granted legal care, custody and control of a child by order of the juvenile court and that is responsible for securing inpatient psychiatric acute care services or residential treatment services for a child. Entity includes a probation department or juvenile detention center that either recommends or is ordered by the court to provide inpatient psychiatric acute care services or residential treatment services for a child. 3. "Inpatient assessment" includes all of the following:

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