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Terms Used In Iowa Code 237.6

  • Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Child: means child as defined in section 234. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Child foster care: means the provision of parental nurturing, including but not limited to the furnishing of food, lodging, training, education, supervision, treatment, or other care, to a child on a full-time basis by a person, including a relative of the child if the relative is licensed under this chapter, but not including a guardian of the child. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Facility: means the personnel, program, physical plant, and equipment of a licensee. See Iowa Code 237.1
  • Licensee: means an individual or an agency licensed under this chapter. See Iowa Code 237.1
 A licensee shall not furnish child foster care in a building or on premises not designated in the license. A licensee shall not furnish child foster care to a greater number of children than is designated in the license, unless authorized by the department. Multiple licenses authorizing separate and distinct parts of a facility to provide different categories of child foster care may be issued.