Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes > Chapter 152 > SIMULATED CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

• Agency: has the meaning given in section 256P. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Caregiver: means a minor child's birth or adoptive parent or parents and stepparent who live in the home with the minor child. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in Schedules I through V of section 152. See Minnesota Statutes 152.01
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• County agency: means the agency designated by the county board to implement financial assistance for current programs and for MFIP and the agency responsible for enforcement of child support collection, and a county or multicounty agency that is authorized under sections 393. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Department: means the Minnesota Department of Human Services. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Documentation: means a written statement or record that substantiates or validates an assertion made by a person or an action taken by a person, agency, or entity. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Family: includes :

  (1) the following individuals who live together: a minor child or a group of minor children related to each other as siblings, half siblings, stepsiblings, or adoptive siblings, together with their natural, adoptive parents, stepparents, or caregiver as defined in subdivision 11; and

  (2) a pregnant woman with no other children. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08

• hearing: means the evidentiary hearing conducted by the department human services judge to resolve disputes as specified in section 256J. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Household: means a group of persons who live together. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• MFIP: means the assistance program authorized in this chapter. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Participant: includes any of the following:

  (1) a person who is currently receiving cash assistance or the food portion available through MFIP;

  (2) a person who withdraws a cash or food assistance payment by electronic transfer or receives and cashes an MFIP assistance check or food coupons and is subsequently determined to be ineligible for assistance for that period of time is a participant, regardless whether that assistance is repaid;

  (3) the caregiver relative and the minor child whose needs are included in the assistance payment;

  (4) a person in an assistance unit who does not receive a cash and food assistance payment because the case has been suspended from MFIP; and

  (5) a person who receives cash payments under family stabilization services under section 256J. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08

• Person: includes every individual, copartnership, corporation or association of one or more individuals. See Minnesota Statutes 152.01
• Sanction: means the reduction of a family's assistance payment by a specified percentage of the MFIP standard of need because: a nonexempt participant fails to comply with the requirements of sections 256J. See Minnesota Statutes 256J.08
• Sell: means :

  (1) to sell, give away, barter, deliver, exchange, distribute or dispose of to another, or to manufacture; or

  (2) to offer or agree to perform an act listed in clause (1); or

  (3) to possess with intent to perform an act listed in clause (1). See Minnesota Statutes 152.01

• state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44