(a)As used in this act:
(i)"Adjudication" means a finding by the court or
the jury, incorporated in a decree, as to the truth of the facts
alleged in the petition;
(ii)"Adult" means an individual who has attained the
age of majority;
(iii)"Child" means an individual who is under the
age of majority;
(iv)"Child in need of supervision" means any child
who has not reached his eighteenth birthday who is habitually
truant as defined in W.S. 21-4-101(a)(ii) or has run away from
home or habitually disobeys reasonable and lawful demands of his
parents, guardian, custodian or other proper authority or is
ungovernable and beyond control. "Child in need of supervision"
includes any child who has not reached his eighteenth birthday
who has committed a status offense;
(v)"Clerk" means the clerk o
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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Adjudication" means a finding by the court or
the jury, incorporated in a decree, as to the truth of the facts
alleged in the petition;
(ii) "Adult" means an individual who has attained the
age of majority;
(iii) "Child" means an individual who is under the
age of majority;
(iv) "Child in need of supervision" means any child
who has not reached his eighteenth birthday who is habitually
truant as defined in W.S. 21-4-101(a)(ii) or has run away from
home or habitually disobeys reasonable and lawful demands of his
parents, guardian, custodian or other proper authority or is
ungovernable and beyond control. "Child in need of supervision"
includes any child who has not reached his eighteenth birthday
who has committed a status offense;
(v) "Clerk" means the clerk of a district court
acting as the clerk of a juvenile court;
(vi) "Commissioner" means a district court
commissioner;
(vii) "Court" means the juvenile court established by
W.S. 5-8-101;
(viii) "Custodian" means a person, institution or
agency responsible for the child's welfare and having legal
custody of a child by court order or having actual physical
custody and control of a child and acting in loco parentis;
(ix) "Deprivation of custody" means transfer of legal
custody by the court from a parent or previous legal custodian
to another person, agency, organization or institution;
(x) "Detention" means the temporary care of a child
in physically restricting facilities pending court disposition
or execution of a court order for placement or commitment;
(xi) "Judge" means the judge of the juvenile court;
(xii) "Legal custody" means a legal status created by
court order which vests in a custodian the right to have
physical custody of a minor, the right and duty to protect,
train and discipline a minor, the duty to provide him with food,
shelter, clothing, ordinary medical care, education and in an
emergency, the right and duty to authorize surgery or other
extraordinary medical care. The rights and duties of legal
custody are subject to the rights and duties of the guardian of
the person of the minor, and to residual parental rights and
duties;
(xiii) "Minor" means an individual who is under the
age of majority;
(xiv) "Parent" means either a natural or adoptive
parent of the child, a person adjudged the parent of the child
in judicial proceedings or a man presumed to be the father under
W.S. 14-2-504;
(xv) "Parties" include the child, his parents,
guardian or custodian, the state of Wyoming and any other person
made a party by an order to appear, or named by the juvenile
court;
(xvi) "Probation" means a legal status created by
court order following an adjudication of in need of supervision,
where a child is permitted to remain in his home subject to
supervision by a city, county or state probation officer, the
department of family services or other qualified private
organization the court may designate. A child is subject to
return to the court for violation of the terms or conditions of
probation provided for in the court order;
(xvii) "Protective supervision" means a legal status
created by court order following an adjudication of neglect,
whereby the child is permitted to remain in his home subject to
supervision by the department of family services, a county or
state probation officer or other qualified agency or individual
the court may designate;
(xviii) "Residual parental rights and duties" means
those rights and duties remaining with the parents after
custody, guardianship of the person or both have been vested in
another person, agency or institution. Residual parental rights
and duties include but are not limited to:
(A) The duty to support and provide necessities
of life;
(B) The right to consent to adoption;
(C) The right to reasonable visitation unless
restricted or prohibited by court order;
(D) The right to determine the minor's religious
affiliation; and
(E) The right to petition on behalf of the
minor.
(xix) "Shelter care" means the temporary care of a
child in physically unrestricting facilities pending court
disposition or execution of a court order for placement or
commitment;
(xx) "Status offense" means an offense which, if
committed by an adult, would not constitute an act punishable as
a criminal offense by the laws of this state or a violation of a
municipal ordinance, but does not include a violation of W.S.
12-6-101(b) or (c);
(xxi) "This act" means W.S. 14-6-401 through
14-6-440;
(xxii) "Substance use disorder assessment" means an
evaluation conducted by a qualified person using practices and
procedures approved by the department of health to determine
whether a person has a need for alcohol or other drug treatment
and the level of treatment services required to treat that
person;
(xxiii) "Another planned permanent living
arrangement" means a permanency plan for youth sixteen (16)
years of age or older other than reunification, adoption, legal
guardianship or placement with a fit and willing relative;
(xxiv) "Qualified individual" means a person who
meets the requirements of 42 U.S.C. § 675a(c)(1)(D);
(xxv) "Qualified residential treatment program" means
a program that meets the requirements of 42 U.S.C. § 672(k)(4).