When used in this title and unless otherwise defined or the specific context indicates otherwise: (1) 'Child' means a person under the age of eighteen. (2) 'Court' means the family court. (3) 'Guardian' means a person who legally has the care and management of a child. (4) 'Judge' means the judge of the family court. (5) 'Parent' means biological parent, adoptive parents, step-parent, or person with legal custody. (6) 'Status offense' means any offense which would not be a misdemeanor or felony if committed by an adult, such as, but not limited to, incorrigibility (beyond the control of parents), truancy, running away, playing or loitering in a billiard room, playing a pinball machine or gaining admission to a theater by false identification. (7) 'Child caring facility' means a campus with one or more staffed residences and with a total population of twenty or more children who are in care apart from their parents, relatives, or guardians on a continuing full-time basis for protection and guidance. (8) 'Foster home' means a household of one or more persons who are licensed or approved to provide full-time care for one to five children living apart from their parents or guardians. and guidance. (8) 'Foster home' means a household of one or more persons who are licensed or approved to provide full-time care for one to five children living apart from their parents or guardians. (9) 'Residential group care home' means a staffed residence with a population fewer than twenty children who are in care apart from their parents, relatives, or guardians on a full-time basis. HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2023 Act No. 23 (S.342), Section 1, eff May 16, 2023.
South Carolina Legal Code